Royal and navy blue nail polish swatches and comparisons (picture heavy post)

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Left to right (in natural light): Ma = Maybelline Color Show Denim Dash, CG = CoverGirl Outlast Out of the Blue, SH = Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Pacific Blue, ES = Essie Butler Please, SC = Sinful Colors Endless Blue, CG = China Glaze ManHunt, RR = Revlon Top Speed Royal, ZI = Zoya Ibiza, SH = Sally Hansen Insta-Dry Co-bolt Blue, ORN = Orly Royal Navy, ZS = Zoya Song, OSC = Orly Stone Cold, SH = Sally Hansen Insta-Dry Freeze! (and pretty brooch just because it's blue and sparkly)

Remember when I posted about a (near) dupe for Essie Butler Please, Sally Hansen Pacific Blue, which is even better? Well, I recently picked up Sinful Colors Endless Blue, which I would also put in the near dupe category - and it's even better than the other two!

This inspired me to do a mega-comparison of blues. I have so many blue nail polishes, you guys. So fucking many. Almost as many as I have greens or teals or purples. I didn't swatch all my blues here - I decided to limit this to just the ones in the royal-to-navy range. I hope this will be useful for some people in deciding if a blue you have is actually almost the same as something you are lusting after. None of the ones I had were dupes, other than the three mentioned above, though some are sort of similar. I'm not going to review each polish in detail; I'll let the swatches speak for themselves. Feel free to ask questions about any of them in the comments.

Oh, the other reason I did this? Because swatching nail polish is so fucking soothing and fun. It's like making a craft with the lowest skill level possible and lots of pretty colors. You can get the wheels at bunch of different places for cheap, like these ones from Amazon (I've also found them at Sally Beauty and on ebay). I also really like arranging things by color - which means that on my wheel, I kind of find it annoying that the order isn't exactly right. The CG and RR toward the middle should be switched, and so should the ORN and ZS on the right side, right!?

On to the swatches!
They are all two coats without topcoat so that you can compare their opacity and finish. Several of them look better with three coats and/or a glossy topcoat. The messy parts around the edges are just bits of the misshapen swatch nails that I didn't trim off - they're not the fault of the nail polish. (I realize the background colors looks slightly different in some photos. I color adjusted to make the polishes look true-to-life, which sometimes affected the background.)

Left to right (in natural light): Maybelline Color Show Denim Dash, CoverGirl Outlast Out of the Blue

Left to right (in natural light): CG = CoverGirl Outlast Out of the Blue,
SH = Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Pacific Blue, ES = Essie Butler Please, SC = Sinful Colors Endless Blue

Left to right (in natural light): SC = Sinful Colors Endless Blue, CG = China Glaze ManHunt,
RR = Revlon Top Speed Royal, ZI = Zoya Ibiza

Left to right (in natural light): ZI = Zoya Ibiza, SH = Sally Hansen Insta-Dry Co-bolt Blue,
ORN = Orly Royal Navy, ZS = Zoya Song

Left to right (in natural light, color adjusted): ORN = Orly Royal Navy, ZS = Zoya Song, OSC = Orly Stone Cold, SH = Sally Hansen Insta-Dry Freeze!

Out of all of these, my favorites are Sinful Colors Endless Blue (so bright and glossy!) and Sally Hansen Co-bolt Blue and Freeze!, which are two versions of perfect 90s blues, and both really pigmented and easy to use. I'm also a big fan of the CoverGirl and Revlon polishes in here.

Do you have any of these? What do you think?