In 1994, pop culture collided when Mrs Mia Wallace danced her way onto the screen. The very definition of a vamp, Mia was mysterious, gorgeous, dangerous, and drop dead sexy (no pun intended), and she was wearing a very, very special polish on her fingers and toes. That polish changed the landscape of nails away from flower type colors to the rainbow we now know and love. People waited in lines around the block and put themselves on in-store waiting lists to obtain a bottle of the blackened red stunner that everyone was talking about. Spawning endless dupes, and setting the nail industry on a new and exciting journey, it was a real game-changer - so much so that 24 years later, we've tackled the idea of making it vamp like it's 1994, but sparkle like it's 2018.That polish was Chanel's No. 18 Rouge Noir, known in the US as Vamp.
Noelie's take is a deep, dense, plummy, venous blood color that is similar to Very Dark Reddish Purple from the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names or Benjamin Moore's Dark Purple. Superabundant tiny silver holographic microglitters blanket it with a glamorous, twinkling field of delicate prismatic sparks in ambient light that explodes into bold, brilliant sparkle in the sun, where the intensity of the color takes on an almost chocolatey sensibility.
Application was great! The consistency of Mrs Mia Wallace is fluid and full-bodied with a medium viscosity and a fluent, even, self-leveling slip over the nail, going on easily in medium coats. The brand's flattened-style brush holds quite a lot of polish -- take care not to overload! Pigmentation is excellent, very close to opaque in one coat although I used two like I always do. Cleanup is straightforward. Mrs Mia Wallace dries naturally in very good time to a sandy-textured, matte finish that wants a good glitter-smoothing topcoat to look its best.
Photos show two coats of Mrs Mia Wallace over treatment and basecoat with a layer of Girly Bits Glitter Glaze plus a layer of Seche Vite for the ultimate glassy finish.
Dreamland Mrs Mia Wallace |
Dreamland Mrs Mia Wallace |
Dreamland Mrs Mia Wallace |
Dreamland Mrs Mia Wallace |
Dreamland Mrs Mia Wallace |
Dreamland Mrs Mia Wallace |
Dreamland Mrs Mia Wallace |
Dreamland Mrs Mia Wallace |
Dreamland Mrs Mia Wallace |
xo,
Liz
Mmm, dreamy! I can't resist a sparkly vamp.
ReplyDeleteA girl in my year at school bought a bottle of RN, after Pulp Fiction came out and all the magazanis said it was *the* It Colour. Wonder if she still has it?! We all thought spending so much on nail polish was a bit weird. Haaaa!
*lol* Now that's funny!
DeleteI love the Rouge Noir phenomenon! So cool!