With a couple of exceptions (Hot Pants which was just sad and Date Night which clashed incredibly badly with my skin), I'm very happy with my selections from this collection. When are they going to release more? $5 each plus $1 shipping from Walmart.com... not too shabby. The cremes and shimmers from these collections are beautiful, vivid and pigmented.
Hard Candy Frenzy
Turquoise creme. Maybe a touch greener IRL. Two coats, completely opaque, very glossy. So very easy to apply: I don't have the world's best application skills -- I always have a messy gap -- but good polishes are good at compensating for skill and care. ;) I don't know why it's named "Frenzy": I think it's such a happy and calming color.
It's like cheer in a bottle! If you've read this blog for awhile, you know I'm nutsy about yellows. Bright, strong medium yellow, definitely not pastel. Streaky during coats one and two (par for course for yellows), evens out just beautifully by coat number three. No weird bald spots! :)
This was the biggest surprise of the collection for me. It looks like it's bright red shimmer with tons of gold shimmer but when you put it on, it's sparkling burning orange embers all the way. Very light-catching. Heck, very eye-catching! I got so many compliments on this one. One woman commented it looked like I had Christmas ornaments on my fingers. It sounds like a weird compliment but really, she said it so enthusiastically it was hard not to interpret that as a REALLY nice thing to say about a manicure. Pictures do NO justice to this manicure at all, especially when there's no sun out to help it out. I almost didn't buy it because it looked like your run-of-the-mill-red-shimmer-with-gold-shimmer but I was looking for a replacement for my long lost Hard Candy Stop... I thought maybe this would be a dupe. Alas, it is not Stop (for which I am desperate, for sentimental reasons) but it's beautiful and I'm glad it was what it is.
