Color Club Alter Ego : Reveal Your Mystery Review

Today I have Color Club's Reveal Your Mystery set to show you! This is the lighter half of the Alter Ego collection.

At the very end of this post I have an awesome Color Club deal for you New Zealander ladies. 

Going Incognito

Incognito is a very pretty nude creme. It also looks great on different skin-tones. My mum is more pink in her toning and it looks like a mannequin shade on her. Incognito is a little too blue toned to do that for me but it still looks just as delicate.

The formula is nice, very easy to control and smooth. However, it does take 3 coats to get full coverage. Perhaps layering it over a ridge-filler that gives a tinge of colour would help with this.

Sheer Disguise

Oh, Sheer Disguise. It just wasn't meant to be. You bring the red out in me and I just can have that. However! As mentioned above, Mum is warmer than me in her toning and Sheer Disguise looks amazing on her! (I should get her to take a photo sometime) Sheer Disguise is one of her favourite greys now.

The formula is quite consistent through-out the collection, smooth, a little bit chalky but easy to control.

Revealed

Revealed is the only shimmer in this collection. The pink shimmer is very apparent in the bottle but doesn't quite apply to the nail in the same intensity. I think this one may be my favourite from Alter Ego: Reveal Your Mystery. I adore peachy shades like this one! 

The coverage and formula are really nice, typical frosty/shimmery Color Club formula. I'd call it a little bit frothy? Kind of like a milkshake. You know, it's soft but a bit thick?

Secret Rendezvous

Secret Rendezvous was one of the main reasons of purchasing this collection. I cannot stop myself buying these light lavenders and lilacs. Because very rarely do I actually like them on myself. This is a very real problem. I think, in my head that I'm just hoping that I'm going to find 'the one' and be done with searching. Secret Rendezvous is hitting pretty close, but I think it needs to be a tiny bit less... white. I'm not too sure but I do like it and will be wearing it through-out Summer!

The formula is just like Sheer Disguise's and Get A Clue's. It has that chalky-ness to it and those kind of polishes I find always need 2-3 coats for full coverage.

Give Me A Hint

I've never been too fussed with these kind of shades. They don't really do anything for me. I tend to either like something very bold or very subtle. I think Give Me A Hint falls in between like many of it's taupe/mushroom/purple predecessors (Channelesque, Parle-vous OPI, Particulere). Some people though (like my Mum) love these kinds of colours. They have seemed to have jumped into that stereotypical safe color along with sheer pink and red.

I found the formula for this one to be like Going Incognitos. Easy to control and smooth. Give Me A Hint does give more coverage though, only needing two coats.

Get A Clue

I love Get A Clue when inside or in the shade. It looks so squishy! The sunlight tends to pull out the chalky-ness. Get A Clue was another reason why I decided to buy this collection. I wasn't too sure on it as first but I think it's a perfect colour for summer! Although at the moment I'm on a dusty pink kick and I think Get A Clue will make the perfect base for it!

Three coats needed with Get A Clue as well, but I suspect that a ridge-filler that is slightly white or nude in colour will do the trick for this collection.

Milky White Base Coat

Just to be confusing, in the top photo all of the nails have Milky White on them, only in the second photo has the ring finger changed to a different base coat. I was a little bit confused as to why this treatment was included with the Alter Egos, it seems like it'd be more beneficial with a sheer collection. Incognito is the sheerest but it still gives quite a bit of coverage. 

I do however think that Milky White is one of the best things since sliced bread! The blue/purple tint in it counteracts the yellow and orange tones in your nail that may be there from staining, among other things. 

As with all treatment like products, I was quick to dismiss it all together. But once I had discovered that it actually does something, my mum, sister and I were up all night painting it on some our nails and comparing our favourite sheers over the top to see the difference. Great stuff!

Overall:

I believe Reveal Your Mystery is only one half of the Alter Ego series. The other half seems to be quite intense! Duochromes and shimmer galore! But I think this set is perfect for all year round. You've got Summer (pink, peach and lavender), Autumn (taupe and nude), Winter (grey and lavender) and Spring (peach, lavender and pink) covered!

The formula is ok. Nothing mind-blowing but I do insist on using a nude or off-white ridge-filler for these girls. Some of them are a bit chalky and need that extra help to hang on. Where as others like Revealed (peach) and Give Me A Hint (taupe) are quite capable on their own. Going Incognito is a nude so you may not want that extra help if you want to have it a bit jelly-ish and see a bit of nail.

Where to buy in New Zealand:

Usually you can order them from USA Nails Online for $11.90, but these will only be distributed to Amazon stores. They retail in store from around $15-$17 usually.

SOLD OUT!

On USA Nails Online, they are selling Wild Orchid, Positively Posh, Soft As Cashmere, Ready To Royal, Red Velvet and Covered in Diamonds all together for 6 bucks! Usually this would cost you $71.40. Postage is $3.90, so $9.90 for the whole lot including postage. 
Doesn't take much brain power to realise that this is well and truly a bargain. Dad would be proud!

Well that self restrain didn't last long! 

http://www.usanailsonline.co.nz/categories/color-club-wild-at-heart-/6-pack-of-untamed-luxury-1-each

Well, I think I've procrastinated enough from doing my homework now. Enjoy ladies!

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Essie Nice is Nice

Oh my gosh I have been trying to post this for days! But blogger keeps freezing on me. Today it finally it let me upload the photos :D


I was humming and harring for quite a while, trying to decide whether to get Nice is Nice or Lilacism. 


Nice is Nice definitely has more red in it, making it more violet where as Lilacism has the blue in it making it lavender. 


I am thinking maybe I should have gone with Lilacism. I think Nice is Nice is too pink for my liking. It reminded me of three other polishes I have which I have pictured at the end of the post. OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender, OPI Panda-monium Pink and Orly Lollipop. Nice is Nice definitely has that little bit more purple/blue in it compared to those three though but they are definitely all from the same family. 

I didn't have any issues with the formula. Just typical Essie. I used two coats here, fairly good coverage all though it could go streaky if you do your coats too thin.

I absolutely adore the colour but I am not sure if it is right for my colourings.

These three spring to mind being imilar.

Lollipop

Lucky Lucky Lavender

Panda-monium Pink

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OPI Done Out In Deco

Today I thought I would show you OPI Done Out In Deco. When it first came out I didn't really like it all that much, but after loving it on my sister so much I just had to try it again.

I do quite like Done Out In Deco the second time round. Isn't it funny how that happens? Hate a colour then later on love it? 

Done Out In Deco came out at the start of 2009 in the South Beach collection. I have posted a few colours from that collection so make sure you do a little search on NJ if you are interested :)

I only needed two coats from Deco to get full coverage. The formula is alright, not quite as amazing as the Hong Kong collection but definitely not bad at all.

Also on I guess a sadder note, i'm not too sure how much longer Nail Juice will keep going. It has been so much fun but there are a few issues in life at the moment that are just taking the time, fun and excitement out of it.

We'll see how it goes :)

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OPI Venus Di Violet

I decided to post this now because if I don't it will just rot away in my posts page.

I really don't like this colour. I think if it had a little more colour to it, I would like it, but it's just like a nothing colour. Does nothing for me.

Then again it would be great for work or maybe a wedding? Nah, there are way better colours out there than Venus Di Violet. I do love my bright and bold colours though.

This is OPI's Venus Di Violet, re-released with their Colorcopia collection.

I used three coats here. I really didn't like the formula on this one. It was quite runny and gloopy but thick all at the same time. I wouldn't put up with this to do a whole manicure, I'm glad there were only four nails to do.

Maybe it's just too close to my skin tone? I think it could look nice on paler or darker skin than mine. It would stand out a lot more on those I think.

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MAC Varicose Violet

This is a polish that I have great memories with. To start off with, it was my first MAC polish and I got it the day I visited my boyfriend in hospital after his operation. When I showed it to him, he said it was a nice colour and that made me really happy n_n

Varicose Violet was released with the Dame Edna collection earlier this year.

Varicose Violet is a light lavender frost with a blue duochrome.

I always thought it was a three coater, but I managed to get it under control in just two. Maybe its because my nails are shorter? Who knows :D

The application was really really nice. No where near as high maintenance as Peppermint Patti and Seasonal Peach. It was a big relief actually when I was putting this on hehe.

I'll tell you what, I am so over Winter. The sun is reappearing and disappearing every 3 seconds, and that's when its not heavy rain and close to zero degrees. Only two more months of it I guess... I am so excited for Spring! My nails will hopefully have some length to them and be a bit stronger and thicker, and the sunlight will be endless. So I can swatch a lot more often! n_n

Just a heads up; Head2ToeBeauty has now raised its Essie prices to $8US. And TransDesign and OPI might be heading down the same track... So maybe make an order or two? Just in case! n_n Why not have a look at some Essies on NJ? Or some OPIs?

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OPI Vintage Violet

Vintage Violet reminds me of easter eggs in their foil.

This was also a little to pearly for my liking... This was just two coats. Very chromey and blinding in the sunlight. Although I never tried it with a top coat.

Nice formula. I was a little worried about this one, because the photos I had seen of it looked incredibly streaky.

Right, I am off into town this morning as I will be every morning from now on for three months x_x So I will try to blog as much as I can while doing my course for you! I think I might have to take photos during my lunch break lol that's about all the free time I'll have.

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