Met Amelia for lunch on Friday to catch up as well as go bonkers at Watsons (which we did because we spent $124 there)! We both cracked at this new cosmetic booth at Tampines Mall! It's one floor below Popular and it's called Elianto. We both bought 2 polishes each because they were only $2.50 per bottle! Swatches of my 2 bottles later on!
I just wanted to add more value to my previous comparison post on You Don't Know Jacques vs Over the Taupe vs
Particuliere. I read that Etude House had this one brown polish that was a supposed dupe for
YDKJ and I was wearing all 3
taupes on my digits when I went there so, having no shame, I managed to swatch a nail with that Etude House Brown!
Top to bottom: Over the Taupe, You Don't Know Jacques, Etude House Brown,
Particuliere
Top: You Don't Know Jacques, Bottom: Etude House Brown
Top:
Particuliere, Bottom: Etude House Brown
Right off the ball, the Etude House Brown wasn't a complete dupe for any of the 3 taupes. It was close to YDKJ but still, it was visibly different. It was from the $5.90 range and the bottle ain't exactly big so I'd still rather get YDKJ. Comparign it with Particuliere, I think it was closer to Particuliere than Over the Taupe was!
My nails after 3 days of wear. Ironically, Particuliere experienced the most tip wear even though it costs the most. I wore 3 thin coats of each colour without any base or top coat, fyi.
Now, onto the 2 polishes I got! The one on my pinkie is called Turquoise and it doesn't appear as neon as it does on camera. I swear. It really is a true turquoise polish. My friend bought a bottle from Malaysia a couple months back and I loved the colour so much but could never get my hands on it. Until now! I love love love this turquoise shade!
Next, on my ring finger is a nude / greige shade aptly named Eggshell! It's to die for. It reminds me of some of the lighter swatches I've seen of Color Club's High Society! I needed 3 thin coats for this one to be opaque but it applied rather smoothly so I've got no major issues with it!
The colour on my index finger is from Skin Food. I have no idea what it's called but it was a pretty shade of nude. I swatched it on for a friend (S, this is you!) because she wanted the discontinued OPI Bare It In Trafalgar Square and this polish reminded me a little of it. But, it's from Skin Food. Hurhur. I only left it on for a day before removing it. I didn't want to get cancer!
This picture was in sunlight.
This was indoors and taken under my lamp! Eggshell's colour is more true to this picture!
And lastly, I got bored
studying today so I took a little break (one of the many breaks I took today!) and finally
swatched on
OPI Barefoot in Barcelona to compare! I had only
swatched the 3 on a piece of scotch tape previously so I hope the following picture will do the 3 polishes more justice!
L-R:
Barefoot in Barcelona, Dulce
de Leche, Tickle My France-y
As you can see, none of them are dupes, or are even similar to each other, and I'm so glad they turned out this way! Barefoot has got a little pinkish brown mauve going on, while Dulce has a peachy pink tone to it. Tickle on the other hand, has a light purple pink tinge. I like all three of them so if you can afford all 3 and like nudes, get them all!
