It's not many days that I get to be able to swatch freely when the sun is still up. I usually do my swatching at night when I come home from school (that's when you see a yellowish lighting from my so-called flourescent lamp).
So I just happened to pop by Guardian Pharmacy this afternoon and after shamelessly testing out some L.A. Girls nail polish (non-testers, cough), I decided on buying this one as the most likely one I'd wear even though at the point in time, I preferred the hot pink, green and purple tin foils on my other fingers. The blue seemed lacklustre and a whole lot less shiny next to the others. But I'm more of a blue person, so I got this anyway. When I walked out into the sun, it was a shock to discover that this blue does not lose in terms of sparkliness at all to its warmer-coloured counterparts.
Application for this one was lovely, if on the sheer side. I think this was possibly about 3 or 4 coats. I used to not have much of an impression of L.A. Girls because I've never really seen them being mentioned almost at all on nail polish blogs and I generally don't trust stuff I see on Singapore shelves. Because the first nail polish I bought was from their Matte collection and it wasn't very satisfactory. Plus, it separated! So I thought it was rather low-quality, but hey, this is starting to make me appreciate a different side of it.
It kinda looks like Cuckoo For This Color from the OPI Swiss collection, so I whipped out my Yodel Me On My Cell for a comparison (to be later posted). Was rather shocked at how similar they were but Deep Sea Micah is more of a cooler green and interestingly, has more shimmer/sparkles than Yodel. Is the nail polish giant going to be one-upped by a two-bit varnish company?
All in all, I have a really really good impression of this polish and can't wait to try it out as a full manicure!
