Glitter Gal - Lizard Belly - The Wear...

The wear on this...not good. It's gorgeous and I'll wear it again. I cannot lie, the holo goodness is phenomenal, it rivals even Nfu-Oh, possibly is more holo than that and doesn't appear to need a special base coat. I'm still determining Nfu-Oh's cruelty free status so I don't have any posted, but if you do a Google, you'll find plenty out there. They are fantastic lacquers and are in the cutest bottles, but I stopped purchasing those when I made the decision to just flat not support animal testing any longer and I won't blog them until I know for sure where they are.

However. This post isn't about that! I did take a couple of pics just a bit ago without the flash and I think they represent the sort of everyday kind of normal look you'll get from this polish at your office or wherever you're not going to have direct light pointed right at your talons. It also shows the wear...These posts are way behind normal wear because I did each of the Rescue Beauty's individually, so just note that. I put this polish on Thursday night and it started chipping Friday. Humph. Kind of expensive for that. I just did Seche base and top and maybe that is not the best thing for this polish. I have a few others so I will be trying to test that out as I wear them. Maybe a different top coat would fix this. Take a look:

Lefty

Erp. See that?

Righty

Oh my. That is not making your Tricksie ecstatic right there.

Not sure what the trouble is. I do put my hands through a lot, but this is not normal. The polish went on beautifully and I was optimistic this meant it would wear beautifully. It is perfectly smooth so it's not a matter of a glitter particle getting caught and ripping off...I don't know. For now I'm marking this up to a bad top coat pairing and leaving it at that.
Now the question is, I get my nails done on Wednesday and it's Monday now. Do I repaint them? I guess I could, then I could swatch another color for you...Maybe a Cult Nails?

Happy Talons!

Glitter Gal - Lizard Belly

I have been SO excited to try these. These are holo goodness that is just unbelievable. In the bottle, Lizard Belly is sort of undefinable. So much so that I was surprised when I found it was a dark hunter green sort of base shade on the nails. It's gorgeous.

This is what this looks like in the sun or with the flash. Without that, it's not nearly so flashy, which I kind of like about it. It's a surprise, it's not in your face, it has some subtlety and then when the light hits it right...boom. You get this. I don't have a non-flash picture, but I hope to get one for the next post so I can show you what it wore like. Wear could be better. However, this is one coat, so...Hm. You know?

Here's a blurry shot:

OOOO!! It's just amazing.

Glitter Gal is available right now in the States at OverallBeauty.com, my home for all things BB Couture and now Glitter Gal. GG is made in Australia and my understanding is that they are all good on cruelty free. Right now OverallBeauty has a limited selection and she is ordering as she gets enough requests so if you would like to try some, I'd suggest ordering through them. It will take a bit, but you won't have the massive shipping expense that you have ordering direct. It's a deal the two companies have worked out, I understand. The bottles are minis, which is explained by Glitter Gal as being a result of top quality holo ingredients and only being a one coat polish. It IS a one coat polish, to be sure. All the same, I would put these at the higher end of the price spectrum.

This was a pretty simple manicure mechanically:

1 coat Seche base coat
1 coat Nailtiques 2
2 coats Seche Rebuild
1 coat Glitter Gal Lizard Belly
1 coat Seche Vite top coat

This was pretty easy to handle. It's a thicker polish, being one coat, but nice to manage. Because these are minis the brushes have a short throw which was interesting at first but I didn't have any problems. It's nicely pigmented and went on so well. 

Lovely, isn't it?

Next post I'll show you wear.

What do you think? Pretty snazzy, huh?

Happy Talons!!