Purple Jelly Comparison

Here are a pair that have been in my drawers for far too long, so I played around with them to see what I would find.

Verity Deep Violet and New York Summer Hot Purple.

Both have been the standard bearer for jellies for a long time. Now that Essie, OPI and others have trotted out some sheers like this, I think it's time I swatched these. I did find a few of the ones from OPI and Essie at T.J. Maxx, so I will try those out later on, but these have proven to be rather good polishes.

Some things: no top coat, nude base unless otherwise mentioned.

Let's start with Verity Deep Violet

This is four coats, although normally I grouse at four coats, I have zero grousing going on now: it is a great polish. It did build and it did go on with a good uniformity, which is my major "break-up" point with sheer jellies.

I love this baby. I also love the deep magenta leaning violet. No top coat and all shine. Greatness.

Here it is alternatively layered with three coats over a silver (I used Milani Art of Silver, a striper polish) :

I would say that it just wins so hard it's difficult to find a problem. I couldn't.

New York Summer Hot Purple

A much more true purple that is a tad bit more sheer. This is four coats and you can see on my middle finger that I blobbed a little extra on the corner and it darkened it. I think in general these are less forgiving of errors, so be aware.

Still, hard to fault. Very gorgeous.

Here it is layered over the same Milani silver glitter:

This is two coats, not three as I'd thought, and it really brightens up into a beautiful purple. I will add that this photo is a wee bit light and the polish pulls a touch blue in my photos, but not considerably so.

So I wanted to compare them side by side, because they aren't hugely far apart in person as they look on camera:

I blobbed them alternatively on my nails and you can see that the major difference is that one is purple and one is a red violet shade.

Finally I did alternating layers over silver:

You can see where the combo really does work out well.

I want to add another thing: I wore this manicure for a solid week of really using my hands to do things like pick up coins, groom my horse, etc, and it wore like iron. Seriously better than my CND Vinylux top coat! I was really surprised.

I will peek at the OPI Color Paints I've been acquiring, but these do stand on their own.

I found mine online at Transdesign, aka Nail Supplies. I think they are stellar polishes.

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Green Party Part 3

Here is a comparison of all of the polishes swatched in the last two posts.

I feel, though, that the photos are a little dark. I took some under lamp and others in daylight. I've also lightened them up, too.

Kind of a fail. But here they are.
  

Left to right:
NYS Amaranth
Walmart Noname
Color Club Wild Cactus (Probably CC Abyss)
Catrice Forest Floor
Essie Going (blogged here)
Verity Aqua Blue

Here in daylight:

Daaaark.
Kind of a bummer. Makes them all look similar, but they are very different.

The upside: even when dark, they don't go totally black.

Hope you enjoyed the swatches!!! Thanks for reading my little nail polish journal!

Green Party Part 2

Welcome back!

Here are three more greens!

Catrice Forest Floor

Three coats, amazing formula.
Super wow!
I got this in a swap, and really am glad that Catrice is available on eBay and soon on NinjaPolish.com.
Perfect green.
Love!


Up next is a conundrum, I have this labeled this Color Club Wild Cactus, but it might be Color Club Abyss.
I really am not sure.

I think this is a pretty accurate photo, though later, in a comparison shot, it looks darker.

The worst part is that this came in one of those Ross sets that has no names. This was full of CC holiday glitters and this one. I really wanted the glitters.

Three coats, easy formula. I think it's Wild Cactus, but it has less of that warm tone and much cooler, which seems to imply Abyss. Which makes me wonder why manufacturers do a lot of the same colors?  I'm only really realizing this as I type all this, all my comps call this Cactus....erp.

I feel like this is ok, but not a super fave.


Finally Verity Aqua Blue

Neither aqua nor blue, but a great green in a piney vein. If you like jelly finish, you probably need this one. Found on Amazon.
Three coats, easy formula. I think this photo is a little blown out, too.

Of all of my jelly finishes, I must say this is a favorite: good coverage, yet that translucent depth.

Part three will have a comparison of all five, plus a bonus.

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