Twinsie Tuesday: Textured

Surprsie, surprise -- Twinsie Tuesday has embraced the textured trend.

As I've already posted a few standard swatches of the creme (which you can view here and here) and the sparkly ones (here, here, and here), I thought I'd attempt to  
Julie G. Crushed Candy and Hot Cinnamon gradient.

This is actually my first full hand gradient and I'm not sure if starting with a texture was a good idea (the gradient looks more seamless) or bad idea (waaay more sparkles to clean up afterwards), but I really like how it turned out nonetheless.

I began with Crushed Candy, the purply pink sparkled texture and used a sponge to gradient (gradiate?) Hot Cinnamon to the tips, which somehow turned fuchsia on top of one another.

Formula and appearance-wise, I give it to Julie G. with her Frosted Gumdrops Collection, my favorite of all the textured collections released thus far.  What I really don't like is how rough her texture polishes dry, quite sandpaper-esque and not at all wearable for me on a daily basis.  But as a fun TT mani, I think it does just fine :)

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