Good morning, Dear Reader!
I have a little something different to show you today, and interesting glitter top coat. It is, as you might have guessed from the title, Givenchy Miroir Multiple Nail Lacquer and Top Coat 771. It's an older one that's a clear base, but not perfectly clear, the slightly yellowish kind, with lots of really bright, very fine holographic glitter.
I tested it on a nail with the last manicure still on, and the glitter reflects really bright red, green, all the rainbow colors, so I was trying to decide what to put it over for today. Black and navy blue seemed obvious enough to take the wind out of the Givenchy's sails, I considered a bright red and concluded that I too often use that as the backdrop for glitter top coats, then finally settled on white. Since the Givenchy does have a tint to it (I doubt it's really tinted that way, some polish bases are not completely clear), I picked the whitest white I have, which is Orly White Out. Every time I use White Out, there are a ton of comments asking if I mean the typing correction fluid, so I'll be really clear on this one. White Out is an Orly white creme nail polish, Wite Out is a brand of liquid paper. They're two different things and it's the nail polish on my nails.
I did a base coat, three of White Out to make it non-streaky, then two of the Givenchy, which did add a bit of a cast to the white, making it more of a pale ivory. That's fine with me since it diminished the starkness of the white. I left several minutes between each coat since I'd planned to layer, and I found that the Givenchy dried to a really exceptional high shine, far more so than most top coats. Still, that's a heck of a lot of layers of polish, so I topped it off with China Glaze Fast Forward. Fast Forward was just right - the fact that it's not terribly shiny wasn't an issue since it went over something very shiny, and it did a really nice job of drying all those layers. I accidentally tested it a few times, with the first being fifteen minutes after applying Fast Forward. I knocked a nail into the side of my wire-framed glasses, which is noramlly a sure fire way to make a tear in the surface and take the polish all the way off, but it didn't even dent, which was really impressive. About an hour after that, I used a nail as a tool for something and got a deep dent, which I figured I had coming, but it popped back out while I slept and I woke up with smooth shiny nails. Here's the manicure in sunlight - the focus isn't the best ever, but that's intentional to show the glitter a bit. All of it sparkles like the few pieces that show.
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| Givenchy Miroir Multiple Nail Lacquer and Top Coat 771 |
It would definitely be more vibrant over a dark color, but I was up for some variety. Know what's really funny about that packaging here? The stem on the Givenchy bottle is super long, and the round bottle part is as tall as the Orly White Out 0.60 oz bottle, but the Givenchy holds only 0.27 oz. I'd previously thought the 0.30 oz Estee Lauder bottle, that giant block of glass that would make an effective paperweight in a wind tunnel, was the most masterful job of deceptive packaging, but Givenchy topped them with this one.
That's Givenchy Miroir Multiple 771 and jst about all I have for you today, Dear Reader, so until next time, love and nail polish to you!
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