Wednesday 11 September 2013

Crows Toes One Trick Pony

I realized that I did not post a Crows Toes last week - ooops - I OWE YOU!!!! I have One Trick Pony from the One Hot Summer Collection for you today. It is a dark greyed purple base with peacock holo rainbow. You might wonder why I call it peacock - just scroll down and look at those beautiful colors:






The above pictures are taken indoors in daylight, the below two pictures outdoors in the shade. In the below pictures the purple and green/grey duo chrome shift becomes visible and the polish looks more muted.














All of the above are taken outdoors in the sun, the last two photos below indoors in artificial light




You still with me? Awesome, you made it through all those pictures but I could impossibly cut them down any further. I applied two coats of One Trick Pony over Essence XXL Nail Thickener. I first struggled a bit how much polish I need to load onto the brush to get an even first coat - too thin and you would run out of polish two third into painting your middle finger for example - too much and One Trick Pony might show a tendency to glop. It also becomes gooey if you go over the same area multiple times or paint too slowly but this is due to a huge plus: it is quick drying!!! However evenly and quickly applied the formula is perfect and causes no issues.

Final thoughts: this is one of my most intricate, complex and beautiful polishes I own. I just love the dark vibe of Crows Toes and the always slightly off the edge colors yet "grown up" if you know what I mean. The Collections are never hopping on a trend bandwagon and always stand apart from mainstream. 

I ordered Crows Toes One Trick Pony with Llarowe.

I look forward to reading your comments - thanks for visiting!!!
Christine




























17 comments:

  1. Oh my! Christine, this is a perfect purple for this season! (well I always have an excuse for loving purple). I love how it looks on you, and wonder if it'd be as flattering next to my skin tone (haaa like if I ever paid attention to that! pfff)
    No, seriously, I have to ask you a serious question: how do you manage to have always a more stunning and wonderful polish than the last? you have the most amazing collection EVER!! It's always such a pleasure to my eyes <3
    bisous ma biche, xxx

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    1. Salut Nati, oh thank you so much!!! And for sure it would look drop dead gorgeous with your beautiful skin!!! I know - we polish-lovers get oblivious to matching skin tone - haha!!! Thank you both, Nati and Liesl for your awesome compliment - what can I say? I think I have to thank Leah Ann from Llarowe for having such an amazing range of brands and she does all the hunting out there to bring those Indies into the limelight and only one click away from my stash - LOL!!! Well thank you both - I am very humbled and I am so glad you like my choices and what I post about here - it means a world to me - bisous for the two of you xxx

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  2. Amazing. Just... WOW. Peacock holo is the perfect description of the rainbow this one flashes. Ahh, sis, these new brands you're making me realize I can't live without....

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    1. Thank you dear Liesl <3! I just KNEW you would pick-up on the peacock holo - LOL!!! I hate to tell ya but Crows Toes would be very Lieslesque - you would find so many "needs" - le sigh......... B.t.w. there seems to be an opening of a BL water (errr polish)hole in my town - I fear for my wallet and my credit card is trembling!!!!

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  3. Do I reall need to tell you that I love it? I think you already know it :-)

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  4. Wowza !!!! How gorgeous is this huh?!?!?!? <3

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  5. Wow, what a polish! And I loved your photos, the last one where the base color almost isn't visible because all those rainbows take all its place is just breath taking!

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    1. Hi sweetie - thank you xxx!!! I looked at the photo again and you are right - it looks as if the holo would be swimming on my nails!!!

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  6. Good grief. Complex doesn't begin to cover it! This stuff is crazy, in a totally awesome way! What a lovely polish. :)

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    1. Thank you dear Melissa <3!!! And when I unpacked it first, I wondered if it would ever play out on the nail - but oh my, I was literally walking the planet with eyeballs hefted on my nails - sheer luck that I never hit a lamp post - LOL.

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