KOTD Orly Matte Vinyl and China Glaze Millennium

I haven't konaded in long and I had a hankering today. Not my best konad but I like the way it turned out.

I started with two coats of Orly Matte Vinyl. I loveeee it! It's black with no shininess at all. I've heard that KO Flatte Black is "blacker" but I haven't tried it and I think I'm pretty happy with the Orly.

Then I konaded some chains with China Glaze Millennium and plate BM12

It's far from perfect, but you can't really tell IRL. I think the matte base made it harder to konad on since it seemed like the polish didn't want to stick to it. I really do like the way it turned out though :D

NYX Girls Gilded Glitter

One of my favourites from the new NYX line. It's so very unique. I don't own anything like it.

Gilded Glitter is essentially a tonne of different sized, irregular gold flakes in a clear base. Some are tiny and some are pretty large. But the flakes themselves are unusual. Here's a close-up...

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The flakes are metallic gold shards. Not like your regular flaky polishes and definitely not gold leaf flakes (a la Rococo). This is two coats on black. Pretty awesome!

Lippmann Ruby Red Slippers and Milani Red Sparkle

Both of these are some of the most beautiful red glitters I've ever seen and both have a spot in my current (emphasis on current!) Top 20 from my stash.

Lippmann Ruby Red Slippers. Love!! This is my favourite rendition of the 'black with red glitter' polishes out there. It's also IMO, the best. The glitter is super shiny and isn't lost in the black base at all. This is two coats on black.

Milani Red Sparkle. First of all, I apologise for the awful photos. My camera completely spazzes at these glowy reds. I took a shot in lower light so that the actual glitter was easier to see - it's definitely not as orange as some of my pics make it look.

I've said this before but I'll say it again, the Milani One Coat Glitters are AWESOME! The depth of these are crazy. Lots of tone-on-tone stuff happening here. The glitter is very fine and the colours all blend together seamlessly on the nail so I swatched a little thinly on paper to try and work out the different glitters. From what I can see, there's a couple different shades of red as well as black glitter in there. So badass.