Showing posts with label Illamasqua. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illamasqua. Show all posts

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Yes Love Green Speckled

I've previously shown you the Lilac and Blue versions of this Speckled polish from Yes Love and today I have the green one from the collection on my nails.
 
 
The base colour is a lovely soft pistachio green and shows off the large and small black hex glitter beautifully.  These pictures are 3 coats (again this is more due to my OCD about the glitter placement than the polish not being opaque in 2 coats).

 
I'm so pleased with these Speckled polishes, they are a fantastic alternative to the really expensive Illamasqua ones I have been lusting after. :)

 

Thursday, 5 September 2013

Yes Love Lilac Speckled

Another polish from my holiday haul today, this time one of the Yes Love speckled polishes which to me look very like Illamasqua's I'mPerfect collection nail polishes
 
I've been lusting after the Illamasqua versions for a while now but I could never quite justify the £14.50 price tag, so imagine my delight when I found something very similar for just 80cents each in the China Bazaar in Spain.

First off I decided to try out the lovely lilac shade on the left in the photo above.


These pictures are 3 coats, 2 would suffice to get the polish opaque but I put the 3rd on so that I could get the exact spread of glitter I wanted. 


For a cheap nail varnish it applied pretty well, a decent amount of glitter came out on each dip and it spread around the nail with relative ease.


Drying time was fairly quick and wear time was excellent, I ended up having this polish on for a good few days and it lasted really well.


Overall I am really pleased I picked these up, they're the prefect cure to my Illamasqua lusting on a much smaller budget.  I'm just annoyed I couldn't find anymore to bring back and spread the love.

Saturday, 5 May 2012

Illamasqua Radium

Radium was released as part of the Toxic Nature Collection.  I would call it a chartreuse green colour with greeny blue shimmer through it (which is impossible to see in my photos unfortunately).  It applies beautifully and is a very eye catching colour.





Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Illamasqua Vow pencil



I really am a marketer’s dream, I read a few reviews and watched a couple of YouTube videos recently which mention one of Illamasqua’s medium pencils; Vow, a nude shade which can be used on eyes, lips and face, wherever you like really as a highlighter and particularly in the waterline to brighten your eyes up instead of a white pencil which can give a really stark look. So, needless to say, I had to have one, although I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to do with it.

I’ve been wanting to try out some Illamasqua products for a while, also based on various reviews, as the colours look fantastic and they are supposed to be pretty good quality, so having a different type of product to try seemed like a good idea for starters.

The pencil was £12.50 and on first impressions it looked like it would be really good, however when I got it home I was slightly disappointed that using it in my waterline wasn’t much better than white at all and still made me look a bit odd, with freaky light lining around my eyes. All was not lost though, I tried it out on my cupid’s bow and around the lip to see how that worked, and it was fantastic! It looks really subtle, not like an obvious line, but it makes my lips look twice the size – in a good way – and properly pouty! A definite winner on that front.

It’s also handy as an under brow highlight, I struggle to get eye shadow to look natural as a highlight and don’t really like to pull it all the way up to my brows anyway, for fear of looking a bit too drag, so a nice thin pencil which can be smudged just under the brow is ideal for me.

Overall, not as successful as I’d hoped but definitely shows promise. Maybe with a bit more trial and error I’ll get it working right on my eyes too.