Sweet Baby Octopolish!

Trust Fund Beauty doesn't send stuff out to many bloggers, so there's usually an utter dearth of swatches available when you're deciding.  The site is full of plain bottle shots +/- "dots" of the paint itself, but the gorgeous duochrome that came in my first order   along with the frequent super coupons was enough to have me rolling the dice on a few others with the swirly look that suggested they were duochromes. indoor, bright CF lighting Sigh.  Yeah, I'm showing my fails here, too. Boozy Brunch is not, in fact, a duochrome, and it's not even a contrast or pearlescent shimmer.  It's a peachy nude frosty shimmer that flat out did not look well with my skin tone.  Did I mention frosty?  Because, yeah, there's some 80s type frostiness going on here, which I mitigated by slathering on a thick coating of Girly Bits Shift Happens. indoor, window-filtered daylight  Not even the magic of real and true old-school 230-type shifty topcoat fixe...

There's always time for a good duochrome, especially one forgotten in your stash for a while, so Trust Fund Beauty's Spring Detox stepped up when I went delving for a green - spoiler alert, huge winner. indoor, CF lighting When I first pulled Spring Detox out of the box and saw this emerald to pink shift, I was a little disappointed, thinking I'd yet again fallen for my e leventy-bajillionth iteration of the green to purple duochromes I apparently can't say no to . indoor, bright CF lighting But wait!  Both of these bottle shots are utterly accurate, and while Hey Jude-type duochromes sometimes get an almost mossy look, they never get this dirty swampy green.  Huzzah, totally different!! indoor, window-filtered daylight Spring Detox's base is a sheer swampy brownish-green that's packed with bright, nearly chrome emerald shimmer just a little finer than what I'd call a glass fleck.  I paint under pretty bright lights, and when my hand was di...

One of the lovely ladies in my fb nail polish group posted a devastating swatch of BPAL's The House That Bleeds.  Since it had already been challenge enough to talk myself out of these inspired by Crimson Peak things, I had to dive into my stash and find the closest dupe I could to avoid even more impulse purchases.  Oh, wait, my first sampling of Trust Fund Beauty included a dead-on vampy red... indoor, bright CF lighting Just Call My Lawyer is a super saturated, extra vampy, red-with-a-hint-of-brown (let's not quite say dried blood) shimmer packed into a deep charcoal base color. you can sorta see the charcoal crelly base at the cuticle edge here It's the perfect vampy shade in that it never looks quite black, but it does sometimes look like black velvet that just happens to shine red: outdoor, late afternoon sunlight It's a pretty perfect dead of winter color, especially if you're doing something daring or sophisticated for the holidays. ind...