Sunday, January 29, 2012

A-England Week! The Legends Part 1

Yeah, so in a moment of monetary weakness, I hauled A-England.  And I mean hauled.  I ordered the entire Legends collection plus some more of the Mythicals.  So I'll have to take the polish purchasing very easy for quite sometime.  At least until the OPI Holland collection comes out :).

So today I'm going to show you the first 3 Legends: Princess Tears, Princess Sabra, and Ascalon.  These are the lightest of the group so I thought they'd make a good post together.  Fashion Polish has a wonderful post telling the story of The Legends and how they all fit together!

Princess Tears is up first, and is a really lovely lavender holographic polish.  It's pretty much always lavender, but if you catch it in the right light it looks silver because it's so pale.  The holo is really pretty and delicate in this one.  You can always see it, but it's not super strong.  This is actually a perfect holo for work!  I am wearing it to work tomorrow!!!  Here are a million pictures of Princess Tears (2 coats).

A-England Princess Tears
A-England Princess Tears
A-England Princess Tears 
A-England Princess Tears
A-England Princess Tears, outside, low indirect light with flash
A-England Princess Tears, outside, low indirect light
A-England Princess Tears
A-England Princess Tears
Next up is Princess Sabra, which is a polish I wouldn't have normally gotten.  But you can't very well get 6 out of 7 on this collection.  I do like it more than I thought, but not sure how often I will reach for this one.  Princess Sabra is a gold holo that leans a little on the yellow-green side.  I needed 2 coats on this one.  She's an interesting one and the holo is really strong.  Check her out, what do you think?

A-England Princess Sabra
A-England Princess Sabra
A-England Princess Sabra
 Finally we have Ascalon, a steel grey.  This one is more of a scattered holo than a linear, but not less gorgeous.  This is 2 coats, but if I had been more careful I could have done one.  The color on this one is so rich and sophisticated.  In the pictures I feel like it pulls a little purple, but it's just to holo particles playing tricks :).  A lot of other bloggers think this is a duo or multi chrome.  I just didn't see that in real life, but I had limited lighting sources when swatching this one.  Once I wear this as a full mani in the future I'll take more pictures.


A-England Ascalon

A-England Ascalon
A-England Ascalon
The A-England Legends collection was literally just released and can be bought from Llarowe's website for $12 each.  They aren't up on the A-England website yet, but you can email them to order with free shipping to the US.  You do pay 9 GBP for each one though.  So far I highly recommend this collection and I know it's only going to get better.  The formula is great (as long as you don't use it with Barielle's treatment system) and the colors are unique and beautiful!  If you haven't jumped on the A-England band wagon yet I suggest you do today :).

2 comments:

  1. These are so beautiful! I cannot wait until mine arrive.

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  2. Daaaang, I had no idea you hauled these! wo0t!! And you don't have very long to take it easy until Holland comes out - I think they release on February 8th! LOL

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