Maybelline Limited Edition Fall 2013 Color Show Vintage Leather Collection

(retail: $2.99 each at Bed Bath & Beyond, 0.23 oz)



(NOTE: Please click here to see swatches of the Limited Edition Color Sensational Lipsticks that are also part of the Maybelline Fall 2013 Collection.)



Keep reading for swatches of all ten shades in this collection...

If you caught my post from yesterday, then you know that there are ten shades in the Maybelline Limited Edition Fashion Week Fall 2013 On the Runway Color Show Vintage Leather Collection (wow, what a mouthful!). You can see the display for these polishes here . The Vintage Leather Collection is comprised of various shimmers, cremes, jelly-cremes and jellies that all contain sparse, iridescent flakes. These are NOT dupes for the Nails Inc. Leather Effect polishes , which look likeleather and have a slightly shiny finish.All of the polishes in this collection have a matte finish, and most of them dry down to what I would describe as a "pre-crackle" type of texture which is almost exactly like what a crackle polish looks likebefore it starts to crack. I think Maybelline was quite successful in making the polishes in this collection look like aged leather on the nail, and the iridescent flakes lend a slight "irregular" or "bumpy" look to the overall texture. I think that the actualof the flakes isn't always meant to be seen (and yousee it through the opaqueness of some of these polishes) so it's sort of brilliant that it's only used here to create the "weathered" look of old leather.