Out of OPI’s James Bond Collection, The Living Daylights intrigued me
the most. From the images, it looks almost gold with small glittery bits
inside. When it arrived, I took a look inside and was disappointed to find that
it was literally just a clear varnish with quite large glittery pieces. I was
completely underwhelmed. I proceeded to slather three generous coats onto my
nails, hoping that the effect on the nail was better than on the brush but was
disappointed still. The glitter had a hard time even sticking to my nail as it
seemed to want to cling onto the brush for dear life and to me, the finished
effect looked as if a child had tried to decorate my nails with PVA glue and
art materials.
Since I was
already reviewing Illamasqua’s Scorn
on my other hand, after I’d taken pictures I decided to try The
Living Daylights over the top of it, using it as a top coat rather than
a stand-alone nail varnish. The effect is slightly more impressive, but still
not really my bag. I don’t like how big the glittery pieces are and I don’t
like how they arrange themselves on the nail. I don’t like how the glittery
pieces then insist on starting to flake off just hours after application, so
that you find them popping up everywhere like sparkly chicken-pox. I applied a
separate top coat on the thumb, which helped slightly, but only slightly.
Now,
overall, I’ve been pretty negative about this nail varnish and that’s not
something I like to do. So I will say that I do dislike glitter, especially
large-sized glitter, and when I first purchased the polish the picture shown
was misleading. Everything that I disliked about this product was to do with
the large glitter and not the quality of the polish and I’m sure if you like
glitter then you would love this product, especially around the festive period.
Personally, I just can’t get it and I won’t be using it again.
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