Good Morning! Today I have the Limited Edition butter LONDON Bespoke trio of lacquers created for Gwyneth Paltrow, founder of goop.com. Abso-bloody-lutely, Hampstead Heath and Bread and Butter Pudding.
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| butter LONDON Bread and Butter Pudding, Hampstead Heath and Abso-bloody-lutely |
From the time I ordered until I finally received them, it was exactly a month. If fast shipping is important to you, you'll be disappointed. It was well packaged though.
First up, my favorite of the three, Hampstead Heath (not to be confused with Nails Inc. Hampstead Heath!) - it's a deep mossy/forest green with gold foil-like shimmer and FLAKES! Yes, I'm such a sucker for flakes. These appear to be translucent flakes and really give it something special, in my opinion. Application was smooth and easy and I only needed two coats for full opacity. Shown in photos with no top coat.
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| butter LONDON Hampstead Heath |
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| butter LONDON Hampstead Heath |
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| butter LONDON Hampstead Heath |
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| butter LONDON Hampstead Heath |
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Abso-bloody-lutely (isn't that a fantastic name?!) is a deep red crelly (creme/jelly hybrid) that I think can be worn by both warm and cool skin tones - it leans warm. This one is really pretty but as good (usually) as I am at application, I just really haven't quite made friends with crellies or jellies yet. This one is smooth and fairly easy but you can see in the cuticle area of the photos that I have trouble getting the coats even there. Same with almost all jellies or crellies for me. I must have a mental block! They claim opacity in two coats and that's mostly true - it was opaque, but to even it out I used a light third coat. The photos are with no top coat so you can see how super shiny it is. As far as crellies go, I'd say this was as good as any of them if not slightly better.
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| butter LONDON Abso-bloody-lutely |
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| butter LONDON Abso-bloody-lutely |
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| butter LONDON Abso-bloody-lutely |
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Lastly, Bread and Butter Pudding. I'm opting not to show you what this one looks like on me. It's SUPER sheer. Actually, if you've ever tried butter LONDON's base coat, this is MORE sheer than the base coat. I can't even guess how many coats you'd need for even semi-opacity and I'm not entirely sure it's possible with this one. And that looks great on some people. Very sophisticated on well-manicured white nails. My nails are not white. I don't think they were white when I was born.
So...here's a bottle shot for you. You can see one of the mixing balls in the bottom corner to see how sheer it is. Seriously, the base coat is about twice as opaque.
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| butter LONDON Bread and Butter Pudding |
So what do you think of these? Worth the one month wait? Well, for me, just for Hampstead Heath alone, yes. That one is truly a stand-out!
These are available at goop.com here and retail for $36.00 and the shipping is free.
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