For a polish that exemplifies the glitz in everything beautiful about metallic gold, go with 24K Affair by Cirque Colors. It’s a classic true gold tone with a striking metallic and holographic sparkle.
It’s made up of ultra-fine metallic gold foil flakies along with fine holographic glitter. The foil gives you the reflective flash you expect from a metallic and the holographic glitter refracts light, for a color changing, rainbow spangle effect. It ends up having a druzy quartz look to it, a type of quartz covered in teen tiny crystals.
Despite being made up of flakies and glitter, the polish dries smooth without a textured finish and is opaque in two costs. It feels brighter than other gold polish, and even other gold glitter polish because the holo-glitter can flash silver at the right angle which brightens up the gold tone without losing the gold color.
The best thing about flakie polishes (besides how they look) is that they don’t stick to your nails like normal glitter so they’re so much easier to remove than your standard glitter polish. I love a good flakie holographic nail polish when you want all that sparkle and none of the hassle.
To see this shade in action, check out this review and swatch YouTube video. Cirque Colors polishes are made in NYC in small batches and are 10-free, cruelty-free, and vegan.