Today I have a glitter swatch from OPI's OZ The Great and Powerful Collection. I still haven't seen the movie but I really want to.
Below, I have some pretty awful swatches of Lights of Emerald City. Not on purpose but I was trying to figure out how to place the most white squares on my nail. Then there was a time that I was being overly ambitious and tried to swatch two different glitters at the same time. I realize that doesn't work well and it's kind of confusing. So I must apologize in advance, but I think it also shows how glitter could go wrong depending the technique or how wrong it could with the way I applied it. I've seen swatches on other blogs and this looks so pretty.
The reason I wanted Lights of Emerald City is because it reminds me of this water tank found at the Airport. During my first trip over seas and on a plane, I was staring at this for a while at the airport, also for some reason we were regrouping ourselves at this very spot. I just loved how the water pressure was pushing up these clear squares. This is vague but it's a memory of mine since I didn't go on planes that often at the time.
Thoughts:
I found this polish very difficult to work with. The squares wouldn't really go onto my nail. If it did, it would be the tip of my nail and I would have to try to push it back down. I tried doing a swiping motion, and then I tried a dabbing motion. The dabbing motion wasn't so great because the clear polish just ended up getting onto my nail and it was a mess. So in the end, what I did was I tried to pick up as many squares as possible, and then I would try to wipe off the excess clear polish. One of these days, this method is going to give me a lot of clear polish and not many big squares. There are iridescent squares and white squares. The iridescent ones were easier to apply.
The bottle is 15mL. I bought this at Trade Secrets and it retails for $9.99.
Now to the swatches with the base colour listed.
Nicole by OPI: Alex by the books
This was when I tried to be more neat with my base colour. Then I accidentally hit something with my pinky, and it smudged. I guess that's the problem with glitter coats, your base coat might be perfectly find and depending on how the top addition turns out, that might affect the entire look.
Essie: In the Cab-ana
My ring finger and pinky with OPI's Lights of Emerald City
Essie's Madison Ave-hue
My ring finger and pinky with OPI's Lights of Emerald City
OPI: Can't find my Czechbook
Pink finger is painted with Lights of Emerald City
OPI Vant to Bite My Neck?
Pink finger is painted with Lights of Emerald City
China Glaze: Fancy Pants
Way too much sunlight. Fancy Pants doesn't look like this at all. This was my very first attempt and you can tell how gooey the polish was by the way I applied this. This was the dabbing method that I attempted but I just got a lot of the clear polish on my nail.
My ring finger and pinky with OPI's Lights of Emerald City
Thank you for sticking to the end for the awful shots. Though Fancy Pants was the first time I used Lights of Emerald City. I originally thought I would dab it but realized it wasn't going to work. I would have to say Alex by the Books was a more recent swatch and all the pictures are a gradual from recent to beginning swatch. With the square polishes, I find Revlon's Heavenly pretty easy to used but that was only iridescent glitter and no white square glitter.
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