Mo' Glitter

At the same time as I ordered the All That Jazz trio from Nordstrom, I also added the other two new glitters from Deborah Lippmann to my cart. They didn't ship at the same time, and for a while I was worried that I wouldn't get them at all, as there were reports on MakeupAlley of pre-orders for them being cancelled or lost, but earlier this week mine showed up.

Let's start with the one that I should like because it is my favorite color, purple: Bad Romance. It looks pretty in the bottle, with small and hex red violet glitter packed in a mysterious dark base.



I put on two coats, and skipped the topcoat, which means it looks especially bumpy in the photos to follow.





The dark base is not so mysterious after all; it's black. As far as I'm concerned, the glitter is not dense enough to cover enough of the black, or the black is too dense and covers up too much of the glitter. I look at this and see Halloween, which might be the next time I wear this one. Guess I'm just not much of a rocker chick.

The other glitter, Across the Universe, is getting a lot of love on nail blogs, which I now completely understand. It's gorgeous, blue and green glitter in a navy jelly base. I used three thin coats and some spots could have used one more, but even so, I couldn't stop looking at it and was very reluctant to take it off do to more swatching (imagine if I'd put a base coat on and shined it up—I might still be staring at it now).







But remove it I did, so I could do my favorite thing: layering.



Left to right: Lippmann Across the Universe, China Glaze Towel Boy Toy, Zoya Charla, OPI Jade is the New Black, Sally Hansen Salon Navy Baby.



AtU over (top to bottom): Towel Boy Toy, Charla, Jade is the New Black, Navy Baby.



AtU over (left to right): Navy Baby, Jade is the New Black, Charla, Towel Boy Toy.



AtU over Charla.

I am so happy with how this layers. Charla was my favorite, but I'd wear any of these combinations, and layering will make my bottle last longer. That's a win all the way around.