Avon Opal - Opalesce

 Hi Peeps! 

 

Well its been a week since my last post! I went back to work on Monday after 2 weeks off!! It's  been a busy week. I went to college on Wednesday which was my day off had to do an entry Maths and English assessment and then I did some nails in the afternoon which left no blogging time :o( best laid plans and all that jazz!! so here's a Sunday Blog post for you. 

 

I was excited to receive the new Avon Opal - Opalesce. At work I one of my colleagues does the Avon Catalogue so this is super convenient for me! I have a lot of Avon nail polishes and every time new ones came out I had to have them!! I have since stopped this as they do duplicate colours (perhaps that would be another post to do!) anywho I digress!

 

I saw this in the catalogue and thought it looked a lot like the Andrea Fulerton Gemstone Top Coat so I thought I'll have that!  It's a 12ml bottle and is in the normal nail pro bottles and the brush is the long squared usual type.

 

The formula is thicker that a normal top coat and suspended in it is a range of different sized and shaped pieces of iridescent mylar-ish pieces.

 

This Is normally £6.00 full price but the introductory offer was £2.50 so I had two bottles!! Rude not to at that price!! It was a good job that I got  two bottles really as I have used about a quarter of the bottle to do the swatches!! ( these are after the jump!)

 

 

 

 

I decided to test the top coat on a range of colours to see the effects. 

The colours are (clockwise from the top) Viva Pink, Cosmic Blue, Real Red, Coral Reef, Serene, & Licorice. All these colours are still available I have checked the website! I'm good like that!!

 

 

 

I think all of the colours are pretty much the same as they are on as they appear in the bottles! I it when you know what you are getting! So on to the Swatches. I decided to do a swatch with 1, 2, & 3 coats of the top coat over the colour to give an idea of the level of coverage you get. I didn't place any of the pieces at all I just painted the coats as they came out of the bottle.

 

So here's how they turned out!

 

 

My Favourite is 3 coats over Licorice! I feel that the more coats gives the most striking effect and on using this it really is nothing like the Andrea Fulerton Gemstone. Gemstone gives very even coverage over the whole nail with one coat only needed! which is just as well as they only come in 5.5ml bottles.

 

I hope that you like this little review!! Thanks for dropping by Lolly_Elle :o)