Steel City Reflections – Bits of Tim Swatches

Time for week two of the alphabet of nail polish and this week I have Steel City Reflections Bits of Tim.  This polish is inspired by Hamilton’s own Tim Horton’s! It is a coffee brown jelly with square, red matte glitters.  Personally, I find the jelly in it a little hard to work with since the glitter is quite chunky and my nails are curved.  I added a base coat of Essie Mochacino so I would not need as much jelly polish.  Sure, it doesn’t have the same jelly look to it, but the colour is similar and the slight shimmer adds to the look.

The chunky-ness of the glitter means a decent amount of top coat is needed.  Shown here with just one coat of Essence The Gel top coat which is fairly thick, you can see the sides of the glitter still sitting on top of the nail.  This is over two coats of Bits of Tim with a thick coat of Mochacino as a base so you can imagine how thick more coats of the jelly with glitter would be for fuller opacity without a base colour.

Like the Sanderson Sisters polishes from Steel City reflections, the glitter in Bits of Tim seems to just stick to the bottle but there is a good concentration of glitter included.  Give it a good shake an hour or so before application leaving time for the air bubbles to settle and you get a decent amount of glitter.  As with most polishes with glitter, it is next to impossible to get an even amount of glitter on the nail and this larger glitter seems to stick to a sponge if you try that method.

Overall, a decent looking polish, but application is an issue with dry time between jelly layers and lots of top coat needed.  The alphabet of nail polish will be back next week with a polish starting with C!