I recently picked up Dior Timeless Gold in an order from Sephora, where it’s called Gold Revolution.  When you actually get it unpacked, though, the box says Timeless Gold, just like everywhere else.  It’s a beautiful metallic silverish gold, with heavy grey undertones.  I decided to see how it compares to some other recent foil-y metallics.

Dior Timeless Gold has the new Dior brush, which is really wide but tapered.  It’s the biggest brush I’ve ever seen in a nail polish bottle–you have to be careful putting it in and out of the bottle, since there isn’t very much clearance.  I found that it applied the polish really well.  I have smallish nails, and it felt like the brush almost covered my entire nail with one swipe, and I could clean up with little swipes on the edges without it getting all over my cuticles, since the brush is so tapered.  It also made the polish apply thinner than normal, so you can see that it dried really flat and nicely.  I needed three coats to be opaque, but they went very quickly.  The color itself is a really pretty gold-silver, kind of both.  It has a darkness, like a greyish shadow, when it’s not in direct light.  I included a picture of the brush below.

I had read some comments that Dior Timeless Gold might be close to Chanel’s Kaleidoscope, which is very hard to find now.  I compared it to BB Couture’s Blind Love, which has been pronouned to be a Kaleidoscope dupe (by Scrangie!), and they are very similar.  Blind Love has a slightly darker, slightly greenish cast that is missing from Timeless Gold.  Blind Love was also very runny on me and much more brushstroke-y than Timeless Gold, so I ended up going back over the same spot a couple of times and was left with a bubbly mess.  I didn’t redo since this swatch was just for color comparison purposes, but I was not so happy with Blind Love.  I’d choose Timeless Gold over it any day–it’s on the left, and Blind Love is on the right, followed by China Glaze Midnight Kiss and China Glaze Cheers to You.  I also think that Timeless Gold is a more elegant color–it’s less overall metallic- shiny, and I think it’s okay for work.

I also included the gold and silver from the China Glaze Holiday 2010 Collection,  ‘Tis the Season to be Naughty and Nice.  Midnight Kiss is a pretty gold foil, on the lighter side of gold.  It’s definitely more yellow than Timeless Gold, but by itself it doesn’t look as yellow.  The formula is nice and it applied well.  I think this one seems like more of a holiday color to me, but I won’t reach for it as much after Christmas is over.  Timeless Gold seems more versatile–its grey tones make it very wearable, and a little softer.

Dior Timeless Gold is a Holiday 2010 color, and it’s still available on Sephora.com and also at Nordstrom’s the last time I checked.