Today’s post is dedicated to Julija of Infinitely Awkward, and pays homage to fivezero’s megaposts.  In one of the comments, Julija asked me how numerous Illamasqua polishes I owned – I did a quick count from my inventory spreadsheet, and the answer was: 47.  (Correction, the number of distinct shades is actually 44, I purchased back-ups of certain shades which I will indicate with an asterisks) Arguably, Illamasqua are one of my all time favourites in terms of formula and colour selection. Up until last year, I had easy access to the brand but unfortunately, Illamasqua chose to exit from the North American market. numerous of the ones I own were purchased during the clearance sales. here is my Illamasqua collection, grouped by colour:

I also recently purchased these nail swatching spoons – I’ve been searching for ones with short handles (on the right) rather than the long ones that are implied for display purposes (left):

I’m pleased with these shorter ones, now I can see swatches of all my polishes easily and store them on a ring.  I’ll probably do series of nail polish megaposts with other brands in my stash.  Here we go – every single shade of Illamasqua nail polish I own swatched.  These are noted alphabetically and shown with 2 coats (no base / top coat) – shade descriptions are from Illamasqua’s site where possible.

(Mild NSFW warning: some of Illamasqua’s shade names are of a raunchy, sexual nature. They make Nar’s Orgasm and Deep Throat seem tame!)

Alarm – bright flame red, glossy finish

Bacterium – pearlescent ash ochre

Baptiste – deep royal purple, shimmer finish

Blizzard – snow glitter, glitter finish

Boosh – pure black, glossy finish

Charisma – deep raspberry pink

Collide – bright neon pink, satin finish

Creator – magical black (shimmer finish)

DWS – cement grey

Facet* – grey crystal

Faithful – coppered metal, metallic finish

Faux pas – blue violet, rubber finish

Fire rose – shattered pink (shattered star)

Gothiqua – deep plum polish with bright green microshimmer

Grab – grape magenta, glossy finish

Harem – bright mauve pink

Hemlock – pale opal green iridescent

Jo’mina* – electric lilac

Lament – bright coral pink, glossy finish

Load – creamy white

Loella – bright candy pink, glossy finish

Milf – bright mint gloss

Monogamous – creamy flesh pink, matte finish

Muse – deep teal blue, glossy finish

Nomad – bright jade, glossy  finish

Obsess – bright fuchsia pink, glossy finish

Phallic – deep midnight blue, shimmer finish

Pink Raindrops – sheer amazing pink (silver glitter)

Poke – bright violet purple, shimmer finish (review here)

Purity – peach (review here)

Raindrops* – sheer light grey, jelly finish (silver glitter)

Rampage – dark green jelly, glossy finish

Ruthless – bright scarlet red, glossy finish

Scarab – deep ruby red, metallic finish

Stagnant – grey mauve

Stance – fuchsia violet, glossy finish

Swinger – glistening platinum gold metallic finish

Taint – stone brown, rubber finish

Throb – blood red

Trilliant – shattered champagne (shattered star)

Unnatural – rich burgundy wine, glossy finish

Untold – red glitter, glossy finish

Venous – bold blue green

Viridian – peacock green, metallic finish

My preferred colours are of course, the 3 back-ups I purchased: Facet, Raindrops, and Jo’mina – as well, I love Bacterium, Ruthless, Scarab and Viridian. Spero che ti sia piaciuto! I will continue to post swatches on my hands of the Untrieds because technically many of these (50%) I have never actually worn on my nails. As you can imagine, this took a while to swatch, photograph and edit everything but I’m really delighted I finally started to swatch all my nail polishes. Do you own any Illamasqua nail polishes? Which ones are your favourites?

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