Time for some glittah und spahkle, no? I have a super pretty glitter jelly polish to show you in this post. It's called Dark Elf and it's by indie polish maker Dollish Polish.
Dark Elf has a translucent medium deep magenta base densely packed with small purple and dark gold glitters. The gold glitters show as a glowing orange through the purply red base, cool! This is a very zingy combination of colors.
For some reason I had it in my head that I wanted to layer this polish over a red, a magenta or a dark coral or pink. I tried out various combinations on a swatch wheel, but was kinda meh about all of them. Then I read online that Dark Elf was fabulous over purples. Ok! I grabbed the swatch wheel and my newest purple, China Glaze Spontaneous and gave it go and whaddaya whaddaya it turned out great! So that's the combo you'll be seeing.
I applied China Glaze Spontaneous over basecoat and I was like, whoa sweet! Spontaneous is a well-pigmented creamy medium violet with gray undertones. It's almost a one coater, look at these pictures I took at one coat of Spontaneous (no topcoat either, that shiny finish is NATURAL baby)...
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| China Glaze Spontaneous, one coat on the nail (dries a bit darker and richer than the bottle color) |
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| China Glaze Spontaneous, one coat |
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| China Glaze Spontaneous, one coat |
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| China Glaze Spontaneous, one coat |
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| China Glaze Spontaneous, one coat |
I did end up dabbing on another half coat, mostly on the edges of some nails where it was a little bit too thin but if I'd been a little more on the ball during the first coat I wouldn't have needed to. I topped it with Seche Vite and let it dry before applying one coat of Dark Elf, which applied beautifully with nice even glitter spread, no gooeyness, no stacking. It's not unusual for glitter jelly polishes to dry to a textured finish that's topcoat thirsty. I applied a coat of Seche Vite and as it was drying I began to see texture again so I added another coat. That's what you see in the photos.
We had thick dark cloud cover all day today so I didn't get a chance to take pics in sunlight, but Dark Elf was wicked sparkly under the halogens in the kitchen. The magenta base reddens up the violet color of Spontaneous considerably, and in indirect natural light the purple glitters flash blue. In low incandescent lighting, those orangey gold glitters flash like tiny embers. It's like the secondary colors on the color wheel are having a hoopla on my nails!
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf, bottle shot |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf, macro shot in the bottle |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf over China Glaze Spontaneous |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf over China Glaze Spontaneous |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf over China Glaze Spontaneous |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf over China Glaze Spontaneous |
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| at the window... |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf over China Glaze Spontaneous |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf over China Glaze Spontaneous |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf over China Glaze Spontaneous |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf over China Glaze Spontaneous |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf over China Glaze Spontaneous -- love those orange sparks! | |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf over China Glaze Spontaneous, in the kitchen... |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf over China Glaze Spontaneous |
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| extreme close up whoa! |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf over China Glaze Spontaneous |
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| Dollish Polish Dark Elf over China Glaze Spontaneous |
Party polish! With an edge. A fierce kind of edge. A "mess with the rose, get the thorns" kind of edge. *wink* I am enjoying it tremendously. I keep having to stop typing to look at the orange sparks glowing in the lamp light in my office (it's dark out now).
Better not mess with the rose!
love,
Aunt Liz
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