Tonight, we're going to take a look at blue polishes with either a pink flash or shift. The polishes I have include: Rainbow Honey Celestia, Girly Bits Arctic Sunrise, Sinful Colors Cinderella, OPI Sonic Bloom.
I probably should've included Sassy Lacquer Dawns Dew and Enchanted Polish Ballerina Sprinkles, but I took these photos well before I got either of those polishes. I may do an updated photo with those two (minus Cinderella as I traded it already) and put it up on my Facebook page.
Here they all are together.
Celestia
Celestia is a blue based polish with rainbow iridescent flakies. The flakies show green, blue, and pink, which is a bit different from the others. Sadly, Celestia is ridiculously thick. I've added a ton of thinner, and, like many of my Rainbow Honey polishes, it's still difficult to apply. I'm going to keep trying to fix it because it such a pretty polish, but that is definitely the down side to Celestia. You can purchase Celestia at Rainbow Honey's website. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for news and updates.
Arctic Sunrise
Cinderella
For the price, Cinderella can't be beat. The color is delicate, but the pink isn't very bright on the nail, which is pretty sad. Application was a bit difficult. It was streaky for the first three coats, but then it was just almost too thick to wear. It also took forever to dry once I was able to get it to the right opacity. Cinderella was discontinued, but you can still find them every once in a while at Walgreens.
Sonic Bloom
Sonic Bloom is an old, black label, OPI, which means it was made before OPI moved to their 3-free formula. I know many don't want to use polishes that aren't 3-free, but I simply can't help but love the older OPI formula. It applied so easily. This is three coats on its own. Sonic Bloom is different from the rest of the others because it is a legitimate duochrome. It's base color is a gorgeous blue/aqua that flashes from green to pink with hints of gold. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm really looking forward to layering this over black to see what it looks like. Sadly, Sonic Bloom has been discontinued, but you can still find it in salons if you like to dusty hunt.
Here are more of them all side-by-side.
There you have it! I like them all for different reasons, so I've kept all but Cinderella, whose application was a major turn off for me. I'm really hoping that I can get Celestia to work for me. It's just so stinking thick.
Which of these blues is your favorite? Do you have any of these?
I'm still 100% in love with Cinderella hahaha, it's such a perfect polish <3
ReplyDeleteI think I just needed to be more patient with it. I sold mine, but I'm thinking about hunting down another bottle... :)
DeleteI like to layer Cinderella over a light blue because I had the same problem with it being way to thick otherwise! I've also used it in a jelly sandwich with Revlon whimsical (also over a light blue base) and it looked great that way too! :) It's in the permanent display at my Walgreens -I believe it was added to the core collection last year? Great comparison post!!
ReplyDeleteI need to hunt down Cinderella! I think it's so pretty
ReplyDeleteI have used Cinderella as a base 2 light coats and 1 coat of Celestia and i love the sparkle combination. I admit, Cinderella is difficult but with formulas like that i use about 3 very light coats and when applying my top coat i try not to be heavy handed; risk streaking it. I absolutely love the color of both Cinderella and Celestia alone and combined.
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