Red glitters compared

NOTE: Zoya has a sale on til the 13th, in case you don't already know. Four bottles for $15 S&H, I believe. The promo code's on their front page.

This is the start of what is presumably going to be a series - I'm going through my stash and comparing things. Theoretically this may cause me to thin out my stash some but I'm a hoarder at heart so don't hold your breath there.

I came up with six red glitters from my stash, and actually, none of them are dupes, although several of them are close. Some of them are the same ones everybody else has (Ruby Pumps), some are discontinued (Hard Candy Stop), and some are indie (I Know You Are But What Am I?). If you're just starting a collection, you certainly don't need six, but a nice subtle (or not-so-subtle) red glitter is a good thing to have. Red's a color most everybody can wear, too.

Here's the whole side of the wheel. (You can see my new-and-last RBLs at the top, which I'm not sure I've really talked about, come to think of it. I'll have to remedy that...)

I tried out a couple of things that didn't turn out to be proper red glitters - I'll talk about that as I go. Here's all the polishes in question:

L-R: Echarpe de Seda (Jade), Stop (Hard Candy), Delilah (Zoya), Bad Santa (Ulta), Ruby Pumps (China Glaze), I Know You Are But What Am I? (Black Cat), and at the end, Aura (Formula X), which is a red glitter in a black base so it's not a proper red glitter, really. But it sure is pretty, and the glitter looks identical to some of these others, so it felt like it fit here.

The polish on the far left on the nail wheel above (next to the blue RBL at the very edge of the picture) belongs in the same collection as the Jade polish next to it, but I didn't put the bottle in because it so obviously didn't belong with this group, upon swatching. The collection is "Special Glitz" and the pinker polish is Vestido de Gala (which for those who want translations, apparently means something like "party clothes"; Echarpe de Seda means "silk scarf") - but Vestido de Gala is clearly much too plum-toned for this group. I have tons of other plum-colored things which I'll get around to showing later, and it will undoubtedly make an appearance later with all of those. (With all these swatch comparisons and bottle shots, this is going to be a long-drawn-out process. I've already resigned myself to that.)

Here are close-ups of the wheel (although I'm not sure they're much more help than the picture above):

So the two reds here are Jade Echarpe de Seda and Hard Candy Stop. These Jade polishes are tiny holo glitters and they are great. I don't know if they are still available at all here in the US, but I really do like the whole Special Glitz collection and I recommend them if you can find them. The bottles are tiny but they are not super-expensive, I think maybe $6. Hard Candy Stop I bought ten years ago or so, and they've changed the entire collection since then so I doubt that this is available. Stop is pretty, but it's just a standard glitter and I don't think it's worth paying megabucks for on eBay, which is likely the only place you'd find it (although I haven't actually looked).

Here we have Zoya Delilah, Ulta Bad Santa (which is long discontinued), China Glaze Ruby Pumps, and Black Cat Laquer I Know You Are But What Am I? I'm putting links to the three that are not discontinued. (For the record, these are not affiliate links. I will tell you that Zoya is slow - sometimes very slow - when they're having a sale, but reliable, in my experience. I've ordered from Sleek Nail before and had good service, and they have really good prices on China Glaze. I have not ordered directly from Black Cat, but I've heard nothing but good things about them.)

As I said, none of these are dead dupes - of the three that are easily available, I'd say Delilah's a bit more neutral; Ruby Pumps is slightly more pinkish; I Know You Are But What Am I? has a much bigger glitter load. All of them read as red, though.