Sinful - Trend Matters Velvet - Kurtsey (DemiMatte)

Periwinkle blue/lilac with fine gold shimmer

Kurtsey is a soft cornflower blue with fine gold shimmer/pearl.  It definitely looks more lilac in my pics than in real life where it's more blue.

As name suggests it dries with a satin finish and a soft glow.

Application was fine but this took 3 coats to full opacity.  But I forgive as it's so pretty!

This is from the rather extensive Sinful collaboration with Kylie Jenner in 2016.  I happened to spot a small collection in Superdrug - I always forget that Sinful is now available in the UK.

P2 - Crazy Beauty

Soft blue creme  

Wowser, this is a stunner - I do love a periwinkle blue....

Crazy Beauty from P2 is a gel-look periwinkle blue creme.  Super glossy looking as you'd expect from a gel-effect polish.

Application was fine, these have wide, flat-ish brushes but they aren't too hard to handle for me.

Swatches are 2 coats, no top coat.

Unfortunately P2 isn't available in the UK, this is an older one I got on a work trip to Germany.

Alessandro - Bleached Blue

Soft, bright periwinkle blue creme  

Ooooh isn't this pretty, I love the colour and the name!

Bleached Blue is a soft but bright mid blue creme that definitely leans a little periwinkle


Swatch shown is 2 coats, no top coat as usual.

It's not as dusky as the bottle colour but still gorgeous.

This polish is from a small collection of blues called Denim Diva that Alessandro bought out back in 2011.

Look - 154

Pearly periwinkle blue shimmer  

Look (at least I think that's what it says, it's difficult to tell with the logo) is a new polish brand I spotted on holiday last year in Majorca, Spain.  The bottle says they're made by Impacto Cosmetics in Spain which I haven't heard of either.  Can't remember the exact price but they weren't expensive.

154 (grrgghh to no names) is a beautiful periwinkle blue shimmer.  It definitely has a pearly finish but the brushstrokes weren't too bad despite this.

Swatch shown is 2 coats with no top coat as usual.

The brush, formula and application were all good so for a cheapish polish bought on a whim in a tourist location I'm pretty pleased with this one!

Anyone else come across this brand on their Spanish hols?

Nails Inc - Instyle Bluebelle

Periwinkle blue creme


I know it's only February and temperatures here are still in single figures, but we've had some sunshine, the snowdrops are out and it's my Birthday this week so I'm celebrating with a gorgeous springy colour from last year.

Bluebelle was a covermount gift with the June 2012 issue of InStyle magazine, there were two other colours available, a bright pink and a peach creme.  But this was the standout for me.  I *love* this kind of bluey/purple.

Bluebelle is a gorgeous periwinkle blue creme


Swatch shown is 2 coats with no top coat.  Like most pastel cremes this was a little streaky and tricky to apply but you can see it evened out nicely on the second coat.

When I first got this I thought it was going to be dupey for something else in my nails inc collection but nada. It's certainly in the same colour family as Chalk Farm but much lighter.

In fact this is so pretty I may have to resort to ebay for a backup

Nails inc November - Chalk Farm

Periwinkle creme 

Chalk Farm is a gorgeous violet leaning towards periwinkle blue creme.

As ever the photos show this slightly more blue than it is in real life.

Swatch shown is 2 coats with no top coat.  This is your regular intensely pigmented nails inc creme.

The colour reminded me of a much loved polish in a similar hue, St John's Wood  so I thought I'd do a quick comparison...

L-R St John's Wood, Chalk Farm

And as you can see they cousins, not siblings -  St John's Wood is darker and more purple toned than Chalk Farm.  But both are gorgeous!

Nails Inc - St John's Wood

Periwinkle blue/purple creme

St John's Wood is defnitely one of my favourite Nails Inc polishes - it's a fantastic, pretty unique colour that's super opaque and easy to apply.  It's not hard to find either, somehow I've ended up with six bottles from various nails inc offers (I really must find the time for a blog sale!)

Probably the only downside of St John's Wood is it isn't very shiny - it really needs a good coat of top coat to make it sing.

Swatches shown here are 2 coats, without top coat and  application was darn near perfect.  In reality it's a shade more purple than shown here...

Again this is one of the colours available from Sephora, although of course it'll come in  the new style bottles rather than my 'vintage' style one shown here!

GOSH - Lavender Love

LE Periwinkle creme

The other Limited Edition GOSH polish I picked up was Lavender Love

Wowser!

This is a super pigmented one-coat-wonder!

Shown here with no top coat, but as you can see it's pretty shiny on its own.

My only slight grumble is the name, it's not lavender.  To me it's a periwinkle blue creme and so pretty, I love this shade of blue.  Application was fab.

It's not lavender but it sure is pretty....