Wednesday 12 December 2012

Haul: Ulta3 Polishes + NOTD

I really love the China Glaze Holiday Joy collection. Unfortunately I can't justify buying it at the moment, so I thought I'd check if I could get the same kind of colours from my favourite super cheap brand for nail polishes, Ulta 3. Lucky for me I found brandy wine, which looks really similar to Cranberry Splash. I also got some glitters, lollypop lilac (which I thought could be close to Champagne Kisses) and fruit tingle which is a fluro pink.

Polishes in front of natural light

Polishes with flash 

So far I've used everything except fruit tingle. I'm a bit dissapointed with the red glitter though. The glitter particles are tiny and the formula is so thin. However, put over brandy wine it looks amazing!
The blue glitter has a much better formula, but is still not a glitter polish you could use by itself (unlike the OPI muppets collection). Lollypop lilac is really nice glittery light pinky purple, however is nothing like Champagne Kisses.

Here is a quick NOTD I did using red glitter over brandy wine, and blue glitter over lollypop lilac. They didn't last very long - this was taken after less than a day and you can already see chipping. Usually ulta3 lasts longer than this for me, so it could just be because my nails are in such poor condition.

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  1. I love lollypop lilac! It lasts a couple of days on my nails :)
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    1. Oh that's good to hear! I'll have to do a full manicure with it soon.

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  2. The Ulta3 polishes are such great value making it possible to buy colours you otherwise wouldnt!

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    1. Totally! Makes it easy and cheap to build up a good collection of colours and find the colours you use the most.

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  3. Brandy Wine looks lovely. Definitely share how you go with Fruit Tingle. It looks very interesting!

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    1. I'll be sure to do a post with it soon. It looks pretty scary in the bottle so it'll be fun to see how wearable it is.

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