Today I have Rainbow Honey Persephone, which actually just sneaked in and cleared it for the best of 2013 as this was released as a part of the Holiday 2013 collection. This is described on the shop as "Queen of the underworld and daughter of Demeter, this fiery red radiates with gold, copper, and multichromatic shimmer." Application wise, it covered gracefully in two coats without any problems at all. Here's my swatch, finished with a coat of Seche Vite:
I feel like the Holiday 2013 set didn't take many risks with the "red and green" theme of Christmas, but I do quite like Persephone as an individual polish - It's just jam packed with shimmer and I love that the gold and copper really stood out. I think it's a winner on its own because of what it has to offer and I think it will be great as a base colour for some nail art because you can build on complimenting the red quite easily. I chose to accent the gold shimmer by adding some nail art supplies I have from Born Pretty Store. I used a fox rhinestone nail charm as a highlight and gold triangle nail studs at the nail base for the other nails. I think it looks TIGHT!
Do you think Persephone could make it as an "all year round" polish or does it scream Christmas to you? If you had to design a Christmas/Holiday set, how would you do it?
Full disclosure: This sample was provided for an unbiased review.
this is a really pretty red, but i agree, it wasn't an exciting collection. the nail art really makes it something special :)
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I think that's actually what made the Holiday 2013 collection special, though - they sold the set as a nail art collection - it's pretty cool, but I do hope that we see something different for this year. They've got a whole 11 months! ;)
DeleteI think it's cute as hell! I'd wear it anytime but I'm the devil, so it's kinda my thing :D And I just thought of something. I want you to review my stuffs sometime! Not sure why I didn't think of it before actually. I've always been jelly of your photography badassery. When you get the time, I would LOVE it if you'd fill out my press sample app. If you want to of course :) You can find it at the top of my FB page or in the link section of my shop.
ReplyDeleteHehehe, this polish is SO perfect for you - I totally thought it was a devilish seductive red. Playful too! And I remember when you were prototyping with your polishes and even coming up with the labels! I will totally fill out your app - I just hope it's not an issue to ship to Canada! I'll always give'r a shot though. You're one of my first nail blogger girl franz. <3
DeleteThis is a gorgeous red and I could easily sport this all year round. I find it hard to think about a Christmas collection without the usual reds and greens, and maybe some white and blue for snow and stuff, hehe. But then again I'm not big on creativity like that, I'm a simple person. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the studs that you added, they go perfectly!
Haha I am definitely not that creative so I figure I couldn't be too hard on good ol Rainbow Honey - after all, they did make the Holiday 2013 collection an actual nail art collection so I think that was pretty cool. I don't see many indies doing that. :)
DeleteReally love this mani - those foxes and studs are fierce as hell.
ReplyDeleteChristmas nails to me this year were all about GLITTER - gold, black and dark red/wine base colours. I also went through a brief phase of wanting only white nails with holo glitter late last year, I guess you could call that Christmassy?
And now I'm so curious what old nostalgia you stumbled upon. Text me gurl x
Fox studs are my life!
DeleteI did Julia's nails for Christmas and I used Color Club's 2012 holiday foils and then used a mix of gold glitter and bar glitter - it was HOLOGRAPHIC so it was always awesome. You can't get away from the golds, blacks, reds, glitters - it's so staple! I am just being picky maybe, haha.