ILLUSIONS, MICHAEL!

So today I bring you another polish from the Happy Hands I've Made A Huge Mistake(Arrested Development) collection!  Now, this polish is definitely more of a layering polish in my eyes, even though it's dense enough to wear alone.  Over the right red or gold(I'm thinking of putting it over Orly Glitz and Glamour, my favourite gold) this would be INSANE.

So, Illusions Michael is a dense red and gold glitter.  Mostly red microglitter with small gold squares and gold stars, from what I can tell!  This is two coats alone, and the formula is definitely difficult(I forget which blogger said it was almost "dry", but that's accurate.  It's interesting!), but for the glitter density I'm not complaining!  Like I said, I think one coat over red or gold is the ticket to this baby.

What would you guys layer this over?

Stars! 

It's so cute, she'll sometimes take a pack of mayonnaise...

So when I saw swatches of Hap Hap Happy Hands' Arrested Development collection, I knew my paypal balance was going to suffer.  Arrested Development is easily in my top 5 favourite TV shows of all time, and I absolutely loved the moments she used as inspiration for the polishes.  I bought three, but I'll have to show you the other two together because they go together(Illusions, Michael and Tricks are Something a Whore Does for Money... Or Candy).   So first up is Mayonegg, which feautures medium and larger matte yellow hex glitters in a jelly-like white base with fine shimmer.

I did three coats alone on my middle finger(and index) and the other fingers show two thin coats over a single coat of my favourite white creme, NARS Ecumé.  The formula left a lot to be desired as you can see from the obvious application problems(FORGET wrapping the tips with this one!), but I anticipated that because this polish is honestly PACKED with glitters.  The trouble in application was forgiven when there was not a bit of glitter fishing to be done.

First photo was taken in bright sunlight, the other two in fluorescent indoor light.