Thursday, July 14, 2011

Make Up Store - Madeleine (holographic) 001

I think there are about 4 or 5 different holographic colours they have. Make Up Store is in Brisbane Myer. Madeleine is a pinky beige tone. It was a pain in the ass to apply, and did that lifting up of the last coat so I ended up with so many bald patches. Also it was absolutely unforgiving of any dips and ridges.

What can I say about this formulation? Well, its not glitter, it's particles and to get an awesome undisturbed rainbow effect you need all your particles to sit flat and even. I discovered that it was not looking good where you need to cross over somewhere already painted. Get out your ridge filler. This also dried out to a really thin layer and what was even more annoying, I did top coat on 2 fingers and find that the extra 1 micrometer of glaze affects the refraction of light. The top coated fingers just didn't have the same brilliance. Overnight a few fingers already had chipping. So what to do? Does one just handle hands with care saying: sorry, cannot possibly do ANYTHING, must preserve awesome hologram finish. Or does one top coat and accept something not as awesome?

At work, definitely something to brighten the day. Bored with paperwork? Stare at nails for a few seconds. Any time is play time. I got a different hologram polish by Colour Club off Ebay last week, so I will find some time to try that out and see whether it is any better than this one in terms of staying power and easier to apply.



Oh, the little lipbalms are from my aunty and come from Sasa, a chain store for cosmetics in Hong Kong and China. Are they cute or what!!!!

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