Gelaze Awakening, ibd Tabloid Talk, Ink Berry Funk

I have swatches from three different brands today.  I laid out all of the colors that I own that need to be swatched and put them into color groupings.  These are the purple-leaning pinks and/or pink-leaning purples of the bunch.  The first color seen here is Gelaze Awakening.  It’s a really lovely shade of purple with a golden shimmer.  This color is very similar to ibd Road to Paris, but has a little better coverage.  You can see how the two compare in the last photo on this page.  I applied three coats of Awakening for this swatch.

This is ibd Tabloid Talk from the Tinseltown Collection, which is a little more pink than purple and also has a really nice shimmery finish.  This color is rather sheer and still shows visible nail line after three coats as seen below.

And the last colors that I have today is Ink Berry Funk.  Yikes, this was a hard color to photograph… I don’t think it’s quite as blue-ish as it appears in my pictures.  This color definitely doesn’t match the label on the bottle though, which is much more reddish.  This polish has a frosty finish and will show brushstrokes if you aren’t careful in your application, and it has great coverage with just two coats.

This is a photo of the three colors above next to some other comparable colors from my collection.  You can click on the image to enlarge it.

You may also notice that I used different lighting in my photos today than normal.  I’ve been experimenting with my lighting to try to show more of the high gloss shine of the polishes.  My lightbox setup was previously filtering the light so much that it often made the finish of the polishes look matte.  So let me know what you think of the lighting and if you prefer to see the shine as in these photos.