Price: $8 * Buy At: Target * Size: 0.46 fl oz / 13.5 mL Essie Mint Candy Apple is a bright, pastel blue with a slight tint of green. This shade isn't really a mint color to me. As you can probably tell in the swatch, Mint Candy Apple is streaky. I suggest using thicker coats or a top coat (like Out The Door) to smooth out the streaks on your nails.
XOX ♥ Price: £3.99 * Buy At: Superdrug (UK) * Size: 0.35 fl oz / 10 mL The Barry M Confetti Nail Paint in Bubblegum is a clear base with light blue and white "confetti" pieces. Shown is 2 coats of Bubblegum over 1 coat of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Pacific Blue on all fingers but the ring finger, which is just 2 coats of Bubblegum. The confetti pieces applied really nicely and fairly dense and the clear base wasn't goopy or thick.
XOX ♥ Price: £3.99 * Buy At: Superdrug (UK) * Size: 0.35 fl oz / 10 mL The Barry M Textured Nail Paint in Ridley Road is a bright blue-mint with a textured finish. The application of Ridley Road was interesting since it has a textured finish. It felt like applying a polish that had a lot of little pieces of sugar in it. Even with this, Ridley Road applied amazing. It was nice and even and wasn't thick or gooey and also wasn't too thin. Ridley Road also dried incredibly quickly. It was almost fully dry with in a minute of appying. XOX ♥
PRODUCT INFORMATION Price: $2.97 Buy At: Walmart Size: .23 fl oz / 7 mL Collection: Summer 2013 Maybelline's Website: http://www.maybelline.com/Products/Nail-Polish/Nail-Color/Color-Show-Summer-Collection.aspx#shadedetails Poolside is a pastel sky blue from the Maybelline ColorShow Summer 2013 collection. I've had a lot of trouble hunting this one down and it's the only one from the summer collection I have found. The Maybelline ColorShow polishes have the usual thin brush and come in a skinny round bottle. I found this polish only needed 2 coats on some nails and 3 on others. It's fairly easy to paint with thin coats and easy to build up to a gorgeous pastel shade. It wore okay but I felt that the tips did chip fairly easy. More Swatch PhotosXOX ♥
Product Information Size: 0.5 Fl oz / 15 mL Price: $5 Buy At: Urban Outfitters The Urban Outfitters polishes come in a short, fat square bottle. Very different from any other polish in my collection. I'm not a huge fan of it though, because it doesn't fit on my nail polish display. The Urban Outfitters polishes also have a normal brush. Bohemian Summer from Urban Outfitters is a sheer light blue polish with loads of medium and small black specks. These specks look navy with the sheer blue over it. This polish is very similar to Fragile from Illamasqua. I don't own Fragile, but I believe that Bohemian Summer bit brighter and more aqua than Fragile. Even with that, they look extremely similar. The Illamasqua polish is $17 (Sephora) and can be found here: http://www.illamasqua.com/shop/products/nails/nail-varnish-in-fragile The formula of this polish is great. It evenly coats the nail with the little "specks". The sheer blue also builds up easily to a gorgeous bright slightly aqua base. All the swatches on this post are one thin coat of NYC Long Wearing Nail Enamel in Cashmere Cream (to give a pale blue base) and two coats of Urban Outfitters Nail Lacquer in Bohemian Summer.
XOX ♥ While looking for speckled nail polishes, I came across the polish "Mermaid's Dream" from Deborah Lippman. I instantly noticed that it looked EXACTLY the same as my last Nails of the Day post that featured "Light Mint" from Love, Charlotte XO. Not only do they look the 100% the same in the bottle, they look 100% the same on the nails! In addition, the Deborah Lippman polish is $19, and its dupe is only $3.50! You can purchase this dupe at charlotterusse.com or at any Charlotte Russe stores.
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