Illamasqua Scarab

Here is what it looks like the majority of the time, quite a dark velvety brown.

In false lighting it looks like this.

And in (relative) sunshine it looks like this.

There is a bit of a yellowy-orangey shimmer to it which I couldn’t seem to capture, though not half as orangey as it appears in the bottle which is a shame. This colour really mostly reminds me of rust. I have to say I’m not so keen on this one as I am on Viridian, purely because at a glance you don’t see the shimmer and it just looks quite brown and murky.

The application on this one too is lovely, very smooth and self-levelling, and of course having discovered the hidden lid much easier than that of Viridian! This one too was very easy to remove, and opaque in two coats. Again it dried with a velvety appearance, so if you wanted a shiny polish you’d definitely need top coat. Maybe that would increase the shimmer-visibility too!

Hope you are all well, I’ve just come back from a blood test but they couldn’t draw any blood from either of my elbow veins, and so drew it from a vein in my wrist which is now very painful – I am feeling a  bit like a pincushion. Due to said wrist pain I apologise if my spelling is a bit dire in this one my brain seems to have been affected too lol.

Emma xxx