The swatch pics of Pahlish's La Belle Endormie on the sales page show a royal purple packed with gold flakes. What I ended up with wasn't quite that, but I love the color anyway.
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| indoor CF lighting |
La Belle, while not at all a duochrome, has many different looks depending on the lighting, and I think this lighting difference has a lot to do with the wide variety of swatch photos from other bloggers. I did end up with purple some of the time (above), but more often red or wine (below).
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| indoor, indirect sunlight |
Unusually enough given the range here, I'm calling all the photos totally color accurate at one point or another. Each of these photos is the same mani at 2 smooth coats. The formula is really nice, neither thick nor watery.
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| outdoor, direct sunlight |
The above two are the closest i have, but this polish looked even closer to true red, and not so berry-tinted, on occasion. From a distance, the tiny microflake shimmer was always sparkly, and the gold showed more clearly than the wine/magenta particles.
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| outdoor, indirect sunlight |
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| sparkles! |
The jelly finish was aaaalmost too light in bright light, but indoors it always appeared totally opaque.
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| outdoor, direct sunlight |
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. A completely gorgeous color, even when it's a bunch of colors.
Where to buy: direct from
Pahlish or from
Llarowe.
~Michelle
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