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Trend it Up Easy & Speedy Nail Polish [190] Review

May 16, 2024

And now the last nail polish of the three! This is the Trend it Up Easy & Speedy Nail Polish, in the shade 190!

This is the least likely of the three nail polished that my mum gave me that I’d buy on my own. I’m not one to wear vibrant blue nail polishes usually, but I do understand that sometimes you need a vibrant dark blue! Trend it Up nail polishes vary in quality, but the Easy & Speedy polishes were very good previously. This is definitely a beautiful colour, I hope it will be good like the other Easy & Speedy polishes! Well, let’s see how good it is!

Packaging: a small square glass bottle. It’s cute! The cap is much taller than the bottle; the cap is black and closes very tightly. The text is white, such a fantastic colour choice with the vibrant blue of the polish! It’s a simple design, but I love the shape of the bottle, it’s pretty cute!

Ingredients: vitamin E for nourishment. 3-free (DBP, formaldehyde, toluene). It, interestingly, has diatomaceous earth and Lithothamnion calcareum extract. Also, zinc sulfate to help strengthen your nails. The scent is similar to most other nail polishes, but it is more acrid and sharp. The expiration date is 24 months after opening.

Brush: small rounded brush that is decent. It picks up a ton of polish but it doesn’t apply it too evenly, although that is also due to the formula being very difficult to apply evenly. It is not too precise, but I managed to paint my nails without making a terribly huge mess on the skin around the nails. The brush is not frayed but it could definitely be better.

Colour: oooh, this is a beautiful shade of blue! It’s a rich, vibrant darker blue, very much like dark sapphire blue; it’s also like something in between USAF blue and Boeing blue. A very intense colour that is immediately noticeable from afar! It looks stunning on pale skin, does it not? I’m not usually one for blue, especially darker, navy-type blue, nail polishes but this one is really stunning! It creates such an intense contrast between my pale skin and it. Wow! Sapphires on my nails, truly!

The formula is quite pleasant to use, although it is a bit runny. And it does apply horribly unevenly with one coat, which is a serious problem. But it feels silky and smooth, and it doesn’t usually make a huge mess unless you aren’t being careful. I was kind of rushing through the application process, which lead to a lot of polish on the skin surrounding the nails... it’s entirely my fault. However, even though it feels runny, it also feels very nice in terms of thickness; like, it’s not too thick or too thin. So, it’s not all bad!

Oooh boy... this is horribly uneven with one coat. It’s blotchy and uneven and partially sheer. It just looks hideous with one coat... no sugarcoating this. Alright, two coats improves how it looks massively! It’s opaque now and it’s mostly even, only being slightly uneven in a few places, but it’s not very noticeable at all. The texture is very glossy.

Scratches aside, this nail polish actually has great longevity! It’s such a shame it gets scratched up so much because it doesn’t chip easily. The scratches make it less glossy, it becomes more of a muted shine instead. The nail polish stayed in remarkably good condition during the 4 days I was wearing it; it developed some very minor tip wear between days 2 and 3, but it was barely visible. It did chip on day 3, but it wasn’t significantly chipped. It continued to be in great shape the next day, even though a hair wash did damage it slightly. But it’s really not nearly as bad as it can be after a hair wash! Excellent! Now, if only it was scratch resistant...

Oh wow, this nail polish is actually super easy to remove! That’s... a huge surprise! I thought I would have to rub for ages just to break through it, but I only need a couple of swipes and it’s already pretty much gone! I do need to rub a bit more to remove the last remaining bits of it, but it’s so much easier than I thought! And it doesn’t leave my nails stained yellow; they do seem to be very slightly bluish but that could be me just seeing things. They might not even be discoloured. Wow... I thought for sure it would discolour my nails...

All in all, another good little nail polish from Trend it Up! It seems the Easy & Speedy range is one of the promising ones as this isn’t the first Easy & Speedy to be this good! There’s much to love here: the brush is pretty good, the longevity is excellent (for the most part), and oh my... the colour! It’s stunning! So rich, so vibrant! A darker blue that looks gorgeous on pale skin, it is visible from miles away! I love it – and I don’t typically wear blue nail polishes, so this is high praise, coming from me! But not all is great... the formula is finicky, to put it lightly. It’s not the easiest formula to use, and it applies so goddamn unevenly with one coat... thankfully, applying a second coat fixes it, but, by god, is it uneven and ugly with one coat. And it’s prone to being scratched up, which isn’t good as it makes it less glossy. But combined with its small price, it’s great! These vibrant nail polishes can be spotty and difficult to work with, but this little polish is a real gem – sapphire, even! I will recommend it, I do love it!

Rating: 7/10

Would buy again? Maybe YES

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Trend it Up Easy & Speedy Nail Polish [200] Review

May 16, 2024

The second of three tiny nail polishes that I was given by my mother. This one is the Trend it Up Easy & Speedy Nail Polish, in shade 200!

So, sometimes my mother gets these weird ideas and then, when she arrives home, she hands me nail polishes. This polish is the result of such an occurrence. She came home and handed me three mini nail polishes, all from Trend it Up. Now, I have been quite happy with Trend it Up lately, so I didn’t mind it very much, but it was still odd. Especially because this colour is not one I would pick myself. But I guess I shall accept it and try it out – it’s the least I could do, right? Besides, it might just end up being a great nail polish! So, let’s see what it’s like!

Packaging: a tiny little glass bottle that is like a lil cube. It is adorable! I like the curved top edges, it adds some elegance to an otherwise very sharp shape. There isn’t much to say about the bottle: it’s got the Trend it Up logo, Easy & Speedy, and there’s a sticker with information in the back. The text is black to match the cap. Black is nice with this iridescent colour! The cap closes super securely, so no need to worry about the polish drying out! It’s a minimalistic design, but the shape allows it to stand out in its own way. I like it.

Ingredients: vitamin E for nourishment. Zinc sulfate to help keep your nails strong. Also, interestingly, Lithothamnion calcareum extract and diatomaceous earth! 3-free (DBP, formaldehyde, toluene)! The scent is very sharp and acrid, just like it was with shade 250. Definitely more aggressive than most nail polishes. Although, the body of the scent is fairly similar to that ‘standard’ nail polish scent. The expiration date is 24 months after opening.

Hmm, another weird brush; guess all Easy & Speedy polishes are going to be like this. This is a flat brush, but it is so small! A bit too small for me. It’s also really dense. Now, yeah, it does pick up a large amount of polish, much more than will ever realistically need on one nail, but it is a bit finicky to use. It spreads the polish evenly, but it can get messy on the sides. It’s a bit messier than the brush shade 250 had. It’s not the worst brush, but it could certainly be improved by a lot! Not to mention, it is frayed, more than the brush in shade 250. This one is visibly misshapen, which would be problematic usually, but the formula helps make it usable.

Colour: oh wow, that is one super interesting colour! So, it’s iridescent. It’s got a lavender base with a light green, almost seafoam shine. It changes between the two depending on the lighting. The lavender is pale and quite gentle, to allow the seafoam to really shine. And boy does it! The light green shine is super shiny, it is actually the majority of what you’ll see when you look at this nail polish. I am not usually one for these extreme FX nail polishes, but I like what this one looks like. It’s a bit ghastly and a bit alien at the same time! Especially on pale skin – perfect for Halloween if you are going as the Undead Bride or something like that! Very cool for a change!

Speaking of the formula, it is very creamy and smooth. It literally feels like a rich cream! Compared to shade 250, this one feels slightly more creamy and a tiny bit less hard. It is still a relatively hard formula, but it is definitely smoother. It’s also slightly more marbled than 250. This also means that it tends to have some slight streaking when you apply two coats; I don’t mind it here because the finish helps conceal it.

This polish is interesting in terms of opacity. See, one coat gives you about 80% opacity, so you’ll barely see the nails underneath. I would say that it is wearable like this, but the intensity of the colour just isn’t enough. It’s mostly just the light green shine with barely any lavender base visible. It looks a bit sickly green like this, a bit like undead monsters, zombies, stuff like that. Kinda ghastly but excellent for Halloween! If you do what I did and apply a second coat, it looks sooo much better. Now it’s completely opaque and the colours are vibrant like they should be. You can clearly see the iridescence, changing from lavender to light green depending on the lighting. While it does still look a bit sickly, now it’s way more like futuristic, like aliens. Very, very cool!

And it still looks silky smooth and not at all thick even though the formula is plenty thick. The texture is another fascinating thing about this nail polish. It is highly metallic and iridescent, yes, but if you look closely, you’ll also see that it is also very finely marbled and has the finest graininess to it. This isn’t the chunky shimmer shade 250 had, oh no, this one is microscopic, allowing the finish to be this shiny and iridescent. Besides all this, it is also slightly reflective, but much less than 250. Such a fascinating nail polish!

Longevity is sadly not nearly as good as with shade 250. Unlike that one, this shade starts to chip after about 3 days, although it is really minimal. But it got worse, much worse, over the next 2 days. It was already visibly chipped on the last day before I washed my hair, but that hair wash did it in. The amount of chipping was severe, with huge patches of nail polish peeled off on some nails. Such a shame, this is a wicked cool colour... oh well. I will say that it at least doesn’t get scratched up, no matter what you do. So at least it keeps that glossy finish!

Hmm, this isn’t the easiest nail polish to remove, but it is much easier to remove than shade 250. I didn’t have to rub as much to remove this nail polish, and it didn’t leave a stain on my nails. It could definitely be easier to remove, though, as the first pass only removes the purple shimmer. You need go over it a second or third time to fully remove it (although, to be fair, the cotton pads I was using weren’t very good, so that played a part in this as well).

All in all, a pretty good nail polish, although not as good as Easy & Speedy 250. They have different kinds of formulas, so this was to be expected (one is chunky shimmery, other is fine shimmery). But I still like it nonetheless! The formula is very creamy and smooth and literally feels like a rich cream! It’s quite easy to use, too! Although, it does have some slight issues with looking streaky; I don’t find this to be a problem here as the colour and finish help conceal it. Speaking of, the colour is wicked cool! Definitely not a colour I would choose most of the time, but a good change of pace. It’s perfect for Spooktober, as it is a truly ghostly – ghastly, even – colour! It’s a bit sci-fi as well, kinda like aliens (not, not talking about Xenomorphs, but Little Green Men). This is a metallic/duo-chrome kind of colour that changes colour from lavender to a pale seafoam green. Although, the lavender isn’t too visible, you’ll mostly be seeing the green, under most lighting. It’s also slightly marbled, which makes it even more cool! Very peculiar, very eye-catching! But now I have to mention the bad... fortunately, there is not a whole lot bad with this nail polish, but what is bad, is pretty bad. See, unlike shade 250, this one is prone to chipping. From day 3 onwards, it chipped more with each passing day. What started ad small, barely visible chipping turned into half the nails being chipped off. A hair wash was what caused most damage, predictably. This is the critical point for most nail polishes, where you see just how durable they truly are, and this polish failed that test. So, 5 days after painting my nails, they were left in a sorry state, half chipped off. Such a shame, it was all going so well up till then... this really disappointed me and made me sad. Gone is the forever durability of shade 250... but I still like this nail polish. It was a gift, a colour that I probably wouldn’t buy myself, but I am actually happy to have it! But, given the problems with longevity, as well as with the brush (it’s frayed), I cannot recommend it. And that pains me.

Rating: 6.5/10

Would buy again? Probably NO

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Trend it Up Easy & Speedy Nail Polish [250] Review

May 16, 2024

The first of three mini nail polishes for today, all gifts! This one is the Trend it Up Easy & Speedy Nail Polish, shade 250!

So, this is a nail polish that I did not choose nor buy. My mum came home one day and just handed me a handful of nail polishes... alright??? Well, most were colours that I probably wouldn’t buy myself, but this colour is actually pretty, I’ll admit! I love these gentle, rosy colours, with or without gold shimmer. I have had great experience with Trend it Up nail polishes, so I didn’t feel annoyed that she bought me them. However, I had not yet tried the Easy & Speedy range at the time when she gave me the polishes, so let’s see how good this particular Easy & Speedy is!

Oh, such a tiny bottle! It is square-shaped and looks sooo small! There is not a lot on the bottle, just the Trend it Up logo, Easy & Speedy, and a sticker with information. I like the black text on this colour, and it matches the cap. The cap is absolutely huge compared to the tiny cube that is the bottle! The cap is black and closes very tightly. Besides this, there is not much to talk about, really. Simple design, but the shape helps distinguish it from other nail polishes.

Ingredients: vitamin E for nourishment. Also zinc sulfate to make your nails harder. Interestingly, there’s also Lithothamnion calcareum extract and diatomaceous earth! Nothing harmful, such as DBP, formaldehyde or toluene. The scent is a lot more acrid than most other nail polishes, but it is still similar enough generally speaking. The expiration date is 24 months after opening.

The brush is small and dense. It’s really small! This is a flat brush. It picks up a very good amount of polish, more than enough for one nail. It applies nail polish evenly and easily, and it can be surprisingly precise on the sides of nails. It’s alright to use, but it’s too small and a bit too dense for me. It also seems to be very slightly frayed. Not horrible, but also not an amazing brush.

Yeah, this colour is actually really beautiful! It’s got a muted light rose base with a ton of gold shimmer. This is such an elegant and gentle colour, especially on pale skin like mine. I feel like it looks even more elegant and beautiful because it’s not completely opaque. The fact that you can see the nail underneath ever so slightly makes it so pretty. The rose base is a colder shade of rose, almost mauvey. The shimmer is mostly tiny, powder-like, but there are some larger grains as well, so it looks almost a bit 3D, chunky. This is an excellent colour for either everyday occasions or formal ones! It’s just stunning!

The formula is really odd. It’s very thick and feels almost hard, but it is still creamy. It is actually surprisingly easy to spread across the nails, despite being so thick. Is it this thick so that it can dry quickly? I won’t be able to test that out as I always use nail polish drying drops. I really am not a fan of this thick formula. If only it had a bit more liquid in it so that it doesn’t feel almost hard.

One coat is very sheer; it’s really just a layer of gold shimmer with barely any colour underneath. It is amazingly even, though! It’s a bit odd like this, so I would apply a second coat. Oh yeah, it is much better with two coats! With two coats it is still semi-sheer, but now it’s a frosty sheer opacity. Now the rose base is actually visible, while still keeping the gold shimmer intense. With three coats it might be opaque, but it’s already super shimmery and thick, so I wouldn’t recommend that. It’s perfectly even and just looks great! The texture is highly shimmery, but there’s a catch! It’s not scratchy shimmery; the surface is completely smooth, you wouldn’t even know it is this shimmery just by touching it! It’s also quite reflective in a way, it looks kind of like a mirror from some angles! Beautiful finish!

Longevity is astounding, truly! 4 days and not a single chip, scratch or any sort of damage to be seen! This is a miracle honestly! The surface of the nail polish stayed just as smooth no matter what I’d do, and there wasn’t even edge chipping. Nor on the sides. Seriously, nothing damaged it, even using my nails to open stuff! Not even excessive water exposure, which is something that can easily make nail polishes chip or peel off, caused any damage! I... I am speechless. This kind of perfect longevity is something that nail polishes costing ten times as much as this tiny one don’t have. Wow...

All that good has to come with some price, right? Well, here it is. This nail polish is extremely difficult to remove, like, almost impossible. I had to scrub for like 15 minutes and even that wasn’t enough to fully remove all the shimmer. The shimmer is plentiful and chunky in places, and that is exactly why it is so hard to remove. This, of course, is not good for the health of the nails, especially if you have sensitive nails like I do. I decided to stop rubbing them with remover and try to buff out what little shimmer remained with a nail buffing block. At least it doesn’t leave any stains. Ugh. This was very unpleasant. But I should have known it would be like that when it stayed in perfect condition without literally any damage for 4 whole days. And I should’ve known the highly shimmery finish would cause trouble later. Oh well, it cannot be absolutely perfect, can it?

In conclusion, wow, just wow! But in the best way, wow! Like, this nail polish is absolutely amazing! It’s a beautiful shimmery colour, very princessy! A gentle rose with a very generous amount of golden shimmer. I applied two coats and even then it wasn’t opaque; it was left looking almost frosted, with some nail still peeking through the polish. This is actually great; it looks even more elegant like this rather than being completely opaque. I also don’t mind the extreme amount of shimmer, I think it looks very elegant! And it’s smooth to touch, like, if you were blindfolded and touched this nail polish, you wouldn’t be able to tell it’s got so much shimmer inside! And boy oh boy, the longevity is bonkers! It looked 100% the same at the end of day 4 as when I freshly painted my nails! Seriously, no matter what I did over the course of those 4 days nicked it, or chipped it, or scratched it or... anything! It is among the top 5% of nail polishes in terms of longevity, out of all the nail polishes I have! Maybe even in the top 3! Ridiculous – but in the best way possible! So this is all pretty much perfect, right? Well, there’s some bad mixed with the perfect. The formula is creamy and that is nice, but it also feels slightly hard. The brush isn’t the best quality and it can be a bit finicky to use because it is small and a bit frayed. And the biggest negative that I can mention is that this nail polish is horribly difficult to remove. Like, it is almost impossible to remove; I had to rub my nails for over 10 minutes before I was able to get most of the shimmer off. Note that I said most; indeed, no matter how much I rubbed my nails, there was still at least a tiny bit of residual shimmer. Fortunately, I was able to buff it out with a nail buffing block, but this is definitely not at all a good thing to have. This is not good for the health of the nails – especially if you have sensitive nails. But overall, this is a phenomenal nail polish, much better than it has any right to be – especially at its price point! I am overjoyed with it, so I will happily recommend it! You’ll get bang for your buck, and then some!

Rating: 8/10

Would buy again? YES

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New Stuff - Part 36

May 16, 2024

Hello!

Three of a kind - not in poker cards though, but in nail polishes!

So... these nail polishes come with a little story. So sit back and relax because it's story time! See, my mother often goes to the mall to browse all the shops, including DM! She doesn't usually buy a lot of things, but on occasion, she will come back and hand me what she found. These three nail polishes are the result of that; she got home and just went "here, take this"... okay?? I will take them, even if I don't like them, because I don't want the money to be wasted. The blue one here is the one that I was really not too glad that I got - the other two are fine, and stuff I might wear usually, but the blue one? That's completely new to me. So I guess I should thank her for buying me nail polishes, right?

These are all Easy & Speedy polishes; I have reviewed one Easy & Speedy before, it's not the greatest but it's also not the worst. It's going to be interesting seeing how similar or different the shimmery ones are compared to that one, which was plain glossy.

Here are the three nail polishes for today:

Trend it Up Easy & Speedy Nail Polish [250]
Trend it Up Easy & Speedy Nail Polish [200]
Trend it Up Easy & Speedy Nail Polish [190]

See you soon!

Maja

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Trend it Up Easy & Speedy Nail Polish [400] Review

February 10, 2024

One nail polish was free, one was not. This one did not come free with a coupon. This is the Trend it Up Easy & Speedy Nail Polish, shade 400.

I quite fancied the first few Easy & Speedy nail polishes that my mum bought me, so I thought I could go and see if there are any other colours I might like. Indeed, there were a couple that seemed very nice. Now, I didn’t really need new nail polishes, but DM had a promo where you’d get a ton of extra points on their loyalty card if you bought products from certain brands, and that included Trend it Up! Besides, I was already going to pick up a free Trend it Up nail polish anyways, and I had a couple of Depend O2 nail polishes on my mind, so what’s one more nail polish? This is one colour that I don’t yet have in my collection, and it looks sick! So in my cart it goes! Now, let’s see how good it is!

Packaging: my, what a cute tiny bottle! It’s a tiny cube! There’s not much in the way of details, just the standard logos. The text is white, so that it is clearly visible. I like that Trend it Up keeps adapting the colour of the text based on the colour of the polish: when it’s a light colour the text is black and vice versa. Much better than when you have white nail polishes with white text... anyways, the cap. It’s black and much taller than the bottle. It closes super securely (I had to use most of my strength just to open it the first time). Simple packaging, but it’s cute!

Ingredients: vitamin E for nourishment. Zinc sulfate to help make your nails strong. Also, interestingly enough, Lithothamnion calcareum extract and diatomaceous earth! That is just so curious! 3-free (DBP, formaldehyde, toluene). The scent is quite like any other nail polish, although it does smell sweeter... hmm. The expiration date is 24 months after opening.

Like with the other Easy & Speedy polishes, this one, too, has a small dopey brush. It’s flat, wide and small, so it looks squat and just amusing. Not my favourite shape/size of brush; I prefer larger flat brushes. This brush is okay, I guess, but definitely worse than what the other Easy & Speedy polishes have. It seems to be easily frayed? Like, at one point a large cluster of hairs just decided to separate, I managed to put them back, but this shouldn’t happen. Also, this is one of those extremely rare times when I don’t actually need to tap off excess polish from the brush – and this isn’t exactly a compliment! I tapped it off automatically and noticed that there is a strangely small amount of polish on the brush. Like, it quickly became goopy and streaky and a mess.

So I started applying it without any tapping off, and that seems to be exactly what was needed. It’s strange, like, the formula is not much different compared to the others in this range, so it must be the brush that is noticeably worse. At least it spreads nail polish evenly... but even this has a caveat: it seems to cause air bubbles to form. I really don’t think it was my nails, they were smooth and shiny, so they were definitely properly buffed. And no other Easy & Speedy had issues with air bubbles... no, yeah it must be the brush. It wasn’t even that easy to use, it kept running out of polish and made the application needlessly tricky. Darn...

Hmm, well this is one interesting colour! It’s gray, but it’s not pure gray. It’s got just a smidge of brown pigments inside that give it a nice warmness. Yeah, it’s like taupe. It looks a tiny bit more brown on pictures online compared to how it actually looks on my skin, but I don’t mind it. It’s still a very cool colour! Bit unusual, isn’t it? But I like how grungy this colour is, especially on pale skin. It’s a good colour for winter or when you’re feeling punky. Quite a moody taupe. I really like it!

The formula doesn’t seem quite as thick as with the other Easy & Speedy Nail polishes. It still feels odd, though. Like, it definitely feels gelly, but it is also incredibly smooth and almost... creamy, I want to say. It is super easy to use though, as it always spreads perfectly evenly across the nails. I did notice some air bubbles, although I am pretty sure that is due to the brush.

With one coat it is almost opaque. Depending on how thick that first coat is, it can even be fully opaque. But, as it is better to apply thinner coats, it usually looks about 75% opaque. You can just barely see the nail underneath. With two coats it is totally opaque. The colour looks right now and it’s rich and deeply pigmented. It also doesn’t look thick at all with two coats, although I definitely wouldn’t apply more than two as the nail polish already started to feel slightly goopy with two. It would be a nightmarish goopy mess with three coats, I think. The texture is quite glossy; it looks less gelly glossy compared to the rosy brown Easy & Speedy Nail Polish.

Longevity seemed to be excellent, like all the other Easy & Speedy nail polishes, but it then took a turn for the worse. About 2 days in, I started to notice some light chipping; I thought that was due to me working with wood trying to sort my bed base situation, but it didn’t stay like this over the next two days, and I did not do any physical labour. It slowly chipped more and more on the free edge of the nails, which wasn’t too bad at first, especially with how careless I had been with my nails while hammering nails and trying to fit the damn base into my bedframe, but then it started chipping off in large chunks. Like, I am talking, huge pieces that fell off my nails! And that’s before a hair wash!

After a hair wash there was more damage, which made the nail polish look really bad and ugly with how destroyed it was. Two of my nails literally didn’t have any nail polish on half of the nail! No idea why this one has such awful durability, when the others survive almost anything... it’s a real shame, as I quite like the colour. But, if nothing else, at least it doesn’t get scratched up (it does have those pesky air bubbles tho).

It’s super easy to remove. It comes off without a lot of rubbing, which is good for sensitive nails. Also, it doesn’t stain nails despite being a darker colour.

All in all, oh no, this one is not like the other Easy & Speedy nail polishes... it’s much worse. The brush is the same old mini wide brush that isn’t too difficult to use; it applies polish evenly and richly, but it’s just too small for me. The formula is again weirdly thick but creamy and not at all heavy. So that stayed the same. The colour is gorgeous, actually! I didn’t know how much I would end up liking it until I saw it on my nails for the first time! It’s a taupe gray with some brownish pigments inside that make it very slightly warm toned; it’s a very grungy, cool colour. Perfect for winter! Or for when you are feeling moody! Not my usual choice of colour but it is really awesome! It is also neutral enough that you could use it for formal occasions, although it really looks best with casual outfits. I’m sure it would look great on many skintones, but on pale skin it really pops! Now, this was the best thing about this polish. Time for the negative, and it’s pretty bad. See, for some reason, I get air bubbles when I am done painting my nails with this nail polish. No idea why because I did everything the same as usual and the other Easy & Speedy polishes don’t suffer from this. Even though the bubbles are tiny, they are very annoying. But that’s minor compared to the other issue, which is how easily this nail polish is to chip! The other Easy & Speedy nail polishes survived almost anything I threw at them, but this one starts to chip soon after applying it. And it’s not tiny chips, either. After it chips on the free edge of the nails it then starts chipping off in larger chunks, like literally a-quarter-of-the-nail size. This means that, by the end of the 5 days that I have been wearing it for, it ended up looking extremely messy and badly chipped. A few of my nails only had half of the polish remaining on them! Such a shame... wicked colour but marred with numerous issues. Sigh. I guess I was bound to find a dud sooner or later, huh? Shame it was this colour though. So, if you are looking to buy an Easy & Speedy Nail Polish, I’m afraid this one won’t be a good choice. It’s just too problematic. No recommendations.

Rating: 5.5/10

Would buy again? Hmm, NO (sadly)

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New Stuff - Part 27

February 10, 2024

It's me - hi!

Yeah, there's been quite a bit of delay this week - courtesy of female reproductive hormones that decided to make this week as unbearable (and painful!) as possible. So not only am I still getting barely 5 hours of sleep, now, due to the hormonal shifts, I am struggling with lots of various pains all over (but mostly in the pelvic region). This all has made me extremely groggy... sorry for being late with this. However, to make up for the delay I decided to show you not one or two, but four nail polishes today!

They are all quite similar, aren't they? I do like my neutrals, haha! Anyways, I wasn't really planning to buy any of them, but since the Super Shine & Stay was given out for free via coupon I decided: "eh, why not buy a few more?". DM had a promotion with which I got a ton of extra points on their loyalty card after I bought these nail polishes - score!

Don't they look so similar?

So while I was already there to pick up the free nail polish, I happened to notice that three Depend O2 nail polishes look suspiciously similar under DM's lighting. This was simply funny to me. I really should've picked one of them, but since they're so cheap I decided to buy first these two, and then a bit later, the third of the three near
-identical polishes. Dunno why, but I just found it amusing.

Now, the neutral-coloured quartet of nail polishes for this week:

Depend O2 Nail Polish [723]
Depend O2 Nail Polish [707]
Trend it Up Super Shine & Stay Nail Polish [720]
Trend it Up Easy & Speedy Nail Polish [400]

See you soon!

Maja

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