H&M Five Polish Pack
I’ve already shown you one of these five little goodies on a Blue Monday, but here’s the whole lot!
0514 Red: I’m having a hard time figuring out if this is a creme or a jelly. It both looks and behaves like a bit of both, so I guess it’s kind of a cross? Needs three coats if you want rid of VNL, though it’s not as obvious at two coats as the photo would have you believe. The colour is also a bit darker/deeper in reality than what the picture shows, but my camera (like so many others) absolutely hates red shades.
0515 Pink: I’m not at all a fan of pinks with shimmer, but I actually don’t mind this one as much as I thought I would. Maybe because it’s more like gold microglitter, rather than shimmer. Well, that, or I’ve just myself put myself in the way of enough shimmery pinks that I am now starting to get immune to their wiles. ;) Anyway, two generous coats and Bob’s your uncle!
0516 Black: This is a dark grey jelly base with gold and blue microglitter. The first coat is very sheer, but it actually only needs three to become opaque, which was a nice surprise. If you don’t mind VNL, you might even be content with two, although then you’d have to settle for a medium grey colour. Even at three coats, I wouldn’t quite call it black, but I can see how “Really Dark Grey” makes for a less than stellar colour name.
0518 Blue: Three coats of this gives you a beautiful blue with silver shimmer and no VNL. This may well be my favourite of the five polishes in this pack. In fact, this is the one I mentioned showing you before: I featured it for my second Blue Monday (and how my nails have grown since I took that photo!).
Nail Polish Matte: Is this the best matte top coat I’ve ever tried? No. Is it the worst? No, not that either (I’m looking at you, Depend Matte Top Coat. You suck!). It’s actually quite decent and if I didn’t already have a bunch of others, I’d have appreciated this one a lot more!
Overall, this is a really nice little collection of polishes. The formula on all of them is nice and easy to work with, as are the brushes. The only issue I have (aside from the shimmery pink ::cough::) is the brush handles. They store a lot of polish, so if I don’t pay close attention to what’s going on with them, I risk dripping polish all over the place. I mean, I like nail polish, but I’d rather it go on my nails than on my clothes and furniture, thank you very much.