CQ Rustic Dream

Hello hello! I am absolutely kicking myself  or not swatching this one earlier, it has sat in my untrieds for too long! I got this in a swap a few months back, along with some other polishes still sitting in my untrieds (woops!) and I had an urge to use this one last night. No regrets!

CQ Rustic Dream. This is a drugstore/cheap polish in the US. AUSTRALIAN POLISH COMPANIES, TAKE NOTE! This is SUCH an amazing polish. Its a copper-y duochrome (multichrom maybe? I dunno) that shifts from copper to yellow gold to pink. OMG.

WHY did I wait so long to use this?! It's gorgeous! It's shimmery, slightly frosty, therefore leaving a few brushstrkes, but nothing too bad, and it glows. I'm looking at it in natural light and the pink is just shining through strongly making it look glowy.

The formula was a little on the thin side, and it's a little sheer, but I find most duochromes to be that way. I have three coats on and can still see some VNL in person, it didn't show up in the photos thankfully!

It is one of those polishes that is perfectly named. Rustic Dream. Yup! And, my favourite photo, saved for last so you can see the full duochrome effect;

YUM.

Until Next Time,

<3 Bec

CQ Golden Green

Something non-holo! Nice change, huh? I realised that a fair chunk of my untrieds pile were for my Secret Valentines package (which I have found out came from the lovely Emma) so I decided to start swatching them!

This is CQ's Golden Green. CQ is a new brand to me, and I got a great first impression with this baby! Golden Green, while not having an original name, it has the best descriptive name possible. It's a yellow based olive shimmer, which looks like it could be a duochrome, but I'm not sure! If there is any colour change, it's a very slight one.

That said, it is lovely. I'm quite fond of this colour. And I love the shape of the bottle, almost like an oval cylinder... hard to describe really. Very unique though. The formula was a dream too, applied like butter, dried quickly, 2 coat opacity, and the brush was fantastic.

 I do have one question though, WHY do we not have polishes like this in Australia?!

Valentines Nail Mail!

I LOVE getting nail mail! It's really the only mail I get, and I've been getting it a lot lately...

I'm in a polish group on facebook, PolishAholics Anonymous (PaA) and we recently did a Secret Valentine swap, similar to secret santa, but with polish! And I recieved my package yesterday! I'm not sure who it was from though, she really kept it 'Secret!'

She REALLY spoilt me! I got Milani Red Sparkle, Milani Hi-tech (OMFG!!!!!), Scherer Zodiac, WnW Everybody loves Redmond, scherer golden green and WnW Sparked, and lots of candy (which the bf ate most of)

So a HUGE thank you to my mystery valentine, I love you!