Santa left Illamasqua in my Christmas Stocking.

Before Christmas I had the opportunity to visit Illamasqua. I had decided that I would get Viridian as my chosen polish. When I arrived in store I browsed the holiday special catalogue and found the two Christmas duo packs. The bright pack had Viridian and a special limited edition release, Glitterati. Needless to say, I did not pass up the opportunity to get the pack at the special price of $38. Usually it would cost $42 to buy two Illamasqua polishes.

After I got home I stashed this set away to put in my Christmas stocking. Hey! I need to have something for Christmas when Mr R and Miss L are getting exceptionally spoilt. How else can I get spoilt except with some lovely polish? Illamasqua no less.

Viridian has been shown to perfection on much lovelier nails than mine. I thought I would show Glitterati with some nail art done with Viridian. Two coats were applied of this gorgeous dark red jelly-like polish that is packed with holographic glitter.

To do the nail art I used two circle paper reinforcement stickers to make a curved shape on my thumb. My nails were cut and filed back today because of breakage and I felt that my thumb offered the best canvas as it is the largest area to work with. Then I dotted on the version of OPI Not Like the Movies that is not "oil slick" multi-chromatic. A large and small dotting tool were used. Inside the large dots I finally dotted some Virdian. Without placing this over Not Like the Movies, I feel that you would not have been able to appreciate Viridian against Glitterati. Sadly, my top coat did smear some of the Viridian dots.