Hello again! I've got a full Sunday Similarities post for you guys today so let's get a-movin'! Mint remains a popular color choice no matter what the season and since I have about a billion of them in my stash, I decided to swatch a few and compare them for you.
These mints are in the teal family and are all cremes. I'm comparing 4 polishes in this post: from left to right in the photo above are Sinful Colors Teal the End, NYC Tudor City Teal, Sally Hansen Triple Shine Dive In, and Sinful Colors Open Seas.
As you can see, Open Seas and Tudor City Teal have a bit more green and grey to them than Dive In and Teal the End, which are pretty much dupes. Of the 4, Tudor City Teal has the sheerest formula, requiring 4 coats to get the opacity shown here. Each of the others are shown in 2 coats here with no top coat on any of them.
Do you need each of these polishes in your life? Probably not, unless you're a nut like me ;) Obviously, Teal the End and Dive In may be redundant, but Open Seas and Tudor City Teal differ by a shade or two. I don't think Open Seas is still available in stores, being from a couple of seasons ago but I just picked up Teal the End for $1.99 at Walgreen's last week. Tudor City Teal is available anywhere NYC is sold for $0.99 a bottle on average and Dive In tops the price list at around $4.99 wherever you find Sally Hansen products.
I hope you enjoyed this post and thanks so much for reading!
Hey there, folks! The other day whilst perusing Facebook, I saw Manicure Addict's swatch of Elevation Polish's Haleakala and immediately fell in love. I jumped right over to Elevation's site and they had it in stock. Because of unbelievably fast shipping, I received my bottle yesterday! When I opened the package, my first thought was that Haleakala reminded me quite a bit of Colors by Llarowe's Dirty Diana. So I figured it would make for a great Sunday Similarities post!
At first glance, you can tell just from the bottles that these ladies are not dupes. But I really wanted to compare them on the nail so I swatched them both.
As you can see on the nail, there are some obvious differences. Haleakala is much more purple whereas Dirty Diana is a vibrant pink. Aside from the color, however, these two share a knock-your-socks-off linear holographic effect and a perfect formula! I'm showing two coats of each here with no top coat.
Since these are not really dupes at all, I highly suggest both or either for your collection. Haleakala is currently available on Elevation's site for $12.50 for a full size bottle and Llarowe does have Dirty Diana up on their page as I write this, but only one full size bottle left at $12. I do believe mention has been made of Llarowe re-releasing the Michael Jackson tribute collection, of which Dirty Diana is part, so don't despair if you miss it this time!
As always, thanks so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed the post!
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Hello everyone! I'm so excited about today's post because it involves the nabbing of my #2 lemming of all time (#1 being Clarins 230 but short of a miracle or a lottery win, that shall remain a dream)! I can't tell you what it is about Floam by Nail Venturous that caused me to jones so badly for it, but I've searched high and low for that little bottle with the yellow label. I even bought it from a blog sale about a year ago, waited for three weeks, only to find out it had been lost in the mail. This was a hard lesson I learned about international shipping :( But my story has a happy ending because I found another blog sale (here in the States) and in that blog sale, I found another little bottle with a yellow label (for only $5 no less!) and this time, USPS did not fail me! Thursday afternoon I unlocked my mailbox and there, to the tune of a choir of angels accompanied by rays of sunshine from Heaven itself, was my very own bottle of Floam!! I know this seems dramatic, but as you're all polish people, I know you understand ;)
The very first thing I decided to do with my bottle of Floam (after I did a happy jig whilst holding it above my head in a triumphant manner) was a comparison post. In my quest for Floam, I have tried several alleged dupes and am thrilled that I can finally compare them to the real deal! Nail Pattern Boldness Flipping Out Hard and Salon Perfect Kaboom were two polishes that I picked up in hopes of quelling my Floam craving so I figured they'd make a great Sunday Similarities post!
I started with two coats of Sinful Colors Jungle Trail and then used two coats of each comparison polish; Floam on my index and pinky, Kaboom on my middle, and Flipping Out Hard on my ring finger. I didn't use any top coat for these photos because each of these polishes purposely uses matte glitters. That said, they do all look lovely with a top coat and you may prefer them with it because they will dry with some texture without it. Flipping Out Hard is obviously the odd man out for color, having much more yellow and green glitters than the blue. FOH is the most densely glittered polish of the bunch and I probably could have only used one coat with a little dabbing. I have to say that as far as color and density go, Kaboom is pretty much a bang on dupe for Floam. In the bottle, Floam comes off as a bit more blue but on the nail, that difference is less pronounced. Kaboom is actually even a bit more dense in the glitter department than Floam.
If you'd like to purchase any of these beauties for yourselves, here's the low down. Salon Perfect Kaboom can still be found in Walmart stores. It retails for around $4 for a full size 14ml bottle, by far the most economical of the bunch. Flipping Out Hard is available on the Nail Pattern Boldness site, retailing for $9 for a full size 15ml bottle. Though not really a dupe for Floam, FOH is a gorgeous polish in its own right. NPB just does a great polish, I have a couple and have yet to be disappointed!
That brings us back to Floam which as you might expect is a little more difficult to get a hold of. Ninja Polish, which took over Floam from Nail Venturous, is currently on hiatus. I do not know when (or even if) she'll begin taking orders again. Your best bet is to stalk blog sales or Ebay, like I did. I've seen Floam listed any where from $5 to $45 for the full size 15ml bottle. Kaboom is by far the best dupe I've seen, so if you're less patient than I it's definitely a good option to get this look. Especially with Ninja Polish being closed at the moment, I imagine Floam will become more difficult to find.
Thanks so much for reading, folks! I hope you enjoyed the post and that it was helpful :)
