Before the arrival of my in-laws, I had to clean up my nail polish work area, ie my kitchen bar area, where I had a rather large group of recent untrieds. I had to stash them somewhere to tidy up the kitchen, and they ended up in one of the bottom drawers of my kitchen. My Helmer is not an option because it's full, and neither is the
unopened boxed Helmer that I have next to it because I don't have the
space to put it anywhere once it's built. Considering that we get guests staying fairly often, this hiding of polish is not a new process for me. This means I end up with stashes of polish all over my kitchen that I end up forgetting about sometimes. I would say that there's probably a sizeable collection of nail polish in my kitchen at this point and I'm afraid to think how many there are! Does anyone else do this? Please make me feel better and tell me I'm not the only one.
Recently I've been obsessed with buying sheer or jelly polishes because I want to do more glitter sandwiches. It's a shame there aren't more out there because they're so pretty. I know I could probably franken my own but it's so much easier to buy one. This quest made me stumble upon Illamasqua's Rampage, a dark jelly green, on Sephora's website. It was sold out for a few weeks but at the end of the VIB sale it came back in stock so I pounced. Needless to say I'm over the moon with this polish because of the combination of the gorgeous deep saturated color and the fabulous formula that Illamasqua is known for. Most times jellies end up streaking or going on unevenly but I had no issues with this at all. It dried quickly between layers and it self leveled on its own. I used two layers in these pictures with no topcoat because it dried so shiny on its own.
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Illamasqua Rampage |
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Illamasqua Rampage |
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Illamasqua Rampage |
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Illamasqua Rampage |
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Illamasqua Rampage |
As an added bonus, I realized that this would be a perfect undie for Hare's Supernova Spring, an untried that I had in one of my stashes that I found in my kitchen closet. I'm kicking myself for not finding this earlier in my squirreled away collection. This is a deep dark green jelly with emerald hex glitters suspended throughout. I used one coat on top of Rampage and I had great glitter saturation and it dried shiny on it's own, so no topcoat in these pics.
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Hare Supernova Springs |
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Hare Supernova Springs |
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Hare Supernova Springs |
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Hare Supernova Springs |
Gorgeous isn't it? I wonder why SS didn't sell that well compared to her other colors, but then again, I'm biased because I adore green. I recently gifted this to a friend and I hope that she likes it as much as I do! What about you, do you have any sleeper indies that you adore?