NOTD: Another Untried! Revlon Sparkle APlenty

Good morning lovelies! Happy Friday!! I'm having a pretty good morning so far...it's payday! Which means I've already managed to order more A England (including The Knight Base Coat and The Shield Top Coat, which I plan to review here...I know we're all consantly looking for the best out there, and I've heard these are incredible!) and score some awesome Indie polishes from a blog sale! Woohoo!

Today's NOTD is another from my stash of untrieds. Revlon Sparkle APlenty is from the single shade Runway Report Collection (can you call that a Collection?), and was highly sought after. I managed to snatch it up as soon as the display hit the floor at Wags, and was so excited about it! Then it sat on a shelf just staring at me all dejected-like. Poor thing!

Sparkle APlenty is a dark grey/black (it's debatable) jelly packed with Silver Hex and microglitter, as well as Black Hex and microglitter (If you think it looks familiar, it's a pretty good dupe for OPI Metallic 4 Life from the Nicki Minaj Collection). Despite sounding simple, there's actually alot going on in here (it freaked my camera out!). You can see all of this in the bottle, but it loses it's translation on the nail, both over black and on its own. I chose to wear 2 coats over A England Camelot, my go to Black Creme.

Pretty, right? I'm actually kind of on the fence about this one. I really wish the the Black Glitter was actually visible. I tried this one alone first, and the Black glitter really does fade into the jelly. The only time you can see it, is when a black glitter overlaps a silver glitter. Pretty, but not all the unique.  I was hoping for more oomph.

Formula:
Sparkle Aplenty has a very odd formula. The jelly is fairly runny, but the glitter is so dense that it globs together. This made was very frustrating and made glitter placement a complete pain. The brush was also VERY fluffy, which didn't help.

Application:
 Due to the runny jelly and clumpy glitter, this was not fun to apply. Since I wore this over Black, I ended up just dabbing the brush around in an effort to get the glitter to lay somewhat evenly and flat. It has a tendency to stick up from the nail, which led to alot of poking at it to get it to lay down. The jelly also lends a very greyed out cast when worn over Black, yet looks fairly dark when worn alone. I'm wearing 2 coats here, but this needed a good 3 coats on its own. Dry time was fairly slow, and it dries gritty so if you like things smooth, a good coat of Gelous or Glitter Tamer is in order.

I really wanted to love this, but I'm just not wowed. This is the first time I've picked up a Revlon Glitter and was just "meh" about it. It's just not consistent with their usual quality. Unofortunately, this is going to end up sitting on a shelf, or donated to someone who will love it.

What do you think of Sparkle Aplenty?

I'll be back tomorrow with another challenge post, as well as the start of lots of A England polish!


Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber