Today is kind of a gloomy looking day, so I decided to swatch my new polish from NARS. I bought this at Sephora a few weeks ago but right after the VIB sale. I wasn't really sure if I wanted to this because I read how it's nice but not that original. One polish is C$21, the set for two is $32. So it's not bad for full size bottles and if you like both colours. These are limited edition sets. I think the other one I would have been interested in is Ethno Run which is the blue and orange but I have similar colours of that already.
I have a few NARS nail polishes already. I do notice that although the brush is stuck to the square head, I have yet to experience the cap not aligning to the bottle when I twist it back to close it. This might be a problem for some people, and I think it would annoy me, so I'm glad to not have experienced that yet.
Thoughts:
There are two polishes that are called Left and Right. Left is the yellow colour, which is what really called to me in this set and at the time I was looking for a lavender colour. The yellow is pretty and it was pretty nice after two coats. I think it really came together after three coats though. The Right side is the lavender colour. This one was pretty opaque after one colour. I added a second coat just to even it out but I don't really feel like I needed it.
The formula for both was about medium. Not watery and not too thick for me. The Left (Yellow) could have possibly have been good with two coats but I tried to paint with thin layers, so I ended up having to paint three for a clean look. For this reason, the pictures with three coats have like this thick line from where I started to paint. I also found it dried pretty quickly especially without top coat but then again I could have been distracted to really notice the time. Sometimes, after I paint my nails and I feel that a significant amount of time has passed and then I realized that my polish is still wet so I have to wet. Here I was thinking the same thing but it was actually dried. That's why I have this reasoning.
On with the pictures!
Breakdown
Base coat: Nicole by OPI Base Coat Plus
Colour Coat: Nars Sharks Left (two coats)
No top coat
Breakdown
Base coat: Nicole by OPI Base Coat Plus
Colour Coat: Nars Sharks Left (three coats)
No top coat
Breakdown
Base coat: Nicole by OPI Base Coat Plus
Colour Coat: Nars Sharks Right (two coats)
No top coat
Then I decided to stamp left onto right. I've never tried stamping with NARS polishes before and I could already tell it wouldn't be that noticeable but it's kind of cute in its own way. This has a top coat, just to make the print more apparent :)
The plate I used to stamp the pattern
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