Glitter nail polish is another of the beauty trends we carry with us from childhood, when we spent evenings with our friends, approaching the first attempts at manicure: the smell of chemicals, small bottles with pink caps, brushstrokes of nail polish on our fingers and acetone to clean them.
Yet, glitter nail polish is not as obvious and childish as we tend to think, it is not only the memory of a precocious femininity, but it is a quick, effective and carefree solution for having neat nails in a few gestures.
The advantages are obvious: the transparent base or of a nude color, which in one way or another hides the imperfections caused by ‘hurry’ accidents, when the nail polish l is not yet dry, but we have to fix the hair, get dressed, and lose pieces of red, burgundy and mud brown of Chanel Particulière.
Second, the addition of glitter makes this product more than just a base, giving it that extra touch that gets noticed.
In the various stores and in the Instagram pages, we can find those packaging that we got when opening magazines, packets of chips, and that today instead are made by luxury and mass market brands in ‘mature’ version.
There are the top coats with gold glitter by Essie, the silver nail polish with micro-glitter by O.P.I. and essence, or the glitter sprinkles in candy and bon bon colors by Sally Hansen.
In short, glitter nail polish always remains that simple gesture when we were little girl, the applicator still goes off the nail, and is the perfect alternative to be flawless without effort.