Wet n Wild Blitzen from the Vixen's Mittens Collection

Alright, so everyone's been buzzing about the Wet n Wild Pixie Holiday Palettes for the past few months, and while I agree that they're pretty incredible, there's also a new Wet n Wild nail polish collection that's pretty darned wonderful too!

You may have seen Vixen's Mittens in this display:

image credit: Meagan for Nouveau Cheap

My lovely reader Meagan spotted the above display a while back, but the Vixen's Mittens polishes are also available in THIS display:

image credit: Kimberly for Nouveau Cheap

image credit: Kimberly for Nouveau Cheap

Now the above display (provided by the lovely Kimberly) is what I personally found at my local Walgreens and, as you can see, the Vixen's Mittens polishes in THIS display come with a free top coat, which is not available in the counter display.

Either way, this is a very fun, very glittery collection of minis and you can see some great close-ups of each color on Meagan's blog here. I love how all the colors are named after Santa's reindeer!

So when I saw this collection, I was immediately drawn to Blitzen, because I just don't own another color that's even similar to it. I had to buy it!

Wet n Wild Blitzen and Top Coat 2-pack

(retail: $1.99, 0.22 oz each)

Here's a shot of the minis next to a full-size MegaLast polish, for reference

To me, this is just an amazing and truly unique shade. I've never seen anything quite like it at the drugstore. My best description of the base color would be "pink champagne". In certain lights, it looks more champagne while in other lights the pink comes out more.

Also, there's a lot of gold micro-glitter in this polish, which makes the champagne hue even more predominant when the light hits it just so.

I also want to mention that the bigger pieces of red glitter look round to my naked eye, but looking at the images above, I swear I see some star-shaped glitter in there, and maybe even bell-shaped glitter!

Blitzen was impossible to photograph on the nail. The red glitter looks black in a lot of these photos, but when the light hits this polish, the red sparkles in a very subtle, yet pretty way.

Some swatches (all images were after three coats followed by a coat of the accompanying top coat):

In these last two photos above, which were taken without flash in florescent lighting, you can kind of see how the effect of Blitzen is sort of like a glaze on the nail. It's a delicate shade, and so beautiful in real life, that I'm afraid these pics might scare you away from its real beauty.

I think that if you're not a glitter person, this would be the polish if you wanted a subtle, barely-there glitter that it is no way garish or attention-grabbing. It's festive, but in an understated way. I also think this would be a BEAUTIFUL color for young girls because it's almost got a princess-like quality to it.

And finally, I tried layering it over a white creme polish to see if the pink would stand out more:

It's impossible to see in this photo but in real life, it did give the white polish a very subtle light pink hue, which reminds me of when a candy cane is dipped in whipped cream and it make the whipped cream turn light pink.

LOVE this color, and I highly recommend it whether you're a glitter gal or not!

Do you own any shades from the Vixen's Mittens collection? If so, what colors did you get?