One of my blog policies is: each and every polish I own must be swatched and shown to my readers. Even if it's immemorially old, discontinued or impossible to find - I just tend to show everything I wear. The polish of today's post falls exactly under all of these categories: old as dirt and not sold anymore. Victoria Shu #16 was purchased like 7 years ago, and nowadays the Internet history does not contain any mentioning about this line, although the brand remains. But has nothing to do with Barcelona, I'm afraid.
The colour is quite pretty though: a purple shade with more red than blue tint in the mix, full of silver shimmer. Application was pleasant for such a dark shade, in fact it's a 1-coater and it stamps perfectly too! :)
After wearing it for a day I came up with a thought that such a texture should look nice mattified. Not bad, indeed :)
And then I added some top coat again and stamped over the base colour with BM-316. As you can see, I was really enjoying all kinds of variations with this polish :)
It seems that even then, 7 years ago, I managed to pick a nice interesting shade. By the way, if you can remember any dupes or similar shades - please let me know!! This polish is simply finishing and I can't repurchase it, but I'd love to own a similar shade again..
С матовым топом получилась прям замша! Очень красиво :)
AntwortenLöschenСпасибо :) Если я вижу темный оттенок с серебристым шиммером, меня всегда тянет его заматтировать :)
LöschenThis is so beautiful - both shiny, matte and with stamping :)
AntwortenLöschenThank you so much, Maria! :)
Löschenohh, I love the matte look of it! Very pretty. :)
AntwortenLöschenThank you! I liked the matte version as well :)
LöschenОни сейчас продаются у нас, только теперь это серия Metallic, я у себя показывала синенький:) Лаки очень хорошие и по цветам, и по характеристикам, хоть и стоят копейки. Ваш очень красив, жаль, что его в этой обновленной серии, кажется, нет, а то бы взяла обязательно!
AntwortenLöschenПрокручивая пост вниз, все больше и больше впечатлялась маникюром!) В итоге несколько раз пересматривала все три варианта, так и не решила какой понравился больше)) Красота!
AntwortenLöschenwooow stunning polish ! So smart on you!
AntwortenLöschenIt looks best with stamping on top but mattified is a close second :D And I agree with your policy everything I own shall be swatched, pretty polish is always nice to look at even though you can't buy it anymore
AntwortenLöschenОчень красивый, особенно с матовым топом ;)
AntwortenLöschenI can't think of a dupe for it right now but wow, it's gorgeous!
AntwortenLöschenAbsolutely gorgeous color and I am thinking of showing off all my nailpolishes too :-) Would never get out of good content on the blog if I do I guess. Just followed you, feel free to stop by my blog anytime darling.
AntwortenLöschenxoxo Pakize
Madame Keke
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It's so beautiful in matte version.
AntwortenLöschenAnd you have beautiful nails! My nail polish blog nails-and-more.blogspot.com
Мне маникюр понравился во всех вариантах, от начала до полного преображения:) у вас очень красивые ногти.
AntwortenLöschenI absolutely agree with you about showing all polishes, even if they are "from the vault"!
AntwortenLöschenThis one is pretty (especially mattified), I can't come up with any dupes atm, but the mattified/satin version reminds me so much of OPI We'll always have Paris suede (I swatched it at the beginning of my blogging journey and I'm quite ashamed of that picture :-/, not worth linking)!
I have the same polish. But my nail is bright red. It is very, very old, I think more than 10 years, and I am not sure that it is a safe to use it.
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