Glitter Gal Lizard Belly, Light as a Feather and Marine Blue

I broke the corner of my index nail pretty far down yesterday so I won't have any new swatches for a little while. BUT, I have quite a large backlog of pics I haven't posted so it should be all good.

Here are three Glitter Gals I picked up a little while ago. Lizard Belly and Light as a Feather are new while Marine Blue was released further back. I only picked it up recently though along with the two new ones.

Lizard Belly. A deep blackened green holo. It's very dark. Much more so than I was expecting. I actually thought they sent me a black holo by mistake when I first opened my package.

Light as a Feather. A light grey-ish white holo. I think Glitter Gal did a good job balancing the white base and the amount of holo. From what I know, a pure white holo is not viable because the holographic pigment itself is silver which spoils the white. The formula was a little troublesome on this one. It was streaky and slow drying but levelled out after three thickish coats.

Marine Blue. This isn't one of the new releases but it's my favourite out of the three I got. Bright, zingy blue holo. It's perfection! Much more interesting than DS Glamour IMO. It's the boldness of the blue base... not something you see very often with a holo.

NOTD Glitter Gal Deep Green

oooOoohHhhhhhh! Dark green scattered holo with a gold shimmer flash. Look how awesome it is in the bottle.

Lots of thanks to Kaz for helping me with my bottle pictures :)

It's too beautiful. No words.

You can purchase Glitter Gal's via their website. They have *excellent* customer service!

Black Holo Comparison

I got more nail wheels in the mail yesterday so I decided to dig out all my black holos and do a little comparison.

From L to R we have Bloom London, Glitter Gal (Sparkle) Black, BK 02, Catherine Arley 805 and Economy Class (my MPJ franken)

I made the franken about a year ago and sent some over to a friend with the original charcoal MPJ and she confirmed they were dupes in terms of colour and holoness except mine was a little more opaque. I've since added just a touch of clear to get an exact dupe.

Also, I decided not to include ChG Let's Do It In 3-D, CC Revvvolution etc because I felt they weren't dark enough to be considered black.

Anyway, enough jabbering from me...

I've kept the pics extra large so click for a lot more detail. This is 2 coats of each except for the MPJ franken which is 3 coats.

You can see here that the first two, Bloom London and Glitter Gal Black are scattered holos while the other three are linear.

Closeups...

Again, you can click to make them much bigger.

At first I thought these two were dupes. But as you can see, the Glitter Gal is clearly more holo- the particles in it seem to reflect a more distinct rainbow than the Bloom which is really, really weak.

Out of these three, the least holo was Catherine Arley 805. The holo effect in this one seemed a little less pronounced and it mostly reflected red/orange/yellow instead of the full rainbow.

The other two (BK 02 and my MPJ franken) are very similar except the BK is almost opaque in one coat while my MPJ franken requires at least three. Also, the base colour of the BK is very obviously black while the franken leans charcoal.

After I did this comparison I decided to do my nails in BK 02.

Can you see a corner of my middle nail broke off? It's too low down to make all my nails that length :( Oh well, what can you do.

Hope you enjoyed!