NOTD: China Glaze Velvet Bow with China Glaze Twinkle Lights

China Glaze Velvet Bow under Twinkle Lights

If you want to see China Glaze Velvet Bow by itself, check out my last NOTD.

Both polishes today came from China Glaze's 2011 holiday collection, Let It Snow. Velvet Bow is a deep wine colour that you can't really see under the glittery-ness of Twinkle Lights.

China Glaze Twinkle Lights

Twinkle Lights is basically just Christmas in a bottle. It is a clear base, with green, gold and red glitter. When I first got this, it was sort of sheer. Even with three or four coats, you could still see bald patches when I wore this. But now, a year later, this has thickened up quite a bit and it's a lot more pigmented. I barely needed two coats to get complete coverage, but nonetheless, I put a base polish under this. 

China Glaze Twinkle Lights

The ratio of glitter here is about 50% gold, 25% red and 25% green. It is just so pretty! This here is one very thick coat, which is equivalent to about two regular coats.

Some glitters are real top coat eaters, but surprisingly, this one isn't as much. I only needed about two layers of top coat, but I probably needed to go with three. But with some glitters, four or five layers are required to even be vaguely smooth. 

Obviously since this is from last year's collection, you can't buy it anymore. But there are some glitters in this year's China Glaze holiday collection, which you might enjoy instead.

Thanks for reading!!

Melissa