Purple Plus Flakies Equals Goodness

Remember the other day when I said I'd passed on the cremes in the Revlon Just Add Sparkle display? Well, that didn't last. I was consumed by the idea that the purple creme, Rock, might be different than any of the purple cremes I already have, and I just wasn't happy with the idea that I might be missing something in the purple arena. So I went and got Rock. I've managed to continue holding out on the other cremes, but I'm not making any promises. I'm fairly confident I can resist the black, as Wet 'n' Wild meets my needs in that area quite nicely, but not as sure about the gray/grey and red, especially if I find a good sale. Time will tell.

So I brought Rock home and slapped a few coats on a nail wheel, which I then held up next to my purple cremes wheel to decide which polishes to swatch it with and settled on China Glaze Grape Pop and Orly Charged Up.



I think these are near-identical triplets. Even a crazy purple lover such as me probably doesn't need all three.


Top to bottom: Rock, Grape Pop, Rock, Charged Up.


Top to bottom: Grape Pop, Rock, Charged Up.

Charged Up looks a touch brighter than the other two in these pictures, but I think that's just the lighting (see the difference between my index and ring fingers in the first pic, and those are both the same polish, same number of coats; I think maybe I need a more reflective surface at the top of my lightbox to balance things out a bit, but this isn't a photography blog so I'll stop nattering on about that).

I thought these purples would make a great base for the the Glam Nails Larissa that shortnails had asked for a swatch of, so I layered that on top, putting one coat of Larissa on my index and middle finger and two coats on my ring and pinky. Just look at the loveliness that resulted:







The flakies are similarly colored to Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure and GOSH Rainbow, but the purple base sets the Glam Nails apart from those two.