Tag Archives: layering

Chanel Rose Cache and Velvet Mat

Somehow Rose Cache slipped beneathe my radar and I totally missed it’s arrival along with the Velvet Mat Top Coat. What is this world coming to? Although, now that I purchased Rose Cachet, swatched it and saw it on my nails, my concern over the delayed acquisition was completely unwarrented. It’s babb (band-aid but better [...]

CND Effects: Plum Truffle Sparkle

As promised on Monday, below is CND Plum Truffle Sparkle over my standard base colors. Although I thought Plum Truffle Sparkle seemed to coordinate well with the Plum Truffle base color, I think it loses some of it’s oomph on many of the other colors. There’s a subdued sparkle, but nothing earth shattering. The full [...]

CND Effects: Perfectly Bare Shimmer #579

Much like the colors this effect was meant to be layered over, my feelings were rather neutral about CND’s Perfectly Bare Shimmer. It’s not one of the “yowsa!” effects. But it’s also not one that I disliked on sight. There’s a slight opaqueness to this effect that mutes the base color and then addes just [...]

CND Effects: Anna #575

I reviewed the Anna CND Effect along with the Jason Wu collection but hadn’t done it over the six colors like I usually do. I was delayed with swatching the newer effects because of something that hadn’t happened to me before. When I pulled out my base CND colors to start swatching the new effects, [...]

Sparkle Brights (do any of these Icing collections have names?)

Another unamed collection from Icing. So for ease of reference, let’s just call these Sparkle Brights, shall we? These are gorgeous. For many reasons. Mainly because the sparkle like hell. Always a good thing in my book. Applied solo, they provide more coverage than sheer shimmers but don’t have alot of color to them. (can [...]