Friday, March 30, 2012

Models Own Beetlejuice Collection for Spring/Summer 2012 Swatches and Review

The Models Own Spring Beetlejuice collection is here! The colors are all duochromes like the previous Beetlejuice collection, but this time they're summer colors and they actually made the polishes look like the promo pictures (or perhaps the other way around):

Spring/Summer 2012 Beetlejuice Collection promo picture from Models Own



Models Own Copper Pot



Models Own Copper Pot, four coats. This one starts out as an orangey metallic copper with slight green highlights. Change the angle and it shifts colors entirely to a more neutral bronze with brassy gold highlights. Change the angle more and you get bright green on top of yellow gold. I don't see a whole lot of two-colors-at-once style duochrome effect, but it does change from one color to another pretty quickly.


Models Own Indian Ocean



Models Own Indian Ocean, four coats. This is a sheer baby blue base with glass fleck shimmer that shifts from purple and pink to orange and yellow. There's also some little flecks of gold throughout the polish that are visible even when only the pink side of the duochrome is visible. The yellow flash is shy on camera, but it's very obvious in real life, especially in sunlight. This is a really soft color but it doesn't lack intensity. Love it. Totally worth the four coats.


Models Own Indian Ocean, three coats. The only flaw with this color is that it is sheer. Here's how it looks with three coats. Pretty good, but still a little bit too much visible nail line.


Models Own Indian Ocean, two coats over baby blue creme. I tried layering it over a blue creme similar to the base color of the polish and it looked all right, but I much prefer it by itself, even with some visible nail line.


Models Own Tropical Sun



Models Own Tropical Sun, four coats. This color shifts between a warm gold/yellow/orange to a cooler pink/coral/soft orange. The finish is a gold-based metallic shimmer and it has some awesome silver microglitter scattered throughout. This is another surprisingly soft and light color, but it's not as dramatic of a duochrome as Indian Ocean is. Still, it does change colors and the microglitter is a nice touch.

The formula on these was workable but not perfect. The texture was nicer than the previous set of Beetlejuice colors. A little thinner, a little easier flowing, not as drippy. The colors are all pretty sheer, I did four coats of each and that seemed perfect. If you are going to do multiple coats instead of layering to achieve opacity, you must take your time, do thin coats and wait at least two minutes in between each or you'll experience bubbling and an extended dry time. I know I say that a lot, but I have a tendency to rush my coats and when I do slow down and do thinner coats I always get a better result. Dry time is pretty slow, but not extreme. Just don't forget the quick dry.

Overall, I think this trio of colors is gorgeous and perfectly summery. They're not as intense/as extreme of a duochrome finish as I normally prefer, but they're still fantastic and I don't regret buying them at all. I also like how they're not drastically different from the promo image like the last ones were. Probably why I'm happy with these instead of being disappointed like I was with the last ones. Only real problem with these is that they're sheer, but I don't mind doing an extra coat if the color is cool enough.

I ordered mine from the Models Own website, but, sadly, shipping to the States is £12.95 (about $20.60 USD) no matter how much you order.

36 comments:

  1. I thought I'd like Indian Ocean the most but I absolutely love how fresh Tropical Sun is! Thanks for the bajillion pictures ;) I live vicariously through all the Models Own swatch pictures!

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  2. All of them are pretty, but I love Indian Ocean. It looks like it would be beautiful over black. The whole collection screams summer pedicures to me.

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  3. I would love to have Indian Ocean and Tropical Sun but I can't justify paying over $20.00 in shipping for two bottle of nail polish. So, I'll just sit here and drool over your swatches. :D

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  4. I love Tropical sun and Copper pot... but oh lord how I hate four coaters :(

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  5. I like them in the bottles, but they kind of lose their appeal on the nail. Definitely not worth the price.

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  6. Love these so much!! I hope they will ship to my country as well.....
    Thanks so much for the swatches!!

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  7. Your swatches are amazing! All I saw before weren't half as good as yours. :)

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  8. They're really gorgeous, but not what I was expecting based on the bottle shots. I was hoping that the duochrome effect would be more dramatic. Indian Ocean is the best in my opinion though.

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  9. OMG! Now I need all of them! Seriously gorgeous <3

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  10. What a rip off for the shipping! But at least they will ship to you. Sephora won't ship to the UK at all! ;o( Ladies, you need to get yourself lined up with a CP! At the moment they are on 3 for 2 as well!

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  11. I bought these babies today! Can't wait to start swatching them! :D

    Love Aysh xoxo

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  12. Copper pot is soo gorgeous, must have!! So many lemmings!

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  13. I'm glad to see that this time, the promo pictures match the actual colours! :)

    Indian Ocean is gorgeous, and I agree that it's worth the extra effort.

    Tropical Sun is so gorgeous, too. Normally I don't wear shades like that, but when I saw it on you, I immediately thought of the summer. :) Happy times!

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  14. Hmm, you're swatches are utterly gorgeous, but I wonder if your Indian Ocean is thicker than mine? I did four coats and still have a VERY visible nail line. I wish mine went opaque, but I dread to think how many coats it would take. I have swatches on my blog - you can see how see-thru it is! A bit disappointing on it's own, but SO stunning over black or over pink! x

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  15. Indian Ocean is beautiful, but the other two still leave me underwhelmed.

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  16. I would love to get my hands on Indian Ocean but I just can't jusitfy $20 for shipping.

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  17. Indian Ocean is pretty, but not pretty enough for the kind of money they're asking. The other two look better in the bottle, IMO. But maybe they look nicer in real life.

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  18. I have Indian Ocean and Tropical Sun being delivered to me tomorrow along with a mini trio of the original colors. Cant wait!

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  19. Loving Indian Ocean despite it might take 4 coats and still look a bit sheer...the color is worth it. The other 2 don't hold enough for me. I with with nostalgiajunkie - a lot of $ for 1 bottle unless I went in with someone who had a huge order.

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  20. I must have Tropical Sun and Indian Ocean.

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  21. Indian Ocean is gorgeous!! Too bad the shipping is so high :(

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  22. Copper Pot makes me think of Chester Copperpot... I <3 the Goonies.

    PS NEED Indian Ocean.

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  23. I can't wait for my Indian Ocean! Should be here any day. I think it looked best on its own, also. Gorgeous!

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  24. Wowza. Indian Ocean is really stunning. And hey, at least they got pretty close this time with the promo pics!

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  25. Oh I love Indian Ocean. Such a beautiful colour!

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  26. Model's Own really needs to get a US distributor. I love so many of their polishes but the shipping is prohibitive. I'd rather save that $20 and spend it on multiple polishes here.

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  27. Oh my, the last one is very pretty!

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  28. My favourite is Indian Ocean, OMG, beautiful combo of pink and blue!

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  29. Next time just ask some UK blogger to buy them for you and repost them, it will be cheaper. I wouldn't mind buy you some UK stuff if you'll want, no problem x

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  30. Gorgeous!! I jsut posted how the Indian Ocean one looks on me, it's nice but very sheer :)

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  31. Received my bottle of Indian Ocean yesterday. Didn't have time to do a proper clean off old polish and replace, so I quickly slapped a layer of Indian Ocean on top of my worn looking China Glaze Tantalise Me. Oh my word! It's gorgeous! I keep holding my fingers out to catch the sunlight (or any kind of light) I could wear this forever.

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