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Glitter Gal Lizard Belly. Two coats.

Deborah Lippmann Believe. Three coats.

Diamond Cosmetics Hue Are You? Two coats. 

Icing Electric Emerald. Four coats.

Kiko 278. Two coats.

Smitten Polish Lovely Lilacs. Three coats.

Indies: Cirque Dark Horse Collection swatches

Cirque Ophelia over Nails Inc Baker Street. One coat. I love this combination. Very nice formula for a glitter. Thin and easy to apply. I almost did not get Ophelia because I find it similar to Lynnderella Forget You not, but they are both beautiful polishes in their own right.

Cirque Tibetan Nights. Four coats. It was still a bit patchy after four coats. I also had to be very careful with application so I would not flood my cuticles. The formula is very thin so it would make a mess quickly. Also, the glitter in this sinks to the bottom of the bottle. Overall, I was disappointed with this one despite it being a very nice blue jelly.

A picture of the sinking glitter I was talking about. 

Cirque Vaudeville. Three coats. This one ended up being one of my favorites.

Candeo Mallard over Vaudeville. One coat. 

Cirque French Roast. Three coats. It was pretty gritty and ended up needing a few layers of topcoat to become smooth.

Cirque Dark Horse. Three coats. This one was gritty as well. I will probably layer this one over black the next time I wear it.

In the end, I am happy with the ones I purchased. Even Tibetan Nights is a beautiful polish, just not worth the trouble of application and sinking glitter for me. Vaudeville and Ophelia were my favorites. The formula overall was great. I did not have to add any thinner or think they needed it. Cirque polishes retail for $12 with the holographic colors selling for $16. There is also free shipping over $55 which I really like since most indie polish makers do not offer any free shipping.

Cirque polishes can be purchased from: www.cirquecolors.com

Sephora by OPI Bohemian Brights swatches

Sephora by OPI Bright as a Feather. Three coats.

Forever 21 Love & Beauty holo glitter over Bright as a Feather. This one didn't have a name, but it came in a little flower shaped bottle.

Sephora by OPI Happy Earth Day To Me. Three coats.

Sephora by OPI It's Totally Karma.

Sephora by OPI I Only Shop Vintage.

Sally Hansen Set The Stage over I Only Shop Vintage.

Sephora by OPI What's Your Sign?

Color Club Platinum Record over What's Your Sign?

Indies: Pahlish polish swatches

Pahlish Train Underwater. Three coats.

Finger Paints Motley over Train Underwater. One coat. I like the green that this added.

Pahlish Sitting in a Tin Can. Three coats.

Icing Mr Right Now. Two coats.

Pahlish Toxic and Timeless over Mr Right Now. Two coats.

Pahlish Toxic and Timeless over Milani Fresh Teal. Two coats of each.

Illamasqua Swinger. Two coats.

Pahlish Sunlight Shooting Through Pine Trees over Swinger. Three coats.

One coat of Sunlight Shooting Through Pine Trees over two coats of OPI Fly. This one reminds me of Chanel Illusion D'Or without the blue glitter. This is one of her underrated polishes yet one of my favorites. Sadly, it has been discontinued.

Pahlish Glittoris. Two coats.

Pahlish Total Eclipse of the Heart over Glittoris. One coat.

Total Eclipse of the Heart. Three coats, but I dabbed to get the glitters where I wanted them afterwards.

Old version of Pahlish Total Eclipse of the Heart. Two coats. This one had curly red bar glitter so it was reformulated. I like it too much to get rid of it, curly glitter and all. 

Nails Inc Princes Arcade over Total Eclipse of the Heart. One coat.

Pahlish Bixby Canyon Bridge. Two coats. This is like a upgraded version of Deborah Lippmann Superstar. This has also been discontinued. 

Sephora by OPI Don't Be Eggnog-ious over Bixby Canyon Bridge. One coat.

Pahlish Endless Static Sea over Orly After Party. One coat. I've posted this one before and you can see the Orly alone here.

Pahlish polishes can be found at her Etsy store: www.etsy.com/shop/pahlish

Venique swatches

Venique Runway Sparkle. Two coats.

OPI Gettin' Miss Piggy With It over Runway Sparkle. One coat.

Venique Angelica Step. Three coats.

Venique Deviant Little Sneaker. Three coats.

Milani Gold over Deviant Little Sneaker. One coat.

Tony Moly GL03. Two coats.

Venique Top Thong over GL03. Two coats.

Venique Top Thong over black. Two coats.

Diana Melon Sparkle over Top Thong.

My friend who kindly sent these to me also sent me this awesome franken! She named it Lovely Janelle. I used three coats. 

Elixir Lacquers Kind of Connery over it. One coat.