Field of Greens

What says I'm ready for spring more than yellow and green?

Barielle Lemondrops, Wet N Wild Field of Greens

Barielle Lemondrops, Wet N Wild Field of Greens

Barielle Nail Rebuilding Protein

Barielle Lemondrops

Wet n Wild Field of Greens

Seche Vite

When I was looking for a layering glitter, I found Sinful Colors and Wet N Wild with very similar looks. I only did one coat on a nail stick, but they look pretty similar. Wet N Wild Field of Greens obviously is more dense and Sinful Colors Call You Later has more golden glitter in it.

I'd say Wet N Wild Field of Greens is the winner here since you get more polish for the  same cost, and is cruelty free!

Comparison: Oui and Julia

While perusing my stash for New Year's Eve polishes, I realized I have an Orly polish that looks strikingly similar to Julep Julia, which I've been wearing a lot recently. I decided to match them up and see if they are indeed dupes!

Below is an after shot. Two nails of each color. Can you tell which is which?

More three coat nails alternating polishes. Hard to tell I used two different polishes, eh?

Now to show you each coat by itself...

These are identical to me. Orly may have a tad better coverage but I generally do 3 coats but that's just me.

Orly is cruelty free, 0.6 floz/18mL, $8.50 USD. ($14/ounce or $0.47/ml)
Julep is cruelty free, 0.27 floz/8ml, $14.00 USD. ($51.85/oz or $1.75/ml)

I'd go with Orly all the way since it's cheaper, more opaque, bigger bottle. I've used Julep Julia for three or four manis (I kept going back to it, but it also kept chipping!) and I've already used about half. No big, I have a back up obviously but those Julep polishes can go quickly given their size, and I don't have large or long nails!

Battle of the White Polish

I use a lot of white nail polish for nail art. I love a nice, crisp background but whites can be finicky. Some can be goopy and thick, or thin and never become opaque, some formulas are harder to work with than others. I was using Sally Hansen White On from the Xtreme Wear collection and actually used up an entire bottle (eep!) but I'd heard such good things about other brands. I went to the store one day and randomly grabbed every white polish there to compare them - for ya'll as well as myself.

All polishes are brand new and all were swatched at the same time under the same conditions. Everything was equal for all of them! Each polish was used for a total of three coats, no base or top coat.

In alphabetical order:

Essie Blanc

Maybelline Porcelain Party

Milani White On The Spot

NYC French White Tip

OPI Alpine Snow

Sally Hansen Hard To Get

Sally Hansen White On

Sinful Colors Snow Me White

Wet N Wild French White Creme

Which do you think would do best? Do you swear by any of these whites? Before trying them, I think Sally Hansen White On (of course, I used it forever), OPI Alpine Snow, and Essie Blanc will be the winners, just because I am most familiar with those brands. Sinful Colors Snow Me White is supposed to be great, which I think is what spurred this post.

Here are the first four. I included each step plus the final clean up picture. Chart at the end of the post to summarize!

Next four...

Best 3 so far plus the straggler!

The final pictures for comparing!

Name	Price/oz*	Formula	Rating
Essie Blanc	$17.39/oz	Thick	8/10
Maybelline Porcelain Party	$17.34/oz	Thin, Runny	5/10
Milani White On The Spot	$9.97/oz	Medium, Runny	7/10
NYC	$2.20/oz	Thin, Runny	5/10
OPI Alpine Snow	$18.00/oz	Moderate, Easy to manage	10/10
Sally Hansen Hard To Get	$6.64/oz	Thin, Runny	5/10
Sally Hansen White On	$7.48/oz	Moderate	8/10
Sinful Colors Snow Me White	$3.98/oz	Moderate, easy to manage	9/10
Wet N Wild French White Creme	$2.30/oz	Moderate	6/10

* = USD per ounce, Prices May Vary

Of note, the only cruelty free white is Wet N Wild French White Creme (please let me know if I've got my information wrong!).

My top picks? OPI Alpine Snow, Sinful Colors Snow Me White, then Essie Blanc. I think you could get a crisp opaque white with two careful coats of OPI or Sinful Colors. After those 2, they're all 3+ coaters. Looking at the pictures, I think the lighting evened them out a bit. Also, I think base and top coat would help. I really feel a good top coat can even out any streakiness, but I wanted to compare each color on their own.

Now that I have waaaay more white than I'll ever need, it's nice to know which to use for nail art and base colors and which to use to lighten other colors!

Hope this was helpful. I'm definitely going to refer back to this post when I need to buy white polish, which should be in about 1,000 years. 

Urban Decay Eye Shadow Comparisons

I have some Urban Decay eye shadow comparisons for you today. I depotted my Urban Decay eye shadows in some magnetic palettes and when I was picking and choosing what shadows to keep in certain palettes, I found some shadows that are super similar. Probably not a big deal, but if you really want a shadow from one palette, it'd be nice to know if you have one that's similar!

Comparison: Pink/Golden Glass Flecks

In my recent haul post, JinJit asked to see a comparison of the two polishes I had a "Oh noez, are these the same color?!?" moment about. So here they are, along with two other polishes I thought were similar.

The lineup:

OPI It's My Year - Orly Oui - Orly Ingenue - Zoya Faye

Comparison: China Glaze Cha Cha Cha vs Sally Hansen Tough Luck

Since being on vacation, I've been checking out a few new blogs and I came across this interesting idea: Travelling Polish! Essentially a polish will be purchased by the creator o the polish relay, Lacquer Man (off an idea by Carrie) and it will travel amongst nail polish bloggers who will wear it, take a picture and include a postcard of their city with it as they pass it to the next person. Kind of like Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ... You can click on the link to see if it's something you'd be interested in. I signed up! It sounds neat.

OK, so I've cleared out my vault of swatches that aren't green, so now I'm preparing everyone for St. Patrick's Day. Every year I get pinched for not wearing green, when I really am, just not where it's easily seen. I'll have on green earrings, or green eyeshadow, or green underwear ... Maybe I should wear green more prominently? Underwear on top of my clothes, perhaps? I hate getting pinched.

Anywho, I have a green comparison for you to start things off! Here are two more polishes I was concerned were the same (because I have a handful that are dupes and I feel like such a dip) - China Glaze Cha Cha Cha and Sally Hansen Tough Luck.

Comparison: Dark Glitters with Holo

OK I've had enough pink and red for a little while, so I decided to throw in something dark and glittery! I got Orly Rock It recently and I thought it looked awfully similar to some other colors I have ...

Comparison: Sally Hansen Showgirl Chic vs China Glaze Lorelei's Tiara

I recently posted the China Glaze Eye Candy 3D Glitters Lorelei's Tiara looks awfully similar to Sally Hansen GEM crush Showgirl Chic.

And here are some nail comparison shots (three coats each) ...

Comparison: Wet N Wild coloricon versus Sally Hansen GEM crush

A few days ago I mentioned that some of the Sally Hansen GEM crush colors looked awfully similar to the recently released Wet N Wild coloricon colors. Here's a quick look at some of the close colors, and we'll see if they're really similar.

These look kinda similar ...