Though Butter London doesn't always work great with my body chemistry, ever the eternal optimist, I picked up a bottle of plenty of peoples' favorite nude, All Hail the Queen (aka, All Hail McQueen in a prior version).
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| indoor CF lighting |
Queen is a deep modern nude - somewhere between tan and taupe - with a softly scattered holo effect. The formula was dead perfect for me: not too thick or thin, tolerant of plenty of manipulation and over-brushing, almost no cleanup required, and dried to the sort of lovely, lustrous shine that topcoat only enhances but isn't required for.
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| indirect late afternoon sunlight |
The holo sparkle was subtly present in bright light, but never as a linear flame/arc on the nail, and to a lighter degree than even the a England type scattered holos. Though the holo wasn't even a little obvious from the bottle, instead there was an interesting magenta/red flash in the bottle that wasn't present even a little on the nail. Weird.
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| and here we have both the reddish flash (bottle only) and the subtle holo twinkle (nails only). |
This was several shades darker than my skintone, and dried a small bit darker than the bottle. Possibly due to the elusive red flash, this is the type of polish that looks a little different in different lighting, occasionally even picking up a greyed-out lavender tone.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars, a great choice for when being all professional or ladylike is a necessity. As with all BLs and me, this doesn't last too long, with chipping happening by 2 days later, but hey, that's just telling me it's time to switch back to a dramatic crazy color.
Where to buy: BL is sold at Nordstrom, Ulta, and various places online.
~Michelle
I need to break out this color again.
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