Review and swatches: China Glaze Atlantis (and stamping, and tape)

(I apologise in advance for the overuse of the word "blingy". It's been sunny, I've been wearing holo... sorry!)

China Glaze Atlantis is an obscene amount of small square holo glitter in a teal jelly. It's ridiculously blingy in the sun - I don't usually wear in-your-face glitter but I couldn't stop staring at it. It's absolutely gorgeous.

Warning: it eats top coat! 2 coats Bonder and 2 coats SV over 3 coats Atlantis, and it was still bumpy the next morning. The teal jelly shrinks and gloops up quickly... it's almost like CND Stickey. If Stickey was full of shiny shiny glitter.

It was a bit too blingy for a weekday, so I stamped over it using ulta3 Gold Rush Fever (PRC version). It's subtle because Atlantis is so shiny, and it reduces the bling factor a lot, but I still had people grabbing my hands to take a closer look :)

Then to cover up tipwear and regrowth, I taped triangles in the middle and painted Skin Food Nail Vita Pearl Black on top. I like how the holo peeks through, but then I wished the holo glitter was blingier!

I'm not a massive fan of this pattern but it does the job. Fortunately, two hours later it all peeled off, probably from the crazy number of SV layers and I got to do my nails again :D