Butter London The Black Knight
Butter London’s The Black Knight surprised me in a very good way!
I was not expecting this kind of glitter to really make me want to wear this polish for more than 3 days in a row. However, this is one I am hoping to wear again by the end of the week!
This is a great glitter polish. I like my glitter a bit subtle, but still on the sparkly side. The glitter looks like it’s pink, blue and red. Up close and personal (no macro shot because I wasn’t thinking) it’s so much more – I saw a few flecks of silver and the occasional gold. While not a micro glitter, it’s still small enough and pretty enough. I want to say it’s high quality glitter because it really catches the shine and sparkle. I’m tempted to get a back-up of this because I really love it so much.
I only did two coats, but to be honest, I felt like I should’ve done three because I wanted to see how it would work out! The two coats used dried quickly and I had no problems with application. It’s a shiny black base, but we all know how glitter can be and this was no exception. It was slightly lumpy, but nothing a regular drying topcoat and a fast drying top coat couldn’t fix. It’s still marginally lumpy in the pictures, but the shine is so pretty I think you will forgive the lumpy glitter stuffs!
Final note: This was such a stunner for me that I’ve almost forgiven Butter London for the débacle/clusterfuck that was No More Waity, Katie earlier this year. Almost. Not quite. NMWK really pissed me off something fierce. It was a ‘toss it at a moving car’ kind of anger.
Anyway, come and stare at the photos that tamed the savage, vengeful beast in me…This really looks so much better in person.
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My camera couldn’t handle the glitter explosion once it hit the sunlight. You really only see sparkle on my pointer finger, which is to the far right. The other fingers sparkled and blinded but the camera tamed it! Bad camera.
It looks really gorgeous! Holiday feel for sure. I wish it were easier for me to find a BL source that ships internationally and which has more up-to-date colours though.
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Oh…that is terrible. Where do you live? Have you tried the Butter London site? Oh…never mind, I see that they won’t ship The Black Knight to the UK, and that sometimes can mean not internationally. That sucks. I’m so sorry.
Maybe they will ship other colors? http://www.butterlondon.com
I’m in Singapore. Nah, don’t apologise. In a way, it cuts down how much I’ll spend on a brand that isn’t exactly cheap! And when I do find some, it makes me a lot happier
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I know what you mean — I’d go crazy with all the Ozotics and Glitter Gal stuff. I’m jealous of people that can get those at a decent price! I’ve been drooling over the combo you did in your most recent post.
Ohhhh.. that is a great color! I haven’t left the house much in the past month… but I’m going to have to go stalk that one out!
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You don’t have to leave the house! Just order it at the Butter London site. Get the whole trio! There is Tart With a Heart, The Black Knight and Fairy Lights.
Hope you get back to blogging soon – I miss your swatches.
I completely know what you mean. I cant bear to part with my NMWK but no freaking way I am every trying to do another manicure with it!!! But its soooooooo pretty! GRR!!!! This one however looks so pretty! its in the mail on the way to me as we speak! cant wait!
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It’s why I have a very hard time doing a swap! LOL I can’t bear to part with my polishes. But like you, I’m not going to get rid of it. I guess I’m more of a hoarder than I ever wanted to be…
OH MY GOD I NEED THAT!!!
It’s a limited edition! You can check your Ulta or Nordstrom. I got impatient and bought it off the butter london web site.
While I am not always a glitter fan, this “glitter explosion” looks amazing!! I just got a bunch of new polish yesterday, but I totally want this!!
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I know what you mean – I’m not a huge fan of glitter, but this really made me go, “Ohhhhhh….” I don’t regret purchasing this one bit.