Andrea Fulerton - Mischa

One of my recent purchases is this beautiful polish, Andrea Fulerton - Mischa. I have to admit, nailblogging has changed my tastes a bit and now I am more open to trying out different textures. A year ago I would have picked this up, looked at it, perhaps admired it and then promptly reject it as a 'glitter'.

Truth is I love it though. It's complex, it's easy to remove (I'm always worried about that with glitters) and it's a beauty. The base is a greyish blue as you can see in the paper swatch photo and it's packed with asymmetric microglitter in gold, gunmetal and blue, but you do catch glimpses of other colours as well. It applies nicely and I did three coats for this swatch. Depending on the light it can look anything from light metallic blue to deep gunmetal Unfortunately the edge suffered a bit of shrinkage due to the Seche Vite I used.

natural light(overcast)

indoors

close up on the nail

basecolour

close up of the paper swatch under incandescent light

You can also see it on Eva Green where it was used for her recent InStyle (Uk) photoshoot.

My First (and Only) Crackle Polish: P2 - Violet Fusion

Greek/ Ελληνικά

I never really "got" crackle polish and I don't like glitter polish; put the two together and suddenly I am a fan. Even I don't get myself sometimes, but that's one of the joys of being human I am guessing!

Lo and behold the polish! P2 - Violet Fusion over SpaRitual - Solitude. Violet Fusion is a jelly purple base with gold fine glitter in, but not the kind of glitter that takes forever and a day to remove. Pretty!

When this came out there weren't any other sparkly crackle polishes on the market, but there's plenty now. OPI has a couple and China Glaze has the Crackle Glitters. 

I wore it for 5 full days which means love.