I attended the introductory event for the Illamasqua Spring/Summer 2011 collection, Toxic Nature, last night. There was the opportunity to have a manicure with one of the five new nail polishes from the collection and I opted for Bacterium.
Bacterium is actually quite a warm beige base, but with an ashy/silver shimmer. It's one of my favourite items from the collection, and I plan to buy it when the collection launches (on 10 March online and 17 March in Selfridges).
The theme of the collection is one of nature fighting back against human intervention, and producing strange hybrid shades of pastel and mutated neutrals. What that means in practice is there are some interesting pastel-with-a-kick shades, but also some very good neutrals in the collection. I'll be writing a post with my thoughts on the full collection over the weekend, but in the meantime I'd recommend this post on www.lipglossiping.com for some very good pictures of the other items in the collection.
If you join the Illamasqua web shop waiting list for any items from the Toxic Nature collection, you will be entered into a draw to win the Toxic Nature items on your wait list.
Disclosure: there was an event swag bag with three bits from the new collection in it, which I will post pictures of. Bacterium wasn't one of the things in mine, so I'll be buying it.
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Definitely one of the stand out pieces in a gorgeous collection, it looked amazing on you.
ReplyDeleteI love how the products of the collection are driven by the theme - not formulaic in anyway.
Great to meet you x
Absolutely gorgeous. This has seemingly made quite a stir in the beauty blogging world and rightly so. I will definitely be buying this one xx
ReplyDeleteI was just looking on their site funnily enough and that was the one thing that stood out to me. Thanks for the post x
ReplyDeleteI really like the look of this and will be definitely checking out the collection on counter. I had a look at Charlotte's post and Glister looks amazing as well.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous colour - think I'll be needing some of that!x
ReplyDeleteThis looked stunning in person and is definitely on my list of things to buy. I think Glister was another stand out too. Someone has obviously been paying close attention as I got Delirium in my bag. They had me at the word taupe! x
ReplyDeleteI like this colour!! Must find it in Canada. Thanks for sharing!!!
ReplyDeleteWow, this is a really impressive colour. It goes really beautifully with your skintone too!
ReplyDeleteI must be the only one who things its awful. Looks cheap. Wonder with different name would anyone be bothered about it?
ReplyDeleteHello Martine - I published your comment and then went to the 'No More Waity Katie' post to reply to it - I was sure that was the one you were commenting on! I actually like the Illamasqua nail polish more than the Butter London NMWK.
ReplyDeleteHey Helen - lovely to meet you too.
Thanks all for your comments. x
What an interesting shade, very different than anything I've seen lately really!!!
ReplyDeleteWill be looking into this one (as well as 2-3 more items) for sure, thank you for the swatches!!!