Hey guys! So today I'm reviewing Butter London's Fiddlesticks, a present that was given to me agesssss ago, but one I still haven't gotten around to wearing. It came with a lip gloss of the same colour which I love and wear all the time.
Fiddlesticks is a beautiful deep magenta/purple shade, from the Christmas 2012 range (which shows how long ago I got it!). It's in a jelly base and is packed with pink/purple microglitter.
The packaging is lovely, as with all Butter London polishes, I love the sleek look of a square-shaped bottle and I love that there is a smaller lid underneath that makes the brush a lot easier to hold.
Unfortunately, the formula is quite 'gloopy', i.e. it's on the thicker side and it tends to dry and form clumps when you're working with it. However, it does give a really opaque result with only two coats. I recommend working a lot faster with this polish and also using a minimal number of brush strokes, to avoid clumping and streaking.
I don't know if you can tell, but the polish actually dried on the edge of the bottle opening whilst I worked with it too, which is so annoying, and something I expect to happen only with older, thicker polishes of mine!
So here are some swatches: 2 coats, no topcoat:
As you may be able to see, the finish is very unique in that it is semi-matte, which I love as it is so on-trend at the moment! I wasn't too sure about this colour on my skin tone but I think it is quite pretty because of the finish and the mircoglitter!
A side view is shown here to show you the texture as its unique in this sense too, with a "semi-textured" feel, i.e. it's not as textured as your "textured nails" polishes, but it doesn't dry smooth either. Interesting!
Finally, I want to just mention that this polish CHIPS. It chipped in about 8 hours of wear, even though I had applied two thin coats, capped.
Maybe a top coat will help next time. I also want to add some thinner to the polish to make it a little easier to work with.
Despite these disappointments, I think the colour is really pretty and the glitter is gorgeous. Worth the £12? Hmm.
Anyways, I realised that I had a glitter polish that was very similar to Fiddlesticks so I went ahead and did a reverse glitter gradient.
Without top coat (super textured!).
With top coat (so that you can see what Fiddlesticks looks like with top coat too).
Hope you guys found this review helpful, and hope you liked the simple nail art too!
See you soon!
Beautiful
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