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Monday, September 8, 2014

Review: Catrice Get The Blues

Hey! For my first post I will do a review of a product that was given to me some time ago.
I'm going to review this nail polish only because I find this type of nail polishes extremely beautiful.


This is a multi-reflective nail polish. What a multi-reflective nail polish basically is is a metallic polish that has a base color and reflective particles that reflect two or three different color depending on the direction of the light that hits the nail.
This specific one has a grayish blue base and reflect blue, green and purple.


w/ artificial light w/ artificial light

Catrice is a german brand famous for its high quality cosmetic products for drugstore prices.
This nail polish has a very glossy and smooth finish, doesn't create those undesirable lines that some metallic polishes may leave and lasts for a long time.
In the back of the jar is written that it requires a base coat, preferably an opaque polish in the same color as its base color.
I only applied one coat of each. I used one layer of Anny 403 Blue Fashion Show as a base coat, which is a very pigmented grayish blue, and one layer of Catrice Get The Blues over.
Without a top coat, a high shine and gloss can be easily achieved.
This nail polish dries considerably fast. The price on this nail polish varies from 2€ to 3€, which is not expensive at all for 10ml of polish.

w/ natural light w/ natural light
The two other multi-reflective Catrice nail polishes that I have are Iron Mermaid and Genius In The Bottle.
Iron Mermaid is a silver based polish with green and lavender reflections.
Genius In The Bottle, dupe for Chanel's Peridot, is a gold based polish with golden and green reflections.
Of all the three, my favorite is Genius In The Bottle because it is much more pigmented and more reflective, but not as long lasting and doesn't dry as fast as Get The Blues. The same applies to Iron Mermaid, lasts less, takes longer to dry and isn't as pigmented as any of the others.
I hope you have enjoyed this quick review and I will be back in the end of this week with a makeup look.

Love,
Anna

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