Festive Beauty 2022: Day 18

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There's less than a week until Christmas and every day I'll be blogging beauty products from past and present Holiday collections. Yesterday was the Dolce & Gabbana lipgloss I finally got my hands on, from 2021 and today I have some things from a current collection. Over on The Shoe Girl Diaries I'm sharing my Irregular Choice Christmas shoes and at the bottom of every post there's a little online treat.

I've bought almost the entire Dior colour collection this year (well, I pretty much do every year actually). Last year I shared my Diorific nail polishes that I've collected from Holiday collections over the years, as that's the format they tend to come in. Weirdly however, this year, the nail colours are in regular Dior Vernis packaging. The overall colour theme is midnight blue and gold with stars, so the silver topped bottles are a bit out of place with no reference to the rest of the collection, other than the very appropriate names and the colours...kinda. You can pretty much bet that every year Dior will give you a party red and rich, deep purple and this year, even in Vernis form, they did just that. I bought the red one first, thinking I didn't really need it, but oh my gosh, it's really beautiful. I bought that alongside the top coat, but just recently, I decided to buy the purple too, but I'll tell you why later.

So, first up the red is Fortune 864. It looked a bright cherry red in the stock photos, with a pink or purple flash and possibly some glitter. The colour shocked me in real life, because it's much darker, but then again, sometimes it isn't. It's one that continually changes depending on the light you're in (i.e. it looked very different when I first applied it at night under artificial light to the daytime with natural light). It actually is very festive looking and at the time, I was more in awe of this than the top coat.

The Glittery Top Coat is Cosmic 309. It's got all different sizes of sporadic multi-coloured glitter in it with an odd-ish cream coloured base. At first I tried the red on all my nails with only a feature nail in a light nude colour with the top coat (I thought the top coat wouldn't be seen over the red because it came out sparklier than I thought). I didn't think the top coat looked particularly glittery and was disappointed, but I've realised the darker you go underneath, the better (hence my purple purchase). It's subtle, but draws you in at the same time.  It definitely suits it's name as this shimmering, cosmic utopia, it's like you can reach into the nail, it adds a dimensional, galactic finish to it.  The glitter isn't gritty either (though I always use Seche Vite top coat, which makes everything smooth).  I've basically used this on every manicure since I got it months ago.

So, the final buy was Mystic 903, which is much more interesting on the nails than it looks in the bottle. It's got a brown tone to the purple, which is really intriguing. It's certainly not as festive looking as the red, but the top coat, definitely elevates it. You can really see the different sized flecks and the colours against the dark background and there's this micro-shimmer sheen in gold (obviously from the base colour of the top coat), which wasn't present on top of other colours.

So, despite the disappointment with the bottles not being the bauble-like Diorific, I've liked all three of these and am continuing to enjoy using that top coat with various colours. The silver cap pops off and you apply it with the smaller, round black twist off lid by the way. The top coat is the rest I needed from the Opal one Dior brought out earlier this year-I've honestly used it on everything since I got it and couldn't get a back-up, so was worrying I'd use it all up!

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