Though October is done, I'm not quite ready to stop with Halloween (in fact, no less than 3 stamping plates showed up on the 31st that had at least one Halloween design on them! AAAARGH!!). A blood red seemed just right to ease me back from bats & skulls without moving on entirely.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting |
Cameo Colors came to my attention for a beautiful turquoise that is of course still in the untried pile (I'm nuts, and I'm ok with that), but one look at her store had this one leaping into my shopping cart to come along for the trip. Victims Aren't We All? was from the November 2016 Magic 8 Box, with a 90s movie theme. It's of course a quote from one of my all time fave movies, The Crow.
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| indoor, bright CF lighing |
Victims is a red jelly base that really changes appearance based on what type of lighting you're in - sometimes it was a slightly berry-tinted blue-based red, other times it was definitely blood- or brick-red (all 3 photos here are color accurate to my eyes of the lighting conditions they were taken in). The macro shows super teeny black round micro-glitters, but at arm's length these are utterly invisible and serve only to slightly grunge up the color. The macro also makes this look more sheer than it was, while IRL the chunky shimmer made sure there were no gaps or thin places and even in bright light this appeared to be full-coverage at 2 coats.
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| indoor, window-filtered overcast daylight |
Rating: a solid 3 out of 5 stars. The formula on this was utterly fantastic, and it's worn great (the shade pic above was indeed taken today, after this has been on for 4+ days). It's a rather classic red color with a hidden twist in those invisible black grunge flecks, and would be perfect for a date night polish since it's so nicely applying.
Where to buy: shockingly, as of today there's still some of this
on sale for a fantastic discount at Cameo Colors web store.
~Michelle
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