While searching for new colours, I found a wonderful little website called Raven Cosmetics and purchased a few new little beauties! Every order has 15% off, no matter what your total cost and postage is reasonable; as is delivery time. I'd definitely purchase from there again.
Be warned, this may be a long, picture-heavy post!
L-R: Stella, Wink, In Awe Of Amber, Champagne Bubbles
I've been wanting China Glaze's 'Stella' for quite a while now, so of course, I purchased that. I love this colour. It's a deep and rich purple with a magenta tone and looks fabulous. I currently have it on my fingernails and it only needed 2 coats to be completely opaque.
Now I can cross it off my Wish List!
Raven Cosmetics have a great Lucky Dip promotion, 3 China Glaze polishes for £12, and several others too. They're well worth checking out if you don't mind what colours you receive. With an individual value of around £39, this is a brilliant deal.
The first Lucky Dip polish is 'Wink.'
A nude/beige sheer polish with a very very subtle shimmer.
This is so sheer that I imagine you'd need 4-5 coats before it became anywhere near opaque. I've used it on my toes just as a bit of a shimmery-sheen. I'm more of a colour girl so perhaps this will be used as a base coat.
Secondly, 'In Awe Of Amber' is a polish I probably wouldn't have purchased if I had the choice, BUT after testing it out on my practice wheel it's a lovely bronze/amber shimmer.
It reminds me of swatches of OPI 'Warm and Fozzie' from The Muppets collection, so on review I'm pretty happy that I own something similar. The glitter particles are smaller than in 'Warm and Fozzie' but I reckon it's pretty close.
Lastly, from my Lucky Dip, we have 'Champagne Bubbles' from the Holiday 2011 collection which is a gold base with silver glitter particles. Again, in the bottle, it isn't something I probably would have popped in my basket but I may have changed my mind. Gold polish hasn't always been my favourite because I'm rather pasty and feel that it looks nicer on tanned or darker skin. However, with a black outfit and gold accessories it would look fab. The silver glitter looks lovely with the gold base and really show up on the swatch.
In my order was a free 4ml mini Nails Inc. polish, which was a nice gesture.
I received 'Swan Walk' which is a lovely baby pink with a blue shimmery tone to it. It's very sheer so would need multiple coats to become opaque.
I'm very happy with my first China Glaze polishes and I will definitely be purchasing from Raven Cosmetics again in the future!
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