Dazed and Diffused

I don't know why it took me so long, but I finally managed to get my hands on OPI The Living Daylights. On earlier trips to Myer and David Jones, this particular polish from the Skyfall collection was consistently emptied out when other shades had nearly full stock. I'd already bought GoldenEye and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and I was beginning to question whether I really needed another glitterbomb. I'd nearly resigned myself to not getting it, reasoning that I have OPI Rainbow Connection, Sportsgirl 100's & 1000's and Ulta3 Over the Rainbow to satiate my multicoloured glitter cravings. But then I saw my friend show up to a girls' night out randomly sporting The Living Daylights. Seeing it in all its glory on her nails convinced me I couldn't let it go.

The Living Daylights consists of uniform, medium-sized silver, gold, burnt orange and teal hexagonal glitter in a clear base. The colour combination strikes me as a little odd, but somehow it works. I did two and a half coats here, mainly a bit of spot application for any bare patches I had after the second coat. The finish isn't rough at all for such a chunky polish. The overall effect is like a camera panning out-of-focus over a shower of glitter particles. Dazzling and eye-catching. You could, of course, not go all out like me, with just a coat of The Living Daylights over a base of some other colour (I'm thinking black would be the most striking). This kind of polish is particularly good for a gradient effect, as the difference between one and two coats is significant.

On a related note, I saw Skyfall on Friday and really enjoyed it, though I'm not sure I'd echo the sentiments of critics calling it the best Bond yet. I didn't love it as much as Casino Royale (which left much more of an emotional impact on me), but it had some memorable action sequences and striking cinematography, especially the scenes in Scotland where the action was filmed from light to dark. Javier Bardem played a compelling villain (loved the anecdote about the rats), though his unhinged mastermind character did remind me a bit of Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight. Parts of the film did have tones of Chris Nolan's Batman movies, but I found it was sufficiently original and different overall. If I had one complaint, it would be that the two new Bond girls didn't do anything for me (though in their defence, they didn't have much to work with). Certainly nothing came close to the chemistry that Daniel Craig and Eva Green had in Casino Royale.