Review & Swatches - Wet 'n' Wild Spring 2011 FastDry Polishes: Part 1

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So as promised in my last post, here are swatches of some of the new Wet 'n' Wild Fast Dry polishes for Spring. There are still a few colours that I don't have but I plan to get them at some point which is why I titled this post Part 1.

Oh, and one of the colours that is not pictured here is Party of 5 Glitters which I did a swatch comparison (with Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday) and review of here.






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SaGreena the Teenage Witch


SaGreena the Teenage Witch (frosty emerald green)


Gray's Anatomy


Gray's Anatomy (a metallic light gunmetal gray with a green/purple duochrome)
I've read that this one is a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Wicked Game but I don't own that one so I'm unable to do a comparison. However, it does look rather similar to OPI's Not Like the Movies from the Katy Perry collection.


The Wonder Yellows


The Wonder Yellows (bright sunshine yellow frost)


Buffy the Violet Slayer


Buffy the Violet Slayer (bright violet frost)


9.0.2.1.Orange


9.0.2.1.Orange (bright orange with gold micro glitter)


Everybody Loves Redmond


Everybody Loves Redmond (bright orange-red creme)


Teal of Fortune


Teal of Fortune (shimmering teal)
This one reminds me a lot of the Zoya Charla/OPI Catch Me in Your Net phase of last year.


The Gold & The Beautiful


The Gold & The Beautiful (gold glitter in a clear base)


How I Met Your Magenta


How I Met Your Magenta (bright barbie pink with subtle shimmer)


Sage in the City


Sage in the City (grassy green frost)


Hannah Pinktana


Hannah Pinktana (mauve-pink with a subtle holographic finish)


The Wonder Yellows, Gray's Anatomy, SaGreena the Teenage Witch


Everybody Loves Redmond, 9.0.2.1.Orange, Buffy the Violet Slayer


How I Met Your Magenta, The Gold & The Beautiful, Teal of Fortune


Hannah Pinktana, Sage in the City

The formula on these was just ok. I mean, it wasn't difficult to work with but it wasn't the easiest either. Also, most of the frosts had streaking problems. In terms of opacity, all of the swatches above are 3 coats aside from Everybody Loves Redmond which only needed 2 coats. These are branded as FastDry polishes but I didn't find that they dried faster than any other regular polish.

I wish I had gotten a picture of the brush (I'll make sure to get one for the Part 2 swatches/review) because it had a very odd shape. It's like it's straight all the way across until you get to one side when it slants upwards. SO strange! It doesn't make application too difficult but it doesn't help either. I think a brush re-design is definitely in order.

The names of the polishes are some of the cheesiest I have ever seen but I actually like it because they make me smile. :)

The price of these polishes is very reasonable. I paid $2.84 for each bottle at Wal-Mart and I've read that you can find them cheaper ($1.99) if you look around. However, at either price, it's definitely a great value.

Keep an eye out for Part 2 of this post where I'll swatch the rest of the colours and I'll also include a picture of that wonky brush! Read Full...

Swatch Comparison - Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday vs. Wet 'n' Wild Party of 5 Glitters

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Today I picked up a few of the new Wet 'n' Wild polishes including the apparent Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday dupe called Party of 5 Glitters so I decided to do a comparison to see just how similar they are.



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Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday, Wet 'n' Wild Party of 5 Glitters


Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday


Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday


Wet 'n' Wild Party of 5 Glitters


Wet 'n' Wild Party of 5 Glitters


1 coat of Wet 'n' Wild Party of 5 Glitters (over OPI Black Onyx), 1 coat of Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday (over OPI Black Onyx)



1 coat of Wet 'n' Wild Party of 5 Glitters (over OPI Black Onyx), 1 coat of Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday (over OPI Black Onyx)



2 coats of Wet 'n' Wild Party of 5 Glitters (over OPI Black Onyx), 1 coat of Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday (over OPI Black Onyx)


2 coats of Wet 'n' Wild Party of 5 Glitters (over OPI Black Onyx), 1 coat of Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday (over OPI Black Onyx)

As you can see, the glitter is much denser in the Lippmann polish than the Wet 'n' Wild one but besides that, they're rather similar. Plus, once you add a second coat to the Wet 'n' Wild polish, the glitter density looks about the same.

The biggest difference besides the glitter density is that Party of 5 Glitters doesn't have any gold glitter pieces in it while Happy Birthday does. Also, Party of 5 Glitters doesn't have smaller silver glitter pieces, only the larger ones while Happy Birthday has both. However, both of these minor differences will probably be barely noticeable on the nails.

I don't particularly like the brush for either of the polishes so that didn't really matter to me.

The price difference between these 2 polishes is pretty crazy. The Wet 'n' Wild polish is $2.84 at Wal-Mart while the cheapest I've seen the Lippmann one for is about $18 on eBay.

So if you missed out on Happy Birthday or if you just don't want to shell out that much for one polish, Party of 5 Glitters is a great alternative. I wouldn't call them dupes but they're definitely close enough that it's hard to tell once on the nail.

Like I said above, I also picked up a few of the other new Wet 'n' Wild polishes so swatches for those should be up in the next couple of days!

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Review & Swatches - Nicole by OPI Liquid Metals Collection

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So as I said in my last post, the boyfriend and I exchanged Valentine's Day gifts today and he surprised me with the Nicole by OPI Liquid Metals Collection! Usually he stays away from surprising me with polish because I have so many and he doesn't want to end up getting me any that I already have. But he knew that I didn't have these ones because they were just putting them out a few days ago when he was getting groceries at Dominion so he took the opportunity to surprise me with something he knew I would love! And I do!



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Miss Independent (rosy pink metallic foil)


The Next CEO (light gold metallic foil)


Rich in Spirit (light silver-blue metallic foil)


It Starts With Me (light rosy copper metallic foil)


Miss Independent, The Next CEO, Rich in Spirit, It Starts With Me


Miss Independent, The Next CEO, Rich in Spirit, It Starts With Me


The Next CEO, Miss Independent


It Starts With Me, Rich in Spirit

When I first looked at the colours for this collection, I thought that they would be extremely opaque, maybe even one coaters. Well, I was wrong about that. Each one of the colours needed 3 coats to get the opacity that you see above. This isn't a problem for me at all since I pretty much always do 3 coats anyways, I was just surprised that they weren't as opaque as I had assumed.

The formula on these was AMAZING. Seriously, it glided on so easily and you don't see the brush strokes that foil colours usually show.

The colours are actually very soft and romantic looking which I think is really lovely because you don't see that very often with foil finishes.

Overall, this is a great collection and I would actually like to see more of these type of colours from Nicole by OPI. Maybe a second part to the collection? I'd know I'd definitely get those!

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Review & Swatches - OPI Texas Collection

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I'm actually surprised to be able to show you these today because I wasn't expecting to be able to get my hands on this collection for at least a couple of weeks! You know, after how long it took for my local Chatter's Salon to get the Katy Perry collection, I figured it would be a little late with this one as well. But nope, I found out that they had it so I went to check it out, not really thinking that I was going to get the whole collection but I did end up getting them all.

As you might already know, the Texas Collection includes the release of a new finish by OPI called the "Sorbet" finish. According to the press release for this collection, this is what Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, OPI Executive VP & Artistic Director had to say about this new finish:

“These sorbet-style formulas for nails will be in full swing by 2012, but women can get a jump start on this trend with colors in the Texas Collection. Unlike thicker creams or light sheers, these twelve shades are slightly translucent – similar to the look of icy, water-based sorbet!”






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Suze Loves Cowboys (deep chocolate brown creme)


Do You Think I'm Tex-Y? (berry jelly)


Austin-tatious Turquoise (blue-green shimmer)


Y'all Come Back Ya Hear? (true orange jelly)


San Tan-tonio (honey brown creme)


Houston We Have a Purple (fuchsia jelly)


I Vant to be A-Lone Star (frosty pale blue-grey)


Guy Meets Gal-veston (pink-coral jelly)


Don't Mess With OPI (medium forest green creme)


Too Hot Pink to Hold 'Em (bright red-pink jelly)


It's Totally Fort Worth It (light grey with subtle lavender shimmer)


Big Hair...Big Nails (rosy coral jelly)


Suzi Loves Cowboys, Do You Think I'm Tex-Y?, Austin-tatious Turquoise, Y'all Come Back Ya Hear?, San Tan-tonio, Houston We Have a Purple


I Vant to be A-Lone Star, Guy Meets Gal-veston, Don't Mess With OPI, Too Hot Pink to Hold 'Em, It's Totally Fort Worth It, Big Hair...Big Nails


Suzi Loves Cowboys, Do You Think I'm Tex-Y?, Austin-tatious Turquoise


Y'all Come Back Ya Hear?, San Tan-tonio, Houston We Have a Purple


I Vant to be A-Lone Star, Guy Meets Gal-veston, Don't Mess With OPI


Too Hot Pink to Hold 'Em, It's Totally Fort Worth It, Big Hair...Big Nails


OPI Texas Collection


Sorbet finish shades: Big Hair...Big Nails, Too Hot Pink to Hold 'Em, Guy Meets Gal-veston, Do You Think I'm Tex-Y?, Y'all Come Back Ya Hear?, Houston We Have a Purple

The formula was great on all of these colours and I especially liked the formula for the Sorbet finishes.

The cremes were most all opaque in 2 coats however I added 3 because I'm a 3 coat kind of gal.

The shimmer colours all needed 3 coats in order to be opaque.

I find that jelly finish type polishes are usually thick and goopy but these were very nice to apply. I did use 3 coats for all of the Sorbet finishes because I prefered the way they looked with 3 coats as opposed to 2 which was slightly more translucent. They still are not fully opaque with 3 coats but that's the point with this finish. The Sorbet colours are also super shiny on their own without top coat however I would still always recommend adding a top coat to make your mani last longer.

Oh and a heads up for anyone who's planning to get any of these colours (especially if you're ordering online): Guys Meets Gal-veston and Big Hair...Big Nails are pretty much the exact the same colour. Seriously, when I looked at the 2 bottles when I got home I thought that the sales lady had given me 2 of the same colour. Then, after checking the labels and seeing that they had different names, I was convinced that there must have been a manufacturing mistake and that the wrong label had been applied to one of them. However, after doing some research, I've realized that there was no mistake and that they're just ridiculously similar.
There's a tiny difference in that Guy Meets Gal-veston has a touch more pink but it's not at all noticeable when on the nails. This kind of disappointed me because I think OPI could have come up with another colour in place of one of these. What about a nice lemon sorbet colour? I think that would have been the perfect addition to the Sorbet finish shades.

Overall, I'm not entirely impressed with this collection, it's just ok. Although I do like the Sorbet finish and the formula was great, I don't think it's the most innovative thing that OPI has come up with. It's basically just a jelly finish (which has been around forever) with a new name. Plus, the colour selection of the Sorbet shades leaves something to be desired. I do really like a few of the colours though! Austin-tatious Turquoise and I Vant to Be A-Lone Star in particular are very pretty.

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