Sweet Baby Octopolish!

One more Halloween look, but for the last round I skipped on glow and went with glam. indoor, bright CF lighting for both Pump It Up! was KBShimmer's offering for this past month's PPU, and as soon as it arrived I knew I was going to get one last Halloween mani in with it before the end of the month.  This is a really wearable orange (I typically do not like orange at all), more warm caramel than neon ORANGE.  It's a smooth jelly base with tons of reflective glitter that I'll swear is a bit holo, too, and provided complete coverage in 2 coats. On top of PIU! I've added pumpkin images from Creative Shop 16S and Dixie Plates Halloween 2017 in basic black.  I filled in the big pumpkin stems with OPI Landscape Artist, which was more opaque than I remembered/wanted, but hey it worked out. Rating:  a sparkly 4 out of 5 stars, this does exactly what I wanted it to, and removal was nowhere near as awful as I expect for glitter-heavy polishes.   Where to buy:  ...

Reflective glitter is the new hotness that's absolutely exploded all over the indie polish scene in the past few months.  I've  been a little hesitant to jump onto this particular wagon because 1) still attempting to work that no-buy and 2)I typically kinda hate glitter removal.  But like the polish nerd I am, I totally caved when I saw one that was just too too gorgeous to pass by... indoor, bright CF lighting Obsessed is about the right word here.  This is an amazingly saturated color that was truly the exact violet center between blue and purple.  It leans more one way or the other depending on indoor vs sunlight, but I am filing this one under blue.  The base is deeply saturated but is a jelly to allow those sparkles to shine forth, so it took 3 coats to get to the opacity you see here.  with flash With flash or with the just right angle of direct sunlight, those bright silvery glitters come alive and throw back as much light as physics allows....