Rococo The Darkest Emerald and Orchid Your Wish Come True

About a billion years ago (I exaggerate, but only slightly), I did a swap with my friend Mel of Delicious Color. She loaded me up with some beauties from the brand Orchid, which I can't get here because we have no HEB stores, and a shimmery Rococo. Left to right: Orchid Trouble Maker, Coin Toss, Your Wish Come True, and Teal Me a Secret; Rococo The Darkest Emerald.



When deciding which of these to try first, I was most intrigued by the Rococo, as it's only the second one from this brand to join my stash. Here's a look at it in the bottle; I fancied I could see a hint of purple duochrome in the teal green shimmer.



I thought Orchid Your Wish Come True, a light silvery teal metallic, would make a nice accent for The Darkest Emerald. I used two coats of each of them, though I might have been able to stop at one of The Darkest Emerald, as it is indeed dark and quite pigmented. I didn't see any of the purple on the nail, but no matter, as the green was quite pretty on its own.





The Darkest Emerald really glows in direct light:



In the sun, sparkles show up:



Thanks to Mel for enabling this stash enhancement. Perhaps one day I'll try the other colors she sent but I'm so easily distracted it's hard to know when that might happen.

Rococo Peace Out

I am exactly the type of customer being targeted by internet retailers who offer free shipping with orders over X amount—I will add stuff to my cart I hadn't planned on buying to get over that threshold. Never mind that most times the cost of the thing I'm adding is more than the shipping would have been; I keep right on doing it. The latest business to tempt me that way was SpaceNK, where I picked up a $16.50 Rococo nail lacquer, something that wasn't even on my radar when I clicked on their site. (It seemed something of a bargain in comparison to the $30 bottles of Nail Laque Terrbly, which I passed on in part due to the colors and in part due to the price and in part due to the way letters seem to be missing in the name of the product.)

The Rococo came in the sturdiest box I've yet to get polish in; I lifted off the top to find the bottle nestled in a perfectly fitting bed made from robust paperboard.





The shade I chose is called Peace Out, a bright warm green creme. It applied very nicely; these swatches are two coats without any top coat.





There was a paper insert folded up underneath the bottle with information about the ingredients and the rest of the line. The thing that caught my eye was the description of finishes they offer: one is called "luxe" (by which they seem to mean shimmer) and another is "molten lava" (by which I've no idea what they mean, some kind of metallic it sounds like but there's already another finish they call "metallic" so I'm confused.)

I quite like this one, though it is pricey for sure.