This really is a purpley wine colored polish, I swear. It sort of looks more red wine than purple in pictures. Meet Rimmel Purple Rain. This was 2 coats with their gnarly flat brush that barely fits into the narrow bottle neck. I actually like their brushes and will do a post on brushes but for now, let me re-focus.
Purple rain is a great creme with nice pigment and it applies well, opaque in 2 easy coats, no flooding. It dries almost like a semi matte polish does, it's not overly glossy. You can see from the close up that it looks squishy or almost like vinyl.
The light from my light box looks diffused on the nail with no top coat. It's a finish I really like with this polish color. I wanted to do something different with this polish so I jazzed it up a bit by adding crackle and comparing it to shatter.
I thought it would only be fair to give my OPI Silver Shatter another try because we got off on the wrong foot last time. So here it is compared with La Rosa Crackle (ring and little finger). You can see that OPI is much more glitter/foil than the La Rosa which is more shimmery. I like the effect of the OPI but I almost think all the foil in it takes away from whatever polish may be able to peek through the little shattered lines. It is also chunky and thicker than any of the La Rosa crackles, which apply like a normal flat coat of lacquer. I think that each is good for its own look and I actually do not have a preference because they are so different, but I do like an effect that lays flat on the nail without many thick coats of SV on top. I'm warming up to Silver Shatter so may be we'll be friends one day but for now, it's baby steps.
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This really is a purpley wine colored polish, I swear. It sort of looks more red wine than purple in pictures. Meet Rimmel Purple Rain. This was 2 coats with their gnarly flat brush that barely fits into the narrow bottle neck. I actually like their brushes and will do a post on brushes but for now, let me re-focus.
Here's Rimmel Marnie Blue... go ahead and stare.. it's worth it.I picked this one up at the CVS mega clearance sale for cheap! It is a really pretty teal with a shimmer to it. This is two coats and a clear top. I stamped from my Mash plate using Konad white special polish. I've been wanting to use this bow design for a long time but just never got around to it until Marnie Blue was on my nails and it screamed for the bow! I had a dotting tool and Wet N Wild Through the Grapevine handy so I used that as the center of the bow. I really love this bow design and I used it again for a holo (stay tuned for that!).This is also a great stamp for short nails because nobody says you have to put the bow at the tip of your nail, you could do it diagonally or even in the middle or vertical if you wanted to. 
