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Showing posts with label Brand: Catrice. Show all posts

Adorned Nails: Catrice Looking Sunkissed



Be still my fluttering heart.

Calling this red polish gorgeous would be such an understatement (and it's not even a flakie polish!). Looking Sunkissed by Catrice is a metallic polish with depth and character. It glows from within. Away from the sun, it looks like red satin ribbon.

I have to say that it's even more awesome a red than Teeez Femme Fatale, for example, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are other similar reds by other brands.

I have two coats on. The formula was perfect and application with its broad brush was excellent.


You would no doubt have noticed the pretty paisley print on the bottle cap. Ummm, can this bottle of polish get any prettier?!


Looking Sunkissed was released some weeks ago by Catrice under the Limited Edition (gotta love hate that phrase - we all know it's a psychological trick, right?) Bohemia collection. I'm far from being done with this collection and Catrice has already released yet another collection called Big City Life and yes, it's limited edition. Catrice, you've got to slow down with your releases. It's driving us nuts!

I actually swooped up all four polishes from this collection (not something I usually do). Looking Sunkissed here is probably the best-looking of the lot. I think.

As you can see, it is a very photogenic polish too.





More information:
Catrice Limited Edition Bohemia collection


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Catrice: Made to Stay Long Lasting Eyeshadow Review



These Catrice eyeshadows retail for €3.49 per piece (5.0g / 0.17oz) and have a name with a big promise. Huge expectations with a name like Made To Stay Long Lasting Eye Shadow.

According To Catrice
Six eye shadows with a high pigmentation for the ultimate metallic shine effect! The soft cream texture is easy to apply and lasts for an extremely long time – without settling in the crease of your eyelid or smudging!

Ingredients
Cyclopentasiloxane, Isododecane, Mica, Polyethylene, Polybutene, Phenyl Trimethicone, Cera Microcristallina, Trimethylsiloxysilicate, Disteardimonium Hectorite, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Silica, Caprylyl Glycol, Panthenyl Ethyl Ether, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Propylene Carbonate, Bisabolol, Tin Oxide, Ascorbyl Palmitate, May contain: CI 75470 (carmin), CI 77000 (aluminium powder), CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499 (Iron Oxides), CI 77510 (Ferric Ferrocyanide), CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide)

I have here two shades:

050 Metall Of Honor



040 Lord Of The Blings


Metall Of Honor is a metallic khaki brown, like brass.
Lord Of The Blings is a metallic beige or, as some of you might prefer, warm silver.


These two eyeshadows (plus a third one: Jennifer's Goldrush) were initially released under the so-called Limited Edition Modern Muse Collection. Of course, some weeks after that, we all discovered these Modern Muse products slotted amongst the permanent range items. They were not limited edition. I was, to say the least, annoyed with this misrepresentation and I had griped about it in my post on Catrice Khaki Perry.

By the way, the eye look shown in this post was done with the following products:


Catrice Made to Stay Long Lasting Eyeshadow - Lord Of The Blings
Catrice Made to Stay Long Lasting Eyeshadow - Metall Of Honor
(both applied with a flat brush)
GOSH Velvet Touch Eye Liner Metallic Brass
GOSH Velvet Touch Eye Liner Black Ink
Josie Maran GOGO Instant Natural Volume Argan Mascara


My Thoughts
Texture
These are cream eyeshadows - thick and fairly smooth. It can be clumpy if you extract too much at one go.

Application
Drying time wasn't too fast, thus allowing enough time to toggle with the eyeshadows before they dry.


Durability
Okay, the big question: Is it longlasting?

I kept my expectations real. Er, have you seen my inward-folding eyelids?! Most cream eyeshadows don't stand a chance. It would be crease-ville within an hour.

The thing is, these Catrice eyeshadows managed to exceed my expectations:

They
• stayed put
• did not smudge
• is water-resistant, but not waterproof
• did not crease in the first four to five hours.

Put simply, this was how the eyeshadows looked after seven hours:


Yes, if you look closely, there is some creasing in the inner corner of the eye in this photo. I'm all right with that, considering that it is, after all, seven hours later. These eyeshadows didn't cost an arm and a leg, so of course, I can live with that!


More information:
The other four eyeshadow shades on the Catrice website


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Adorned Nails: Catrice Iron Mermaiden



You won't be mistaken if you think you've seen this one here before. Remember Essence Where Is The Party?? As far as I can tell, Iron Mermaiden is a twin but with a much funkier name. Where Is The Party? sounds so teenybopper. Iron Mermaiden, definitely hardcore.

I will describe Iron Mermaiden much like how I had described Where Is The Party?. It's a metallic duochrome (or trichrome?) of dark green and purple/silvery lilac on the nails. In the bottle, you can catch flashes of aqua.



There is however a difference in application. The formula for Where Is The Party? is thicker and it works as a one-coater. Iron Mermaiden, on the other hand, has a thinner consistency and needs at least three coats for opacity. For both polishes, you will get the same results in the end. I'll let you do the math.

Where Is The Party? - €1.29 for 5ml

Iron Mermaiden - €2.49 for 10ml


I doubt you would have noticed but you're looking at one coat of Where Is The Party? on the little finger. All the other fingers have three coats of Iron Mermaiden on. It's hard to tell the difference.

Let's see how Iron Mermaiden looks with some stamping. I've used the gaudy purple of Catrice Forget-Me-Not and one of the Essence Nail Art Stamping Design Plates with the so-called full nail designs.


I have two things to say about the plate:

1. It's pointless telling you the name of the plate because Essence has a ridiculous way of naming them. Essence has issued about five or six rectangular plates to-date but each of them has either the name 01 have fun! or 02 style it up!. It appears to be a case of packaging material overstock, I think.

2. They are supposed to be full-nail designs but they can't fill a whole nail. Ironic. It doesn't work for the thumb and it won't work if you have long-ish nails. The designs are really made for little girls, not for senior citizens like moi.

I've chosen the circle design with retro vibes. Due to the small size of the design, I had to stamp twice on the thumbs. It wasn't easy connecting the two stamps. Then, I added a thick French tip with the same polish.





It's hardcore gone retro.


My previous features on:
Where Is The Party?
Catrice Forget-Me-Not


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Adorned Nails: Catrice Khaki Perry



Funny name. No prize for guessing where Catrice got the inspiration from.




Catrice Khaki Perry is another polish from the Modern Muse Collection which was released not long ago. Catrice called it a Limited Edition collection and it appears so in most Kruidvat stores.



However, I was in one store the other day and in this store, the items (including Rusty But Sexy, eyeshadows and mascaras) that are supposed to belong to the 'Limited Edition' Modern Muse Collection were instead displayed in the permanent collection racks, labelled as NEW!. I just checked the Catrice website and my suspicions were confirmed. Sometime in the last few days, Catrice updated its website to include these new items/colours in their permanent collection. Hmmmmm......



Catrice, it's confusing and misleading. Please don't call items Limited Edition if they are not.



You can see the current range of Catrice nail polishes on their website. Note that Rusty But Sexy and this one, Khaki Perry, are cozied up very nicely amongst the permanent colours.



Anyway, back to business. Khaki Perry is not quite a khaki. Silvery with a tiny tinge of green, it has subtle grey/black specks in the formula. In a nutshell, it's a mildly metallic, sooty sage. At a glance, it looks like tarnished silver.




This one needed at least two coats. You're looking at three. The above two photo were taken in the shade.



The following were taken in sunshine.








To see Khaki Perry in an outfit: Khaki Plenty on Witoxichic.





Win this polish in my Catrice/Essence Papagena, Muse and Ballerina Giveaway.


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Adorned Nails: Catrice Rusty But Sexy





This is one of the polishes that Catrice released recently under the Modern Muse Collection. There are altogether five polishes in the collection but one isn't new, strangely. Catrice plucked it from the permanent collection and it's one that you've seen before - In The Bronx.



Rusty But Sexy is a gorgeous burnt orange. Catrice sees it as rusty, which isn't that inaccurate either.



Honestly, I haven't got anything bad to say about it. Really, I don't. It applied well and one coat can be all right (the photos that I've shown on Witoxichic are with one coat of Rusty But Sexy).



For these close-up photos though, I have two coats on. I've been wearing this polish for six days. There is tip wear for sure and some chipping but nothing major, given the time frame.














The ongoing Catrice/Essence Papagena, Muse And Ballerina Giveaway features Rusty But Sexy. Try your luck!


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Adorned Nails: Catrice Welcome To The Jungle





I wore this for a good six days with only a bit of chipping from the fourth day. That's not bad at all (I have two coats on here, no top coat). Another pat on the back, Catrice!



Welcome To The Jungle, a dark brass/khaki green fine shimmer polish. It's from Catrice's urban jungle-/Amazon-themed Limited Edition Papagena collection that has been in the stores here for a couple of months already (and still is). There were four polish shades released in this collection but Welcome To The Jungle was the only one I bought. I think this shade was in general the most popular of the four, judging from what's left on the display rack.




I've been wearing it on my toes too for the past two weeks and that's how much I love this broody jungly polish!





More information:

Catrice website


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