Challenge: Day 17 - Glitter

Hi ladies I have a big one for you today *that's what he said*. Since it's glitter day, and I have a mountain of Shimmer polishes that have yet to be swatched and shown, I thought I may as well kill 2 birds with one stone, so to speak. Now this is going to be a pic heavy post, so I have taken the liberty to add a jump instead of the post completely lagging *I'm so gamer* out your computers/laptops/devices. Instead of posting the full 12 polishes now, I will post the first half for glitter day and the remainder as an extra to the challenge.

All of the swatches shown below were taken indoors in natural light and without a base or top coat (with the exception of coloured underwear). I've also tried to include photos from both my new (NC) and old (OC) cameras, as I haven't actually used my new camera for blogging yet since I'm still getting the hang of it, but I will mention which camera was used underneath the photos and if you could give me some feedback on which one you prefer, that would be awesome.

CLICK THE JUMP TO SEE THE SWATCHES & MY FELLOW CHALLENGERS POSTS FOR GLITTER DAY!

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Vanessa* is a charcoal Grey glitter base packed with large Silver, Holographic & Red hex, smaller Green & Blue glitters as well as tiny Holographic particles. For the swatches above, I layered 2 coats of Vanessa over one coat of Models Own - Gun Grey.

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Liana* is a Dark Blue glitter base packed with various sized Blue, Black & Holographic hex glitters as well as smaller Red & Green glitters. For the swatches above I applied 2 coats of Liana over one coat of Catrice - Hip Queens Wear Blue Jeans.

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Gerry* is a dark Purple glitter base packed with various sized Blue, Purple, Red, Teal & Holographic hex glitters as well as tiny Holographic particles. For the swatches above, I applied 2 coats of Gerry over 1 coat of Catrice - Heavy Metallic.

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Linna* is a Green glitter base packed with large Red, Blue, Green & Gold hex glitters and smaller Green, Blue & Holographic hex glitters. For the swatches above I applied 2 coats of Linna over 1 coat of Catrice - Virgin Forest.

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Tammy* is a Purple glitter base packed with various sized Purple, Black, Gold & Holographic glitters as well as Holographic bar glitters. For the swatches above I applied 1 coat of Tammy over 1 coat of China Glaze - Spontaneous.

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Airriann* is a Peach glitter base packed with various sized Red, Gold, Pink, Black & Holographic glitters. For the swatches above I applied 2 coats of Airriann over 1 coat of Catrice - Welcome To Roosywood.

So there you have part 1 of my Shimmer swatches, I will be posting the other half sometime over the next week, so stay tuned for those. Overall I am amazed by the quality of Shimmer polishes, not only do they apply SUPER easily, without any clumping, they also aren't really gritty and bumpy once they've dried. Shimmer polishes are available for purchase worldwide from her Etsy store at $12/£7.60 each for a 15ml bottle, she also takes custom orders! You can also find Cindy, the creator of Shimmer, via her blog or her Facebook page!

I hope you've enjoyed my entry for Day 17 - Glitter Nails, I apologise for it being super long, but since the glitters are gorgeous, you can forgive me right!? Remember, those of you wanting to add the inlinkz to your own posts, click here to be taken to the google doc with everything you'll need for the next 30 days!

Untrieds Used;

Shimmer - Vanessa

Shimmer - Gerry

Shimmer - Liana

Shimmer - Linna

Shimmer - Tammy

Shimmer - Airriann

Catrice - Virgin Forest

Catrice - Welcome To Roosywood

Products in the post marked with (*) have been sent to me by the company or their PR for my honest review. For more information, please see my disclosure page.