Wheel Q11: Glitters from OPI

Back to glitter for this Nail Wheel Wednesday. The six OPI Metapmorphosis were right there waiting after I swatched them, so I gathered more OPI plus a couple Sephora by OPI to fill up a wheel with dense glitters. The Metamorphosis shades are the most sheer of this group, though with their packed shimmer bases, they too can be worn on their own; your nail line will peek through but the effect will be like any intentionally sheer polish, not streaky like you didn't put on enough coats or spotty like you are wearing a topper without undies.




(all have clear topcoat in addition to glitter coats noted below)

1. OPI Can't Be Camouflaged (2)
2. OPI Ecstatic Prismatic (2)
3. OPI Butterfly Me to the Moon (2)
4. OPI You Little Shade Shifter (2)
5. OPI DS Temptation (2)
6. OPI unknown (3) [this is an old formula, with the distinct smell of polishes before brands starting going 3-Free ... and 5-Free and 7-Free and such]
7. OPI unknown (2) [I spent a lot of time squinting at the bottom of the bottle and trying to see the numbers printed there so I could determine what this is with no success]
8. OPI Metallic 4 Life (2)
9. OPI DS Titanium (3)
10. Sephora by OPI If You've Got It Haunt It (2)
11. OPI Frog in My Throat (2) [a little bit of glitter in with the flakies here so it's legit on this wheel]
12. OPI Top the Package with a Beau (2) [okay, this is really a microflakie and not a glitter, but close enough for nail wheel purposes]
13. OPI Today I Accomplished Zero (2)
14. OPI Pineapples Have Peelings Too (2)
15. OPI This Changes Everything (2)
16. OPI Metamorphically Speaking (2)
17. OPI Baraque But Still Shopping (2)
18. OPI Ce-less-tial is More (2)
19. Sephora by OPI Sparkling Personality (2)
20. OPI Is This Star Taken (2) [my least favorite on this wheel, yes, even more so than the often reviled Pineapples Have Peelings Too, which at least has some fun color to it and glitter that you can tell is there, unlike these wispy holo bars that look like they might have been due to a mistake on the production line]


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Wheel D10: Glitters from Sephora

One drawback to still not having all my polish unpacked and sorted is I end up with wheels like this one, with 19 Sephora by OPI and one Sephora + Pantone. I know I've got another Sephora by OPI that could have filled out this wheel but it's still buried. Ah well. When I do have all my polish organized (yes, when, not if) I can just paint new, better wheels. In the meantime, enjoy these sparklies.




(all two coats plus topcoat)

1. Sephora by OPI Dream Princess (over black)
2. Sephora by OPI I Found a Pot of Gold [yay for diamond glitter that doesn't need to be fished out of the bottle]
3. Sephora by OPI Only Gold for Me Top Coat
4. Sephora by OPI Don't Be Eggnog-ious
5. Sephora by OPI Mauve-ie Star In the Making [like the mix of gold with lilac and rose here]
6. Sephora by OPI Beam Me Up Hottie
7. Sephora by OPI Meet Me at the Disco Top Coat
8. Sephora by OPI Are You Glistenin'
9. Sephora by OPI To the Glimmer End
10. Sephora by OPI If You've Got It Haunt It
11. Sephora by OPI Indie-go with the Flow [such a pretty blue color in these glitters]
12. Sephora by OPI Midnight Mambo
13. Sephora by OPI Not Your Average Turquoise Top Coat
14. Sephora by OPI Lights Glammer-a Action [gold and silver plus turquoise makes this versatile]
15. Sephora by OPI Spark-tacular Top Coat
16. Sephora by OPI Good Tidings We Bling [not sure if this started with smoky base or if there's been bleeding]
17. Sephora by OPI Be-Claus I Said So
18. Sephora by OPI Sugar Plum Fairies Gone Wild [nice mix of warm and cool purples here]
19. Sephora by OPI G-listen to Your Hear
20. Sephora + Pantone Jaffa Orange [nice and juicy looking]


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Wheel A10: Crackle Polishes

I'm still sorting the last of my cremes and shimmers into major color groups, so they're not the point where I can just grab 20 and make a wheel, but my special effect polishes are to that point, since I do those by brand/finish rather than hue. So today I have a blast from the not so distant past: crack polishes. (Of course there's always the possibility that I will find more of the same finishes/brands as I empty the last of the boxes I'm unpacking, but I'm just gonna have to live with that. It's good for me to learn to deal with things like that.)



(all one coat over base of either white or black creme)

1. Pure Ice Crackle Pout
2. Pure Ice Vinyl Remix Art in Motion DJ Spinner [white base, the green and black come from the crack]
3. Pure Ice Vinyl Remix Art in Motion Glam Rock [white base]
4. OPI Shatter Paints Pink Shatter Paint [white base]
5. OPI Shatter Paints Orange Shatter Paint [white base]
6. OPI Shatter Super Bass Shatter
7. OPI Shatter Shatter the Scales
8. Sephora by OPI Blasted Blasted Opalescent
9. China Glaze Crackle Glaze Lightning Bolt
10. China Glaze Crackle Glaze Cracked Concrete
11. China Glaze Crackle Glaze Broken Hearted
12. China Glaze Crackle Glaze Crushed Candy
13. China Glaze Crackle Glaze Black Mesh
14. China Glaze Crackle Glaze Fault Line [this has a shimmer to it, but it's subtle; maybe topcoat would have brought it out more]
15. China Glaze Crackle Glaze Oxidized Aqua
16. China Glaze Crackle Glaze Latticed Lilac
17. China Glaze Crackle Platinum Pieces
18. China Glaze Crackle Glaze Haute Metal
19. China Glaze Crackle Glaze Tarnished Gold
20. China Glaze Crackle Glaze Cracked Medallion


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Wheel X8: Glitters from Sephora

Nail Wheel Wednesday today features glitters from various brands sold at Sephora at various points in time.



(all have topcoat in addition to coats noted below)

1. Sephora + Pantone Universe Blanc de Blanc (3 coats over black base)
2. Sephora + Pantone Universe Silver (2 over black)
3. Sephora + Pantone Universe Rich Gold (2 over black)
4. Sephora + Pantone Universe Jaffa Orange (2)
5. Sephora + Pantone Universe Honeysuckle (2)
6. Sephora Formula X Glory (2)
7. Sephora Formula X Oh Zone (2 over black)
8. Sephora Formula X Serendipity (2)
9. Sephora Formula X Boiling Point (2)
10. Sephora Formula X Explosive (2)
11. Sephora Formula X Firecracker (2)
12. Sephora Formula X Mind Blowing (2)
13. Sephora Formula X Maniacal (2)
14. Sephora Formula X Crash (2)
15. Sephora Formula X Boom (2)
16. Sephora Formula X TNT (2)
17. Sephora Formula X Meteoric (2)
18. Sephora Formula X Chaotic (2)
19. Sephora Formula X Blast Off (2)
20. Sephora by OPI Looks Like Rain, Dear (2)


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