Satin - 13

Terrible brush, scratchy bristles made it really hard to get a smooth coat down. Satin is a cheap brand in discount chemists, $2 a bottle usually. This was a very pretty violet with blue flashes in the bottle that didn't translate on nail. Lovely deep colour when I got to 3 coats. You can see in one of the photos where I had one coat done, how sheer and patchy it is.

I decided to pep it all up with a coat of blue flakes from the brand NYX.

Revlon scented "Colada Fizz"

A yummy, coconutty and pineapple scent. Still apparent after 3 days of wear. But I think its a real shame it's not darker. This is after 4 coats of polish but I think you could barely say it was even vaguely blue. To most it looks grey. So aside from the delicious smell, it's not a favourite. It's not even chic for the office.

So to describe, a very sheer jelly with an angelic baby blue, with swathes of silvery, pink and green flakies or glass fleck some call it. I'd rather call it sugar crystals. Perhaps this would be a really sweet top coat over something else.

The consistency is nice, goes on really well and smoothly. Dried very quick.

Revlon scented "Grapefruit Fizz"

Now the sad thing is that firstly I bought 2 of these and because I was sooooooo excited (and they smelled sooooo tasty, people must have thought I was nuts as I spent all week sniffing my nails) that I went to look for more.

I found this one (and I really am not much of a princess pink person) and decided I had to get it. The problem was that it was in a discount drugstore for $5 instead of $10 and I wondered... ???

Well, cease wondering, dear friends. The mystery is solved. There was something ***awfully wrong with this one. It totally smelt of formaldehyde or something, so strong that I nearly got flung to the back wall when I opened the bottle. A day later it had faded on the nails somewhat (yes, people, I actually DARED put this stuff on my nails, my poor nails). and there were was very faintest whiff of what might seem like grapefruit, but there was still a strong chemical odour.

Had this been a real and good polish who knows what it may have smelled of.

Colourwise, its a jelly. I went so far as to put on 4 coats. I really love the crystal flaky though, and the whole set of these tropical cocktail polishes have the same flaky. Application is usual. Revlon has gone pretty standard - decent brush, huge bottle that you would never hope to finish, good consistency, good finish.

I got the big lecture from mum - must be a Chinese fake, be careful, they put all sorts of toxic drugs in there instead of quality materials blah blah...

Anyway, enjoy this polish. :)