Purple Heart is one of the GOSH polishes that I have always admired from afar, and never bought. I say admired from afar, as because, as you now 
know, I don’t like to get tooo near to the GOSH stand in my local Superdrug for fear of catching something.
So, thanks to Britny, who alterted GOSH to the plight of their poor products, GOSH head office were kind enough to send me some polishes to review. Purple Heart was the one I was keen to break out as soon as I received it as I was really excited to see if it lives up to
the promise of the bottle.
And do you know what? It does. Although I wouldn’t necessarily describe it as “purple”. This is a classic duochrome, along the lines of Nubar’s Peacock Feathers, although slightly less blue.
Purple Heart actually leans very more to the green side. In “resting” light, (for want iof a better phrase), it is a striking dark and blackened purple, but as soon as you move your hand and it catches the light, you get a very strong green flash. But a dark, dingy green. This isn’t one for lovers of bright shades I am afraid.
I did my best to capture this look for you here but I find duochromes very 
tricky to photograph. I hope you get the effect though. It can appear dark purple in the centre and green around the edges as well – really unusual and different to anything I have tried before.
Application was great. It was really nice to have a bottle that hadn’t been opened a million times, and wasn’t sticky from sellotape and alarm codes. This is two coats and it covered beautifully with no dragging, bald spots or issues. Happy days.
So, I’d like to thank Britny for actually contacting GOSH on our behalf, and GOSH themselves for sending me this to try out.
GOSH polishes retail at £5.00, and are available from Superdrug. If you dare.
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