Cult Nails Captivated

Finally! I've been lemming this polish foreeever. I've gone through all kinds of ordeals tracking down supposed dupes... but now I've got the real deal!

Captivated is a sparkly orange masterpiece. This polish has a sheer orangey coral jelly base chock full of orange and gold twinkly glitters varying from micro to small sizes. It reminds me of gold bullion for some reason. Little treasure coins suspended in lava. I love it! I swear I see some little melted glitters in there... but no one else can see them apparently. Haha!

The formula on this sucker is unfortunate though. It's thick and goopy and chunky. Noooot an easy application here. But I was surprised that I was happy enough with the coverage at two coats. The amount of glittery sparkly goodness gives a pretty good opacity to Captivated. But even with a coat of Gelous and another of Seche Vite, it was still bumpy and a little dull. But with two more coats of topcoat it became shiny and gawgeous! Overall on the nail it is a fire-y coral glitter bomb that just begs to be noticed! I got quite a few compliments on this mani at work. I will totally add this to my glitter rotation!

I'd say the first three are most color accurate, but I like the last one because you can see all the sparkles! Yum.

My First Cult Nails haul!

I've been wanting to try some polishes from Cult Nails for forever! Ever since I saw swatches of Captivated I was in lust. Then when Icing came out with Tiger's Blood, I do believe they discontinued Captivated and I was sooo sad. But they brought it back and so I finally ordered and got a few new pretties. I picked up Captivated, Iconic, Seductive, and the Wicked Fast topcoat (recommended to me by Rach). I don't have much self control, so I started with 3 coats of Iconic... but then kept adding.

Iconic is pretty neat. The base polish is a purple-y red with heavy golden shimmer, with gold/green flakes throughout. Sooo pretty, but I wish it just had a little bit less of the gold shimmer. It almost looks a bit frosty and covers up too much of the flakes. I might thin it with some clear, but either way, it's gawwwgeous! And something about the color reminds me of OPI La Boheme, maybe I'll franken some color morphing powder into it. I used the Wicked Fast topcoat and I was pretty impressed with how quickly this dried, but it's not as shiny as Seche Vite, which is my love.

And of course I did a layer of Cult Nails Seductive on top, a limited addition jelly flakie polish. Gorgeous translucent purple sheer base with red to green flakes and blue flakes. I like that the layering made the base polish a little more violet tinged. And then I busted out a holo konad on top using China Glaze GR8. Ya know. Cuz that's how I do.