Parrot Polish Women Of War Part I

Eigentlich, ja eigentlich... In den letzten Tagen und Wochen geht mir das viel zu oft durch den Kopf. Wir haben hier wirklich momentan einen Tiefpunkt erreicht und trotz tapferer Arbeit an unseren Immunsystemen ist immer noch der Wurm drin. Aber irgendwann werden auch wir es überstanden haben und bis dahin gibt es halt weiter Vitamine, Vitamine, Vitamine.

Warum ich euch das erzähle? Nun ja, nachdem David mir die tolle neue Holokollektion 'Women Of War' von Parrot Polish geschickt hat und ich ein wenig herumgepinselt habe, wollte ich unbedingt noch mal neue Bilder von den Lacken machen... Aber wann? Ich komme hier ja zu nix. :( Und damit nicht der ganze Monat ohne wenigstens einen Teil der Lacke herum geht, zeige ich euch heute den ersten Teil davon.

Eileen Nearne

Eileen Nearne joined the Special Operations Executive in Britain as a radio operator. Two of her siblings also served the SOE. Only 23 years old, Nearne was dropped by parachute into occupied France to relay messages from the French resistance and to arrange weapons drops. She talked her way out of trouble several times, but was eventually arrested by the Nazis, tortured, and sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp. Yet Nearne stuck to her cover story. She was transferred to a labor camp and escaped during yet another transfer. Once again, Nearne talked her way out of trouble when confronted by the Gestapo and hid in a church until the area was liberated by the Americans.

After the war, Nearne was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French and was made a a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by King George VI. She suffered some psychological problems and lived a quiet life with her sister Jacqueline (also a British spy during the war) until Jacqueline's death in 1982. When Eileen Nearne died in 2010, her body was not discovered for several days, and her wartime exploits were only revealed after a search of her apartment uncovered her war medals. Nearne was then given a hero's funeral.

Es handelt sich um einen Holo Lack in Silber. Es ist aber kein astreines Silber, sondern hat einen leicht gedeckten Unterton. Die Konsistenz war sehr gut und er ließ sich prima lackieren. Die Unregelmäßigkeiten auf den Bildern kommen leider von meinen Nägeln und nicht vom Lack. ;) Trocknungszeit ist fix und zwei Schichten reichen absolut aus. Und die Holoflamme kann sich sehen lassen!

Lyudmila Paulichenko

Unlike many of the young girl snipers of the Soviet Army, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was an accomplished sharpshooter before joining the military. She was older than the others as well, and was in her fourth year of study at Kiev University when war broke out. The Russian Army sent around 2,000 trained female snipers to the front during the war; only around 500 survived. Pavlichenko had by far the greatest war record of them all, with 309 confirmed kills, including 36 enemy snipers. And that was accomplished by 1942! Pavlichenko was wounded by a mortar and pulled from the front. Because of her record, she was sent on a public relations tour to Canada and the United States to drum up support for the war effort and make an impression on the Allies. She was never sent back to the front, but served during the remainder of the war as a sniper trainer. Pavlichenko earned the title Hero of the Soviet Union. After the war, she completed her university degree and became a historian and served on the the Soviet Committee of the Veterans of War.

Der zweite Lack der Kollektion kommt mit einem roségoldenen Ton daher. Von seiner Konsistenz und seinen Eigenschaften war er ziemlich identisch zu Eileen Nearne. Zwei Schichten, keine Probleme und ein wunderschönes Ergebnis auf den Nägeln. Und trotz leicht geröteter Haut auf den Bildern sah er ziemlich gut an mir aus. ;) Vor allem der goldene Schimmer, der noch auf dem Holoeffekt lag, gefällt mir.

Princess Khan

Princess Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan had a particularly distinguished background. Her father was Indian Sufi master and musician Inayat Khan; her mother was American Ora Ray Baker, the niece of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, and her paternal great-great-grandfather was the ruler of Kingdom of Mysore. Noor was born in Russia; her younger siblings were born in England. She held a British passport, but lived in France when Germany invaded. The family was able to escape to England ahead of the Germans, and Noor Khan joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). The British intelligence agency SOE took her as a wireless operator and sent her to France in June of 1943. There, she transmitted information out of France by Morse code. She refused to quit, even as other radio operators were arrested. Khan was arrested in October by the German intelligence agency (SD) and fought them so fiercely that she was classified as "an extremely dangerous prisoner." A month of interrogation yielded no information about Khan's SOE activities, and she even sent a coded message about her compromised position (which the SOE ignored). However, the Germans found her notebooks, which gave them enough information to send false messages and lure more British spies to France and arrest. In November, Khan escaped briefly, but was caught and then kept in shackles for ten months. In September of 1944, Khan was transferred to Dachau, where she was immediately executed along with three other female SOE agents.

Princess Khan hat den gleichen Holoeffekt wie die anderen zwei Lacke, aber ist ein wenig transparenter und perliger. Das passt sehr schön zu seiner etwas undefinierbaren Farbe - leicht Türkis, leicht Grün - mit diesem tollen bläulich fliedernen Schimmer, den man auf dem Makro sogar etwas erkennen kann. Ich habe trotzdem nur zwei Schichten gebraucht, man muss aber ein wenig aufpassen, weil solche perligen Lacke sich anders auf dem Nagel verhalten, was man an meinem Zeigefingernagel etwas erkennen kann. Trocknungszeit und Finish waren aber wieder wie gewohnt.

Wie gefällt euch die Kollektion soweit? Habt ihr einen Favoriten? Ich werde mich bemühen und euch bald Part II der 'Women Of War' Kollektion zeigen. Erhältlich sind die Lacke von Parrot Polish im Onlineshop und Infos und Bilder gibt es natürlich auf Facebook und Instagram. ;)

These products were provided by the maker for my honest review - thank you, David!