I have a quick post for you guys today with some American Apparel swatches, a little comparsion and a quick mani with two of the polishes. But let's start with some swatches of some creme AA polishes.
Dance, two coats. Nice nude, though not the best color for my skintone.
Dynasty, two coats. Really pretty color, though not that unique.
L'Esprit, 1 coat. Yeah, this coveres really well and I only used one coat here, so the formula is really great! Nice color also, but again, not that unique.
Lopez Canyon, 2 coats. Gorgeous color, but stains the cuticles so you need to be careful when applying this.
Then I have two polishes from the Sheer line that I combined in one picture:
I have Manhattan Beach on my pinky and middle finger nails and Moonlight Beach on my ring and index finger nails. These are jelly ones, so they are quite sheer but with three coats they both covered quite well.
I also tried this quick french mani with these polishes, but this look didn't turn out as nice as I thought. They are so sheer that it was hard to apply them evenly on to the tip. Maybe these would work better in some gradient manicures or glitter sandwiches.
Last but not least I have one polish from the Metallic Line called Violet Panache. This one was quite sheer too so I used three coats here. It's a quite pretty color and the shimmer in it is gorgeous!
Violet Panache reminded me immediately of OPI Grape... Set... Match so I did a quick comparison with those two:
They are obviously not dupes as the base colors are quite different hue, but the shimmer in them is really similar. Both needed three coats for coverage, though the American Apparel one covered a bit better.
I have another challenge mani for you guys today. This time it's day six and so it's time for some violet nails. This is what I came up with:
I did this watercolor nail art with Essie Nice Is Nice (two coats) as my base color and OPI Grape... Set... Match. This is also a new technique for me and I used Spektor's Nails tutorial for this. This is really a very simple nail art technique and the result is somewhat similar looking than hte result that you get with the saran wrap technique, though there are some differences in the outcome. I really like the look you can get with this and like I said, it's so simple and easy, everyone can do it!
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I just recently chatted briefly about OPI Grape... Set... Match with Emma and after the conversation I just had to use the polish for a manicure. It's really gorgeous polish, one of my all time favourites, but unfortunately I have wore it only once! Can you believe that?! Yep, that's really the downside of having a large collection... I always have something else that I "need" to try out... But after using it for this mani, I really NEED to wear it as a full mani soon! Oh, by the way, can you guess when I wore it last time?!
Well, of course for this challenge two year ago!
So here's how my violet mani looked like two years ago:
You can read the full post of the mani here.
I'm back with the challenge today and it's already day six and it's time for violet nails. Well, I know violet is technically more like bluish purple but I just decided to go with more red toned one.
This is OPI Grape...Set...Match and it's from OPI Glam Slam! England collection. As soon as I saw first pics of this polish (quite long time ago) I knew I had to have this. As you know already I'm a great purple lover and this polish looked soooo pretty and amazing, so of course I needed it. And I think it really is worth having even if you're not so big purple lover as I am.
Btw, when you're reading this I am (hopefully) in Rome with my mom having a little vacation. It's just for few days, I'll be back home on Wednesday and I have timed some posts for you.
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