Apparently, I'm on flakie-palooza lately, so here's one more:
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| indoor, CF lighting |
Grace-Full released a vampire-themed collection earlier this year, and the one that caught my eye was this lovely red somewhere between berry and ox-blood named for Elizabeth Bathory, Blood Countess.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
Blood Countess is an utterly lush fall color, packed with ultrachrome flakies that shift pink, gold, and green. This applied wonderfully evenly for a jelly polish, and looked great at 2 coats, though 3 coats brought the flakie density and color richness up to how the bottle looks.
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| indoor, window-filtered daylight |
After wearing it solo for a couple of days, I added a stamp in Emily de Molly Rose Gold using UR Beautiful 01. I later mattified it, but though there was a definite difference IRL, the pics were utterly the same before & after. Weird.
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| indoor, window-filtered daylight |
This beauty really reminded me of something else...
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| indoor, CF lighting, Blood Countess on left and Elle's Spell on right for both pics |
Barielle Elle's Spell is utterly classic for polish geeks and hands-down one of my all time fave reds. It's a gorgeous berry shading toward candy-apple red jelly, thickly stuffed with the sort of iridescent fiery flakes in Essie Shine of the Times and her dupes. 3 coats are required for Elle to look good, but wowzers it's amazing once you're done. My swatch sticks show 2 coats and no topcoat for both polishes. They're definitely not dupes - Blood Countess is an ultrachrome flakie to Elle's iridescent translucent flakies, and BC is more saturated at 2 coats since the opacity of this type of flakies can still stand out from a slightly more opaque polish. On the nail, it's a very similar feel... they're different enough and both gorgeous, so both keepers, but I wouldn't say you need both if you already love one of them.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars for the flakie goodness of Blood Countess.
Where to buy:
direct from Grace-full.
~Michelle
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