I absolutely love dark shades on my nails. I know at times it looks vampy etc, but if pulled off properly (with a proper length of nails and shape), it can look elegant too.
Well the colour I’m gonna share today- Essie Bahama Mama, is one of the colour in my dark shade collection. Though not many like it; I do. At least the color. It’s a dark grape like magenta-purple coloured polish (gosh I’ve got no idea how to describe it!) Neway, you know how sometimes dark shades no matter what colour it is looks black? Well this doesn’t! Under every lighting (except for low light) it screams purple! And that’s what I like about it.
Application wise- its very tedious and I hate the skinny brush which ended up giving me a streaky finish with the first 2 coats. Things got better with 3 coats where it was fully opaque. But you totally got to use a topcoat to have the perfect finish.
The drying time practically killed me too! I painted this at 8 pm, did some normal chores, went to bed at 12, and got up the next morning at 6 with the polish still not fully dried! In fact it had streaks of cottons from my blanket on it! Thank god for my Nubar Diamont top coat that saved it for the day
So ya, no matter how beautiful it is for a dark shade; ill never wear it anymore:-(
Thanks for reading..
P/S- If you girls want me to swatch any colour do let me know and ill see what i can do ya:-)
P/S- If you girls want me to swatch any colour do let me know and ill see what i can do ya:-)
ooh that color looks like plum. did you use a fast drying top coat over it? how come it took so long to dry? =/
ReplyDeleteno i didnt. wanted to see hw it dries off naturally.
ReplyDeletei just decided to get this color because of ur swatches! thanks! :D
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