The essentials:
Cute flower-shaped bottles.
Small (0.39 fl oz).
Cheap (~$1.50 at the Missha US website).
Typical UPS shipping (~$8, though free with purchases $40+).
Hit-or-miss in terms of quality (see following).
Missha BL101
Frosty/pearly light blue. Three coats, nowhere near opaque. Looks like something I would've worn -- and not enjoyed -- in middle school.
Missha PK104
Dark pink jelly. Three coats, pretty sheer. Really nice and glossy but the sheerness does it in for me.
Missha GR101
Very bright, almost frosty, turquoise shimmer with silver and gold glitter. It's less frosty-looking IRL. Two coats, could've done three and would've been fine.
Close up of Missha GR101
Missha RD101
Basic red jelly. Three coats. Again, glossy but too sheer for me.
Missha PK102
No idea what to call this color. A dull, drab version of fuchsia? A shimmery plummy shade? Three coats here, applied very smoothly but I found it boring. The finish was slightly frosty with the occasional glimmering silver glitter particle.
Missha WN103
Deep maroon jelly. Three coats to reach opacity. Very, very glossy. I like! I think I got a slightly wonky brush on this one: a couple of loose bristles that got polish allll over my cuticles.
Missha PP101 (outside with sun and inside with flash)
Dusty mauve with peachy pink shimmer. This one looked plain and kind of frosty in the bottle but I actually really liked it on the nail. It's definitely a neutral/safe color in my book but I really enjoy the shimmer in it.
And my favorite for last:
Missha BL102
Neon cobalt blue. Two coats, great pigmentation. Slides right on. :) And because I liked it so much, I had to play with it!
Missha BL102 with CoverGirl City Lights topcoat
Spaaarrrkly. A thrill of the cheap variety at approximately $5 for the two polishes.
Closeup of Missha BL102 with CoverGirl City Lights topcoat
Video of the spaaarrkly (sorry if it seems more spastic than usual)!
All in all, a couple of gems, a couple of duds and the vast mediocre middle. I'm very happy for $1.50 polish. If nothing else, they're sooooo cute and flower-shaped and obviously, it's what's outside that counts. ;)
