China Glaze Riveting

I am well outside my comfort zone with this one but I sort of love it anyway! I saw it on a lovely ladies nails last year, so when it came up on one of the sale pages I bought it, and then wondered if I'd be brave enough to wear it!
Riveting is from the China Glaze Hunger Games collection, and is a very bright vibrant orange with a golden shimmer. I generally don't go for shimmers but I really can't see me ever wearing a creme polish in this shade. This is actually beautiful, but each time I caught sight of my nails, I thought, ooh that's a bit bright! Application was good, opaque in 2 coats although some of my pictures did show a visible nail line, I couldn't see it myself.
I did put this on with the intention of putting a glitter over it, and the moment I did that I was really pleased with the result. I have found that in the past a colour that I wouldn't normally wear is softened by a layer of glitter, and who knows, I might go back to this again! It is a gorgeous polish and deserves to be worn.

China Glaze Riveting

 

 

Indy's Indies Dragon Dance

Another UK Indie polish for you today, especially for Chinese New Year, except that I'm a day late - sorry!
Indy's Indies latest collection is inspired by the Chinese New Year and includes 3 glitter polishes available here. I wore Red Envelope earlier this week, but I do think this one is my favourite.
Dragon Dance is made up of red and green sequins, purple, yellow and green hexes and squares, and some tiny red and green glitter.
I think this glitter would look great over black but I wanted to try it over something else. I still wanted to contrast the colours and I tried it over a few reds, and a brown. I liked it over all of them but the orange was perfect, contrasting the yellow, purple and green beautifully whilst still allowing the red to stand out too. And although orange is not a colour I would normally wear, I think China Glaze Riveting, with its stunning shimmer really captures the essence of images I have seen of Chinese New Year festivities.
I am really pleased with the way this mani turned out.

Indy's Indies Dragon Dance

 

  

 

 

 

swatches of Dragon Dance