Today I have another Picture Polish (if you want to see my other reviews of Picture Polishes, click here!) – as I explained when I wrote about Shocked, I have had a little obsession for Picture Polishes lately, so you may see a few posts on these in the coming weeks! The formula is always so good – I can’t help it!
Columbia is from the Rocky Horror collection came out a couple of months ago. Please don’t hate me – I have to confess that I’ve never watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show, but the amount of people who are shocked by this tells me it must be good! As such, I wasn’t the first to jump for this collection – however I saw a couple of pictures of Columbia and fell. Hard. I’m not normally too keen on reds, but something about this caught my eye and dominated my every waking moment until I bought it!
Columbia is a raspberry red jelly packed full of red microglitter, and larger magenta and red metallic hexagonal glitter. The colour combination puts me in mind of roses and hearts and all those lovely things. I can’t actually tell you how wonderfully sparkly this polish is – the pictures just don’t do it justice. I am wearing 2 coats of topcoat for these pictures, and it looked a lot like a gel when I was wearing it. I’ve worn it a couple of times now and I keep thinking that I would actually wear this as a bridal manicure, I think it’s just so gorgeous and I am fully, fully in love with it!
Application:
2 coats for opacity. The first time I used this, application was a dream, however since then the polish has thickened. The first coat applies easily (perhaps a little streaky), but the second coat can get lumpy and tricky to apply. It’s not too bad, but I found I needed to cleanup a fair bit afterwards. It dries quickly, and to a dull finish. I would definitely recommend using topcoat to get the most of the sparkle – I needed 2 coats of topcoat.
Despite the slight trickiness of the formula (which I’m sure a little thinner would sort), I am so so so in love with this and keep wearing it. I don’t think this one will be getting dusty on the shelf any time soon!
Here in the UK you can get Columbia from both Sally Magpies and Rainbow Connection UK (although it’s unfortunately sold out in both!) for £12.50. I think the higher price is because it’s a special edition. It is however available from Picture Polish for AU$14 plus shipping. Remember this is international as they are in Australia! It’s also currently available from Harlow & Co in Canada, for CAN$16.50, and Llarowe (out of stock currently) for $12.50 in the US.
Let me know what you think of this polish, and also how you feel about coloured bridal manicures! 🙂
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