For the last 2 years running, Enchanted has released Vampires Suck as part of a single-pour Halloween collection. I'd been interested, but had a full-on lemming moment once a friend posted swatches that were undeniably fantastic.
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| indoor CF lighting |
Vampires Suck is a blackened brown linear holo with a duochrome that shifts from red to bronze. With all these warm colors going on, most often it had the reddened rusty brown shade of dried blood - love it! Of all the pics I took of this shifty holo, the bottle shot above was the only one that captured the subtle green flash that was occasionally there IRL.
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| outdoor, shady overcast daylight |
The holo didn't grey out the base color at all in low light. This is a depth of winter sort of dark color pretty much all the time.
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| outdoor, bright sunlight |
In bright sunlight at direct angle, a gorgeous warm redwood flash streaked across the rainbow arc.
This is definitely a blackened brown, and it does appear nearly black around the edges of the shimmery red/bronze or when the light is at long angles. It's not necessarily black in low lighting - seems to be more a trick of the light than a condition of lighting, if that makes sense.
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| check out 3 different colors of flash all at once. |
Rating: a solid 4 out of 5 stars for this utterly luscious color. Unfortunately, the formula wasn't as carefree as I usually end up with for Enchanted - it was a bit thicker than ideal though nowhere near goopy. Thicker coats of course mean that it wore/chipped quicker than I'd like, but hey, I'll forgive a lot for this color.
Where to buy: unless Enchanted releases this yearly, try blog sales & ebay.
ETA: Enchanted DID give this another go in early October, but said it's the last time for this color, so indeed ebay is your best bet.
~Michelle
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