So I've got some Illamasqua swatches coming for you, but please be forewarned that the photo quality/lighting is pretty terrible due to the fact that these were taken with my old Olympus - meaning these really aren't up to my usual standards, so you'll have to forgive me! But as Nicole pointed out, since Illamasqua isn't available in that many Sephora stores, mediocre swatches are better than none at all!
I'm currently wearing 10 diferent Illamasqua Nail Varnish shades on each of my fingers - I love their polishes so much! These were applied over the chipping Lament manicure I'd given mysel some time back, so it's just one coat over that fluorescent shade - this should give you an idea of how amazingly opaque this polish formula is.
Oh and you'll also have to excuse the messiness - these were quick and dirty swatches done at Sephora!
- Phallic is an amazing shade of midnight blue with blue shimmer. It's everything I wanted Chanel's Blue Satin to be and more, it's got such depth and dimension to it, even with only one coat!
- Jan is a fleshy pink with gray/lavender undertones and officially my new favorite neutral polish. It makes my hands look amazingly polishes and just looking at the shade makes me feel like I've got my act together. It's perfection!
- Baptiste is another stunner - a deep royal purple with purple shimmer. Like Phallic, it's got amazing depth to it and is really gorgeous under direct light.
I've already reviewed Lament, which is a gorgeous neon corally pink shade - click the Illamasqua label below and it should pop up. A few other shades I loved are DWS (the perfect cement gray), Loella (not terribly unique but a fun sparkly bubble gum pink) and Grab (be warned that the swatch on Sephora's site is horribly inaccurate - it's more of a fuchsia/magenta shade with slight purple undertones).
Have you got your eye on any Illamasqua Nail Varnishes?
8 comments:
haha, jen that is so cool you have 10 different nail colors on you!!! go you. I do not ever do anything to my nails.. so i do not know how you can do it haha. but looks cool.
LOL Ying it was purely for swatching purposes I swear! I promise that I usually stick to one shade - two at most! =D
I had Jan on my list already but I'm definitely adding the other two. Very pretty indeed. So far so good. I likey.
T.R. you'll love Jan! It's like a milky cross between MAC's California Dreamin' and Lavender Whip lipsticks. Gorgeous! And the other two are amazing as well of course.
I got my first Illamasqua purchase today, their satin primer which I bought off someone else. I LOVE the packaging. I thought it didn't look that nice in photos, but the bottle is so chunky and tactile I love taking the lid off.
These polishes do look great, but I just can't bring myself to spend a lot on nail polish yet. I am eagerly awaiting my China Glaze polishes though!
Gorgeous colours! I can't decide which one is my favourite, LOL, the dilemmas of makeup!
Ana the chubbiness of the bottle is fun to hold.
Yeah it was a little painful for me to spend so much money on polish, but they're actually worth it to me because the formula is so nice and a little goes a long way. Chanel polishes, on the other hand, I'm not entirely crazy about.
Marce you should just get them all! For daily wearability, Jan is definitely my favorite!
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