Happy Sunday! If you aren’t from the States, then you may not be aware of just how crazy some Americans can get about football (American football, obviously). Sundays aren’t a day of rest, but a day for junk food, panic attacks, yelling at the TV and tears of either sadness or joy. My beloved Cleveland Browns normally lead to tears, self-loathing, and anger because we rarely win, but I still love this sport!
I am typing this as me and my fiance have 2 football games on and a second computer set up just to have a running tally of our fantasy football scores. Many of us get into our fantasy teams more than our home teams! I am in a fantasy league with my immediate family and this week me and my brother are pitted against each other. Needless to say, we may not speak to each other for a while after tomorrow night. And now onto the polish!
Illamasqua “Kink” is a dark forest green creme that dries to what Illamasqua has coined as a “rubberized” finish. Basically, it dries to a semi-matte finish. I have mixed feelings about the finish of this polish. While I absolutely LOVE the color and I love matte nails, this half way point between matte and shiny is kind of odd to me.
The formula on this polish was pretty good! It was opaque in 2 coats and had a great consistency. It was really easy to control and I didn’t even have to do any clean up. The only negative that I can say is that it had a rather long dry time, which isn’t really normal for matte finish polishes. I think this polish is really unique but at the same time I want to either add a shiny top coat or a matte top coat to take it fully in one direction or the other. Since green is my favorite color to wear, I know I’ll get a lot of use out of this one!
What do you guys think? What are your favorite Illamasqua polishes?
Just started watching Friday Night Lights and wow American’s sure do like their football.
we do! its a little bit of a problem sometimes. i think it causes premature aging lol thanks for commenting!
How are you doing with the dream team thingy?
fantasy team? i’m doing ok but one of my players just got traded so i have to play with my team a little
I like shiny or matte…no happy medium for me. Do you have an email I can contact you at? We talked on Instagram.
i’m the same, its a weird in between finish
Gorgeous color! I agree about that rubbery finish, I have a couple butter LONDONs that have the same finish and it’s just weird! lol I always use a top coat, so it’s not a huge deal. 🙂
yeah it really isn’t a huge issue but still kind of odd. did you get another blog lu?
You could use this polish for a christmas mani! You could try to put the china glaze one on it but i forgot the damn name but i think you got it aswell lol
this would be a great christmas manicure! this with another new polish in my collection would be so much fun. huge green glitter bomb!
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