Color Club ~ Glitter Wonderland with extra bling

Color Club ~ Glitter Wonderland

Purple with pink and blue shimmer

Glitter Wonderland is from Color Club’s holiday collection 2012, called Winter affair! It’s a series of six polishes; I bought three of them, and this is the second one I’ve tried on. (I’m saving the best one till last!)

Glitter Wonderland is a beautiful royal purple packed with shimmer. It’s weird that Color Club calls it a glitter, because it’s definitely not! But never mind – there are ways to get around that, wait and see.

I started out with two coats. The formula was different to my other Color Clubs. Drying time was fast – and I had to dip the brush twice in the bottle for each nail. I don’t like that. I prefer being able to get enough polish on in one go. But hey – it ended up looking gorgeous, so it’s a minor thing.

Here’s what two coats look like, without top coat:

I was in the mood for something really shimmery, so I applied a layer of Models Own’s “Jack Frost”, which is a iridescent glitter topper from their Wonderland collection from winter 2012. It flashes blue and green in the bottle, and over this purple it mostly flashes blue. It suits the purple perfectly in my opinion. But you don’t have to take my word for it. Take a look for yourself:

 

Gorgeous, isn’t it?!

Then I added some more bling. I made three large dots on each nail with Barielle’s Starchild, which is a clear base with holo glitter. I topped it with a layer of Seche Vite top coat:

The holo dots looks quite interesting up close. It looks like little piles of glitter on the nail – I quite like that:

And here’s a bottle shot for you:

This mani ended up much more blingy than I intended to begin with, but since I was a peacock in a previous life, I don’t mind at all!

What do you think? Is this a good glitter combo??

Opacity: 8/10
Colour, prettiness: 9/10
Durability: 9/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 8.5/10
Buy again: Yes