Unicorn Droppings

First off, I just want to start by saying that I have a giveaway planned for the near future. Wooohooo!  I'm pretty excited about this giveaway, it's only small since it's my first one, but I promise that the prize is definitely worth having. The catch: this giveaway will be to celebrate 50 subscribers. If you're not already subscribed to my blog, you know what to do! (Hint: click that 'join' button just to the left there...)

So on to today's polish! For those of you who follow my blog for my nail art, I promise that the next post will be a nail art one, so please don't groan when you realise this is yet another indie polish review! This is another of my new Gloss 'n Sparkle polishes, aptly named 'Unicorn Droppings'.

Full sunlight

Full sunlight

Partial sunlight (you can just see a glimmer of those micro-sized shimmers).

Full sunlight

You can see why it's named 'Unicorn Droppings'! Judging by the number of blogs I've seen this polish featured on, I'm willing to bet that it's one of Gloss 'n Sparkle's best selling polishes (if not THE best seller). I think this polish can best be described as a milky white jelly base packed with vibrantly coloured rainbow matte glitters (in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple). It also has a tonne of micro-sized rainbow shimmer in it, which was super hard to photograph on my nails, but you can see it in the bottle shots below. I promise you CAN see it on the nail, its not one of those sneaky polishes that look amazing in the bottle but dull on the nail.

It's a lovely fluid formula, but not so runny that it pools in your cuticles. I didn't really have any application issues, my only (tiny) gripe was that most of the glitter ends up at the nail tip so I did have to dab a few more pieces towards my nail base just to even out the distribution. I think this is a fairly common trait of any glitter polish though regardless of the base it's in. In the photos above I've layered 2 coats of 'Unicorn Droppings' over 2 coats of Essie's 'Blanc'. I believe this polish is probably opaque in 3 coats, but I prefer to do a base colour regardless because I can't stand VNL. I did play around a bit with layering this over a coloured base, but in the end the glitters really do stand out more on a white background. If anyone's interested in seeing this over a coloured base let me know and I'll take some photos of my swatches :)

Close up of the bottle. Lovely vibrant glitter!

Out of focus shot to show you that awesome micro shimmer.

Gloss 'n Sparkle polishes are available on Etsy here. I've also placed a link in my 'useful links' on the right hand side of my page so you guys have easy access in future. Polishes are $10AU for a 13ml bottle and they have some really unique shades available. Unfortunately due to legal reasons shipping is currently only available within Australia, but Angela from Gloss 'n Sparkle is working on a solution for those of you who live internationally. If you want to keep up to date with the international shipping situation I suggest you like the Gloss 'n Sparkle Facebook page for updates.