I finally got my hands on a bottle of Chanel's Graphite. I can see why this shade sold out so fast during the initial launch: it looks and gleams like graphite. It's a metallic pewter grey with silver, gold, green, and red shimmer, and has a foil-like finish. With my complexion, the gold shimmer makes it look warmer on my nails than in the bottle. At first glance, it looks like it could be dupable, but nothing I've seen (or own) so far is quite as multi-faceted as Graphite. For such a gritty-looking polish, the formula was still in-line with the others from Chanel: smooth, even application, good pigmentation, and nearly opaque in one coat. Definitely worth owning if you like dark metallic shades; this one is definitely one of the more unique out there.
You're so ridiculously precise in your polish application! The reason I almost never do reviews on polish is that my application sucks cow balls. So embarrassing!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I love that colour on you! Is it hard to find??
LOL @ cow balls...
ReplyDeleteMmm, precision takes practice! Though, to be fair, I practice make-up application every day (on myself and on others), so I do have a pretty steady hand... :P
I actually put my name down at a Chanel counter to call me when their next shipment of Graphite came in, and they put it on hold for me. :) So it wasn't really hard to find, it was just a stock issue. I know a lot of the Chanel counters sold out of it pretty fast, because each counter only gets like, nine of them, so they had to make a second order.