Shimmer Jasmine

Today I'd like to show you another very pretty Shimmer polish that I bought quite recently. It has sat on my desk begging to be used and I decided that yesterday's gradient would make an ideal base to try this polish. I had been trying to decide what to put over my gradient, and had considered trying stamping again, but since the gradient had taken so long to do, I wasn't prepared to risk it with my amateur efforts. Painting on glitter would be much safer!
Shimmer Jasmine is an extremely pretty collection of teal, gold, copper, blue, red and silver glitter in a clear base. The predominant colour is teal which is why I thought it would be great over my gradient, as Avon Peppermint is actually quite tealy, and teal always goes well with purple.
I did one coat of Jasmine. It applied well, with good distribution and dried quickly with a nice smooth finish. As with Shimmer Wendy, I think you'd get up to full coverage pretty quickly with this polish as the glitter mix is so dense.
As a result of the density of this mix I did think my mani looked a bit busy with all those pretty sparkles over the teal and lavender, so I applied a matte top coat. Instantly it looked perfect to me, the whole mani just seemed to work so well, the glitters appeared more distinct against the gradient.
I really like the way the glitter further softened the gradient but also extended the teal element right to the end of the nail.
I do look forward to trying Jasmine again over a plain dark base, but I am delighted with the way this mani turned out.

Shimmer Jasmine