Illamasqua Nail Varnish In Jan

The Bottle

One coat of the polish

One coat of polish

The brush

Two coats of colour

Two coats of colour

Nails after three days

Price I Paid

This retails at £9-14 depending on where you shop.

Design

The bottle looks quite smart a bit like the Chanel glass bottles but obviously with the Illamasqua logo on.  The brush is pretty thin and rubbish unfortunately which made application more difficult but this might be good if you have very small nails.  What was really odd was that the lid fell off after the first day and I have no photo of it but I am now left with a brush attached to what looks like the inside of the cap? I can't work out if this is supposed to happen!

Colour

I really like this colour varnish it is quite unique and I have never tried it out before.  It seemed to go with almost everything I owned which was nice.  

Texture

This nail polish is very opaque and I could almost have got away with just using one coat!  It lasted three days without chipping but on the fourth day I ended up with a huge chip on my thumb and alot of the polish seemed to come off all at once.  Even so for the three days it lasted it did pretty well and looked great.  It was not a shiny as other polishes I have but I think that added to the charm of the colour.

Smell

Nail polish smell..

Overall Reaction

I was very impressed with this polish and would probably consider buying Illamasqua polishes again.  The only slight problem is that Illamasqua is a theatrical make and therefore a lot of the colours are quite "quirky" and not suitable for everyday wear.

9/10