Nails Inc - Old Queen Street

White shimmer with gold flash

 Old Queen Street is a soft white shimmer with a gold flash

Swatch is 2 coats with no top coat

Nails Inc November - Brooklyn

Nude pearl with pink flash  

The final polish in the 2011 Mad Men themed collection, it turned out I did have Brooklyn after all!

Brooklyn is a slightly sludgy, greyish nude pearl with a pretty strong pink flash.

Swatches shown are 2 coats, no top coat and pretty visible nail line.  I obviously decided that 3 coats wouldn't be enough either so stuck to two!

I am a big Mad Men fan, the styling, fashion, Don Draper (of course), cocktails, the level of detail etc but oddly I don't associate  Brooklyn with the show very much.

Andrea Fulerton - Matthew

Pale nude shimmer with pink flash

Eeek - this polish does not work with my skintone and was a bit of a mare to apply and looks patchy in some of the pics.  That makes it a total fail for me.

Matthew from Andrea Fulerton is a nude shimmer with a mild pink  flash.

Application was mildy tricky and streaky.  Swatch shown is 3 coats and you can still see some VNL.

Yuk.

Nails Inc - Montrose Place

Fuchsia Pink Shimmer


Next in the pinks is Montrose Place...

Montrose Place is a fuchsia pink shimmer with a a purple flash.

It's nothing unique, I'm sure you all have several of these in your stash?

I seem to have at least four of this type of colour/finish just in my nails inc collection (Pacha Pink, Sloane St, China Town and Montrose Place!)  Although they do all look slightly different from each other!



Swatch shown is 3 coats with no top coat.

Leighton Denny - Supermauva

Grey shimmer with purple flash

This could be seen as another polish 'inspired by' Chanel  Paradoxal in that it's a grey/taupe with masses of purple shimmer that shows as a flash

I don't have Paradoxal to compare but it seems like the base of  Supermauva is more of a pure grey rather than a brown leaning purple/greige but of course it does still have the purple flash although overall it seems less purple than the swatches I've seen of Paradoxal.

I certainly wouldn't say this was a dupe but it's in the same family...

You can also see in the bottle and second picture a hint of green duochrome in Supermauva that I don't think is in Paradoxal.  Would be great if this was a stronger colour flip.

Swatch shown is 2 coats, no top coat.

Essence Natventurista - Chirp Chirp

Grey toned cream with pink flash

Another one from the strangely named Natventurista collection.

Chirp Chirp is a slightly greyed cream colour with strong pink flash

Swatch is 3 coats with no top coat.

This one was slightly tricky to work with, it was more sheer than expected but overall I like it, it's unusual.