Starlight Polish "Mythological Gems" Part 1 Dravite, Kyanite, and Garnet
Starlight Polish Mythological Gems: Dravite, Kyanite, and Garnet
FABULOUS PRESS SAMPLES AHEAD
Extremely photo heavy, close to 100 photos
Hey Guys! You are in for a real treat if you like color shifting shimmers and photo spam. Let's be real, of course you do, otherwise you would not be here. Today I have the first 12 of Starlight and Sparkles new Mythological Gems Collection, an offshoot from her current Mythological line. This collection includes 3 base gem tones, filled with all 4 of the shifty Mythological shimmers. Personally I'm partial to the predominant green shimmer of Unicorn, no one could have guessed right....?
THE IMPORTANT DETAILS:
- Available Friday Dec 29, 7pm MST
- Permanent Line
- Full size bottles will be $14.00, 5ml minis $6.50
- Shop here: Starlight and Sparkles
- 3 coats with topcoat used in all swatches unless noted
- The formula was consistent throughout the collection.Just slightly thin as they are jelly like, no running or pooling. I find it best to really load up the brush and do a medium to thick coat. This cuts down on the amount of brush strokes needed and results in more even coverage. The brushes are on the thinner side.
- Easy to remove, dry time is good, no staining or noticeable smell.
"DRAVITE"
The Dravite base in Phoenix Dravite, Dragon Dravite, Unicorn Dravite, and Kelpie Dravite is a chocolatey brown, and is based on dravite, which is brown tourmaline.
KELPIE DRAVITE
Kelpie Dravite is a chocolate brown base with shimmer that shifts from teal to violet, and flashes aqua and purple at the extremes of its color range. It is opaque in approximately three coats, but can also be layered to use less polish.
This was very close to being opaque at 2 coats. Second favorite Dravite, this is such a unique color combination.
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| natural light indoors |
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| partial sun |
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| full sun |
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| full sun at an angle |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| LED daylight bulb |
PHOENIX DRAVITE
Phoenix Dravite is a chocolate brown base with shimmer that shifts from red to gold to green, and flashes vivid red and bright green at the extremes of its color range. It is opaque in approximately three coats, but can also be layered to use less polish.
Very close to opaque at 2 coats. This is the Unicorn Pee shimmah yal!
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| natural light indoors |
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| natural light outside |
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| full sun |
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| full sun at an angle |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| LED daylight bulb |
UNICORN DRAVITE
Unicorn Dravite is a chocolate brown base with shimmer that shifts from cool green to deep blue, and flashes turquoise and vivid indigo at the extremes of its color range. It is opaque in approximately three coats, but can also be layered to use less polish.
Once again this was super close with 2 coats. My favorite of Dravite and possibly the entire bunch. That shimmer just makes my green lovin' heart sing. I had more trouble with streaks on this one, still evened out at 3 coats.
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| natural light indoors |
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| natural light outside |
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| full sun |
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| LED daylight bulb at an angle |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| LED daylight bulb |
DRAGON DRAVITE
Dragon Dravite is a chocolate brown base with shimmer that shifts from bronze gold to green, and flashes orange and teal at the extremes of its color range. It is opaque in approximately three coats, but can also be layered to use less polish.
Super close to opacity at 2 coats. Its so interesting to me how these shimmers perform in various bases. In the Night polishes Dragon gave an overall greenish olive look, here it's quite a warm brown.
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| natural light indoors |
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| Full sun |
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| Full sun. I felt I needed both of these, don't ask why. |
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| natural light outside |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| LED bulb, at an angle. oooooo, ahhhhh |
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| LED daylight bulb |
COMPARISON
Swatched in the same order as above. Pointer to pinky: Kelpie, Phoenix, Unicorn, Dragon.
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| Indoors, natural light |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| LED daylight bulb at an angle |
"KYANITE"
The Kyanite base in Phoenix Kyanite, Dragon Kyanite, Unicorn Kyanite, and Kelpie Kyanite is a translucent medium blue, and is named after kyanite, which is occurs most frequently in shades of blue. The base for Kyanite is a tweaked version of the base used in Autumn Air, a custom polish created with Phoenix pigment. The recipe for Kyanite is different because of a change in suppliers for colorants, and it has also been made slightly stronger in color.
KELPIE KYANITE
Kelpie Kyanite is a translucent medium blue base with shimmer that shifts from teal to violet, and flashes aqua and purple at the extremes of its color range. There will likely be visible nail line at three coats, but can also be layered to use less polish.
My VNL was not noticeable in person with this polish.The camera is really toning down the awesome blue green shimmer in this one, it's
quite visible most of the time.
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| natural light indoors |
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| natural light outside |
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| a tiny sliver of sunlight |
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| natural light at an angle. Isn't that cobalt beautiful? |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| LED daylight bulb |
PHOENIX KYANITE
Phoenix Kyanite is a translucent medium blue base with shimmer that shifts from red to gold to green, and flashes vivid red and bright green at the extremes of its color range. There will likely be visible nail line at three coats, but can also be layered to use less polish. Phoenix Kyanite is a tweaked version of a custom color called Autumn Air. Phoenix Kyanite differs from Autumn Air in the both the alteration of base color recipe, which has been changed to use the colorants from Starlight and Sparkles’ current supplier, and to slightly increase the strength of the base color, and also in that the original Autumn Air custom had a higher quantity of Phoenix pigment, which has not been replicated in Phoenix Kyanite for price reasons.
Argh U.P. is hiding from me! VNL definitely there, if you have a strong nail line like me layering will be needed with this one. Sooooooo pretty though.
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| Natural light outdoors |
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| sunlight |
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| green showing at an angle |
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| natural light |
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| LED daylight bubl |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| LED daylight bulb |
UNICORN KYANITE
Unicorn Kyanite is a translucent medium blue base with shimmer that shifts from cool green to deep blue, and flashes turquoise and vivid indigo at the extremes of its color range. There will likely be visible nail line at three coats, but can also be layered to use less polish.
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| natural light indoors |
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| natural light outside |
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| full sun |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| Indigo coming out to play at an angle. LED bulb |
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| unsure, I think natural light |
DRAGON KYANITE
Dragon Kyanite is a translucent medium blue base with shimmer that shifts from bronze gold to green, and flashes orange and teal at the extremes of its color range. There will likely be visible nail line at three coats, but can also be layered to use less polish.
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| full sun |
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| full sun at an angle |
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| natural light outdoors |
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| natural light |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| LED daylight bulb |
COMPARISONS
Swatched in the same order as above. From pointer to pinky: Kelpie, Phoenix, Unicorn, Dragon.
Last 3 photos are 4 coats of Phoenix Kelpie compared to 4 coats of Ninja Mystic Glacier.
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| natural light indoors |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| full sun at an angle |
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| full sun |
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| natural light indoors |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| LED daylight bulb |
"GARNET"
The Garnet base in Phoenix Garnet, Dragon Garnet, Unicorn Garnet, and Kelpie Garnet is dark red, and is based on red garnets.
KELPIE GARNET
Kelpie Garnet is a dark red base with shimmer that shifts from teal to violet, and flashes aqua and purple at the extremes of its color range. It is opaque with two or three coats, but can also be layered to use less polish.
This shimmer here is very camera shy, more apparent in person.
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| partial sun |
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| natural light outside |
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| full sun |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| Led daylight bulb |
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| natural light. sorry for the potato photo here |
PHOENIX GARNET
Phoenix Garnet is a dark red base with shimmer that shifts from red to gold to green, and flashes vivid red and bright green at the extremes of its color range. It is opaque with two or three coats, but can also be layered to use less polish.
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| natural light indoors |
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| natural light but the sun hated me |
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| natural light outside |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| natural light |
UNICORN GARNET
Unicorn Garnet is a dark red base with shimmer that shifts from cool green to deep blue, and flashes turquoise and vivid indigo at the extremes of its color range. It is opaque with two or three coats, but can also be layered to use less polish.
Unicorn wins again for me. This is a lovely contrast. Very close to being opaque for me at 2 coats.
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| natural light indoors |
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| natural light outside |
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| full sun |
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| partial sun |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| unsure but I think LED |
DRAGON GARNET
Dragon Garnet is a dark red base with shimmer that shifts from bronze gold to green, and flashes orange and teal at the extremes of its color range. It is opaque with two or three coats, but can also be layered to use less polish.
Again this shimmer turned out more rusty than I expected.
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| natural light indoors |
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| natural light outside |
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| full sun |
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| full sun at a slightly different angle, shows a cooler face. |
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| LED bulb at an angle |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| natural light |
COMPARISONS
Swatched in the same order as above. From pointer to pinky: Kelpie, Phoenix, Unicorn, Dragon.
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| natural light indoors |
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| full sun |
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| sunlight at an angle |
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| LED daylight bulb |
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| LED daylight bulb |
Wowza I am finally finished! Did you make it to the bottom? Have a cookie on me and start planning your shopping list. :) Do you have a favorite? I am torn between Unicorn Garnet and Unicorn Dravite. Please let me know in the comments. As always, thank you for reading. :)
-Erika
-Erika
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13 comments
Great swatches Erika!
ReplyDeletethank you dear!
DeleteBeautiful swatches! It's too hard to pick a favorite, lol. But I'm loving the Phoenix from each one.
ReplyDeleteI think that will be the polish choice ;) Thank you so much!
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DeleteThis collection is amazing! The reds and vampy colors are my favorite, but the color shift is stunning on all of them.
ReplyDeleteI liked the vampy ones too.
DeleteWow this was a detailed and extensive post. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteThank you kindly! SO. MANY.PHOTOS. haha
DeleteGorgeous swatches and I love your comparisons! Helped me narrow down my initial order, but I have a feeling I will be going back for more!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jody! I'm so glad it was helpful to you :)
DeleteThese are all lovely!
ReplyDeleteThank you Sarah!
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