MINT CANDY APPLE GREEN/BLUE COMPARISONS

Last night I decided to do some comparisons of Essie - Mint Candy Apple (MCA) with some mint greens and blues that I have to see if maybe I was wrong about the greenness in MCA.


First I pulled out some light/baby blues and my light, mint greens. I had four blues and three greens. You will see in the picture below MCA in the middle of the picture. To me, just from bottle pics, I felt as though I was right in my assumption that MCA is more blue than green. But we all know, bottle pics don't necessarily mean the same thing on the nail.




I decided to use Diamond Cosmetics - Oh Tiff since I thought MCA looked like a Tiffany's blue yesterday and I used the darker, blue based green OPI - Hey! Get in Lime.

In the picture below I have
OPI - Index
MCA - Middle
Diamond Cosmetics - Ring
MCA - Pinky



To me, MCA does appear to be blue, although not as blue as Oh Tiff as I originally thought. MCA just does not appear to be a mint green, sure if I look hard enough I can see that it has tinges of green, but I personally wouldn't call it a mint green. I also think that if the name didn't have the word "mint" in it, calling this a green wouldn't even cross my mind.


I also thought I would go ahead and compare it to the lighter of the mint green polishes that I have, while I was at it.

CG - Groovy Green - Index
MCA - Middle
Essie - St. Martin Mint (droooooool) - Ring
MCA - Pinky





Next to these mint greens, MCA really looks blue to me.


Soooooo, there you have it. This "experiment" was done not only to put my mind at ease that I wasn't loosing it about what color MCA is, but also in case any of you wanted to know how MCA compared to other blue and green nail polish.

If you love your MCA more power to you, I'm not trying to dissuade you from loving it. If you like it, I love it!! I'm just sharing this one gal's humble opinion on Mint Candy Apple :)

BREAKIN VS CLOUD 9

The other day when I was doing my orange swatches I noticed that China Glaze Breakin and Sinful Colors Cloud 9 looked very similar in the bottles, so I did a little comparison swatch. As you will see, both of these look almost identical in the bottles, however Cloud 9 appears to be just a touch darker.





In these pictures below, you can see that both have the same yellow shimmer going throughout, which makes them appear very similar.




INDEX & MIDDLE - Breakin
RING & PINKY - Cloud 9

However, once on the nail you can see that while similar, they are in fact different and not exact dupes. The shimmer factor in Cloud 9 (ring & pinky) is much more pronounced. The shimmer is not only brighter and bigger, but much more noticeable too. This shocked me since Cloud 9 looked darker in the bottle pics.

ELECTRIC CORAL COMPARISONS

Yesterday I told you all that I thought I might have a dupe for Billie - Electric Coral. The one I had in mind was Superstar - Orangu an A-Lister. When I pulled down my "orange" shoebox though, I found another one that was sort of close, so I decided to compare it too. The third one is Finger Paints - Coral Compliment.



You can really see just how close Orangu An A-Lister and Electric Coral are. I can't really see that much difference between the two, as far as bottle pics. I could tell that Coral Compliment was going to be darker though.


INDEX- SuperStar Orangu An A-Lister
MIDDLE - Billie Electric Coral
RING - Finger Paints Coral Compliment




I would classify the SuperStar and Billie to be dupes. What do you guys think?