Hi!
So, after about two weeks of giving out about my postman (incidentally - we had a different postman this week, if I was suspicious and paranoid I'd be checking the other guy's pockets) Tuesday finally brought some mail after a good week of delays. And boy, was it of the brilliant kind! I wanted to put some swatches up, but as you know I'm in the middle of the 15-Day Nail Challenge so I have no free fingers at the minute (apart from the ones on the lesser-spotted right hand and they are NOT camera ready), so I made use of my trusty practice finger.
First up, the very lovely
cuti-clue-les sent me a lovely surprise, and my very first A-England polish - Tristam. It's a beautiful dark navy/purple holo and the application was a dream. I'm really impressed, and I will definitely pick up some more A-England polishes. Thank you Roisin! x
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| Two coats of Tristam in Natural Light |
The next package contained some Models Own polishes I ordered for the lovely
Chiro, and the third package was from Chiro to me, and oh my god, was it a surprise. I knew she had picked up the Catrice Million Styles Topcoat in 'Godfather of Pearl' for me, but what I didn't know was that she also picked up 3 more Million Styles Topcoats AND all 4 new Catrice Autumn 2012 polishes from my wishlist! I have been obsessed with finding these topcoats since they were released and I could never find any of them! Amazing. Thank you so, so much! x
First up is No Snow Petrol, a gorgeous unusual polish that looks like a plain teal creme in the bottle, but when you hold it up, there's a strong aqua shimmer running through it. Beautiful.
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| Two Coats, Natural Light |
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| Two Coats, Sunlight |
Next is George Blueney, a fabulous dark blue/navy shimmer. It's like 'It Blue My Mind's bigger, tougher older brother. Georgeous (sorry, couldn't resist).
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| Two Coats, Natural Light |
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| Two Coats, Sunlight |
Then we have two that I wasn't all that excited by when I saw the images on the Catrice website, but OH MY GOD. Steel My Heart and Steel My Soul are new 'Brushed Metal Effect' polishes and they're stunning. They dry to a matte finish, and they have tiny microshimmer in them.
Steel My Heart is like a matte
Browno Mars with holo microshimmers. It's amazing.
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| Two Coats, Natural Light |
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| Two Coats, Sunlight |
Steel My Soul is possibly the most grown-up polish I've ever owned. It's a taupe colour with an amazing gold shimmer running through it, and it's the perfect Office polish. Fabulous.
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| Two Coats, Natural Light |
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| Two Coats, Sunlight. Look at that Gold! |
On to the Million Styles Topcoats! I swatched all of these over one coat of the black from the Fearne Cotton set I got at Christmas, just a plain black creme.
First is Return of Space Cowboys, a thick purple/aqua duochrome glitter in a dark base. So pretty, and I think the dark base will work really well over other colours.
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| Natural Light |
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| Sunlight |
Next is Godfather of Pearl, one of my lemmings since I heard about the collection! It's just stunning. It's got blue, green, aqua, teal, turquoise - all of the above in a clear base. It's a fabulous polish and I can't wait to play with it!
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| Natural Light |
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| Sunlight |
Third is Holo Que Tal?! Which isn't a holo at all, but a really unusual pink/purple duochrome microglitter. It's really pretty, I haven't seen one like this yet!
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| Natural Light |
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| Sunlight |
Lastly is Have an Ice Day, which is a holo, it's very similar to Nails Inc. Electric Lane topcoat - an insanely holographic glitter topcoat that looks like the night sky over black.
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| Natural Light |
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| Sunlight |
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| Close-up of bottle in Direct Sunlight |
So, there you go. Amazing polish from amazing nail friends. I've said it on twitter already, but fellow nail polish addicts really are the nicest people in the world.
S xx
Oh I neeeed some of the million styles topcoats in my life. They look so wonderful. Not having Catrice is definitely in the top 3 things that makes me sad to live in England!
ReplyDeleteBut your spare finger thing is really creepy. Like really, really, is that a prawn or is that a finger creepy. Sorry.
Hahaha my spare finger IS really creepy, it looks like it wandered into my nail polish stash all on its own :) The topcoats are lovely, I never saw them in Ireland, I know some people got them but they were really limited.
ReplyDeletecripes these are all gorgeous :-)
ReplyDeleteThey really are, the A-England makes me want all the A-Englands and I love Catrice! x
DeleteHa after all of our twitter excitement over the sale I could't have you missing out on it :P Delighted you like it!! Great haul. I didn't even notice georgeous until I read it the third time :P x
ReplyDelete:) You're a star xxx
DeleteTotes jealous of the Million Styles Top Coats, I hunted up and down for them and couldn't find them!
ReplyDeleteLove the A England shade too, I've been looking them up lately.
I couldn't find them either! I swore blind that they never hit Ireland at all but I know they were in Cork. They might come back, same as the Essence ones!
DeleteI'm so happy you loved 'em all, cause I it might be better to have all those "similar-but-different" stuff! :D
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm also the one who got Tristam...it's AWESOME, now I'm really thinking if I'll get Legends from them or not ;)
I THOUGHT it might be better...where's missing word!? :P
DeleteI didn't even notice the missing word! :) I really love them, really surprised by the Brushed Metal ones, I love the formula. Thank you so much! Tristam is awesome, can't wait to play with it properly :)xx
DeleteWoow!! Have fun with all of them!!
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I can't wait to use them all! Need more fingers :) xx
DeleteOMG! I am really loving those Million Styles Topcoats!
ReplyDeleteThey were SERIOUS lemmings, I'd given up on finding them! x
DeleteI need those Million Styles Topcoats in my life! Do you know if they are still selling them or if they were LE? I have sent my boyfriend on a mission! He lives in Geramny so he has a chance to get them! Such a shame we don't have Catrice in England :(
ReplyDeleteThey are definitely still selling them in Germany because my lovely swap buddy Chiro got them for me last week. I don't know if they were limited edition everywhere? Ireland doesn't get every collection either, there are some Essence collections that still haunt me! x
DeleteSteal My Soul is an instant wish list add.
ReplyDeleteso I am not the only one that couldn't find ANY of the Milion Styles Topcoats!!!!
ReplyDeleteps: I NEED steal my soul in my life!!!
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