Vampy Flakies

Nail polish fanatics have a huge array of the most amazing top coats to choose from. Crackle polishes, glitters, mattes and one flakies. 

Flakie top coats, in my opinion, are one of the best ways to instantly jazz up any nail polish. I find they tend to work best on a darker base colour.

Even on shorter nails like mine, dark colours and and a flakie top coat look lovely. 

I used two coats of Hanover Square from Nails Inc which was a freebie in Glamour magazine. 

The flakie top coat is called Rainbow by Gosh. I absolutely love it, it flashes between gold, copper, green and yellow. 

What do you think of flakies? Have you come across this one by Gosh?

Taste The Rainbow

Bouncing back from the let down that was Take A Trek from China Glaze's Hologlam collection I dug out an old favorite.

Gosh Rainbow - a gorgeous flakie polish:

Two coats of a plain black polish and one coat of Rainbow Simple but eye catching.

The man with the golden gun on Her Majesty's secret service

I went to my local Sallys a few days back and saw they had their Christmas sales on. I wasn't that blown away by the few China Glaze 2012 Christmas collection polishes they had left so didn't pick any of those up.

 

However, I was thrilled to find OPI's James Bond polishes were reduced - my gobsmacking moment - when a £30 bottle of The Man With The Golden Gun was reduced to £13.

 

I layered this gold flakie over On Her Majesty's Secret Service:

 

 

 

The 18k real gold flakie top coat was a little bit of a pain to work with. The flakies are in a clear base which I found to be quite thick. The golden flecks are sparse as well which made it tricky to work with. I certainly would not have bought this for the full £30 price tag but for £13 in the sale it's ok to have for the collectors value.

 

Have you used this topcoat? If so what do you think - is it worth the hype?

 

 

 

 

Jolly Holly Rainbow

With all the bright polishes around at the moment I was craving a darker vampy colour, two coats of China Glaze Jolly Holly with one coat of Rainbow by Gosh.

The flakies became copper in colour over the dark green, I tend to prefer this Gosh polish over darker colours, I find the effect is more obvious.

I am still on the look out for Finger Paint flakies, I keep checking ebay....