Glitter Gal Nude Holo

 Here is Glitter Gal's Nude in all her glory. Yes I probably did take too many photos! 

 Three smooth effortless coats. I forgot how gorgeous the Glitter Gal holo formula is!

 This last pic was taken with the flash on, so you get to see a few more sparkles!

Link roundup

- You can purchase Nude here!

- Review of Glitter Gal Copper

- Glitter Gal Not Another Red

Glitter Gal Holographic in Nude NEW COLLECTION!

Glitter Gal is at it again! Releasing more holographic shades that we are bound to love. It's so hard to not be mesmerised (didn't Essie do a polish called that?) by a holo.

I went to a ball the other night, it was for the Queen's Jubilee and it was held by the New Zealand Army (I think). I kind of went on a blind date with one of the soldiers. AW MAN, what a nice guy. He was from Scotland. I will leave it at that or this post will turn into something else...

And of course your nails have to look nothing less than stunning at a ball! So I chose to wear Glitter Gal's Nude holographic polish. It was nice because my dress was azure blue silk and I didn't want anything to be too clash-y with it. My jewellery was silver, quite large too, with blue topaz coloured gemstones, so I didn't want my nails to compete with the dress or jewellery. I don't think I could have picked anything better than Glitter Gal Nude for the night.

There is something different about the smell and texture of Glitter Gal holographic polishes, I must say. I actually quite like it. The texture is very smooth and... it feels like half-melted honey to me or something. It's like when you're spreading a big chunk of Nutella onto your warm piece toast and it goes from being kind of hard to oh so soft and smooth. Glitter Gals also don't smell overly chemically. I like it.

Seriously, I just want to leave Nude sitting on my window sill so I can stare at it all day. Do you ever have those moments when you've picked a colour to paint your nails, you paint them, and you think to yourself "this is one of the best decisions I've made today"? I had one of those moments with Nude.

This is two coats of Nude. You can keep building and building up the intensity of holo with this one. It's also a good one for layering over other colours as it doesn't contain a base colour, just sparkles.

One, sweet, dainty coat of Nude.

Here's two coats of Nude.

Other Glitter Gal posts:

Glitter Gal Not Another Red (holographic)

Glitter Gal Copper (holographic)

Glitter Gal Belgian Chocolate (holographic, coming soon)

Where to buy Glitter Gal:

http://www.glittergal.com.au/

This collection will be released within a couple of weeks! Here is a picture to see the rest of them:

Purging: Which ones to keep?

I think we all have that time in our nail polish lives where we feel that we own just a little bit much. As I am moving out of home again for university next year, I really want to trim my stash down! Today I am only showing you a little bit of the stash.

Purging is a hard thing to do... usually I am very strict on myself with the polishes that I keep. Usually it's ones that I don't have a doppelganger of, or I wear it more than a few times a year and most importantly it has to suit my skin tone.

These are my reds. To be honest, the only red I am crazy about is Ruby Pumps. I sort of only own the others because I don't have something like them and fear I will need them at some stage to match an outfit. Now that I think about it, I don't actually wear any red outfits, only ever red lipstick. Hmmm...

Left to right: Glitter Gal Not Another Red, OPI Guy Meets Gal-Veston, China Glaze Dress to Kill, China Glaze Ruby Pumps

These are some of my favourite polishes. Quirky, pale, sweet shades. I love every one of these to pieces. I can't trim down this area any more.

Left to right: OPI It's a Girl, OPI Steady as She Rose, OPI Skull and Glossbones, OPI Time-less is More

Browns, oranges and rose golds have only started to grow in the stash this year.

Left to right: Australis Citrus, OPI Pros and Bronze, OPI Ginger Bells, OPI Suzi Loves Cowboys

I could not trim down my navys any lower than this. I think I had about eight. They are the largest colour group found in my stash. I feel safe with these ones as I have one in almost every finish if I ever did need it. That is some weak justification if I ever did hear!

Left to right: OPI Russian Navy Suede, OPI Roadhouse Blues, OPI Play Til Midnight, OPI Ink

Lucky last, the greens. I'm still not completely sold on all of these shades. I do however love wearing Uh-Oh and Trendsetter.

Left to right: China Glaze Electric Pineapple, OPI Who The Shrek Are You?, China Glaze Trendsetter, OPI Uh-Oh Roll Down The Window

Do you have any shades you just can't get rid of?

Glitter Gal is Growing! (literally)

Hey guys I just got an exciting email from Glitter Gal!

The bottles are growing up to 15ml in size and they want you to name them! All the winners will receive the collection of 15ml holographic and/or sparkles nail polishes!

This link is also uploaded on Glitter Gal Australia facebook and twitter site.

Here is a video from the wonderful laides at Glitter Gal explaining it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aO7bFqGyJo

NFUOh 059

Today I've got NFUOh 059 to show you. 059 is similar to 051 and 052 in the way that it has more of a base colour to it. It isn't as sheer as the glass flecks. 059 has a berry/wine base colour and is loaded heaps of orange flakies that turn gold and green. 

For 059 I chose to layer it over bare nail, Orly On The List, Glitter Gal Copper and a generic black creme.

We step it up to two coats here. In the sunlight you get to see more of the orange side of the flakies but it's more of the base polish that is showing through.

In the shade you get to see the flakies and the duochrome starts to come out to play...

Here you can see the gold/orange/green duochrome starting to show.

I think all of the base polishes look just as nice as each other with 059. The black gives you  the more orange/fiery side of things, Copper gives you a subtle holo, On The List was my favourite. It's a deep berry with pink glitter. 059 you can wear by itself but it will need at least 3 coats to get full coveage.

More NFUOh posts coming!

Glitter Gal Not Another Red

Today I have to show you is Glitter Gal's Not Another Red!

I love the name of this one. Because, do we really need another red? No, of course we don't, but we do however need this red.

Look at that. Isn't that a glorious site to be seen? The formula is just as lovely as Coppers'. Two smooth thin coats gives you all the coverage in the world.

Not another red reminds me OPI's Ruby and Reflection. Although a lot more blingy.

If any New Zealanders want to get their hands on a bottle or two of the Glitter Gal range, head over to polishqueennz on TradeMe! She is the distributor for New Zealand and super friendly and lovely!

If the price is stopping you buying one, check out my post where I compare a range of polishes and their cost per ml. Glitter Gal says that they use the most expensive holographic particles in their polishes. Seriously, these holos do not disappoint!

Watch the video to see how it sparkles!

Glitter Gal Copper

Here is the full review of Glitter Gal's Copper!

With these Glitter Gal reviews, I have included a quick video at the end to show how they sparkle. A still photo just doesn't show it the same!

This is two thin coats here. Usually with holographic polishes this thin, when I go to do another coat the brush usually starts pulling the bottom layer and creating bald patches. I was preparing myself to deal with this when wearing Copper, but it wasn't even an issue! These two coats just glided on.

Copper is more blingy than Not Another Red. I thought for sure that Copper was my favourite because of this, but it's a tough choice. Not Another Red is a bright bold red. 

If any New Zealanders want to get their hands on a bottle or two of the Glitter Gal range, head over to polishqueennz on TradeMe! She is the distributor for New Zealand and super friendly and lovely!


If the price is stopping you buying one, check out my post where I compare a range of polishes and their cost per ml. Glitter Gal says that they use the most expensive holographic particles in their polishes. Seriously, these holos do not disappoint!


Watch the video and try to say no.

Glitter Gal Not Another Red and Copper!

I just received these in the mail and had to show you right away! These are Glitter Gal's Not Another Red and Copper holographic polishes.

How did I not know how blingy these Glitter Gal polishes are?! As soon as I pulled them out of the packet, I ran to my sister (a holo fanatic) to show her, she loved them, ran to my mum (another holo fanatic), she loved them too! I was running all over the house to see them in different lighting.

Not Another Red

After ten minutes of swirling these around under every light source in the house, I thought I better set up a mini studio and take some shots! These were taken at night time, I will take daylight photos tomorrow.

Not Another Red

Not Another Red reminds me of OPI's Reflection or Ruby a wee bit, but of course 100x the bling.

OPI Reflection

That top 'Vintage' is supposed to read Couture.

Then we move onto Copper!

Copper

This is my favourite of the two. It has a rose gold feel to it.

Copper

Copper seems to be even more holo than Not Another Red. I think Not Another Red has more coloured pigment in it or something that's ever so slightly blocking the bling.

OPI DS Couture

Copper reminded me of a mix between OPI Couture and OPI Bay Bridge Sunset.

OPI Bay Bridge Sunset

But of course a million times more sparkly!

I did a quick swatch of the two. Seems pretty accurate to me under the artificial lighting, although I'd say that Copper is a little more golden than what's shown here.

I will do a review on each of these shades very shortly. 

If Kiwis are interested in buying Glitter Gal polishes, they can do so from this lovely seller on TradeMe; polishqueennz