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"glitter topper" refers to a type of makeup or nail polish that is applied over a base color and adds a sparkly and shimmery touch to enhance the overall look.
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Four Star Daydream is a clear based
glitter topper with various shapes and sizes of gold metallic and gold holographic glitters.
It's Fall Over Me is a clear -
based glitter topper with iridescent shifting glitters of various sizes.
Electric Icicle is a clear
glitter topper made with «bright blue holo hexes, rainbow iridecent hexes and squares, silver holo hexes and tiny diamonds, and blue holo stars».
I know that the black and
white glitter toppers are out now, but I never really spent any time with them when they were popular, so I'm still a fan of the look.
My swatch this Swatch Saturday features the gorgeous
glitter topper from Blue - Eyed Girl Lacquer «s 2014 Valentine's Day collection.
China Glaze Big Hair & Bubbly is
gold glitter topper with small and micro hex glitters mixed in.
Prototype JJ 1.1 is a
fun glitter topper; I've nicknamed it Skyline because it reminds me of a night out in the city; the bright lights of buildings, the glowing sky, the feeling of being swallowed up by the tall buildings and swathes of people.
I used these two polishes together because I felt like Idealistic Future was the
only glitter topper I had that could stand up to Sprung.
Prototype BBD1.0 is a clear - based
fine glitter topper; the glitter mix is predominantly purple holo glitters, but also contains holo reds and blues and matte lime green glitters.
Four Star Daydream (one coat over Goin» Way Down South, two coats alone): clear based
glitter topper consisting of varying shapes and sizes of gold metallic and holographic glitters
Part of Nails Inc.'s
Floral glitter topper collection, it pairs pretty pastels with large and dense glitter.
As I said, MIL - Induced Mimosas was part of a fall duo; Turkey Coma, a festive
fall glitter topper, was also available.
Today's swatch is a special -
edition glitter topper from Blue - Eyed Girl Lacquer called Get Too Close to the Flame.
Chef Kitty is a
shimmery glitter topper with mostly white glitters in various shapes and sizes, as well as accent glitters in various colors and finishes.
This polish has the same issues that all the
shredded glitter toppers have with smoothness, and I talked about that a bit in last week's post.
Lancome AUDACity in London Eyeshadow Palette ($ 69 + various sale prices) This mostly cool - toned palette has 16 shadows, 12 shadows and
4 glitter toppers, arranged in four coordinating quads.
This was back when those black and
white glitter toppers were at the height of their popluarity; this was the first one I got, probably also the first one I ever used.
Sakura Matsuri is a clear -
based glitter topper with pink matte, red metallic, iridescents in blue and green, and pink and white flower - shaped glitters.
Love Hurts is a
clear glitter topper with black glitters, some fine silver glitters, and holographic red hearts.
My Secret Garden from Literary Lacquers is a clear
glitter topper with pink, lavender, blue, yellow and green matte hexes with iridescent sparkles.
I could have just Wibbly Wobbly as
a glitter topper, but I really wanted that multi-layered glitter look.
Collage Overlay is a clear - based
glitter topper with holographic pink bar and hex glitters in various sizes, as well as large white hexes.
Belladonna is a clear - based
glitter topper; the colors are primarily white and black with noen blue, green, pink, and yellow.
I only got four because I was «exercising restraint», but they had a ton of different colors and
glitter toppers.
There's
a glitter topper with heart glitter in it, obviously (we'll see this next week), as well as a pink and a red, but those polishes were not the favorites from the collection.
BEGL describes Idealistic Future as a clear
glitter topper «packed with gold, pink, purple, and red glitters in hexes, squares, glass dots, diamonds, and hearts.»
Aguamenti is
a glitter topper with a truckload of metallic and holographic glitters in various shapes and colors.
For this look, I used Julep's Alexandra as the base color, Octopus Party «s Universal Loner as the tip color, and LA Colors's Confetti as
the glitter topper, all with one coat of Seche Vite.