Butter London 2013 Summer Holiday Collection

Butter London 2013 Summer Holiday Collection

I'm a fan of Butter London and I like that I can usually get them with a coupon code or through a sale. It makes the price tag a bit easier to swallow. I saw that b-glowing had the 2013 Summer Holiday collection and since I had a coupon I bought them. I am a bit iffy on the collection as a whole. They are all pretty but nothing new or exciting. I find it kind of boring especially considering the amazing holiday colors they recently released. I loved all of those but these not so much. I do like them but I suggest waiting for a sale if you do fall in love with one but I think these could be duped from other brands that are on the cheaper side. 

Bit Faker is an opaque mix of browns, bronze and orange/red glitter. This is one coat with topcoat. 

Bobby Dazzler is a pewter/tarnished silver with hint of a lilac undertone. It's very reflective and has a wonderful formula for a chrome polish. It wears well too. I wore this one for close to two days and except for the pointer finger it looks good. This is two coats but I could have done one easily. 

Champers is a champagne shimmer. It's a very flattering color on me. This is two coats. The second photo is blurred to show the shimmer better. 

Marbs is a bright gold shimmer. It looks oddly green toned on me in reality. I'm not the biggest fan of this one but I can see it looking amazing on someone with darker skintone - which is about 90% of the population. This is two coats. 

Poole is the odd man out with this collection. They are all metallic in nature except for Poole which is a dusty aqua creme. The formula is not perfect in that it doesn't self level completely. You can see some creasing in the below photos. The first photo is color correct. It reminds me of other dusty green/blue/aqua colors polishes. This is three coats. 

Sun Baker is a vibrant orange shimmer. I like this one! It's very juicy and bright and cheerful. This is two coats. 

CrowsToes Asterope

CrowsToes Asterope

I wasn't quite ready to remove Misa Bourbon on the Rocks so I layered one coat of CrowsToes Asterope over it. It's the perfect base for Asterope in my opinion. This polish flashes berry red, burgundy, brown/bronze and a golden yellow. It also has shimmer. There are lots of photos because I wanted to show all aspects of this polish. It's a beautiful polish. 

Here you can see the shimmer. 

Here is a good photo of the duochrome quality. 

Here are a few more!

CrowsToes Celaeno

CrowsToes Celaeno

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I lost my internet connection and it was out from early Friday morning until early Tuesday morning. Annoying though this is the first time in years that my internet connection was lost so I can't complain too much. It was still annoying! I love the internet. 

Here is CrowsToes Celaeno from the new Pleiades Collection. The entire collection is made up of beautiful duochromes. I love duochromes and I was happy to see that these were not holo which is my preference. I had no issue with the formula but a bit of thinner may be needed. My black base was a mess so any lumps or bumps are from that and not Celaeno. I think next time I'm going to wear a less harsh base - maybe a brown or dark grey or green. 

Celaeno has copper/bronze/olive/yellow tones but the best part is the copper twinkle light sparkles. They are the same type of sparkles that Clarins 230, OPI Movin' Out and La Boheme has and I love it! It really gives it more depth and life. The entire collection is gorgeous! 

Lots of photos and I tried to show the color shift but this polish is much better in reality.

Jessica Cosmetics Glitterati

Jessica Cosmetics Glitterati

Glitterati is the other polish that I bought from the Glamourama collection from Jessica Cosmetics. The other colors are red based and as much as I love red I was more interested in the glitters. Glitterati is a brown/bronze glitter with a orange/red and green color shift. It is much like a standard flake polish but in glitter form. It has the same formula as Platinum Wishes. The glitter is fine and works really well for layering. 

Here is one coat over OPI You Don't Know Jacques Suede. 

One coat over black. 

Butter London Scuppered

Butter London Scuppered

Butter London has been really impressing me of late. Such lovely colors! I bought Scuppered from b-glowing and I *think* it's a holiday color but I am not sure. All I know is that I saw it at b-glowing and snatched it up. 

Scuppered is a bronze/copper foil loaded with shimmer and it has pink and golden sparkles and green flecks. It's really, really much better in reality since photos do not do this polish justice. Two coats and the formula was a bit tricky since it is fluffy and wanted to create bald spots. I just let the first coat dry a bit before I applied the second. Not a huge issue but not a perfect formula but I don't care! It's just so damn pretty and lively.

Lots of photos because I can. 

Blurred to try and show the sparkle Scuppered has.