I bought a dress from Forever 21 last month that I had to return. (It had a tear in the collar. I was sad.) They do not give you your money back there, only store credit. So now I have $30 worth of credit to a store that carries very little that I am interested in wearing. But...they do have nail polish! So I picked up 3 bottles (all shall be shown in a later post.) They have the most unoriginal names ever, by the way. But the colors are nice, the formulas are decent, and for $2.80 I am not complaining.
One of the colors I picked up was inauspiciously named "blue-green". It's a beautiful, shimmery duochrome that shifts from blue to green to purpley-pink. It's brilliant and reminds me of mermaids. It is SUPER thin, however. I am betting it will take me five coats to approach what it looks like in the bottle. It's definitely one for layering. I thought it might look kinda neat water-marbled over navy. And it does. But oh-my-god subtle! In reality, the shiftiness was obvious and neat. My camera refused to catch any of it. It just looks blue.
Colors Used
Sally Hansen Navy Baby
Love & Beauty Blue-Green
I have a ton of Love and Beauty polishes and I feature a lot of them on my blog. They have a great selection of interesting colors. I haven't had good experience with then marbling though. Maybe it was just the colors I chose? I can see yours and it may be subtle but I'm sure it looks great in real life.
ReplyDeleteI bought three of them. They were surprisingly nice. And this marbled nicely, but it lost all of the shiftiness. :(
DeleteOh Lady I am just like you, I like my manis loud (but my outfit classic)! This does not seem that subtle in the picture, but of course flash & co make the colors burst! At least you have a good post :)
ReplyDeleteIt's not worth doing if the colors aren't loud! ;)
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