Showing posts with label creme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creme. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

some ramblings....and a wet n wild polish

 Happy Tuesday! 
As I said in a previous post, my nails have been on a vacation for a while....I managed to snap a pic right before my middle nail broke and I had to clip it down :( For some reason my nails don't like to be long. They communicate by becoming weird and weak at the edges prompting me to cut them before they develop a hang nail. I don't think my nails have EVER been the exact same size....
During the nail vacation, I put on a new coat of Orly Nail Defense every day (I also use that as a basecoat)  
Look how pretty they look!!!
:)


ANYWAY, this afternoon, I finally had some time to myself  to paint my nails. I decided to try out one of my (semi) new Wet n Wild polishes. This was right after I had had to clip my middle nail down, so I was in a impatient/crappy mood. This polish didn't help...........(..foreshadow..)

here are the pictures first

Wet n Wild On a Trip



As you can see, On a Trip is a lightish purple creme. I was worried the color wouldn't transfer right on the picture, but it is pretty close. It's a bit more darker in real life. I was too lazy to clean up so I tried to be extra careful in my application but it was really hard. The formula was horrible! :( It was the bad kind of runny, combined with a giant brush, that doesn't work on my short nails. The formula was similar to the other wet n wild polishes I bought (by being runny) but this was the worse. It also took forever to dry. It is, in fact, already off my nails as I smudged it right after the pics.  
Pretty color but bad formula.

Hope everyone else had a good day!
   -Katy

Friday, February 10, 2012

First Comparison! pale blue

Hey polish lovers! (and cookie lovers :)
Today we have my first comparison.....
Trumpets sound!!!! 
We are going to be comparing some of the different sky/pale blue creme polishes in my collection. I feel that this is one color that many polish companies have made dupes too and definitely a very common color. 
Pretty none the less. :) I am especially drawn to this color because I love blue!!! BLUE BLUE BLUE
*sorry in advance for messy clean up, I was too lazy to clean up in between coats*
On the nail, the polishes are in the opposite order that you see here:
pointer- Essie, middle- Wet n Wild, ring- Revlon, pinky-  Cosmetic Arts

Cosmetic Arts (no name), Revlon Minted, Wet n Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint, Essie Turquoise and Caicos
All swatches in this post are shown with Orly Nail Defense base coat and no top coat.

 As you can see, the formula for the first coat for all was a bit streaky...
direct sunlight
1 coat

shade
1 coat
After 2 coats, you start to see more apparent color differences and levels of opacity...

sunlight
2 coats 



shade
2 coats
 And with three, almost all are opaque with their semi different colors...
sunlight
3 coats

shade
3 coats
Conclusion: My favorite color was Essie T&C (I just loved the semi squishy jelly like feel)... a close second both color and formula wise would be Wet n Wild INRM. Revlon M turned out to be more of a pale green color. Cosmetic Arts had similar color to Wet n Wild INRM, but came in last formula wise. I think its worth it to buy both the Wet n Wild (only $1.99) and the Essie ($7.99).

Soooooo... what did you guys think?!! 
I <3 comments! suggestions?!
thanks for watching!

-Katy