The amazing Illamasqua team did it again – I came home to find a surprise package that instantly lifted my spirits!
Inside was Illamasqua Noble, which the handwritten note said was the latest addition to Sephora counters!
It came at a good time because, that night, I was already planning on changing my polish. No need to rummage through my bottles and decide. Illamasqua gave me the perfect polish to wear. No “I don’t have anything to wear” moment. đ
Unfortunately, the weather was gloomy when I had my camera handy, so I couldn’t get any sunlight photos. And for some strange reason, I wasn’t able to accurately capture the colour despite fiddling around with many settings. (It is not a wintry blue like it appears in my photos! It’s a robin’s egg blue!)
I was so desperate to capture the true colour that I even took some shots in artificial lighting in my bathroom in hopes that it might help. (Yeah! That’s usually the worst lighting, but desperate times call for desperate measures, as they say…)
What a travesty, though, because I wish I could’ve shown you the true colour. To make up for it, I tried to describe the shade as best as I could in this post. And, although my photos don’t do this polish any justice, I hope that they’re helpful if only to see the finish and how smoothly and evenly the polish applies.


OPI The World Is Not Enough from the Skyfall Collection brings to mind the song by the musical group, Garbage.
OPI Live and Let Die is the 3rd mini nail polish I have to show you from the OPI Skyfall Collection.
Today I have another shade from the Skyfall Collection – OPI The Spy Who Loved Me!
Gold nail polishes usually aren’t my thing because a lot of times, they make my hands look washed out.
In my very first Topbox (November 2011), one of the items included was Deborah Lippmann Some Enchanted Evening.
Maybelline Downtown Brown is part of the Color Show line, and this is a highly unique nail polish. In my stash of 600+ bottles, I don’t have anything like this brown-green duochrome.