Solid Gold a winner!

Guess which little baby turned up at my doorstep today?

Solid Gold from the Metal Chic collection! OKay, she comes really late because I actually placd an order for Iron Butterfly and after a month it still wasn't here, and the seller said they had ran out, and could I choose another colour please? Sad face. But anyway I really wanted to try a metallic matte so I chose this in IB's stead. Lets see how this one fares!

So it isn't a platinum sparkling gold, its more of an old gold kinda colour definitely more Roman Artifact than Tiffany's. and it has sort of a matte-satin like finish so its not really the texture of a glitter. Does it make me feel like a metal chick, though? Not really, this one's got more of a glam/ rocker feel to it (funny because i dont fancy the Glam Rock colour from this collection)

I've read about the nature of mattes and how they don't behave like your typical nail colour, so I was really careful with this one, doing all the things people recommended, like working fast, and getting it right within three strokes (thank you, seche, for that training!)

Well, firstly I want to say how surprised I was because I couldn't believe how SMOOTH & EVENLY this baby applied, even at the first coat!! I don't usually get that with my other 'specials' (ruby pumps, space cadet, midnight in moscow all apply horribly on their first coat) so, this is sold gold at one coat over my nail tek foundation

One coat. Not bad, huh? But of course i wasn't satisfied at one coat, and knowing how mattes tend to chip real easily, decided to take Michele from Lacquerized's advice on sandwiching!

So this is two coats, sandwiched with Nail Tek. I'm hoping this method will try n keep the colour. Of course, being the anal retentive on my 3 coat policy, I couldn't resist applying one more coat, even though the results ARE rather satisfying at just two (another first for me).

So here it is, at three coats. I KNOW it looks slightly uneven but I can vouch that it has nothing to do with Orly's awesome formulation for this and mostly to do with my bad judgement and not so honed skills. And hey, its my first time working with a matte! It being a matte is fast drying to boot, so, yay, Orly!

With flash. I placed an order for Iron Butterfly after falling in love with this one, so look out for my post on that! ^_^

The ONLY thing that bugs me about this is that the colour starts gooping up around the neck area real fast =( and this coming from just the FIRST time applying it. This means that the colour tends not to flow down but just dries up, thus using up the colour faster!! Is this normal with mattes? Do you know if a nail thinner can restore mattes normally?!

Bonus pic:

I took this just to see how it fares against my Dunlop Gold Capo. LOL yay <3

Camwhorring with my Philip Pullman book lol. do you find it funny how I have long nails on one hand but not the other? HAHA!

-7th March update-

Solid Gold wore pretty well. I had it on for 4 days, NO CHIPPING AT ALL, minor tipwear, but then I do play the guitar and that was probably the main cause for it. I removed it after a whole night of playing where the tipwear was the worst.

"And on my word, I'd give up my whole life for you and I was reborn, bigger and stronger, and less alive"