Big fat damn it, damn it, damn it. I just spend the best part of an hour writing up and great blog post, and then, whilst I was moving photos around in the HTML and cutting and pasting text, I lost all my content. Then it bloody autosaved and my content was lost. Even Ctrl-X didn't work. DAMN YOU BLOGGER!
I'm so pissed I lost all those words and I just can't be bothered writing them all up again, and god knows I wont be able to be as clever and witty the second time around.
Here is a dot point executive summary of what I wrote.
- I've been busy and am a slack blogger.
- I haven't even selected a winner of the guess that polish giveaway.
- There were lots of entries
- There were lots that guessed everything right.
- I made it too easy.
- I had a week off work.
- Son turned 7.
- I felt bad that I didn't do a birthday nails post.
- I spent days doing various activities with the kids during the holidays
- Came down with a 24 hour bug and was out of action for a day.
- Had a huge Harry Potter themed party for son today
- Had about 25 six and seven year olds and their parents over for the party.
- Had to clean the house.
- Had to seriously clean the house.
- Had to clean up my polish mess that was all over the dining table.
- Will write blog post about party because it was awesome and we made some fun crafty stuff.
Ok, onto the polishes.
These are the recently released Picture Polish Vampy Chameleons. The collection has six duochrome shades in it. There are three colour combinations with a shimmer and a shimmer/holographic flake combo in each of the three combos.
Revenge - a dark burgundy shimmer that shifts from pink to rusty red.
Nemesis - same a revenge, but with the added scatter holographic flakies.
Comparison of Revenge and Nemesis
Poison - a dark plum leaning red with a shimmer that shifts from aqua blue to purple.
Scandal - the same as poison, but with the scattered holographic flakies. Notice how my indoor lighting really highlights the red base of this polish when there is direct lighting. Angled lighting in the comparison photos shows the colour is the same.
Comparison of Poison and Scandal.
Obsession - a dark blackened red leaning purple with a shimmer that goes from purple to red.
Desire - the same as obsession but with the scattered holo flakes.
Comparison of
Obsession and
Desire.
As you would expect, the versions with the holographic flakies are a fair bit lighter than their shimmery counterpart, and because of this they all look quite different.
Application was good for all of these, but if you are going to be photographing them in direct light, you will want to do three coats for full opacity. Two coats would probably be ok for regular wear. These swatches were three coats with Seche Vite top coat.
The Picture Polish Vampy Chameleons are available
from Picture Polish. International ladies may be able purchase through one of the many Network stockists if they have this in stock.
