ILLAMASQUA Nail Varnish in Raindrops Swatch and Review

I’ve heard many great things about Illamasqua nail polish, but the shade Raindrops turned out to be a disappointment.

The bottle is huge – 15ml and it retails for around $20.

In the bottle it is a beautiful blueish-grey with silvery-white flakes. On the nail, it takes billion coats to make it completely opaque. The swatch on the two fingers is made with four coats, while on the little finger nail there is only one coat.

When you use enough coats, the effect is really stunning, but it takes patience.

I never comment on how long the nail wears, because everything wears foo after a day or two if I don’t use top coat.

As for the removing, it is surprising easy. Since there are flakes, I have expected that I’ll have to wrap my fingers into aluminium foil, like I have to when I use other flakies, but the nail polish removes without a problem with just a cotton soaked in polish remover.

BY KILIAN, ILLAMASQUA and SANTA MARIA DI NOVELLA Haul

 

Just when I was so proud of myself for being so disciplined when it comes to cosmetics shopping, I have gone crazy. I’ve been under a lot of stress lately (still am), so I’ve thought that I deserve a little reward. However, the little reward turned into a full-blown haul of fragrance in which I have probably spent a half of my yearly make-up and cosmetics budget (for that reason, I’m excepting perfumes from the budget).

Whenever I visited a niche perfumery, I was always sniffing around by Kilian counter, never really stopping to do more throughtour research. Yesterday, I have spent almost an hour testing his fragrances frm oeuvre noire and ended up surprised as to how much they change in such a short period (more about this in individual fragrance review). I ended up picking a travel set of Beyond Love and a refill of Love and Tears.

I’m again interested in body soaps (I don’t usually use them as I have to find one that is not too drying), so I’ve picked Santa Maria di Novella Milk soap in Gelsomino.

I’ve also dropped by Illamasqua and got their nailpolish in Raindrops.

Have you purchased any cosmetics lately?