Review: Two A England Polishes - Perceval and Bridal Veil

My usual accumulation of parcels that arrives on a Monday happened on a Friday this week and man, did I get some doozies. A couple of weeks ago I placed an order with Llarowe for a nice selection of flakies effects as I'm still chaffing about the Finger Paints. They will eternally be my white whale, unless someone wants to do a trade :D? Anyway, in for a penny, in for a pound and so I chucked two A England polishes in there too. OMG do I love these. I have to order more but first let's look at Perceval.

Perceval is the most beautiful metallic red I think I've ever seen and man, did it freak out my camera trying to photograph it. Of these pictures I think the first is the closest to the colour in real life but I added the others to get a closer look at the consistency. Applying these polishes was an absolute dream, I don't think I've come as close to the mythical one-coater as these two. What you see in the pictures below is two coats but that's just me. You could do with one.

Look how rich the colour looks in this picture. I was lucky enough to have Family Day off (being in Canada) so I actually got to try some pictures in the daylight. I'm woefully under-prepared for anywhere other than my desk so there aren't too many. Can't you see how metallic and gorgeous this is in the light?

The Verdict: My favourite red, hands down. I mean, if I needed a red for a larger design I'd probably use a flat red but this one is so stunning on its own. Love it. Oh and check here if you want to see what else you can do with it.

Next up we have Bridal Veil, a stunning charcoal with quite a strong scattered holo running through it. I just couldn't get over how well this one applied, it really is a one coater. This is two coats but it didn't look any different with the second coat. I love the colour too and always <3 holos.

You gotta check the close-up for the picture above, the glitter particles are just stunning.

The Verdict: I love holo polishes as they just look like a normal, simple colour until the light hits them right and then hello rainbows. Even if this didn't have the holo it's a beautiful charcoal. The colour, the holo and the amazing application makes this one a winner.

I will definitely be ordering more of these :)

Review: Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles is Accurately Named

It's amazing what you can find when you wander around at night. My favourite time to go shopping is ridiculously late and I'm extra happy when it pays off. I've been looking for Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles for a while now at that couldn't be more up my alley if it tried. I finally managed to find it in a Shoppers last night and it really does live up to its name. A Million Sparkles is a predominately blue glitter that has an amazing ability to look like a foil after a couple of coats. Combine that with gold, silver and pink bar glitter and you have a winner. It's seriously so sparkly I got distracted from what I was saying at lunch today. Application is decent but you really need four coats to get completely opaque coverage. That's ok, glitter dries fast. It's a little rough too but nothing Seche Vite can't fix. The Verdict: Yay glitter! If, like me, you like sparklies to the point where it's the big...

Review: Sephora X Outburst

As you can imagine, I was pretty excited when the new Sephora X polishes came out. Not only were there a million of them, but I could go see them in person, circling the huge stand and singling out my prey. I'm not the most happy that the good ones are FIFTEEN dollars each but what am I going to do, not buy any?? That's silly. I have few now but my favourite so far as to be the incredibly Outburst. LOOK AT IT:

All the ILNP Ultrachromes! Like Shiny Beetles!

Guess what guys, it's not glitter today! Instead, I have the incredibly amazing ILNP Ultrachrome polishes to show you! I saw a picture of these on the ILNP site and gasped out loud when I saw the colour shift. I totally didn't sit for an hour at work, refreshing the page when the preorders went up. That would be silly. I was so excited when they arrived as they looked as amazing in the bottle as they did on the site. I swatched each polish over black, took the photos, but no matter what I tried, I couldn't get the finish to a place where I was satisfied. I'm sure it's something about the way I was applying it, but there would be little bumps or inconsistencies in the finish and it was annoying. So I didn't post them. I gave them another shot in a taped mani and YES THIS IS BETTER LOOK:

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