Sinful Colors Rise & Shine / Elevation Polish Marmolada

Elevation Polish Marmolada over Sinful Colors Rise & Shine

Elevation Polish Marmolada is a soft aqua-grey jelly with silver, blue and lilac circular glitter in various sizes.
Most of the swatches I've seen have been over blue, grey or just alone........... for example my friend Ida wore it over OPI What's with the Cattitude, Sheila at Pointless Cafe wore it over Nails Inc Thames and Sminkan just wore it alone....... so I decided I'd be a bit different and wear it over a bright green!

The green I chose was Sinful Colors Rise & Shine; Sinful Colors polishes have just recently become available in the UK (at Boots) and this was one of the colours that jumped of the shelf at me. It's a bright teal-emerald and in certain lights has a light bluish shimmer. I love this colour - I wore it for several days before putting on Marmolda and even got real-life compliments on it - a rare thing in this part of the world!

 Sinful Colors Rise & Shine

I used two coats of Sinful Rise & Shine and a coat of Seche Vite quick drying top coat for this mani. Application was very easy - way better than I'd expect for the price! I think I'm probably a Sinful Colours convert after wearing this one (just as well as I got a three for two deal)! I've read that Rise & Shine can stain on some people, but I didn't have any problems with staining. I used my usual 'base coat', Sally Hansen Maximum Growth. This is sold more as a strengthening treatment than a base coat; I don't believe for a moment it makes my nails (or anybody else's) grow any faster but it dries quickly to a glossy finish I like and find very easy to apply my polishes over. Not sure if this specifically avoided the polish staining my nails, but if you get this colour I'd definitely recommend using some sort of base coat. In fact I'm always wary of greens and teals staining!

Anyway, on to the glitter! Here's a bottle shot of Elevation Polish Marmolada. It has silver, aqua and lilac circular glitters of various sizes. 

Elevation Polish Marmolada over Sinful Colors Rise & Shine

I just added one coat of Marmolada over my Rise & Shine. The application was perfect and totally streak free. Finished off with another coat of Seche Vite, I carried on wearing this mani until the growth around my cuticles was too much!

I purchased Sinful Colors Rise & Shine from my local Boots and Elevation Marmolada direct from Lulu at her Elevation Polish website. Lulu posts updates about restocks etc on her blog.