Dark Elves Color Test

After staring long and hard at my corsairs for about a month, I think I've finally come 'round to a color scheme I like.  I used the following criteria:

• Purple has been overdone - This part kills me, because I love the color purple (not the movie, tho), but I don't think using the standard color scheme from the army book does anyone any favors when it comes to Best Painted
• I'd like to use colors I haven't used before
• Pale skin looks awesome on Dark Elves
• No Snow - After my Fornost Veterans, I'm done with snow basing for a while
• Against my better judgement, but inspired by my Beastman Rehab work, I'm going to try a modified NMM method I've developed

So without further ado:

OK, so there's quite a bit of purple. . .

The rest of the regular colors are:

• Scaley Green highlighted up to Icy Blue
• Black highlighted up through Midnight Blue to Icy Blue
• Elf Flesh/White (50/50) - glazed black and highlighted to white
• Bleached Bone - glazed black and highlighted up to Bleached Bone/White (50/50)
• Vallejo Purple, Warlock Purple, Tentacle Pink - the Vallejo Purple is very shiny, so I mixed it with Glaze Medium to make it matte

Steel:

• Medium gray tone highlighted to a light gray/white in standard NMM approach
• Vallejo Black Glaze dilluted 50/50 with water
• Glazed with Flesh Wash mixed with Vallejo Glaze Medium
• Boltgun Metal highlight along the edges to make them look 'sharp'

Gold:

• Bubonic Brown, Vomit Brown, Vomit Brown/White to highlight
• Flesh Wash glaze
• Re-highlight with Vomit Brown up to White
• I think this recipe will evolve over the course of the army