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Chanel Vendetta is a deep, vampy purple with red and blue shimmers. It looks purple in the bottle, but once it's on the nails, it is nearly black. Indoors, the shimmers basically disappear, leaving it looking more creme-like, but outdoors, Vendetta takes on a more glow-y quality, with the shimmers sparkling in the sunlight.
Vendetta is part of the permanent collection and is available for $25 at all Chanel counters and on chanel.com.
A reader asked how Vendetta compared to Butter London HRH. Both have the same red and blue sparkles, but that is where the similarities end. Vendetta is a very dark, blue-based purple, nearly black. HRH is brighter and more red-based. See here for my original swatches of HRH.
If you love purples as much as I do, these both have a place in your collection.
Want a bright, silvery foil with little bits of glitter? Diamond Geezer would be it. I almost wore this for New Year's Eve, but I figured bright foily, silver would be too cliche. Eh, I have the rest of the year to wear this one.
Branwen's Feather is described as a blackened purple (yes, another one...shocker!) reminiscent of a raven's feather. Yeah, that pretty well describes is all right. Branwen's Feather has a deep black base with purple and multicolor shimmers. Gorgeously vampy is how I describe it.
Again, apologies for the craptastic photos. Just picture this color richer and not so washed out and you'll get an idea of how awesome it is.
You can't honestly be surprised to find another purple on my favorites list. I love me some purple. HRH is a vibrant, glowy red-based violet with multicolor shimmer. It is very nearly a metallic, but not quite there.
Yummy Mummy is another beautiful neutral. This one is nearly my skintone, so it makes my hands look long and lean, kinda like a pair of nude platform pumps, but for the nails. It has just a bit of silvery shimmer to keep it from looking flat. If you're uber-pale like me, this would be a perfect neutral for you, and I imagine on darker skintones, this would be a gorgeous contrasting color.
How could I not pick All Hail The Queen (fka All Hail McQueen, originally created for late designer extraordinare Alexander McQueen)? First and foremost, IT HAS HOLO GLITTER!!! Plus, it's a beautiful neutral and has silver glitters along with HOLO GLITTER!!! My favorite thing about this polish is how wearable it is. Yes, there is holo glitter (yeah, I'm all done yelling), but indoors, it is rather subtle and looks more like fine, silvery glitter, making it great for office-wear, even in those conservative ones.
Check this beauty out!
Continuing the Butter London posts is The Big Smoke. Never have I received so many compliments on a nail color, from women AND men! The Big Smoke is an utterly gorgeous, metallic navy blue, remimiscent of the night sky.
If you asked me to recommend a blue polish, this one would definitely be it. See, I told you I was a liar...I really do like blue polishes, especially this one!
My apologies for the shoddy pictures, we can't seem to get a sunny weekend here. But, if The Big Smoke still manages to look that gorgeous in pictures, you can just imagine how it looks in person!
I'd been reading lots of good things about Butter London polishes, so I decided to indulge myself in a few (read: 13 or so). I was going to do just a couple massive posts, but these colors are so pretty I decided each deserves it's own post. Given all the Butter London polishes I have to post about, I'm going to declare this "Butter London Week" and post all my favorites (of what I have, anyway) this week.
Butter London polishes are all 3-Free and are the creation of Brit Sasha Muir who moved stateside to Seattle and, with the help of fellow Brit, Nonie Creme, created the line based on her home country, complete with a cheeky British naming-convention. Just about all of the polishes had full coverage in two coats, with the exception of one (I'll let you know which one when I post it). I always do three coats, though.
Up first from my expanding Butter London collection is Marrow, a beautiful blue-based purple with subtle shimmer. The first and last pictures are the most color-accurate.
Click the jump for more pics!
Well, I finally got a few moments of sunshine so that I could do swatches...most of 'em anyway. Urban Decay 24/7 Liners are some of my favorite liners. They don't smudge or crease and the color-range is phenomenal, especially in this collection. Now for swatches!!
Perversion, Zero, Uzi
I used to think Zero was the blackest black. But UD stepped it up and brought out Perversion. Swatched next to Zero, you can see how deep, carbon black Perversion really is. Zero is still black and I'll still love it, especially since Zero is part of the permanent collection whereas Perversion is exclusive to this Anniversary Collection. But, if you're looking for the darkest black possible, Perversion it is. Not to be left out, Uzi is a deep charcoal grey with silver sparkles, and is also exclusive to this Collection. Uzi is quite a bit darker than Gunmetal. Gunmetal looks practically silver next to Uzi.
Click for the rest of the collection!
In an effort to get all my seasonal relevant posts out of the way, I've got a few items from Collection Les Perles De Chanel from Spring 2011 that I swatched. I know winter juuuuust got under way, and spring seems like a long way off, but perhaps these goodies will get in you the mood. I'm also not one to limit colors to a specific season, and these Chanel spring colors are very versatile. From the collection, I picked up all three Le Vernis, Black Pearl, Pearl Drop, and Peach Nacree, and the Ombres Perlees quint.
Click the jump for the swatches!
The Cham Pale Collection from MAC is the first one in a while that has caught my eye. I've been focusing on exploring other brands, so I'd been passing on MAC in favor of other stuff. I'd been looking for a couple new bases and once I saw the polishes, being the polish-hoor I am, decided I couldn't pass on those. I ended up purchasing Dangerous Cuvee and Vintage Selection Paint Pots, and Soiree and Very Important Platinum (which is just about the least creative name ever) Polishes.
Keep reading for swatches!
I decided not to do red or green for Christmas, so I did the other predictable color - silver. But OPI DS Coronation is a sparkly holo silver, so I give myself a few bonus points for the holo. Plus, I got loads of compliments on it. Coronation is a flashy, but not overly so. Call it grown-up holo.
More pictures after the jump.
See?! It's a conspiracy! Another pretty blue! At least this one also has green glitter. Plus it's a navy jelly base, so it makes my inner-goth very happy.
You want pretty pictures? Sure you do.
More after the jump.
I think there's a conspiracy to make me out to be a liar. I keep saying I don't "do blues", but here I go again with another one. OPI released two new Designer Series colors for Fall 2010, Radiance (which I didn't get because it's a sparkly silver, and I already have Coronation plus a couple others) and Magic. Magic is just too pretty for words. It is not a holo like a lot of the other DS polishes. Rather, it is a very sparkly, foil-like sapphire blue with a turquoise and fuchsia duochrome vaguely reminiscent of Rescue Beauty Lounge's Scrangie. Magic is a much brighter blue than OPI Designer Series Fantasy, which leans more toward navy and has the holo glitter (swatch here).
Click the jump for a whole bunch more pictures.
I thought about doing some bright, crazy color for Thanksgiving, but I decided to go with a more traditional fall color with a sassy name, Deborah Lippmann Bitches' Brew, a vampy burgundy shimmer.
More pictures after the jump!
Chanel just keeps pumping them out. This time it is Riva, part of the Chanel Côte d' Azur Cruise Collection. It's a pretty pale blue cream with hidden shimmer. I do really like the color, which, from me, is saying a lot, since I don't really do blues. Butttt, as pretty as Riva is, I think it's passable, and if you're really itching for a pale blue, dupeable.
Still, I took pretty pictures...
More pictures after the jump!
