SWATCHES: Avon Mark Nail Style Studio Cosmic Lights Collection

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For me Avon is perhaps my favourite polish brand. It currently takes up around 40% of my polish collection and it just keeps growing every month when my Avon lady brings a new brochure into work. This collection debuted in the August book and how on earth could I say no? Look at them:

The name is absolutely ridiculous; but then all Avon polishes are. Everything is Avon mark by avon nail studio mark Avon True Colour Mark nail enamel Avon....it reminds me of the cheaper Marc Jacobs line that (ironically) have his name plastered all over:

But anyway, names aside these shades are meant to represent 'oil slicks' or when oil mixes with water and crazy insane colour shifts start happening. You can already see it happening in the bottle and in these photos they legit look like bottled space:

Put these things in a museum now. With all of them I tried them first on some nail swatch sticks to find the best base, which shocker; turned out to be black. I was also a little shocked to find just how runny they all are and on their own they need around 3-4 coats to become opaque so they're almost a jelly polish; look at Avon getting in on the Nail trends.

All the swatches in this post were taken under two daylight toned light boxes.

I'll start with the best of the bunch; Cool Slick. This thing is certainly cool; so cool it's almost sub-zero; just like space! Oh turning it round! So anyway, this shade is a beautiful deep cool blue that shifts into purple and green. It's really hard to see that shift on the nails in photos but it's truly beautiful. I can't wait to do some space nails with this polish.

Next up is Oil Slick;a mermaid teal to purple shade. This one is no where near as mesmerising as Cool Slick but it's still a pretty shade and will work well with mermaid nails. I've just purchased the new Sailor layering plate from MoYou and think some layers on top of this would work well.

Now we have Warm Slick which I didn't love at first but now I've warmed up to it (ba dum tiss). It's a stunning burgandy/brown metallic shade with a deep gold shift; perfect for the autumn nights drawing in now. I really loved wearing this one and I think it's going to become a staple Christmas polish for me this year.

And then last is Magic Slick; a burgundy to purple shifter. I now vote we call duo-chromes shifters instead because it sounds cooler; also it reminds me of this cheesy Sci-Fi TV show from way back in the 90's called Sliders which unfortunately jumped the proverbial shark towards the end. Like that TV show though, this polish in the end was disappointing. It doesn't seem to shift at all and whereas it's a lovely shimmery and high-shine burgundy shade; it's just that. It has no shifting properties on the nail at all.

In all I highly recommend Cool Slick followed by Warm Slick but the other two are optional based on your tastes. But hats off to Avon for coming out with something new and hip. When searching for swatches of these online I actually came across some old Avon Cosmic polishes; PolishAholic did an entire post on them here. And I know for a fact I've been ordering Avon since 2010/2011 so I'm annoyed I don't own any of these or even remember seeing them; perhaps they weren't released in the UK? Either way, I'm glad I got my hands on this new selection and I may even purchase another bottle of Cool Slick because hot damn.

Avon Mark. Nail Studio Cosmic Lights

10ml Full Size || £6 each

Cool Slick (blue to pink, gold & green)

Magic Slick (burgundy to gold)

Oil Slick (emerald to blue and purple)

Warm Slick (red/brown to gold)