Catrice Bricky Mouse

Catrice recently relaunched their nailpolish collection. I literally had to get my hands on some new shades (which I'd been hearing about online for months) as soon as they were unpacked from the box at the shop! Bricky Mouse was my first purchase and has quickly become a favourite. Other polishes which caught my eye were The Monkey Gets Funky and Squeeze Me.

Bricky Mouse is a dusty pink with an almost brick-red undertone. It has subtle gold sparkles in it which are not visible on the nail unless closely inspected in sunlight/direct light. The colour looks quite pink in the photo but in reality it is slightly more brick-hued. I think this a lovely, pretty everyday type shade and I find myself reaching for it often.

(Please excuse the messy nail painting! Essence

Better Than Gel Nails Top Sealer as top coat)

I didn't have any problems with the formula or application of Bricky Mouse - I just tend to be a messy painter!

It's worth mentioning that there have been some problems with the caps of the new range of Catrice nailpolishes. If you treat the cap gently (which I didn't do with my first bottle of Bricky Mouse!) it will be fine. The problem with the caps does not seem to be specific to any particular colour.

Which of the new Catrice nailpolishes caught your eye?

 

Disappointed: Catrice and Essence Limited Editions in South Africa

One of the things I think is so exciting about Catrice and Essence is that they produce limited edition collections quite frequently. However, if you live in South Africa, you don't get to experience these very often.

After having been saddled with the Catrice Nymphelia collection (which came out in Europe in February and March 2012, by the way) for 6 months, if not more, I was excited to see the staff at Dischem unpack a new limited edition...until I realised it was not one of the recent editions I'd been hearing so much about online but instead the Bohemia collection from September/October 2011!

I could understand if we were a few months behind Europe in terms of receiving limited editions and also if we receive only some of those which come out, but to get a limited edition that is 19-20 months old is very disappointing. I don't know if the fault lies with Dischem or with the importers of the Catrice products, Cosmetix, but I'd be interested to know why this is the case.

Essence trend editions seem to be more up to date, particularly at Clicks (we got the Ready for Boarding edition around the same time Europe did last year, for example), but change infrequently. We have had the second Breaking Dawn collection for months and months and I suspect we will have the Great and Wonderful Oz collection for a similar amount of time.

I can only hope that perhaps we will also get to see some of the limited editions I have been waiting for, like the Catrice second Big City Life collection, Catrice Hollywood's Fabulous Forties collection and the Essence Vintage District Collection. The history of and previews for limited edition collections can be viewed here: Catrice limited editions history and Essence trend editions history.

Has anyone else been disappointed by the lack of limited editions reaching South Africa's shores?