Woohoo! 1L done Glitter Spam! :)

Yay for my 1st year of law school being finished! Although by the time this posts, it'll have been over for 3 weeks and I'll be 2 weeks into summer school, it still calls for a celebratory glitter spam :) These are just some of my favorite glitter combinations within the past year or so. I'm leaving out the indie brand glitters because I'm making a separate post for that soon :D

And so here it goes!

my first try at layering glitters!
For the gold, I used CC Sultry
then Sinful: Call You Later
then NYX Girls: Turks and Caicos
then Nicole by OPI: Nicole... Spotted!
my base was NYX Girls Sea of Cortez

LA Splash Golden Seahorse + Brownie gold glitter thing (Japanese) + Milani FX Gold

American Apparel Hassid + OPI Divine Swine + LA Girl Glitter Addict Nostalgic

Butter London: The Black Knight + Butter London Tart with a Heart

Fingerpaints: Vintage Velvet + LA Girls Glitter Addict: Provocative

OPI Warm & Fozzie, Spoiled: Jewelry Heist (the bronzey glitters) & Essence: Edward (green glitter)

Piggy Polish: Among the Stars + Color Club: Very Merry Berry

OPI: Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous + OPI: Crown Me Already! on ring finger

Nerd Lacquer: Warrior Ethos + NYX Girls Frizz Spots gradated

Hope y'all enjoyed seeing those as much as I enjoyed wearing them!

LA Splash swatches

CherryCulture is probably one of my favorite websites to haul from when they have their awesome sales. So I was totally psyched when they started carrying more of a brand that I hadn't really known about, LA Splash. I ordered a good handful (at $3.99 each) and these are the two I've swatched so far. All the other ones I got were glitters but here is one jelly and one shimmer+glitter combo.

LA Splash Blowfish Blue

Just one step below neon blue, dries matte like a neon, except it's a jelly. Three coats, okay application. Not a great polish on its own but might be very useful in gradients or frankens. We'll see.

LA Splash Golden Moss

I like the idea. Moss green shimmering jelly with small gold hex glitter. Except the moss green isn't vivid enough so it kind of just looks like muddy marinated seaweed with chunky pieces. Definitely needs topcoat (it has none here). Three coats to get rid of VNL.

Close-up of Golden Moss

Okay. So it's not an auspicious start. But I'm a huge sucker for glitters and those will be swatched some day very soon. :)