I brought the mermaid flakies after *loving* the illusion ones, but wanted something with a blue purpley green pink shift rather than the red orange of illusion. Great to use, little goes a long way. Strongly recommend checking out Tiana's 2020 bat Halloween Mani for techniques on how to use. Picture below is mermaid flakies, starfish, plate M172 and a Matt topcoat

It's a very pretty flakie, but I'm disappointed in the amount of product you get for $10. I know holo flakies can be pricey but at least fill up the tiny container it comes in. Mine didn't even cover the bottom of the pot. I really like Maniology, their plates and polishes are amazing, but I wouldn't recommend getting glitters/flakies from here for the amount of product you receive for their price, unless they go on sale or end up in the clearance section.

Love it. I use it over my nail polish to add that extra wow factor. All about dat bling !

So now it will last longer than I originally anticipated! I didn't rub these in, and left them as random-shaped flakes, and it looks so pretty! The photos of it don't do it justice, at all

This was my first time using a flake type of glitter. I used a small detail brush to pick it up out of the jar. I am not sure how but these seemed to transfer to everything surrounding my jar (kind of like static charged packing peanuts). I think I will have to do a bit more trial to figure out how to minimize the spread. The results were well worth the small mess though. I used this along with the mermaid top coat. The top coat was only used on two nails to add more of a background sparkle to the larger flakes. Using a brush made it pretty easy to pick up the sparkle and place it accurately. I used the sticky base coat to adhere. This jar will last a long time too, since I actually needed very little for a manicure using the flakes on every nail.