Nails Inc November - Curzon Street

Smoky brown creme  

Nails Inc Curzon Street is a smoky brown creme.  There's definitely a hint of grey and maybe green in there, this is not your standard chocolate brown.

Curzon Street was part of QVC's 5 piece Autumn/Winter collection back in 2009!

Amazing formula that is pretty much opaque in one coat

These swatches show 2 coats, out of habit, with no topcoat.

Pop Beauty Nail Glam - Midnight Minx

Blurple shimmer with fine glitter

Midnight Minx is a bluely blurple shimmer with fine blue and magenta glitter that you can hopefully just see in the bottle shot.

Midnight Minx is from the Autumn 2012 collection and I picked it up in the ASOS sale.

Swatches are 2 coats with no top coat.  I've seen other reviews that show this with one coat but there's no way my bottle was going to be opaque at one coat!

It's not a very shiny finish so would definitely benefit from a nice glossy topcoat.

Boots 17 - Fury and a Peridot comparison

Warm gold/green duochrome

**Heavy pic spam alert**


Fury is from the latest Boots 17 collection which I think is the Autumn collection.

Let's acknowledge the elephant in the room - it's not a Chanel Peridot dupe although they are kissing cousins!

So, onto the many swatch pics - hey it's a duochrome, 3 or 4 is the minimum, right?

 
Fury is a slightly copper toned gold with green duochrome.  It is really gorgeous and even looks good with my skintone which I was a bit worried about.  The gold is a rich warm gold and the green is warm too, I'd probably say olive toned.  Overall I love it, it's stunning.

Swatch is 2 coats, it's a little brush-stroky but I'm gonna forgive it.

At the time I was slightly obsessed with all the Peridot pics but it seemed to be sold out everywhere and I don't have a close relationship with my local Chanel counter so I unless I stumped up the fearsome delivery charge and ordered it from the Harrods site, I had mostly resigned myself to not getting my sticky mitts on it!

But then, on *another* trip to Germany, I'm killing time in the airport and yay, they have it in stock and it's cheaper than the internet (about £14) and no delivery charge, so I succumbed.  And spent a week in a hotel room twisting the bottle and admiring the gorgeousness.

So long story, here's the comparison...

Here's the comparison, in sunlight and indirect light.  Peridot is index and ring finger, Fury is on middle and little fingers.

As you can see they're not dupes but are similar.  Peridot is much cooler toned, both the gold and the green.  And Peridot is much greener.

And if you want to see an amazing Peridot franken made from this polish then check out this Fab Fingertips post

Nails Inc Winter Collection 09/10 cont...

Here's the rest of the Nails Inc Autumn/Winter 09 Collection

Previous post on Victoria Gate

First up is Hampstead Heath, a slightly muted plum/raspberry creme - I still don't think it's burnt red as the Nails Inc site describes but it's a nice shade.


Hampstead Heath - Sun


Hampstead Heath - Shade

Apologies for the smeary bottle in these ones!

This is 2 coats with TC


Next is Berkley Square, a blue toned dark grey creme. Love this. Again two coats plus topcoat.

Last, but by no means least, is Belgravia, described as a warm brown shimmer which I suppose is accurate but doesn't begin the cover the gorgeousness of this polish


Belgravia - Sun


Belgravia - Shade

It's a slightly cool brown with masses of fine pink and blue shimmer


Bottle shot in an attempt to show the shimmer

In all I think this is a good collection, Hampstead Heath is probably the least exciting of the four but the others are all great.

As usual with Nails Inc these are all very pigmented and easy to work with. I got these from the Nails Inc website. They're also available from ASOS and it looks like QVC have a slightly different Autumn/Winter collection with 5 shades, some of which are different.

Nails Inc Winter Collection

Along with the recent Nails Inc Colour Burst offer (9 random polishes plus a basecoat for £27 - more on that later) I decided it would be churlish not to order the new Autumn Winter Collection.

The four colours (for £20)are:

Victoria Gate - Glossy purple
Hampstead Heath - Burnt red
Berkeley Square - Dark grey
Belgravia - Warm brown




I'm not sure about Hampstead Heath being burnt red, it looks more pinkish IRL than the picture but I haven't swatched or worn it yet so I'll withhold judgement.

And Belgravia looks to be more of a taupe leaning brown and has has a fine pinky/blue shimmer in the bottle.

So far I've only tried Victoria Gate which I wore as a full mani to my customer meeting on Friday and the amazing Josh Ritter gig in Oxford in the evening


This is two coats & topcoat in the shade.

As usual for Nails Inc application was good, although I didn't do a very good job on the cleanup!