Velvet Diamonds

Just after discovering the sand and structure series by ANNY I saw another new series by misslyn - Velvet Diamonds. As the name suggests the eight new polishes are sparkling and build structured surface after drying. The price is moderate with 5,95€ for a 10ml bottle.

I had the opportunity to test every colour on my nails. And here we are:

• 59 sparkling orange
• 70 spark of hope
• 24 elegance
• 12 universe
• 78 dazzling water

And here the rest:

• 36 champagne
• 47 bright love
• 85 royal blue

And here once again to see the structured surface:

I found the tone 78 dazzling water to be very similar to 690 after dinner by ANNY, if not ompletely the same. It's not particularly strange, because the manufacturer of both brands is ICB innovative cosmetic brands GmbH, which makes also Artdeco, Make Up Factory, BeYu ... I guess the whole range of German polishes. Okay, essence and catrice belong to another company, or is cosnova not the German company? Also the royal blue was pretty similar to ANNY 's blue hypnosis.

So here these twins again:

Is here anything different on two polishes? I don't really see it.

Desert Glam

ANNY goes textured! The new limited edition of minis is called "Desert Glam" and is promising 3D effects. The tagline "Las Vegas Show Stars" is a bit confusing: are we in a desert now or in Las Vegas? :)

The series consists of eight shades:

615 - Pink Oasis 625 - Las Vegas Showgirl 630 - Shooting Star 645 - Big Performance

655 - She's Amazing 680 - Rock Your Nails 690 - After Dinner Show 994 - Blue Hypnosis

The first four look matte in the flacon, and the rest seems to be glitter. But after testing them on my nails I saw that all of them are textured. The matte ones have got filler like sand grain which are to see after the polish dries. The glitter ones are typical sand polishes sparkly and rough after drying. I wore  "After Dinner Show" already.

The grainy surface of matte polishes can be seen here:

I found it interesting as texture, but doesn't it look a bit sloppy as if your polish almost dried up and got clumped? However the glitter shades are beautiful in my opinion. And the red-orange "She's Amazing" is sold out (at least in the Douglas store where I tested some of the series).