top row:
- Neeka (Zoya) - a slightly grayed-out purple, similar to Zoya Lotus in basic color, but with a fine gold microglitter. (I wrote about this one not long ago, and I was complaining because I had wear issues with it. I haven't yet retried it to see if that was just a freak occurrence or whether it's an ongoing problem for me, though.)
- Butterflies & Rosebuds (Julie G) - a dark fuchsia with a ton of tonal microglitter. This is a really beautiful polish; as VV says at the link there, it almost glows. (mani from 2014)
- Flake Your Booty (Painted Polish) - as the name implies, it's a flakie, but it's blue. I've never seen a blue flakie before. I tried it once over Nail-Robi, a dark blue, and it was beautiful (but I don't think I have pictures). I want to try it again over something else and see what it looks like - a blue-green, maybe, or a blue-violet? that seems like it would work...
- Shine Of The Times (Essie) - I talked about this just last week - it's more what I think of as the standard color for a flakie - copper shifting to green, more or less. But it's also got an extra-heavy concentration of flakes, I think. (more swatches)
- Aurora Borealis (Lucky 13) - this is a different type of flakie, to my mind, than the more standard kind above - this kind has smaller flakes and goes on more like a clear-base glitter. I am actually wearing this as we speak - here's the picture I put up the other day. It's really exceptionally beautiful. (I've been saying that a lot so far in this entry, but these are some great polishes!) Color-wise, it's pretty similar to Shine Of The Times - coppery shifting to green, mostly, although it seems to have bits of some other colors as well.
- Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey (Lucky 13) - blue jelly with silver glitter of various sizes and shapes, including some stars. The link is to Accio Lacquer, and she describes this polish as having "limitless depth" - and while that's maybe a little bit out-there (as befits a Dr Who-themed polish, really) the jelly does definitely give it that illusion.
- Locavore (Rescue Beauty) - I just bought this lately and I haven't worn it yet - I tend to wear glitters more in the winter than the summer - but boy, is it pretty. It was on clearance and I gave in to temptation, since I was already doing a RBL order (with my birthday RBL coupon). It's a small glitter with green, blue, and violet, I think - it's one of those that's small enough pieces that it's hard to pick out the individual colors. (RBL doesn't have it listed any more so I guess it's gone away now.)
- Hue Left A Message? (Finger Paints) - Hmm, I'd forgotten, if I ever knew, that this is a near-dupe for BL Rosie Lee. Holly says it's more muted but close (and she's talked a number of times about how much she loves Rosie Lee so I'd say she's fairly expert on the subject!) - anyway, this is a packed glitter in a fairly subdued rose color. I haven't gotten around to wearing it yet.
- Purple Palette (Finger Paints) - I couldn't find much for this online, and the picture at the link shows it looking much more blue than I think it actually is. I may have to swatch this one myself!
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