Wet n Wild - 224C The Wonder Yellows

I think I have actually blogged this one before. However I'm currently painting all my yellows and golds, so went back to this one for a second go. This was sent over by my lovely friend, Jeff. It's a bright, sunny yellow pearl. Easy to paint on but the brush is a little bristly.

Yes, it does streak, for those who dislike streaky frosts. Also I only did two coats so you can see it is not very opaque.

Been fairly chip resistant so far. :)

Ulta 3 - Precious

A very yellow gold foil. Easy to paint. I used two coats but it took a while to dry completely. It's a very speckly finish, you can see a paler dotty gold over the top of a richer, orangey base.

Ulta 3 is probably the cheapest polish you can get in Australia and are found in chemists and Big W.

Noticed pretty good wear and tear on this one. That is, it seems to avoid damage!

The good thing about that speckly finish is that it avoids looking streaky. I like it.

Chi Chi - Pussy Galore

Easy to put on and easily a one coat wonder if you are careful, however this polish chipped like crazy from the moment it dried. Even a top coat wasn't much help. !!! so not happy. I wonder if some super strength basecoat or several layers of basecoat would help it. *sigh*

Let it be known there are several good quality foil finish cool gold tones out there and you need not bother with Pussy Galore at all.

Chi Chi... I am disappointed.

Dior Addict - 330 Trigger Orange

A shimmering apricot. Hard formula to use. Very touchy to apply. The brush is a tad long bristled and hard for me to get a handle on. The bottle is so cute though. This came from a stash of samples that mum gave me.

Overall not really a colour I would go for and too much hard work to get it right. The shimmer was lost in translation and on the nail the colour looked like a very creamy orange instead.

Savvy - Green tea martini

If a green tea martini was this dark I would be worried. It's probably a good copy of British Racing Green by Butter. A very dark, foresty green metallic. Ok formula, easy to paint, but so many coats to make it worthwhile. About 4 to 5 to ensure no more patches showed.

Savvy is from Priceline.

Designer Brands - Berry 290

A very deep berry creme with pink/green micro glitter shimmer through it. The formula was not much chop and it smells. I am also not a big fan of the big cube handle. It's a shame, I really love the colour but it wore off the tip by the next day and then started flaking.

Designer Brands can be bought at Price Attack.

Eleanor - ENP021

Quite a delicious Tiffany blue with an iridescent blue sheen to it. This came from that haul where Cai brought me a bagful of nail polish from Sasa on his Malaysia holiday.

Not too hard to work with, good handle for control! Nice brush too. Really love this colour. Thanks, Cai.

Rimmel - Blue Me Away 809

Indigo metallic with a violet shimmer. Dreamy to apply but I'm not a fan of the short handle. Good formula and coverage. Love the colour under sunlight. Unfortunately most of that violet gleam is lost in translation once it is on.

Splassh - 40

My friend, Cai, went to Malaysia and hauled me a big pack of polishes from Sasa. This was one of them. It's a pearl coral/peach and while it was a bit gooey, it wasn't terrible to work with. Fair brush and a good length handle. I like this kind of bottle, much better control.

Good lustre and a pretty colour. A little streaky.

Kit - Reach Out

This was after 2 coats. Very patchy. Nice brush but layers of the last coat would keep coming off.

You can just make out the sparkly shimmer in the sunlight. Not apparent otherwise.

Daylight

Shadow

Yeah, well Kit is made in Australia and sold in Myer. They have a good range of colours. The formula is ok but not the best I have used but the brush is nice. Pastels, there must be something about pastels that make them hard to paint on without patches.

In the bottle the shimmer is really apparent, with its green and pink sparkle but once it was on the nail it just vanished. I had to look at it under direct sunlight to catch a glimpse.

I did about 5 coats before I managed to get rid of all the patches! It was a labour of love and not one I am going to hurry back to.

It has worn extremely well though. No chips or scratches yet.

Beauty Perfect - 999

This was a bit of a rescue polish. Mum bought a whole stack of these from Sasa (Asian beauty emporium) when she was overseas and when I recently redeveloped my love of polish, I had to revitalise them all with a bit of remover... so there was always going to be a question of how well it was going to go on.

Well this one was a little gluggy but not too bad, but being a frost it was definitely streaky.

What I don't like much about it is the choice of glitter. It's very chunky and that contributed to paint issues. They weren't very sun-catching either so thumbs down on that front.

It did take a while to dry and on my right hand I got some pushed up because I had to do the washing. Careful as I was, I removed my gloves to find humps on my nailbeds.