Nail Polish with Hearts, Stars & Butterflies

Recently I reviewed Face of Australia's Glitterati Nail Polish in Heart of Glass and the lovely Renu from My Beauty Junction left a comment saying how much she loves heart glitter, so I thought I would do a few swatches of my polishes containing hearts just for Renu.  I then found a polish I owned that had hearts & stars so I thought I would throw in a couple of star polishes too AND a Butterfly Polish.


OPI ~ Nothin' Mouse About It ~ this polish is small pink, purple and gold glitter with larger pale pink hearts in a pink jelly base.  The hearts tend to sink to the bottom so the best application is to apply one coat of the pink glitter gel polish, fish out the hearts place them where you want and then when dry seal with another coat of the glitter gel polish.  It's fiddly but I think worth it, looks great if you use a different shade base.

NICOLE by OPI ~ Modern Family ~ She's Lily Something ~ gold, pink and purple glitter in a pink jelly base with larger pink stars.  Very similar to Nothin' Mouse About It.

OPI Nothin Mouse about it & She's Lily Something ~ MODE Blackberry ~ Blackberry base with OPI Mouse & Lily
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I used MODE Blackberry as the base coat for the two OPI polishes.  It is an almost black/purple polish but when you add the two OPI's as a top coat it does something magical and turns into a gorgeous glittering purple base.

Looney Lacquer ~ Love Gold
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Looney Lacquer ~ Love Gold ~ A Gold metallic base with white micro, bar and heart glitter.  This was a limited edition Indie polish no longer available.  I really like this polish looks fantastic on, I just wish there had been a few more hearts to play with as they are hard to find.

Heart of Glass
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FOA glitterati ~ Heart of Glass ~ you can read my review and find more swatches of this polish here.

MODE ~ Pocket Rocket ~ small silver glitter with larger multi-coloured hearts and stars in a clear base.  This is a fantastic polish if you want to add some hearts and stars to decorate your nails.  You need to fish out the glitter but the base doesn't dry too quickly so you have time to position the hearts and stars where you want them and when dry just add a layer of the glitter base or a top coat to seal.

MODE Pocket Rocket  ~  MODE BlackBerry  ~  Blackberry & Pocket Rocket
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Again I used MODE Blackberry as the base and Pocket Rocket as the topcoat.  This time the blackberry remained black but really brought out the colours of the glitter.

Emily de Molly ~  Flutterby Garden ~ Green, Lavender and Pink multi sized hexes and bar glitter in a clear base with larger silver butterflies.  This is another gorgeous Indie Polish and you can find out more about them here.

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The first swatch (far left) shows Flutterby Garden by itself and the three bases show up the gorgeous FB as a topcoat  the three bases l-r are:  

 Australis Sweet Pea  ~  OPI  Pedal Faster Suzi!  ~    Revlon Mischievous

Clear ~ Pedal Faster Suzi! ~ Mischievous ~ Sweet Pea
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The butterflies aren't too hard to fish out and there is plenty of time to position them where you want before the polish dries.

I recently saw in Priceline that Revlon have two new glitter polishes available in Australia that are now on my wish list.

Celestial FX & Hearts of Gold FX

Revlon Top Speed Celestial FX and Hearts of Gold FX;  Celestial contains holographic Stars, Half-Moons and Diamonds in a multi-coloured glitter base.  Hearts of Gold contains holographic Hearts in a gold glitter base.  I really want these.

If anyone has any other great glitter polishes they would like to share please leave a comment below.

I hope you liked my review and swatches Renu.

Jac x0x

Face of Australia glitterati review ~ Boogie Wonderland

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Boogie Wonderland - Heart of Glass - Funky Town
Dancing Queen - Studio54 - Saturday Night Fever - Lookin for Some Hot Stuff - Disco Inferno

You can find out more about these Limited Edition Polishes at the Face of Australia Website here.

Heart of Glass

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In my comments for the review of  FOA's Heart of Glass, the lovely Madeleine Lee of Madeleine in Wonderland commented that she would really like to try Boogie Wonderland, so I thought  I would do a little review and show some swatches for you all.

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BOOGIE WONDERLAND

Boogie Wonderland ~ The best way I can describe this polish is An Exploding Lavender Pinata Bomb!  There is so much glitter in there it just explodes on your nails and you can't help but get a thick helping of glitter on every nail.  Has the same tinted milky gel base as Heart of Glass but I found my base was slightly thicker than HoG and I had trouble applying thin coats to my nails. Where'is with  Heart of Glass  I felt I needed 3 coats for good coverage I was happy with 2 coats of  Boogie Wonderland.

Boogie Wonderland has a wonderful mix of glitter, the ones I could pick out were, Green, Blue and White Bars.  Small Orange, Blue, Pink, Purple and Red Hexes and larger White Hexes.  I did find I needed to roll the bottle between application or the heavier glitters tended to sink to the bottom, I had no trouble getting an even coat of glitter all over the nail because there is SO much glitter!

1 coat  ~  2 coats  ~  3 coats
Boogie Wonderland
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I experienced curling with the bar glitter and you need a few layers of top coat to seal them.  This was a bit tedious for me as I don't have time to sit there applying layer after layer of top coat and waiting for it all to dry.  This is not a nail polish I would wear if I was in a hurry.

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I had applied 4 layers of topcoat for this photo and STILL had not managed to seal the curly bars sticking up.  Anymore coats and the whole lot is just going to peel off, I think FOA should have left the bars out of this one, what do you think?

Now for some swatches.  I chose four base coats picking out the shades to match the glitter in the bottle.  I chose strong shades because the milky base makes everything turn pastel except for the last one Revlon Lily which is such a gorgeous creamy pastel I thought it would look good with a layer of glitter.

Let's Talk   ~  Sapphire Dream  ~  A Roll in the Hague  ~  Lily
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SINFUL COLORS ~ LET'S TALK ~ liked this one better with only one coat of Boogie.

MINERAL FUSION ~ SAPPHIRE DREAM ~ This is a new polish I picked up from iherb, you can find out more about the range here.

OPI ~ A ROLL IN THE HAGUE ~ I did not like this combination, too milky and ruined the gorgeous vibrancy of Hague.

REVLON ~ LILY ~ This would probably be my favourite combination.

Let's Talk  ~  Sapphire Dream  ~  A Roll in the Hague  ~  Lily
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All of the swatches above are with two coats of Boogie Wonderland, personally I didn't feel that two coats of Boogie looked too good on a different shade base except for Sapphire Dream.

In the photo below I did like Boogie as a one layer topcoat on Let's Talk (middle) it's not too busy and Lily (R) but I prefer two coats on Sapphire dream (see above) but I don't think Boogie did anything at all for OPI A Roll in the Hague (see above).

Sapphire Dream  ~  Let's Talk  ~  Lily
One coat Boogie Wonderland
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My final verdict:  I don't like this polish as much as Heart of Glass, what ruins it for me is the curly bars of glitter.  I think they detract from an otherwise gorgeous glitter and look like loose strands of eye lash or broken bits from the brush.  I felt two coats of Boogie on my nails without a base colour looked the best but I am not in love with this polish.

I picked up the complete set for $4.95 per bottle online at Makeup Express and they are also available at Fashion Addict and Priceline.  Love to know what you think,  please leave a comment below I would love to hear from you.

Jac x0x