This is the last of my “ready-to-go-but-never-published” posts that was languising during my sabbatical. Between sales and a few eye-catching colors, I’ve recently ended up purchasing alot more Revlons than I have in quite a while. I think a good number of these are older colors, despite the “New Shade” skickers on the bottle caps. [...]
Estee Lauder and I are not the closest of friends. We run in different circles. She hangs out in posh cafes with classic music and I’m sitting at the coffee shop listening to poetry readings. She thinks I don’t act my age and I think she’s got a stick up her ass. But every once [...]
Chanel Mythe doesn’t seem to be a color that gets alot of press or buzz. And I haven’t seen it for sale that often on eBay. But it’s a quiet humdinger. Mythe is a dark purplish maroon with purple-blue shimmer. It would be easy to miss the shimmery goodness going on with this color if [...]
Chanel Rose Flash is a beautiful pink on pink iridescent with beautiful depth. Rose Flash is definitely not an opaque color. What you see here is four coats which still shows visible nail line (VNL). If you’re allergic to VNL, try putting it over an opaque skintone creme.
Last day of Misas and this group contains a good portion of my Misa favorites. Saving the best for last was totally unintentional, it’s just the way the bottles fell (or were swatched, in this case). Choclate Icing, Wine Burgundy and Girl Friday, my favorites, have beautiful shimmer, depth and glow. Maybe it’s because gold [...]
I was a little surprised that Little Tease and Enchanted were my favorites out of this group. Little Tease was almost jelly like with shimmer. Most colors like this tend to be streaky messes, but this went on nicely. Enchanted is a shade of beige that I usually don’t care for. But for some reason, [...]
…Then by goodness, wear it! Shu Uemura is another one of those brands that seems almost nigh impossible for Americans to get their hands on, let alone get on their tips. I think this brand is predominantly sold in Asia. Good thing I have high friends in low places – and sometimes you can take [...]
Well not really. But it is old. And it is green. I love delicate greens that lean to blue. I can’t even say that I wear them all that often, but it is one of the colors that I truly have a hard time resisting. These are fairly old Sinful colors. If you hunt hard [...]
When I first saw these polishes in the drugstore this week, my first thought was, “Yay! Sally Hansen decided not to do away with their square bottles!” only to discover that these were not Sally Hansen at all, but Rimmel. The bottle itself is very, very similar to the Sally Hansen Salon polishes, but [...]
For the most part, Basix polishes are solid colors with a decent, if thin, brush – something that polishes in the $1 generally have problems with. All of the swatches are two coats and (even though this is loosely tied to the top coat testing) no top coat. I don’t think that there are [...]
