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Accessorize Electric Purple+ a comparison (with Gina Tricot #48 "Diva" and GOSH #001 "Lavender Love")+ Accessorize Crystal Shimmer


Hello everyone!


I had planned to show you "Electric Purple, shade 26" with "Crystal Shimmer, shade 33", both from Accessorize. But when I came home after I had bought Electric Purple (to see the whole haul, click here), I saw that it was very similar to Gina Tricot #48 "Diva". At first I was sad, and felt like I had thrown away my money. But it was not expensive... Neither of them... And then I decided to make a comparison post instead, and added the a little more pastel GOSH #001 "Lavender Love". But still, I wanted to see what the iridescent glitter would look like over this kind of blue- purple.

So I will first show you Electric Purple on its own, then compare it with the two other blue- purple I have, and after that You can see Crystal Shimmer on top of the comparison hand.



Accessorize "Electric Purple", shade 26:

Accessorize Electric Purple, shade 26

This is a cream that to my surprise dries mat. It is opaque in two coats. I used no top coat because I wanted to show how it is on its own. (Now, I wish I had one photo with top coat too...) The color is a bit more purple than my photos. I have named it blue- purple. Compared to my other blue nail polishes it looks a little purple, but I put it on my purple nail wheel, and felt that that was completely wrong.

Accessorize Electric Purple, shade 26

Accessorize Electric Purple, shade 26

The color of all these nail polishes should have looked as purple as the purple part of the flower in the lower right corner on the photo below. I find it strange that the camera won't show purple.

Accessorize Electric Purple, shade 26





Comparison: A. Electric Purple- G. Diva- GOSH #001 Lavender Love


Gina Tricot/ Bella #48 "Diva", Accessorize "Electric Purple" shade #26, GOSH #001 "Lavender Love"




Here you see Lavender Love on the pinkie, Diva on the middle finger, and Electric Purple on the rest, no top coat.

Gina Tricot/ Bella #48 "Diva", Accessorize "Electric Purple" shade #26, GOSH #001 "Lavender Love"



You might have seen Diva in my skittles post (to see it click here). It is not very glossy, but compared to Electric Purple it is. It also has some shimmer. And the color is a bit deeper and darker. I wonder if it also is the blue one in the set of three (that I saw at ginatricot.com), together with a red, and a orange.


Holding Gina Tricot: #48 Diva

GOSH 001 Lavender Love is, as you see, more pastel. But it behaves as all my GOSH creams except for "Miss Grey". This is two quite thick, easy, glossy, coats. If it looks like I have made brushstrokes, the surface kind of evens out by itself. I bought this bottle on sale in 2011. Sadly, it was limited edition.

Holding GOSH #001 Lavender Love
As you see, these three are not dupes. And I was relieved by that, but I would not buy the one from Accessorize if I had the other two. As my friend always says; "No nail polish looks the same when it's applied on a nail"

Holding GOSH #001 Lavender Love


With Accessorize "Crystal Shimmer", shade 33, layered on top:


Gina Tricot/ Bella #48 "Diva", Accessorize "Electric Purple" shade #26, GOSH #001 "Lavender Love"+ Accessorize "Crystal Shimmer", shade #33


Gina Tricot/ Bella #48 "Diva", Accessorize "Electric Purple" shade #26, GOSH #001 "Lavender Love"+ Accessorize "Crystal Shimmer", shade #33

This is one coat on top of the comparison hand. In my haul post, I described Crystal Shimmer as a chunky holographic glitter in a clear base. But now I have seen the term iridescent about similar glitter. In the bottle it looks like white glitter, but the glitter sparkles in different colors when you move the bottle and the light hits the glitter. I see yellow, blue, green, and orange. When I put it over black though, the color on each particular glitter stays the same, and it looks like a regular multicolored glitter. It smells very strong before it dries.

It was difficult to read the gold text on white background. Even enlarged to this size. To read what is written on the bottle, I actually took a photo of it, so that I could see it on full screen on my computer.

Accessorize: Crystal Shimmer, shade 33
The blurry photos show the iridescent glitter better.

Gina Tricot/ Bella #48 "Diva", Accessorize "Electric Purple" shade #26, GOSH #001 "Lavender Love"+ Accessorize "Crystal Shimmer", shade #33



Gina Tricot/ Bella #48 "Diva", Accessorize "Electric Purple" shade #26, GOSH #001 "Lavender Love"+ Accessorize "Crystal Shimmer", shade #33


Gina Tricot/ Bella #48 "Diva", Accessorize "Electric Purple" shade #26, GOSH #001 "Lavender Love"+ Accessorize "Crystal Shimmer", shade #33

I have been told that all these brands are Cruelty- free, but can still only find GOSH on the animal organizations lists, so I wonder if it is true. So if you who own Gina Tricot/ Bella nail polish and Accessorize read this, please give your local animal organisation all the information they need to put your company on their Cruelty- free list, and they will spread the news to us all. If you are Cruelty- free, why keep it a secret??? 

I would therefor wait till Accessorize and Gina Tricot are on the animal organisations Cruelty- free list before buying from those companies.


Lani

pekal

Layering over GOSH 609 Drizzle


Hello everyone!


Today I will show you photos of how I layered other nail polishes on top of GOSH Drizzle, when I tested out what would look nice together with this dusty green. When I started thinking about which effects I wanted to combine with Drizzle, I remembered the gold I had seen in Zoya Yara. So I chose a gold glitter, but I also wanted to see how other glitters would look, and different flakies, holo, and some other polishes.

A little layering experiment.

I am wearing base coat and two coats of GOSH 609 DRIZZLE, no top coat. You will see nailphotos of 10 different nail polishes on top of that, then with one more coat on some nails and top coat, then with mat top coat, and in the end as I liked it best, with some mat and some shiny nails.

Left hand
Left hand:

One coat of each, from left/ pinkie to right/ thumb:

Deborah Lippmann:  Boom Boom Pow (small and large hexagonal gold glitter)
H&M: Metallic Blue (micro teal glitter/ shimmer)
Glitter Gal: 707H silver 3D/ Holo (silver holographic)
Skinfood Party Tox Nail: #8 (white/ pastel teal glitter)
Orly Rock Candy (pastel teal)


Right hand:

One coat, left/ pinkie to right/ thumb:

NUBAR: 2010 (flakie: orange- green)
Finger Paints: Twisted (flakie: orange- green- blue- red)
Nfu- Oh #54 (flakie: green- teal- light blue)
Nfu- Oh #56 (green jelly with green micro glitter and green flakies)
OPI: Fresh Frog of Bel Air (small green glitter and big silver hexagonal glitter)

As usual, I used GOSH base/ top coat.




















1) No top coat:












2) Extra coat on some nails+ top coat:

Left hand: One more coat of Orly: Rock Candy, H&M: Metallic Blue, and Skinfood 8.

Right hand: One more coat of Twisted.














3) Mat top coat














4) Regular top coat over the holographic, H&M, Nfu- Oh #56, the rest unchanged.








I hope you liked the photos, because I struggled this time. I ended up wearing this mani for some days. (A few weeks ago, I never used different polishes at the same time, not even an accent nail...) One of the reasons was that the photos did not show the polishes as they look, so I tried photographing again and again. And in the end I ended up with too many, and could not narrow it down to fewer than 40 photos (!)



Thoughts about the layering:

I like Drizzle on its own, but it was interesting to see how I can make some changes after some days. It also made me want to wear Nfu- Oh #56 on its own again. It is such a beautiful polish. I think it looked gorgeous as a top coat for Drizzle, but it totally changed Drizzle. So of these 10 I liked Skinfood #8, the holographic and flakies. I love flakies, but the ones that made Drizzle look best are #54 and Twisted, both with mat top coat. The mat top coat ruined the holographic effect. I also liked the OPI glitter when it was mattified. But what I see myself doing is using Skinfood #8 or Twisted mattified. They both made me look and look at my nails as I moved my hands in different angles. But if you have a pearl or shimmer effect polish, that might be nice too.



Lani

pekal

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