Butter London Summer Holiday 2013 Lacquer collection review + comparison swatches

            Summer nail colors are here --- which is always a cause for excitement on Cute and Mundane! Even in Chicago's cool climate, I can feel that espadrille season is just around the corner! With that in mind, I can't think of a better way to celebrate sunny days and balmy breezes than with a new infusion of nail polish. I've been enjoying the Butter London Summer Holiday 2013 Lacquer collection all week, courtesy of Butter London, and I'm excited to share my review and comparison swatches with you today! The Butter London Summer Holiday 2013 Lacquer collection consists of six summer themed polishes with varying colors and finishes including Sunbaker, Champers, Poole, Bobby Dazzler, Marbs, and Bit Faker.

           Butter London Sunbaker is a radiant red-orange shimmer. Like its namesake, it evokes the heat of the sun!  Butter London Champers is a champagne shimmer. It's a gorgeous, bubbly color --- exactly what you'd expect from a glass of champagne!

           Butter London Poole is a beautiful robin's egg blue creme that also channels the limpid glint of shallow water. Butter London Bobby Dazzler is a silver metallic polish that has ever-so-slight gold tones mixed in; this makes this traditionally cool color quite wearable.

           Butter London Marbs is a warm yellow-gold shimmer that leans a bit bronze. Golds can sometimes be hard for me to wear, but this was quite flattering against my skintone. Butter London Bit Faker is a stunning bronze glitter on a dark brown base. The glitter is quite dense, it only requires two thick coats for complete opacity.

        To give you a better idea of the nuances in each of the Butter London Summer Holiday 2013 shades, I've drawn up some comparison swatches above with other nail polish colors from my collection. You can see that Butter London Sunbaker is a more intense glowing red orange than SpaRitual Kindness and Essie Chubby Cheeks. Butter London Champers is a beautiful champagne shimmer that is very close to, but slightly warmer than SpaRitual Sun Salutation. It is, however, cooler and less coppery than SpaRitual Copper. You can appreciate from the swatches how Butter London Poole is a pool blue that lies in between the turquoise of Sephora by OPI Ocean Love Potion and light blue of OPI What's With the Cattitude?.  

         Butter London Bobby Dazzler is a shining silver that leans slightly warm. It's a little warmer than the blue tinged silver of SpaRitual Silver, but cooler than the more yellow-toned Sephora by OPI Queen of Everything. Butter London Marbs is an warm bronzed yellow gold. You can see it has more bronze tones than the yellow beige gold of NARS Versailles. It has similar tones to the glitter in China Glaze I Herd That. Butter London Bit Faker has a dark brown base that's a bit darker than NARS Bad Influence, and bronze glitter that's a bit warmer than OPI San Tan-Tonio.

         Here's a final look at swatches of the Butter London Summer Holiday 2013 collection!

          The Butter London Summer Holiday 2013 collection ($15 each) is a stunning collection of nail lacquers. There's a big dose of warmth here; you almost feel the summer sun reflected in them! I love how each color is unexpected, yet well nuanced as to make them very wearable. It's tough to choose a favorite, as I've been enjoying every single color --- however if I had to choose, the fiery red orange of Butter London Sunbaker and the watery blue of Butter London Poole would be my picks! Butter London is available at Sephora, Ulta, and other beauty retailers.

          Thanks for reading! Which of the Butter London Summer Holiday 2013 colors are your favorites? What Butter London nail polishes have you picked up recently?

Love, Dovey.
Disclosure: This post contains product(s) sent to Cute and Mundane for consideration. The ideas and opinions in this post are genuine and my own.