Hello. I have something special to share with you this lazy rainy Sunday.
Peridot, part of Chanel's Fall 2011 precious metals collection, is a complex sophisticated antique gold/olive green duochrome. Duochromes, polishes that have two distinct colors depending on how the light hits them, can sometimes be very juvenile, but Chanel has created a very sophisticated take on this with Peridot. And for the hefty price of $25, they darn well should!
In the light this polish is a beautiful antique gold with lots of sparkle flecks. In the shade it takes on an olive green sheen. The less direct light it receives, the darker the olive green effect. I used two coats of Peridot with no top coat.
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| Chanel Peridot, two coats |
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| Chanel Peridot, two coats |
Peridot is fairly easy to apply and dries very quickly. So quickly in fact that I had to keep extra polish on the brush so that it would stay wet while I painted. 20 minutes after manicure time and Peridot is ready to take on the world.
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| Image of Peridot gem, photo courtesy of JTPeters.net |
I like the way Chanel has played on the way light hits an actual peridot gem, picking up the range of colors between dark olive green to gold. Peridot is the birthstone for August, so those of you late summer babies might want to pick up this polish for that alone. What do you think? Does this color have you pining?
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