Happy New Year! As always, we celebrated quietly in our Nienburg home. Hope you had a good time too, and wishing you a wonderful 2024!
I’m starting the new year with another OPI: Pisces the Future. The base colour is a light aqua with pink iridescent shimmer. It’s an amazing shade and the photos don’t do it justice, it reminds me of shimmering fish scales.
Application was three thin coats.
Close-up photo.
Presenting one of my latest Chanels, Eau de Nacre, which I bought via their website, along with three other nail varnishes. The colour of this is mother of pearl (with a tiny bit of pink), and the finish is pearl too, with a slight golden shimmer.
Eau de Nacre has a semi-sheer formula, so I applied three thin coats.
Still a visible nail line.
Close-up.
Chrome Into My Life. According to Essence this comes with a “melted chrome” effect, so I thought it could be mirror-like (as the bottle design indicates). The colour is silver.
Actually, it’s silver with metallic finish. No mirror-shine though but still pretty. This is three coats because the formula is pretty sheer.
Close-up photo.
I took a while to try this (and moreover, it’s only a swatch) salmon pink.
Miss Satin is pretty in the bottle but clashes with my skintone. Shown below is two coats under artificial light. Nevertheless, beautiful pearl and satin finish.
Close-up. Maybe I’ll try this again next summer under bright sunshine. The formula, of course, is flawless.
A true vintage shade – I have no idea about the release date of Flocon. But as you see, this is a white pearl.
Because Flocon tends to be a bit sheer, I needed three thin coats to achieve full coverage. Below is the result.
Macro photo.
When it came to Le Top Coat Clarté, I had no particular idea about how to wear it. Its effect is beautiful, not too subtle, creating a pearl-like finish that is slightly iridescent and contains shimmer. It has a milky base and would give the nails a fresh, classy look when applied on its own.
So when I had I Need A Refresh-Mint on my nails (which I have not yet shown), I just topped it with Le Top Coat Clarté the next day. Really liked the result.
Since the fine pink shimmer is visible in the bottle but not in the pictures above, here is a close up view.
So that’s probably the last post before Christmas (but you’ll never know) and I just finished doing my mani for Christmas Eve, which is State of Gold over Gris-or. Wishing you guys a merry Christmas! I’m not truly in a Christmas-y mood – not yet – and instead enjoying the weather, reminding more of autumn than of cold winter days.
As for this post’s nail varnish, Rose Flash is a rose pink shade with silver microglitter and a pearl finish. This is a vintage nail colour, as you may have already notived from the bottle, and I have no clue about its actual release date, unfortunately.
Application was two coats – and I admit that I prefer it in the bottle than on my nails. Seems that Rose Flash does not like my skin tone (and I’m not a great fan of pearl finish combined with pink-leaning colours …).
Close-up picture.
Bois de Rose is another of my Chanel vintage nail colours, apricot with pearl finish. As with most of the “older” nail varnishes; I don’t know their exact age. I remember that this finish combined with soft colours being popular in the 1980s but Bois de Rose might even have an earlier release date.
Three thin coats.
Close-up view.
A while ago I had announced that I might be posting some more vintage Chanel nail varnishes, and so here is another one, Fluorine. Seems like I picked one that is – again – a bit tricky to describe. It’s iridescent and combines grey, silver and lilac, ending up in a pearl finish. Fluorine reminds me of Atmosphère, but with other colours.
I have no idea about when Fluorine was released. But my bottle is still flawless; the varnish being easy to apply, so I didn’t only swatch this, but had it as a regular manicure.
Artificial light.
Close-up view.
Rose Moiré is a light rose pink with a pearl finish. It’s almost 5 o’clock in the morning and I am still awake, thus not much text … 
It’s pretty but not a shade I would usually pick.
Close-up view.
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