Kleancolor, Golden Nightmare

I received this nail polish along with several other beautiful Kleancolors in a swap with Tiffani of Yardsticks 4 Lunatics!  Thanks, Tiffani! I hope to show the rest of my readers some more along the way. :)

Golden Nightmare is a black creme interspersed with square golden glitter (actually, I can barely tell whether or not it's gold or whether it's olive. We'll go with some green-tinted gold, yeah?) and shimmer of the same color. This is, quite frankly, what I wanted ChG Wagon Trail to be.  Wagon Trail looked somewhat dull most of the time, but Golden Nightmare patently does not--it looks like a plain black under indoor lighting, but flares to life under direct sunlight. Observe:

(Please click on the image for the best view of aforementioned sparklyflash. Thank you.)

I also found that Golden Nightmare is a perfect, fuss-free one-coater; it does, however, dry gritty due to the glitter:  two coats of topcoat are necessary.

Ah, there's that visible flash I was talking about.  It really makes my day. :)

Kleancolor, Tahiti Sunset

Um. . .

Staring at Kleancolor's Tahiti Sunset made me wonder whether or not I liked crazy glitters in theory.  I had all kinds of misgivings about this polish:  the yellow tone would make my stained nails look more stained, but it didn't seem to be dark enough to pull opaque. I was so sure I had plague on my hands, but I put three coats of its sheer, bronzy self to see if I could make it work.

In the pictures, it still induces a sickening reaction, but on the skin it wasn't... really bad as long as you weren't looking close up. The gold was nice. Glittery. A flash of red and holo glitter, occasionally, from its respective sources. but close up...

Ew.

are you kind of able to see what I mean? So glossy! So shiny! Even without sunlight! Still, barely passable on its own.

So I put it on over black:

This is two coats over Kleancolor's Taihti Sunset, and that was much, much better. Akin to watching confetti sprinkle through the night sky.  The gold that was so prominent in the previous manicure took backstage here when over black, but the red and the holo string glitter became very prominent, glaring under certain angles.

But see that golden shimmer there? Really, that's the kind of stuff that I live for.

I supposed that meant that I really did like funky glitter in theory.

Then I met the Lippmann collection, which you will be seeing this week.