Price: $12.50 * Buy At: Sephora * Size: 12 mL / 0.4 fl oz The Formula X for Sephora Effect Top Coat in Demolition is a mixture of blue, light green, light pink and white hexes in a clear base coat. In the swatch pictures I used two coats over the bare nails and one coat over the black and white nail. The clear base wasn't too thick or too thin and the brush coated the nails pretty evenly with the hexes. Demolition does not leave the nails feeling bumpy or gritty. XOX ♥
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Price: $2.49 * Buy At: Target * Size: 0.4 fl oz / 11.8 ml The Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Nail Color in Beach Ball is a clear base with matte red, white and blue hexes from the 2014 Passport to Rio collection. Although this polish is in the Rio collection, I (and probably most of you) think of the American flag or the fourth of July when you see this polish. Similar to Carnival, another "glitter" from this collection, the clear base of Beach Ball leaves bubbles and I'm not sure why. I used two coats of Beach Ball in the photos. XOX ♥
Price: $2.49 * Buy At: Target * Size: 0.4 oz / 11.8 ml The Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Nail Color in Carnival is a clear base containing matte light green, black, coral, light pink, light blue and dark blue hexes from the 2014 Passport to Rio collection. The base wasn't too thick and did provide a decent shine to the finished nails. However, it did seem to leave bubbles...which I haven't found in any other Sally Hansen polishes. You do have to work with the hexes to get them to evenly cover the nails, but overall it's pretty nice. I used two coats of Carnival on all my nails, my index and ring fingernail have no base color, my middle finger has a black base and my pinky has a white base. XOX ♥
Price: $4.99 * Buy At: CVS * Size: 0.45 fl oz / 13.3 ml The Milani Nail Lacquer in Golden Romance is a shimmery, gold champagne base with larger pieces of gold and pink glitter. Golden Romance is a part of Milani's nail polish collection for Spring 2014. The brush of Golden Romance is the same as the others in the Milani line, it's a bit on the thin side, similar to the brush in Essie polishes. You can still see parts of the bare nail even with three coats of Golden Romance, but it isn't noticeable unless you really look at it. The glitter in Golden Romance looks really pretty over a white base. Weirdly enough, the gold in this polish looks like a mossy green color when over a black base. I used three coats of Golden Romance on the bare nails (index & middle) and one coat over the nails with a black and white base (pinky & ring). XOX ♥
Price: $4.99 * Buy At: CVS * Size: 0.45 fl oz / 13.3 ml The Milani Nail Lacquer in Sugar Rim is a new polish for Milani's Spring 2014 collection. Sugar Rim contains a mix of light blue, black, yellow and red hexes, along with some large gold flecks. Sugar Rim applies very nicely and the clear base is not thick or goopy. The hexes cover the nail pretty evenly and the polish dries fairly quick. I used 2 coats of Sugar Rim on the bare nails and 1 coat over the white and black nail. XOX ♥
Price: $3.99 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 0.23 fl oz / 7 ml The Maybelline Colorshow Street Art Nail Polish in Blue Beats is a clear polish filled with light blue and black large hexes, small hexes and confetti pieces. The Maybelline Colorshow Street Art line immediately reminded me of the Xplosives Top Coats from the Formula X for Sephora line. I really wanted polishes from this line, but didn't want to pay $12.50, so I was so excited to see the Street Art line from Maybelline. Blue Beats looks very similar to Turbulent from the Sephora line. Blue Beats applied very nicely and didn't need to be built up to get an even coating of hexes on the nails. It also doesn't leave the nails feeling gritty or bumpy. I used 2 coats of Blue Beats on all my nails, on bare nails (middle and pinky) and over a white polish (index and ring). XOX ♥
Price: $3.99 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 0.23 fl oz / 7 ml The Maybelline Color Show Street Art Nail Polish in Nighttime Noise is a clear polish filled with a mix of royal blue large hexes & confetti pieces and black large and small hexes. Nighttime Noise didn't need to be built up very much and applied quite evenly, not leaving any bare spots on my nails. While the hexes do feel a little bumpy on the nails, Nighttime Noise doesn't make the nails feel textured or gritty. Two coats of Nighttime Noise are shown in the pictures, on bare nails on my middle & pinky fingers and over a white polish on my index and ring fingers. XOX ♥
Price: $2.99 * Buy At: Target * Size: 0.23 fl oz / 7 mL The Maybelline Color Show Nail Lacquer in Clearly Spotted is a clear polish with large black hexes, large white hexes & small black hexes. It applied pretty evenly and only took 2 coats to get to the look in the swatch. The clear base wasn't thick or goopy at all. Clearly Spotted adds a really cool effect to the nails, and I'm excited to test it out over other colors!
XOX ♥ Price: $3.98 * Buy At: Walmart * Size: 15 mL / 0.5 fl. oz Salon Perfect's Kaboom is from their new Neon Collisions collection. This is a really unique collection of matte glitters. Like I said, I have the shade Kaboom to share with you. It's a mix of teal & yellow-green matte glitter. I really like this color combo and it was really easy to apply. I found that the brush applied the "dots" really evenly! Above I painted 2 coats of Salon Perfect Kaboom over 3 different polishes. On my ring finger is Revlon Eclectic, my middle finger is Essie First Timer, my ring finger has nothing other than Kaboom & my pinky finger is Sally Hansen Salon Manicure Parrot.
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