Red Week Day Five: Color Club Santa's Cinnamon and Barielle Elle's Spell

Santa's Cinnamon is a red jelly with red glitter from the Scent-sual collection that was exclusive to Sally Beauty. I have other red-jelly-n-glitter polishes, of course, but this one smells like red hots candy! It covered very nicely in one coat, no bald spots, but the color wasn't quite deep enough, so I added a second. It dried almost matte and was slightly gritty, but before I added top coat, I added one coat of Barielle Elle's Spell, which is red glitter in a wine jelly. It deepened the whole look, shot the bling factor up to 11, smoothed out the grit and shined up the matte. It's going to be hard to take this off!

One coat of Elle's Spell over two coats of Santa's Cinnamon, inside with flash:



One coat of Elle's Spell over two coats of Santa's Cinnamon, inside without flash:



Two coats of Santa's Cinnamon, inside with flash:



Two coats of Santa's Cinnamon, inside without flash:



Even with Elle's Spell and a coat of Nubar Diamont over it, I still get the candy scent when my hands are near my face. Altogether, I think this is a gorgeous and holiday-appropriate mani!

I really wanted to see this as a matte, so I grabbed my bottle of China Glaze Matte Magic. CGMM does magic things to glittery, glitzy nail polishes, but I can't really recommend it, because my bottle dried up terribly and it took a huge amount of thinner to return it to usable. I'm stubborn, though, so when I got this revived, I used it. This is Friday's mani with a coat of CGMM:

Inside, with flash:



In the sun: