Categorized: Gold

Happy New Year! 2009 is off to a slightly backwards start here at Vampy Varnish. I am bringing you Carolyn New York’s Holiday 2008 Collection. These were supposed to come out on Dec 1st on their website, but didn’t actually show up until mid December. By the time I received and swatched them, it was after Christmas already. Oh well, I liked most of them anyway and for the most part these colors seem more like a Spring or Fall collection rather than Holiday (except for the red one). All pics taken with my sexy new camera, in the sun with no top coat.

Tinsel TownTinsel Town was a color I knew immediately was not going to work on my skin. It’s just too yellow for me, which gives me that wonderful jaundice look I am oh so fond of. Though it doesn’t look great on me, I did like the color, which is a shimmery yellow gold which almost looks foil-y. This is two coats.

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Good afternoon all! It’s been awhile since I posted, partially because there has been no sun but also because I was enjoying my X-mas break (which I am still on for another full week!). Today I’m bringing you two of the Chanel Moscow colors that I liked best. The consistency was a tad thick on these, which is ok because I only needed two coats. Pics taken in sun (with my new Canon SD990 IS camera!) with no top coat.

Or De RussieAs you may already know, I LOVE ME anything olive green or tinged with olive green! Even though this color is almost an exact dupe to China Glaze Wagon Trail (which is one of my top 3 favorite colors ever), I had to drop the $30.00 on it anyway. There are just too few olive green polishes in the world, so I feel inclined to buy them all. When I first saw pics of this one from Chanel’s site, I thought it was more gold so I was going to skip it. But then I saw real swatches and knew it had to be mine. What can I say, it’s an olive green/gold with massive fine gold shimmer. This is two coats.

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Happy Friday! The nice folks over at butter London sent me their Holiday 2008 sets to try out. I really like their polish. I know a lot of you feel it’s too expensive and you don’t know a lot about them, but I really believe in them and their collection. I absolutely LOVE the witty names of the colors and they definitely have some colors you will not see anywhere else. My only complaint, which I have mentioned before, is that the bottle shape is very hard to work with. For me it’s hard to get a really good grasp on the brush with that rectangle shape and then the top doesn’t want to go back on the bottle smoothly either, which creates a bit of a mess. It’s nice aesthetically, but not practical…Anyway I am only showing three of the four colors they sent because I already have and swatched one of them (Chancer). Pics taken in sun (when it came out for 10 seconds today) and with no top coat.

The Full Monty
Now don’t think of me the wrong way, I am not a Star Wars geek, but to me this color screams C3PO! I love it! It’s a really glittery awesome gold with a foil like finish. Normally I am not a *gold* person, but this is extremely flattering on fair skin (it almost has green undertones) and I will definitely be wearing it. You could do two coats, but I did three just for fun.

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As promised, here are the warm colors from the China Glaze Romantique collection. Personally I liked the cool set a bit better because I am fair and some of these don’t mesh as well with my skin tone, but they are still pretty. All were only two coats and again all had really nice application and pigmentation. Pictures taken in sunlight with no top coat.

AdmireAdmire is a pretty flattering silvery pink/lavender metallic. I was surprised that I liked it this much, normally something like this doesn’t do it for me.

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I came home today from another long day of work with not much to look forward to except making dinner, watching The Rachel Zoe Project and Privileged and going to bed. But much to my surprise, my hubbie had a wonderful little delight for me! Yes you guessed it, Chanel Kaleidoscope! I was quite happy since I haven’t seen it yet in person, but did have a lemming for it since I saw the review on the All Lacquered Up site. So I had to rush to swatch it since the sun was going down and I only had a tiny patch left in the backyard. Enjoy!

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