For the manicure I used Barielle Ocean Breeze as my base. I topped the whole thing with Shimmer Strength and then stamped the ribbon pattern using Essence Stamp Me! White and Bundle Monster plate BM-321...
Shimmer Strength is a mix of small teal, silver and holo glitter as well as some larger silver hex and even a few hearts. Since there are so few hearts, I did have to 'fish' it out for the manicure, but personally I like that it is not overflowing with the heart glitter. I prefer the smaller glitter that I can just brush on and I'm willing to 'fish' for the larger pieces to place as accents. The silver hex and hearts do seem to have an ever so slight curl to them. The glitter is easy to apply and as most Shimmer polishes it is loaded with glitter in each brush stroke. This is just one coat plus top coat over my base...
As you can see it has lots of micro glitter. Although I have not tried it on a full manicure yet, I think you can reach full opacity with using Strength alone in about 3 coats.
| Swatch Details | |
 | Brand: Shimmer Collection: core Color Name/Number: Strength Number of coats: 1 (layered over Barielle Ocean Breeze) Top Coat: Yes Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
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Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)
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