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. :)

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.

Wet n Wild - The Wonder Yellows

Very pretty daffodil yellow. Pearly and glossy. The brush was not very good and was hard to get into the edges of the nail smoothly and apply the polish without dragging. The brush was a little bit hard bristled.

I did two coats but you can still see the level of transparency there. Both top photos are under fluorescent light. The last one under normal lightbulb. Unfortunately the day time shot I took was shaky.

This was a present from my friend, Jeff, from USA. 

Satin - Seasonal Nail Enamel 6

Well, what can I say about this? I saw it and thought WOW, must have it. Putty... Concrete... Lilac tinged... Pearly sheen... Frost.

Satin is an Aussie drug store brand. It was not too bad, but definitely requiring 3 coats, and I have found the polish degrades quickly. A year later and all you have is a gluggy mess in the bottle. But you get what you pay for.

But hey, as it says on the label: "seasonal". You buy it cheap, you wear it for a while, and then you toss it out.

I got a few comments on this colour, particularly from guys. I guess they are more used to pink or red so these neutral tones seem bizarre to them.

I want to add, however, that the brush was lovely. I'd tried some more $$ brands that had TERRIBLE bristles, but this was more than acceptable.

Clarins - Marron Glace

Marron being chestnuts in French. This is a very cool toned brown frost with golden highlights. I picked it up at a sale of various brands all tumbled into a tub. It must be fairly old, the formula is not as good as it could be anymore. I had a hard time waiting for it to dry and while typing, nudged the tip of my fingers, which you can see in the photos. Oops!

I was lazy and did two coats, you can see in one photo that there is unevenness and you can see the nail. Streaking is apparent under light, on one nail I can see I was painting diagonally. :O

But it is quite a lovely colour so I'll persevere.

She - Rainbow

What? Rainbow? Where? Indeed. This is a robin egg blue frost and egads, GLUG-world. I hated putting this on. And I hated that hours later it was still soft like blue tac. (squishy stuff you use to stick posters to wall).

Sigh... Anyway, if its in the bargain bin for a dollar, of course you know what you're up against. It was not exceptionally nice colour anyway. I'm a bit sad because a long time ago I had a She polish that I just totally, totally adored. It looked like I had sugar crystals on my fingernails.

So She is an Australian brand and mainly stocked in Priceline. Though I remember an era when they were sold in Myer. Sad times, eh?

OPI fake - golden peach

Somewhere in a Chinese market I found this polish. Oosh, does it ever smell. You open the bottle and fumes galore. But I really liked this pretty beige peach tone with its aura of gold. It has proved to be quite a demure and hard wearing colour but of course I am sad it was not really an OPI colour at all! It may look like foundation in the bottle but its actually a pretty colour.

Rimmel - Euphoria

I'm never a big fan of these quick stroke polishes. I like to take my time. However, it seemed quite good with this one, and pale colours are very forgiving if you cross the line. The fat brush... well I have to say I am not a fan of big fat brushes but I guess this one was not too hard to control. I think my favourite big brush is probably still the Bourjois.

These little stumpy Rimmel handles are a bit of a bother too.

So Euphoria. Well, in the shop I was much more excited. It seemed at once, pearly, pink and purple but at home, it really kinda turned out to be rather a boring frosty pink. But I have to say that it wore like a dream. LIKE A DREAM. 8 days later it was still on duty. But sadly dented on 3 fingers because the advertising lies. This bloody thing too AAAGES to dry out and inadvertently I put dents in the paintwork, totally unknowingly. I don't even know how it happened, maybe while I was typing??

It was a sweet little colour although someone called it dull pink. Actually, it even is a little bit grey in certain light.

B "Edinburgh"

B is the cheaper line of cosmetics by Bloom. Many of the colours in this Target range are just replicas of ones in Bloom. All the current range are city names.

Edinburgh comes across in the bottle as a moody, stormy blue green murk with a frost finish. On the nail however it was more of a myrtle green, could not see the hint of blue anywhere. Disappointed - it was quite enigmatic in the bottle.

The formula was quite good for this one.** Ugh, this stained my nails through a 1 coat base.