Greens for March: Frost and Shimmer

Another green that has been in my collection for a long time that hasn't been swatched.

Maybelline Lime Aluminum

Three coats, no top coat.

This was pretty thick, though I did thin it and it worked fairly well. The fine metallic glitter that runs through this polish lends itself to a metallic feel, but for me, it's just a shimmer with a lot of silver.
Aluminum. Why. I don't know. 

This is a trend that seems to have been in the past, that I've seen with fairly frequently: shimmer and glitter.

It's been in a number of polishes I've run up against and I'm not entirely sure if it was a "thing" or if it was just a combination that manufacturers came up with because that was the pigments they had available to them.

Color me: confused.

Most shimmers cover the glitter, but in this case it doesn't, which is helpful, as you want to see the glitter itself rather than "bumps" - which are just not very attractive (witness the fail on OPI's Holiday 2015 collection, "ew" being the operative term when those glitters went on.)

I can't find it on eBay, but it might turn up. I found mine back in the first bloom of ol' Dollar Tree hauls. Gosh, those were the days, if you don't mind my being somewhat sentimental!

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