Before you scroll down any further, let me apologize for the grainy photos. It's January and so the lighting is terrible - and so is everything else, because it's January.
But I thought I would post about this $2 nail polish in case anyone else had been eyeing
Odette from the new Zoya Naturels (
so frawnch) collection that has appeared on pretty much every nail blog around in the last month or so (
here's one).
Odette was the only one in the collection that really appealed to me, but because I am mega-broke at the moment, I didn't even get it during their 3 free polishes offer this month. I am also mega-weak, though, so I did pick up Wet N Wild
Bite the Bullet at the drugstore for $2. I really like it. I can't tell you for sure if it's a dupe for
Odette, but it looks pretty similar to the photos I've seen. (
Odette might actually be somewhere in between
Bite the Bullet and
Wet N Wild Megalast Undercover, since in some photos, it has a little more rose in it. It kind of looks like a different color on every blog.) Dupe or not,
Bite the Bullet is pretty polish. Two coats with topcoat below.
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| Swatch of Wet N Wild MegaLast nail polish in Bite the Bullet |
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| Swatch of Wet N Wild MegaLast nail polish in Bite the Bullet |
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In addition, if you're into this whole Pantone Color of the Year thing, this might work for you. I don't totally get the idea behind that, except that Pantone picks a color and tells us that we're all supposed to like it for a year. This pronouncement does lead to makeup products at Sephora in colors we might not otherwise see, so sure, that's cool. This year, it's "Radiant Orchid," which is a specific Pantone code. The online roundups of shit in this color that I've seen, however, have been anything roughly in the medium-light pinkish-purple range. So here is my contribution, even if it is not-so-radiant. You'll be oh so super trendy for $2.
