NOTD Chanel Rose Cache + Golden Rose #68

I have bought this beautiful Golden Rose nail polish just recently – at first it seemed like an ugly silver glitter, but then I have noticed that there are flecks of red, green and blue glitter. I couldn’t wait to try it, so I put it over my current nail polish: Chanel Le Vernis in Rose Cache.

The ingredients:

2 coats of Chanel Le Vernis Rose Cache

2 coats of Golden Rose #69

I wanted to put the glitter in gradients – so that there is less glitter close to the nail beds and a lot on the tips of the nails. I put one really thin layer of Golden Rose #69 polish over the nail. After it has dried, I’ve put a large drop of Golden Rose #69 polish on the tip of the nail. I’ve waited for 15 seconds and then spread the drop with the light swipe towards the nail bed. This way, the biggest concentration of glitter was on the nail tip.

NOTD: L.A. Girl in Garnet + Inglot #202

If you love nail polish, you certainly know about one of the legends of the nail polish world: Clarins #230. It is a multicoloured shimmer suspended in the purplish-red base. Depending on the angle, the colour goes from red, yellowish and orange to green. I have fallen in love with this nail polish the moment I saw it. The polish has been long time discontinued, but it is still possible to find bottles on the eBay for insane amount of money. I’m still not into giving $60+ for a nail polish bottle, no matter how pretty it is, but I wanted to find something which could capture the rainbow colour-changing ability of Clarins.

The combination of L.A Girl nail polish and Inglot is certainly very as far from the proper dupe as you can get – after all, Inglot is flaky nail polish, while Clarins is shimmery; however, the combination has a slightly similar captivating ability to change colours.

For this reason, I have decided to put this combination as my first proper NOTD (nail of the day).

INGREDIENTS:

L.A. Girl Nail Lacquer in Garnet

Inglot Nail Enamel in #202

Put two coats of L.A. Girl polish in Garnet. Then layer with one or two coats of Inglot #202. I have used two coats, to get enough flakes to cover the nail.

Depending on the angle, the polish will go from red to orange and deep green. It looks very effective and very eye catching. Instead of L.A. Girl in Garnet, you could probably use any burgundy red shimmering nail polish, because the key is in the opalescent flakes. The flakes can be duped with any flaky polish – the most important is that the flakes in the bottle change colour from orange to green.