Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Chromatic pigments swatches and review part 1

A few weeks ago, I received a lovely email from a fellow nail polish lover and frankener Anna who had just started selling color shifting pigments on eBay. Anna offered to send me samples to show you girls and of course you all know how much I love to play with pigments!


I received them in small ziploc bags. They all contained 1g of powder and I used around 1/3 of that in regular size clear nail polish bottles (15ml / 0.5oz).
2 coats over black in all of these swatches, no topcoat.


From left to right :
22808
412604
35202
481804
 462805


22808
fine gold to green shimmer





412604
blue to purple and gold large shimmer flecks






35202
blue to purple medium shimmer flecks






481804
pink to gold medium shimmer flecks






462805
very subtle gold to green large shimmer flecks






Overall :
I'm really loving these pigments, they all look different, offer many layering possibilities and sparkle like crazy!
Stay tuned for the part 2 of the review with 5 other color shifting topcoats.


 These pigments can be purchased from Anna's eBay store AnnasArtAsylum (worldwide shipping). Anna has several listings up : choose 1, 2, 3 or 5 pigments.



*these products were provided to me for an honest review*



43 comments:

  1. really really beautiful, I love them all! I think I need to buy some pigments soon! :D

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  2. my eyes are bleeeeding *_* beautiful photos, nice job!

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  3. Gorgeous! I want them, but shouldn't spend $ :(

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  4. You photos are stunning (as always). You totally show these pigments in all their beauty!

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  5. Absolutely gorgeous! They remind me of galaxies

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  6. OMG these are so beautiful!

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  7. all I could say was "UGH this is so frickin pretty..UGHHHH THIS is so frickin pretty!!" like two inches from my screen.. NEED

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  8. This is the best nail porn I have ever seen!!!

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  9. Super gorgeous!! Fantastic pictures from you as always <3

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  10. These remind me of CND Effects! Love

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  11. Really nice and I like the flakie-like texture of these. She's going to do well with these. :)

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  12. Absolutely gorgeous.
    Thanks for the swatches.
    Tuli from PrettifyourNails

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  13. awesome colors!! I love them! *.*

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  14. Thank you for the swatching job, I'm always on the quest for interesting pigments.

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  15. Wow
    they are all gorgeous !
    I want all of them

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  16. Your pictures are amazing!! They show each detail, and look incredible!

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  17. Oh wow! These are absolutely gorgeous!

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  18. They are beautiful! Love it. Amazing pics! ;O

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  19. Seriously. WHY does everything look so damn HAWT on you <3?

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  20. OMG... those polishes are soooo pretty!!

    I ♥ them!!

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  21. Gorrrgeous! Colour shift/duo/multichromes are the besttttt!

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  22. Oh no I can't look away - That means I will have to buy them. I'll wait for your next post for the rest of the (pigment) swatches.

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  23. Those are insanely gorgeous! I may have to look into getting some and making my own. Great pics!

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  24. These are beautiful and your swatches are so perfect!!!

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  25. What does the term franken mean?

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  26. @Ness franken stands for franken-polish. It's a nail polish that one creates by mixing pigments, glitters or other nail polishes :D

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  27. gorgeous!! i can't keep my eyes off.

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  28. hi, because of your great swatches I just bought 2 of the georgeous pigments :-)

    you've a really great blog, I like it much!

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  29. I don't know whats wrong with me but I don't like those color shifting polishes on my nails but the first photo is so beautiful and magical

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