Sunday, March 2, 2014

Minnie Mouse Peel-able Polishes

I found these polishes at Walmart. They were only a few dollars a piece, but they were so cute I wanted to get them and try them out! I'm not necessarily a huge Minnie Mouse fan, but I love novelty polishes!


I did a Minnie mani using all of the polishes. Over yellow, the fuchsia, pink, and red all end up looking really similar unfortunately! But I still think it turned out pretty cute! ^.^



I added topcoat to my Minnie mani, but I didn't use it on any of my swatches. They all ended up with a somewhat rubbery-type finish. They are all water-based and will peel off without damaging your nails. They also all dry very fast, and they all dry darker than they look in the bottle!

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First up is the pink polish. This one needed four coats to make everything smooth and even, but if I would have applied the first coats better, I could have gotten away with three opacity-wise. Sadly this one bubbled very easily, even if I did extremely thin coats, so I added the fourth coat to try and cover those bubbles some. I wish this one would have remained truer to it's bottle color, but it dried to a cherry red color, and isn't very distinguishable from the red one.




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The next polish is a really pretty color. I think my bottle was half dried up, though, because it was very thick and chunky. Fortunately with these polishes, since they are water-based, if you need to thin them, all you have to do is add some water. I did so but it still left a pretty nasty, lumpy finish once the polish dried. So after the first picture, this one is shown with a coat (should have done two) of Seche Vite on top. The actual polish only needed two coats for opacity, but it photographed a tad too blue. It is actually a little more grapey.





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Next up is the fuchsia polish. This one needed three thin coats. It was very smooth and easy to apply.




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The blue polish is probably my favorite of the bunch color-wise. It is really pretty! The formula was a tad on the thicker side, and it needed three coats for opacity, but I love this one!




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The red polish was also smooth and easy to apply. It was one of the sheerest ones, though; it needed four coats. This one dries to a cherry red color very similar to the pink.




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Last but not least is the yellow polish. It was also a little on the thick side and sheer side. It needed four coats and had a pretty uneven finish.




Overall, considering the price and how cute these are, I like them! With topcoat, that is. For the most part, they're a little uneven without it. But the colors are nice and bright, and I love being able to just peel them off when I am done with the mani instead of having to mess with acetone! Some peel-off polishes (Piggy Paint specifically) won't come off with remover, only (and still barely) rubbing alcohol. So I do like that these will also remove with polish remover!

They had six similar polishes with Hello Kitty on top instead of Minnie, but I opted to leave those behind. They were pretty cute, but I don't like Hello Kitty. :)