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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Maybelline Color Show Veils

Today I've got swatches of all five of the Maybelline Color Show Veils, which the display calls "textured top coats", and I suppose that's technically true in that everything has a texture, even if that texture is smooth, but these are layering shimmers and glitters rather than what we nail mavens think of when we talk of textured polishes. Left to right: Amethyst Aura, Teal Beam, Crystal Disguise, Blue Glaze, Rose Mirage.



Amethyst Aura has medium sized purple hex glitter and very fine silver glitter in a clear base. I layered two coats of it (plus topcoat) over Maybelline Day Glow Teal.





Teal Beam has small matte glitter in turquoise and pale yellow green plus fine gold shimmer. I did two coats of it plus topcoat over Maybelline Walk in the Park, a very dark green creme.





I used black creme as a base for the next two, Crystal Disguise and Blue Glaze. Both of these are shimmer toppers; in the bottles, Crystal Disguise looks more white and Blue Glaze looks more blue, but on the nail over black, it was reversed. In the photo below, my top two fingers have two coats of Crystal Disguise over the black, and the others have two coats of Blue Glaze.



Close up of Crystal Disguise:



Close up of Blue Glaze:



Rose Mirage has small metallic hex glitter in rose gold and coppery orange in a clear base. I layered it over Maybelline Coral Heat and then added topcoat.





Overall, Maybelline got a nice variety in this small collection--a warm glitter and a cool one, matte and metallic glitter, shimmer. I just wish they'd replaced one of the shimmers with a flakie. I know they know about flakies; the Colorama line had some.
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11 comments:

  1. mrsrexyJuly 29, 2014 at 3:26 PM

    I don't think there's one I don't like! I'll have to watch out for these!

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  2. UnknownJuly 29, 2014 at 11:23 PM

    I think the last one will be my favourite...

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  3. Marias Nail ArtJuly 29, 2014 at 11:50 PM

    You chose some pretty layering combinations here :)

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  4. AnonymousJuly 30, 2014 at 5:09 AM

    I like Teal Beam the most :)

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  5. AnankaJuly 30, 2014 at 12:14 PM

    Interesting polishes! They look good layered especially the first two! :-)

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  6. Lustrous LacquerJuly 30, 2014 at 2:28 PM

    hmmm Im still a little undecided on these polishes. But you made them look pretty good, I'm now leaning a little more towards getting them.

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  7. Nail Dazzler Nails July 31, 2014 at 6:50 AM

    They look pretty but i'm going to skip it has I'm in the shimmer not glitter phase :)

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  8. LizzyJuly 31, 2014 at 9:51 AM

    Huh... Not what I expected... lol

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  9. turtlechick12July 31, 2014 at 1:08 PM

    Those are nice! I totally disregarded them based on the whole "textured top coat" label but they are really nice. That will teach me to overlook a polish
    !

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  10. QueenMiSeRy @MiseryLovesBlueAugust 7, 2014 at 2:59 AM

    I'd call these glitters too, I don't see any texture here, at least not what I'm used to mean like that.
    BTW Crystal Disguise is a really intriguing one.

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  11. Aly MaiSenzaSmaltoAugust 16, 2014 at 4:32 AM

    I like Teal Beam (why call them textured??), but I agree with you about including a flakie in the collection.

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