Here's a new shade from the China Glaze Island Escape collection. Since Electric Pineapple is the polish I was most excited about, of course it was the first I swatched!
3 coats
Electric Pineapple is a chartreuse-ish creme. I really like it! It's bright without being garish and doesn't make my hands look like trees, which is always a nice bonus. The formula was on the thin side, but it applied nicely and was opaque in three coats.
T-B: Electric Pineapple, OPI Fiercely Fiona, Electric Pineapple
I thought they may be dupes, but Electric Pineapple has much more green in than Fiercely Fiona. They're different enough to own both, especially if you like weird, yellow-green shades.
I Juggle Men, from OPI's Femme de Cirque collection, is a conundrum to me. It shrinks everything it touches!
Here it is over American Apparel Passport Blue. Are we seeing all that shrinkage?? That's just two coats of I Juggle Men. No Seche Vite or any other type of topcoat.
Here's IJM over So Many Clowns, So Little Time. Looks great, right? So far, the only way I can wear IJM is one coat over a polish. If I add a second coat, BAM! Shrinkage! What kind of polish shrinks itself?
Oh, and look at the hilarity that happens if you add Seche Vite on top:
The wrinkling is less noticeable with Barielle Manicure Extender (middle finger), but c'mon! Sure, IJM dries quickly and shiny, but it doesn't dry anything below it. I'm sooo not into sitting around for hours waiting for my polish to dry. I'd need some sort of quick dry topcoat over it, and that's clearly not an option. I'll stick to CND Sapphire Sparkle.
I've seen some manis with this that look perfectly fine. Any tips to wearing this successfully??
Guess what I found at a dusty! A beautiful, brand new bottle of Merry Midnight. Rather than hoard this and keep it as a second backup, I decided to share the wealth. It's stunning, really:
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I'm really loving my *close my eyes and grab* method of choosing a polish to wear. Today I grabbed Dulce de Leche from my OPI drawer.
2 coats
Dulce de Leche is a gorgeous pinky nude creme. This looks like the perfect base for a lace mani. *plots* The formula's great! It was completely opaque in two coats and applied perfectly.
Dulce de Leche is readily available wherever OPI is sold.
As a kid, while everyone else was collecting Pokemon cards, I was collecting Bonne Bell Lip Smackers. My addiction to lip balm evolved into an addiction to all things beauty – from makeup to hair to nail polish.