I have been trying hard to show more "budget friendly" brands here as I have seen a lot of people requesting more of this. I love polish of all kinds and have bought everything from drugstore to higher- end polish and have been just as pleased with both. For me, finding a polish is about the "thrill of the hunt". I enjoy trying to find the ones I want at a bargain price and I tend to have pretty good luck at it. I watch the sales through a variety of sources and I often check the same places. One of my favorite places to shop is
Ulta. Not only do they tend to have a good selection of polish, but they go through periods where they have a large clearance section with
OPI,
China Glaze as well as
Essie and sometimes others. It can be quite dangerous for me!
Ulta also carries their own line of polish which I have been quite pleased with thus far and they also have some great sales on those. One such sale is what lead me to this beauty! I am a sucker for a deep luscious red and that is exactly what
Deep Desire is. I wanted to do something red with an accent nail in a leopard print but as I have said before, I am a very pale person so I have to be careful with the red I choose. I can pull off several shades but I knew I would wear this mani for a few days (*gasp*) and also that it wouldn't be for any special occasion. For those reasons, I wanted something that was deeper as it is more in my comfort zone. I started with a base of
CND Stickey to help prevent any chips, then applied two coats of
Deep Desire on all but my ring fingers. On the ring fingers I used two coats of
China Glaze I'm Not Lion and topped all of them with a coat of
Seche. Once dry I used
Revlon Hot for Chocolate to stamp on the lepord print and sealed it with a coat of
NYC. I have tried some other brown cream polishes for stamping, but so far this is by far my favorite.
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Ulta Deep Desire with accent of
China Glaze I'm Not Lion stamped with
Revlon Hot for Chocolate |
I rarely wear a polish for more than 24 hours but this mani has been in place for more than 48 hours. I will likely redo them tonight but they really wouldn't have to be. I was careful to wrap the tips from the base to the topcoat and at this point, the ends of my nails are all that is showing wear; if I look at them straight on, there are no visible chips. For a polish that I only paid $2 for, that is quite good to me. If I wanted to extend the life of this mani further, I would add another topcoat (though not
Seche as it needs to be applied to wet polish) and I am sure it would last a few more days.
So this ended up being quite the long-winded post but hopefully I have given you some insight or useful information! As always, I appreciate your feedback!
What a lovely red color.
ReplyDeleteFinding the right shade of red can be hard at times. This looks very good on you. :D