Nail Polish Swatch: Deborah Lippmann - Across the Universe

Colour | Blue, Green, Sheer Navy Base

Finish | Hex Glitter, Micro Glitter

Opacity | Two Coats over Black

Brush Type | Standard

How Much | 15ml

Cruelty Free | Yes

Swatch used one coat of a glitter smoother and a quick dry topcoat.

   

Nail Polish Battle 2022: Toppers and Glitters

Today's battle is glitters and topper polishes, I have 12 in this category;

Barry M Meringue // Rimmel Mermaid Fin // FUN Amethyst // DRK Splendor // Nails Inc Taken for Granite // Orly Bubbly Bombshell // Deborah Lippmann Razzle Dazzle // Fancy Gloss Candy Cane // Deborah Lippmann Across the Universe // Fancy Gloss Sapphire Shards // Deborah Lippmann Bad Romance // Bright and Polished Black Dots

This category is a catch all for anything slightly different, so it's difficult to pit a shimmer topper against a glitter or thermal. After some thinking the following are my top three;

Amethyst ended up in third place, it is a ghost flakie topper in a amethyst colour. It looks particularly nice over a black.

Candy Cane is a glitter thermal, going from pink to red with red and white glitters. It's very much a Christmas appropriate polish.

The winner of this round is Sapphire Shards, which is another thermal going from light blue to dark blue with small blue flakies within. Rather than specifically Christmas appropriate this can be worn during winter and throughout the year.

   

Nail Polish Battle 2020: Purple

I appear to have a thing for purple polishes having 19 new ones in 2020!

Barry M - Lavender // Barry M - Grape Soda // Rimmel - Lovey Dovey // Barry M - Native Purple // Sinful Colors - Kommotion // Danglefoot - Bones // OPI - Hello Pretty // ILNP - Love Language // A England - New Romantic // Danglefoot - Buttons for Eyes

Danglefoot - Across the Universe // OPI - Suzi and the Artic Fox // Tonic - Peacock Parade // Tonic - Pegasus Parade // Tonic - Pixie Parade // OPI - Turn on the Northern Lights // Tonic - The Answer is 42 // A England - Lenore // ILNP - Eclipse

This particular battle was difficult to whittle it down to my top three as there are so many beautiful polishes.

Pegasus Parade which is a purple blue duochrome polish, quite shifty and difficult to photograph! There is also some maroon in there too depending on the light and angle.

The Answer is 42 is a duochrome purple blue polish which I struggle to photo, it also has flakies and scattered holographic pieces.

Which means that Eclipse is the winner, this is such a shifty multichrome it was hard to know what colour category to go in. Looks black straight on, changing to red, orange, yellow, beautiful.

  

Swatch: Danglefoot Polish - Across the Universe (Celestial Collection)

Across the Universe is a multichrome polish, as such it is difficult to photograph!

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Colour | Purple, Blue, Green

Finish | Multichrome with Silver Metallic Flecks

Opacity | Two Coats

Brush Type | Flat, Wide

How Much | 10ml

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Topic Tuesday: Do you have dupes?

Revlon Facets of Fuchsia is a dupe for Deborah Lippmann Bad Romance. I went to purchase Bad Romance for my Wedding polish but the department store didn't have it in stock so I ended up with the Revlon one. Facets of Fuchsia is a purple hex and micro glitters in a blackened base.

  

Nails: Multichrome Filigree

Base Polish | Danglefoot - Across the Universe
Stamping Polish | Barry M - Silver Foil Effect
Stamping Plate | Bundle Monster 314