Glitter Gal Brilliant Shade Shifters Duochrome Collection Swatches and Review

Glitter Gal Australia recently released a collection of polishes that's basically a duochrome lover's dream come true: an entire line of duochromes that range from sheer to opaque for layering and wearing solo. There's duochromes, transitions and shade shifters, and today I have the Brilliant Shade Shifters to review. The Brilliant shades are:

Fiery Furnace - Last Light - Red Night Sky - Wild Violets

Glitter Gal Fiery Furnace Brilliant. All of the Brilliant shade shifters have a glittery glass fleck finish with several colors of iridescent particles. Fiery Furnace is an intense mixture of coral, pink, red, orange and gold/yellow. It flashes from a cool-toned pink coral to a warm red and orange multichrome with only slight changes in angle and lighting.


Glitter Gal Last Light Brilliant. This one reminds me of MAC Club eyeshadow in nail polish form. It's a red-toned brown tinted base with heavy silvery blue and green duochrome glass fleck and a red flash over everything.


Glitter Gal Red Night Sky Brilliant. Red Night Sky has a whole lot of different things in it. It's a coral red base with coral, pink, red, orange, blue, green and purple color shift. It shows me a different color every time I look at it.


Glitter Gal Wild Violets Brilliant. Wild Violets shifts from red-toned purple to blue-toned purple and also contains sparks of red, blue, pink and orange and has a pink and orange duochrome sheen on top of everything to add even more color.

The Brilliant Shade Shifters are opaque enough to wear alone, but they are also sheer enough to layer over any other color to create a variety of effects. I've layered each shade at one coat over a plain black creme to show how the color shift changes when layered (some are quite surprising!):

Glitter Gal Fiery Furnace Brilliant (one coat) over black

Glitter Gal Last Light Brilliant (one coat) over black



Glitter Gal Red Night Sky Brilliant (one coat) over black



Glitter Gal Wild Violets Brilliant (one coat) over black

The formula on all of these was good. On the thin side and very easy to control. The brushes are thin, soft, flat and square-edged so they take a little bit of getting used to, but after I got a feel for them I had no problems applying. I did four coats of each polish here. They were mostly opaque at three, but the fourth coat intensifies the sparkle and color shift just that much more, I really couldn't resist doing another. Dry time is average with three coats and only a little longer with four.

These are really amazing. I am both a duochrome and a glitter addict so to me this collection is heaven. They are really spectacular to look at and they're quite different from most duochromes (multichromes, whatever) in my collection. I personally prefer them alone rather than layered, but the effects you can create by layering them over different base colors are pretty cool. If you're looking for something new and different that just makes you go 'wow' when you see it, these might be worth a look. The only flaw I can find with them is the price ($17.95 each), but Glitter Gal imports have always been a bit on the expensive side.

These Glitter Gal Brilliant Shade Shifters came from Ninja Polish (located in the US), but can also be purchased directly from Glitter Gal (located in Australia).

(This was sent for review.)