Formula was good, but the brush was jacked up. I took a picture of the brush, meaning to post it. I’ve decided that I will post pics from here on out of my OPI bottles with messed up brushes because I find it’s OPI who has the worst quality control when it comes to their brushes.
In the meantime, enjoy Red Nail Polish Friday! 🙂
Unlike the other 2 Catherines, these colors were runny and took a while to dry. Both of these colors are three coaters because they were thin coating, even when I went super heavy handed on the second coat.
Seriously pretty and gorgeous almost but not quite grey green. At least it looks grey green on me! Definitely a great color that Ji’s pulled off.
Crazy up close shot of the color in the bottle.
Super faint shimmer in this shot. So faint it was that I honestly thought it was the camera messing up. Then I looked at it again.
You can see the shimmer here and even the shimmer while it’s in the bottle. Very pretty. However, the color really isn’t me – doesn’t look good at all. Maybe I’ll learn to like the neutral colors, but this type of neutral doesn’t entice me. 🙁
Up close shot of the color in the bottle.
The two colors that bumped it back? Rescue Beauty Lounge’s The Real Housewives of the Tudor Dynasty – Catherine and Catherine H. These 2 colors are part of their Fall 2010 collections.
The formula was quick drying but not as high gloss as their cremes. No worries, out of the 4 colors (the other 2 will be posted tomorrow) these two are really my favorite!
See below for the yumminess!
This beautiful blue grey purple is what I was hoping Zoya’s Kelly would’ve been on me. This color was gorgeous, even with the shimmer that ran through it.
I love this purple grey…it’s gorgeous. What do you think?
Part of L’oreal’s Fall 2010 Limited Edition Collection (I believe it’s part of Fashion Week, but I grabbed these off the display and ran before taking a picture).
Formula was easy to work with and dried quickly.
It’s a lovely dark red that looks vampy in the shade, but in the sunlight it shimmers beautifully. I did my best to capture the prettiness and I think I did a decent job. What do you think?
Luminescence is part of L’oreal’s Limited Fall 2010 Collection.
Formula was good and dried quickly. I had no problems with application and the brush was fine.
See below.
Obligatory label shot. 😀
Anyway, here is this frosty, shimmery minty green from China Glaze. I’m going to have to compare it to Leaf Him At The Altar because that’s what it reminded me of. I’ll make sure to include them at the bottom of the post.
For now, here is the Cherish-ed prettiness.
Ok, I was wrong about them being similar…my bad!
Fall 2010 is that collection for Orly…well, this one is – Space Cadet.
Where can I even begin? I was rendered speechless on the first coat. Then on the second? I just could not stop staring. The color change, the glitter, the glitz oh my!
The formula was really one that I think a lot of polishes should strive for if they’re going to do something like this – fast drying and easy to work with. I did 3 coats because I was really curious to see how it would look past 2 and it really was just flat out gorgeous. I didn’t need a third coat. It was like gilding the lily.
Ok, I’ll stop raving and just show you the mother lode of pictures I took.
Small note – I honestly thought that this was close to a Nubar shade called Wildlife…Wildlife is this awesome duochrome color that is gorgeous in and of itself and I felt that Space Cadet is the pumped up rocker chick sister version of it.
Pic spam commences…NAO!
What wasn’t conveyed in the sunlight shot was this freaking AWESOME play of black and pink/purple glitter. It was really hard to capture.
Nubar’s Wildlife is below – the shade shots of Space Cadet above is what made me think of this color.
You can still find some of these colors, but not all, should you decide to go on a hunt for them. I will re-swatch these (along with the French Collection) with proper lighting. For now, settle for the indoor and flash only.
I rocked Russian Navy for so long that I have 3 – yes THREE – bottles of them.
