Reboot, Reblog, Blues for Autumn

Autumnal blues are complex. They are the seaside shutting down after tourist season. They are the long shadows and deep even longer evenings.

Here is a blue that is just so perfect for fall, American Apparel Mount Royal

Three coats, a shiny, but non-self-leveling finish, this pretty deep cobalt feels moody and pensive like a storm about to slip over the mountains.

Gone the way of the dodo, the American Apparel brand seems to be defunct. This is available on eBay, so not completely extinct!

Here is a reboot of Amoresse Cool In The Pool.

Hard to fault. Defiantly blue sky in the late afternoon. Perfection.

Might be so rare that my earlier blog post (here) is coming up on the search! Hilarious!


A quick comparison:

Left to right:

Amoresse
AA
Amoresse
AA

Warm afternoons, cool nights, shorter days. A pair of pretties to enjoy the crisp days of autumn.


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Glitters of a Similar Nature

I think you've figured it out by now. When I first started blogging I was really into grabbing the really beautiful polishes I'd seen online and wasn't even sure if I love them or not for myself.

I've had Amoresse Mambo Madness for about 6-7 years and just balked at blogging it. I don't know why!

It's a heady silver holographic glitter tinted with a lavender base.

My iPhone doesn't do it justice.

This has gone the way of the Dodo, though. BUT, not that you couldn't franken a silver holo glitter into something super similar.

I think you can get a similar ride out of Color Club Sugar Plum Fairy (blogged here)


Also if you can find SinfulColors Top Me Off, you are in a good way, too.

Left to right:
Three coats over Color Club Coastal Creme
Three coats over black (generic combo of a few brands)
One coat over nude
One coat over black

Although it's not a wall of holo, it's a pretty holo shade. It's pretty much a topper (hence the name) and it's also doable as a three coater.

I think what sets it apart is the combination of purple with the holographic. Similar, but not a total substitute.

I don't check the SinfulColors Displays as often, so I don't know how often they have this one, but if you are after a holo/purple topper you may want to take a peek.

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Yessss, Amoresse

I freely admit that several of my polishes in my collection are straight up from seeing them on other blogs. I'm not always the "color genius" I'd like to imagine myself to be, ok delude myself to be, let's be honest here, and when I see a color that kicks my brain into happy overdrive, I work very hard to find it.

Witness Amoresse Cool in the Pool

Dusty cobalt in that pink blue family.

Not as intense as Orly Charged Up, nor as purple as Misa Throw Me Something Purple Please.

Three coats. Easy to use.

Round bottle, which is unusual, but not an unwelcome site when I open my little drawer of blue polishes!

Perfectly creamy, not a jelly, not a hidden shimmer, not a sorbet, not a crelly, not a soy latte light on the whip cream.

Love this polish. A lot.

Thought I'd toss out a couple of the old layering polishes, too.

Bottle shots in same order:

Sally Hansen's Unnamed glass fleck is a great match. Not too dense, but not too lean. Glad I never unloaded this in a fit of purging pique.

Revlon Glimmer Gloss is in a blue, albeit marine blue, base, with scanter glitter than I wished, but more than shows in the photos. 

Princessa is called Tang-erine or Tangi-My Night (there are two actually named this) can't recall which, that are pretty sheer, but perhaps not sheer enough to really let the Amoresse show through. Reminds me of Sally Hansen Sea and Be Seen.

I had to hunt this polish down in an obscure little spot on the interwebz but was so glad to find it.

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