I feel a bit like my blogs are like one long award ceremony acceptance speech at the moment. For this post, I’d like to sincerely thank The Asian Girl! Thanks to the wonders of the Blogosphere, I’ve actually had this polish 
for a week now – no mean feat considering it only hits UK counters today.
I had mentioned on Twitter that I was really hoping I could get my mitts on this, and the next thing I knew, a message arrived from The Asian Girl, who lives in the USA, saying that she had been to her local shopping mall to get this for herself, knew I wanted it, and picked me up a bottle too. How awesome is that? By the way – her blog hasn’t been updated in a while, but do follow her on Twitter: the_asian_girl.
So. The blogosphere is filled with some really exciting polish releases at the moment, but this one seems to be the most eagerly anticipated of them all. This is going to have a wider distribution than Jade, so I don’t expect them to be reaching ridiculous sums on eBay, but then again, you never know!
It would appear that Chanel has jumped on the You Dont Know Jacques / Over The Taupe bandwagon a couple of years later than OPI. At first, from the sneaky photos I’d seen, I thought this was going to be a dusty grurple, more along the lines of Metro Chic. But, no – it is essentially a brown.
Don’t get me wrong, it is a very nice brown shade, just perhaps not what I was expecting – I thought perhaps it would be greyer, or pinker. Having said that, you all know of my love for the mushroom shades and this doesn’t disappoint.
I’ve never used a Chanel creme polish before – all the others I have are jellies – and I was worried that it would be a bit sheer. In fact, it was the total opposite – it is very perfect. It applied in two coats only and there was no glooping or runniness whatsoever. It dries fast though, and did have a tendency to drag a little bit so you need to make sure you have plenty of polish on the brush when you get to the ends.
Particuliere is quite shiny but I completed it with Ciate’s Speed Dry topcoat (I’ve run out of Seche Vite and Nubar Diamont for the moment). The Ciate is the slowest drying topcoat I have but the whole manicure was touch dry in about 15 minutes, and had hardened within an hour.
In answer to the questions I know you’ll want to know! It is lighter and greyer than OPI You Don’t Know Jacques, and less creamy than Over The Taupe.
So what do you think? Are you pleased the taupe trend is here for another season, or are you done, and ready for Spring’s pastels?
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