piCture pOlish Swatches...

For the sake of not overloading the Blog Fest post on Monday, I would like to show you my swatches of the piCture pOlish shades that I used for the manicure (and one more for the heck of it), today. I was going to show them to you yesterday, but I somehow got pulled into watching Ukraine Got Talent on YouTube all night instead of writing the post. I admit it, it's my guilty pleasure. Half the time they speak in Russian and I can understand it and the other half they speak Ukrainian and I'm looking at my bf for translation. His translation is always along the lines of "they didn't say anything interesting" so I gave up, but the acts on there are still pretty amazing to watch. Well that was pretty random, so let's get back to the swatches...

Citrus - "looks as good as it tastes!"
A bright orange cream that lives up to it's citrus name. I'm a bit confused by the tag line though since I would think it looks better than it tastes although honestly I have not tested that theory. The formula on this one is nice and smooth. It took just two coats to reach full opacity. No problems with application. These swatches are with no top coat...

Swatch Details
	Brand: piCture pOlish Collection: core Color Name/Number: Citrus Number of coats: 2 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)

Flirt - "WARNING get loads of attention..."
A bright fuchsia pink cream. I can't say I'm pleased with these swatches. The color is a lot more vibrant and a bit more fuchsia in real life than it appears in these photos. I'm not sure why my camera was determined to dull the color so much. It really will get you loads of attention. The formula again is very nice and smooth. Two coats for full coverage and the swatches are with no top coat...

Swatch Details
	Brand: piCture pOlish Collection: core Color Name/Number: Flirt Number of coats: 2 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)

A peek at the gradient that was the base of my sunset manicure for Blog Fest on Monday. I started out with Citrus as the base and then sponged the two colors on top using a cosmetic wedge to achieve the gradient. See the previous post for a tutorial...

Tiffany - "diamonds with breakfast"
A cool minty blue cream that I think as the name suggests would best be described as Tiffany blue. This was not one of my Blog Fest colors and I've already shown it before, but I wanted to use it as a base for my Splash swatch later on, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to re-swatch it as well. The formula on this one is nice although it needed three coats to reach full opacity. No top coat was used for these swatches...

Swatch Details
	Brand: piCture pOlish Collection: core Color Name/Number: Tiffany Number of coats: 3 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)

Splash - "if Daryl can you can too!"
A clear base with a mix of small and large blue hex glitter. I'm a bit lost on the tagline reference, but the glitter needs no explanation for me. It can be easily layered over many different colors for a touch of sparkle. I thought it looked great over black in the sunset mani, but I'm equally loving it over this blue. I used one coat of Splash over Tiffany. It applied very easily with great glitter distribution. Swatches are with a top coat...

Swatch Details
	Brand: piCture pOlish Collection: core Color Name/Number: Splash Number of coats: 1 (layered) Top Coat: Yes Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)

Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)

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