Color Club ~ 1016 Riviera
Sea foam green texture with
teal glitter
Riviera is from the
Seasalt collection from winter 2013, and it’s the only one out of 6 polishes I bought.
The other colours didn’t appeal to me at all, and I don’t regret that choice
when I look at swatches.
But anyway – application is easy and the drying time is really good. It
took two easy coats to achieve full opacity.
This is what it looks like; two coats, no topcoat:
I really like the addition of teal glitter, that really makes this polish
worth owning, if you ask me :)
Then I made a mistake :D I wanted to add extra glitter, so I grabbed a
green glitter from Viva la Diva. I thought it was a topper, but the green jelly
base is way denser than I imagined. That means I pretty much covered up the
original sea foam green Color Club… Take a look at what one coat of Viva la
Diva’s “Explosion” look over Riviera:
The teal glitters still show! :D
I rummaged around in my Helmers to find the perfect polish to layer over
this. After a while I gave up, so you have actually seen the end result by now.
If you’ve got clever suggestions about what I should have done with this
I’d be thrilled to hear them in the comments below! :)
Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Fast
Drying time: Fast
Finish: Texture with glitter
Overall impression: This is definitely the gem of the Seasalt collection! The colour is great and the glitter makes it look amazing.
Overall impression: This is definitely the gem of the Seasalt collection! The colour is great and the glitter makes it look amazing.
Buy again: Yes
The teal glitter is great. The base colour could be more vivid, still I like it, and I like it with the topper too.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't mind more vividness either, but I'm with you, it's cool as it is too :)
DeleteRiviera is gorgeous! It actually kind of reminds me of Deborah Lippmann's Mermaid's Dream but textured :)
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I don't know why I didn't think of that. It's a very good point indeed :)
DeleteIt's so mermaid-y on it's own, but I kind of like it with the glitter too!
ReplyDeleteI can't tell you how surprised I was over the fact that the glitter wasn't a topper :D
Deletethey both look good, by itself and with the topper!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much :)
DeleteThis is really pretty! I've got it - but still to use it. :-)
ReplyDeleteI've tried two from this collection. Coastline - which was a nightmare to apply but stunning looking and Seaside which also was hard to work with and kept catching in my hair :-(
Ugh, I hate it when polish catch the hair or sweaters or other things! :/
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