Tag Archives: matte

Yves St. Laurent – The Terrible Niors!

Anyone that thinks a name is just a name may be right when dealing with every day matters, but not when it comes to marketing. A black creme cannot really be unique. Some applications may be better than others, but really, what can you do to differentiate a black creme? Not much. Black mattes might [...]

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 [...]

Man the Castle! Part 2 of 4

I actually have had most of these Castledew polishes for a few months before I got around to swatching them. In the meantime, I had bought and swatched the Serena Glam Slam OPI polishes. So when I returned to the Castledew bottles, I had to giggle as the first two of these were so very [...]

WTF!! and Holy Crap!!!

Never has MAC come out with a collection where I had such polar opposite reactions to the colors. When the MAC salesman explained to me that Frayed to Order was a matte, I was skeptical immediately. With a quick swipe at the store, I realized that I probably wouldn’t like this polish as a matte, [...]

Purrrrr Suede-ing Colors from OPI!

  Finally! I know that the matte craze has hit almost all polish brands, but this is not your average matte – it’s matte on a whole new level. And it blows my mind I’m talking about OPI here. From the utter depths of “meh” (I’m talking the last, what? 3 collections?), these colors are [...]

Matte Madness Courtesy of DrFrankenPolish

With all the talk of matte polish recently, I was one of the privileged few to received some of the matte polish that DrFrankenPolish sent me! She sent me a purple, blue, green, grey and black matte. All of them have good coverage with 2 coats! The wear is good, but I would do this [...]