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Hmmm. I suppose it had to happen at some point. Here we have an Illamasqua nail varnish that I’m not overly keen on.
Let me be fair though, this is purely because it is a type of polish that I’m just not overly keen on – tinted sheer. I held off buying Brigitte for a while as I wasn’t sure if it would work for me, and I’m sad to report that it just wasn’t my bag.
As you know, I (along with the rest of the world) absolutely adore Illamasqua’s colourful and pigmented creme polishes. And their jellies are pretty spectacular as well. Brigitte is classed as a “juicy” polish, which I think is a great description actually.
If you’re into sheer polishes then you’ll probably
love this. It applies beautifully and certainly gives your nails a nice, polished look with a sttong hint of pinky-red.
However, I really think this would work better on short nails. The reason I say this is because I naturally have very white nail tips. This is usually a blessing but for s0me reason, the red tint and pigment of Brigitte turned my tips a strange yellowish shade. Weird.
On a positive, it dries fast. And it might work nicely as a topcoat. Let me reiterate that there is nothing wrong with this polish, it’s just kind of odd. I also have the other juicy polish, the lighter pink one and I can safely say that that one works much better. Review will follow soon.
This was about four coats. Maybe I should have stopped at one, but really it 
made no difference. It reminds me strongly of Illamasqua’s Lily Rose lipgloss, which is a sheer red glaze. Better on lips, not so good on nails perhaps.
What do you think? Do you like the sheer look?
Helen
This made me laugh cause my name is Brigitte and it’s strange to see someone spell it that way. Usually people always spell it some other way. This polish is pretty “me” though! I’d probably use it for layering or gradients.
What a shame – it is a lovely shade or should that be hue? reminds me of strawberry juice, but I am with you, it is a bit sheer. There is always a bad apple in a range! Jan x
I’m with you – tinted/sheer/juicy whatever – not my cup of tea. And I know I’d be tempted to keep adding coats in the hope of opacity!
That’s ashame! I love the polish in the bottle – it looks like a piece of watermelon gum or bubble gum water ice. But eh. I am sorry you didn’t like it on! The coloring suits you, though!
I wore this the other day. It was red on my short nails and I quite liked it. Not wow by any means but 5/10. I have to agree that this doesn’t work on your long nails.
I actually love this, but I have a serious thing for jellies, and this one is pretty. I know alot of people don’t share my love though.
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I toyed with buying this when I saw it reduced on the website but thought it would be too sheer, I’m glad I didn’t get it now. Really not my sort of polish.
Yuck is all I can say to this one. Some sheers I don’t mind. This I don’t like at all. Suprising from this company.
Aww, thank you! That’s very kind of you. We’re thrilled for you to just keep coming back to our blog.
I’m with Scandalous…I’ve got a thing for sheer polish!
this is soooo sexy!!! needz immediately.
OH my yes ! Sheer’s and opaque’s are the ultimate nailpolishes ! You get the best of both worlds. You get the color polish look plus we still see the white free edge of a french mani. style. These polishes give you so much more control over the results your searching for as well. From a single coat to protect the nails or attract very little attention to multiple coats to give depth and clearity to the nails to say look at me ! Also a big fan of frost nailpolishes as well.