A couple of years ago, Color Club came out with their versions of some duochrome colors that so many of us were in love with, and people who had never been introduced to this magic had their heads explode. The stand-out must-have was We'll Never Be Royals, which I snapped up as an alternate to my much beloved
Hits Unconventional (only hopefully with a better formula).
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| outdoor, overcast daylight |
Royals is an utterly swoon-worthy plummy wine that shifts over to royal purple then sapphire blue on one side, or scarlet red on the other. At extreme angles, it hits all the shades hinted at by my 2 quick pics here (work was KRAY this week, and with the super short winter days there's literally not enough hours in the day to get a good pic sometimes). My ring finger is 2 coats of Orly Ingenue - a gorgeous cool gold microflake packed into a neutral, nude-ish pink base that's extremely wearable while being super blingy. On all Royals nails, I've used a fan brush lightly dipped in Ingenue and then drug down toward the center tip of the nail to create these chevron tiger stripes; the reverse happened on my Ingenue accent nails. I wish I could remember who I saw do this technique, because they absolutely deserve credit for how easy this was yet how cool it looked!
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| yeeeaaaahhhh that shift! |
Rating: a solid 4 out of 5 stars for Royals. It's almost completely a dupe for the only ever so slightly more shifty Unconventional, and it does indeed go on more smoothly - just 2 coats here. It also wears unfortunately quickly, and any time your edges go bald with a color this saturated and dark it looks more noticeable.
Where to buy: Color Club polishes are sold in loads of places on the internet, from eBay to Amazon.
~Michelle
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