21/04/2014

NOTD // With Golden Needles

Time to share my monthly mani with you all! Today features a polish that I've been wanting for a while but was only released in Australia recently. It is the Maybelline Color Show Brocades collection that I believe was released around the holiday season in the US? Today I'm sharing my pick from the collection; Knitted Gold.

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The polishes in the Brocades collection are basically shimmery/metallic polishes with glitter particles within them - aka shiny overload. They are certainly blingy nails combining two of the most metallic polish components. I can see why this was targeted as a holiday collection! I also imagine it would be extremely hard to remove which is why I used my Essence Peel off basecoat first. I do NOT want to deal with that bish of a removal. Knitted Gold has a champagne golden base with light pinky-gold glitters of varying sizes. The result is very shiny and blingy even to the point of too much on all ten nails! I think in future I'll wear this polish as either an accent nail, or a glitter gradient over a similar metallic polish. Don't get me wrong though - the effect is gorgeous and would be so pretty for a special event or the like, but for day to day wear for the average gal I think it's a bit overkill. Knitted Gold was the only shade that really jumped out at me because I thought it looked the most 'classy'? Or the most fancy I guess - the other shades are more colourful like bright green or red which I'm not sure was really to my taste. There was a deep blue shade that I think would've looked absolutely stunning!

The formula was very good and you got heaps of glitters on the brush. I used two coats, and that was mainly to build up the metallic base which isn't opaque in the first coat, or even the second as you can see in the sunlit photos, but it looks fine in the shade. Speaking of, as you can tell the polish appears slightly different depending on the lighting. In full sunlight the glitters are definitely more apparent, where in the shade I think it's a lot prettier as it's more pulled together on the nail.

If you're in the mood for a shiny, blingy nail I definitely recommend these Brocades nail polishes. They retail for AUD$5.95 each and I believe are limited edition, so grab them while you can! Have you tried any of them?

21 comments:

  1. To me this reminds me of snakeskin, it's got that kind of look about it. I agree that it's beautiful but a little too much for every nail, I think it would look beautiful as an accent nail. x

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    1. Oh yeah - interesting take! Very glitzy snakeskin at that!

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  2. Ooh it looks gorgeous topped on top of gold! I hate it when glittery polishes don't have enough glitter on the brush but good thing this is chockablock full of them!

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    1. Mhmm I hate having to go fishing for glitter!

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  3. I haven't tried this brand before, but it looks very pretty. It'll be a great look for winter i think

    LilynotLouise | Beauty and Food

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    1. This is my first polish from Maybelline and I really like it. I'm a pretty big fan of their makeup products too!

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  4. I remember seeing these in store and loved the selection but I didn't get any as I don't use glitter polishes that often. I would have chosen the same one as you though.
    xxx Kat @ Katness

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    1. The collection is really pretty, and pretty unique for the drugstore. I'm a big time glitter wearer so I had to pick up at least one! hehe :)

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  5. This looks stunning! I think it would look especially gorgeous as an accent nail colour! :)

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  6. Oh this is super pretty, I love it. I absolutely love glitter, the more the better. Hey, what's the Essence peel off basecoat? I've never heard of it :O I've heard of people using glue as a basecoat to peel off later...interesting! I normally use the foil method to remove glitter.

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    1. Mhmm, I'm a glitter gal too haha! The Peel off basecoat is basically PVA glue as well! They released it in a LE collection a while back, but OPI just released one too. It makes removing glitter SO easy - you literally just peel it off!

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  7. This is a beautiful shade! I absolute love super shimmery/metallic bronze shades that go with every outfit and I like that the glitter isn't too concentrated!

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    1. Yeah - this does tend to go with a lot of outfits etc. because it's a such a neutral metallic shade!

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  8. Woah this looks so fricking gorgeous!! I love nail polishes with chunky glitter bits in them, but most of the time you have to apply at least 3 layers to get the glitters to cover your nails completely!

    Yige || Yet Another Makeup Blog.

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    1. True - the glitter is so dense, and because it has a base colour it's much more opaque!

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  9. How pretty! The glitter is lovely :)

    -Jen

    www.vibrantbeautyblog.com

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  10. This looks really gorgeous, I have a few of these from past collections, but I am not the biggest glitter fan...

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  11. love this glitter nail color! yeah I agree with you, the thing about glitter nail polish is it's so hard to remove.

    xx
    http://felishmichelle.blogspot.com/2014/04/silver-swan.html

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  12. Ah! I'm excited to see this is out in Australia finally. I remember when it came out in the US/UK, i wanted it so badly. It's such a pretty colour!

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