So it has a full week since I decided that I am on sort of a No Buy until I swatch everything I already have. It's a sort of No Buy because I had a Sally Beauty coupon for a free China Glaze with purchase of a bottle of Seche Quick Dry. I am of the opinion that top coat and base coat don't count on a No Buy, I mean they aren't for pleasure they are necessities. Right? Look I know that I live in a world of screwed up logic, my husband calls it Woman Logic. For example, the classic buy one get one deal. If I buy a pair of shoes for $60 and can get another pair for half off in my mind I saved 30 bucks. Makes sense to me, come on you know it makes sense to you too. In reality I just spent 90 dollars, which incidentally is a lot of nail polish.
Its really irrelevant anyway, because I fell off even my interpretation of the No Buy wagon while at Sally and bought a bottle of CG Stroll and a Sally girl bottle of Shy. Both were on the clearance table, though I think I saved 70 cents total on both. I also picked up a bottle of CG Dorothy Who as my freebie with the Seche....and while I was there I splurged on a glass nail file. I have been having real issues with my nails splitting lately and as I am sure you have seen my normally dry cuticles are HORRIBLY cracked and ragged.
In a normal week I change polish about three times. In the past week I changed my polish over ten times while swatching the Sinful Color Fall Haul and the ones here. I think my fingers need a weekend off from acetone. Maybe I will go look for a new acetone free remover....
Enough rambling, time for the swatches!
Three coats of Dorothy Who and top coat
China Glaze Dorothy Who has been reviewed pretty much everywhere and recently has been getting a lot of comparisons to OPI Absolutely Alice. From looking at online swatches it looks like Dorothy is more of a medium blue with blue and silver glitter while Alice has gold and what looks like dark blue glitter in addition to some turquoise. I picked up my bottle of Dorothy and had to wait an ENTIRE week to swatch due to my self-imposed week of Sinful Colors polishes. It sat in my bathroom drawer taunting me. When I finally pulled out the bottle and looked at it today I was expecting a true medium blue with silver glitter, at least that's what it looked like in the bottle. What I actually have on my nails is more of a dark turquoise with some darker blue and silver glitter. I compared it to swatches online and my nails look much more turquoise than those on my favorite blogs. Not that I mind, I was happily surprised as I am obsessed with all polishes teal and turquoise.
The polish applied smoothly though a bit thick and I was surprised to have full coverage at two coats. I did a third coat as my nails still weren't bottle true, they still are not after 3 coats and a layer of top.
CG Stroll 3 coats and top coat
CG Stroll reminds me a lot of Ruby Pumps because it is a jelly with glitter. The color is a deep raspberry wine and the glitter looks gold in some light and raspberry in others. I couldn't find a magnifying glass to see if the gold was just covered with polish or there are two types of glitter in the bottle. The glitter seems to be smaller than the glitter in Ruby Pumps and the overall finished look isn't as....well jelly as Ruby Pumps. The glitter in Stroll seems to lay on the nail rather than the suspended look of Ruby Pumps. The color is rich and beautiful though and application was smooth. I see this becoming a fairly popular dark red/berry in my stash.
And last (and certainly least in my opinion) is a Sally Girl mini polish called Shy. You know those 99 cent minis by the register at Sally Beauty? I never buy them but it was on clearance and I had just read a mannequin hands article sooooooo. I understand the point of mannequin hands I can even see wearing a pale nude polish to some events (i.e. as a bridesmaid, at a very stuffy black tie event, job interviews) but I really haven't gotten into the whole movement yet. I mean I wore nude nail polish when I bit my nails and they were ugly, they aren't pretty now but I'm not biting them so bring on the color. On the other hand my fingers are STUBBY, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Technically this polish is a shimmer rather than a creme but the bottle was so tiny it was hard to tell at the store and to be honest if I am going to wear something so boring it can at least be shimmery. Application was really good and this is only two coats.
Shy 2 Coats with top coat
