Pop Beauty - Foggy

Pop Beauty Foggy is a shimmery gray.  It is warmer and deeper than Butter London Lady Muck.

Basecoat:  Gelous (1 coat)

Color:  Pop Beauty Foggy (3 coats)

Topcoat:  Seche Vite (1 coat)

So, clearly, these photos were taken under a desk lamp.  They're also taken about three hours after I finished applying.  See that tip shrink?  Ugh.  I will need to go back and check but I could swear I've worn a Pop polish with Seche and it was fine.  I took this off right after I took the photos.

Anyway, aside from that, this is a lovely color.  The application was really good - much better than the cremes I've worn previously.  Cleanup was super easy, too.  This might be one of those "better in winter" colors - it didn't look great with my skintone this time of year, too.

I'll definitely be trying this again with a different topcoat.

Pop beauty - Violetta

Violetta is a screaming neon purple jelly.

Basecoat:  Salon Sciences Instant Artificials (1 coat)

Color:  Pop Beauty Violetta (3 coats)

Topcoat:  David (1 coat)

This was a difficult polish to capture accurately.  I don't usually like to use flash for my photos but the one I accidentally used flash for actually came out pretty well - if you click to embiggen you'll see the VNL present.

I have a few other Pop polishes - I recently wore Turquoise but I didn't post about it because I wore it on my toes.  I have two others that aren't creme/jellys so I don't know that the application will be identical for all of them.

That said:

Application was AWESOME.  Amazing.  Violetta, like Turquoise, is thick but not goopy - almost gel-like.  Super easy to control, went exactly where I wanted, self-leveled, everything.  The only thing I'm not crazy about is the VNL.  If you like the jelly look you can easily get away with two coats - I did three before the VNL was somewhere I felt like I could live with.    The color is lighter and a little less intense than Sinful "Dream On", but they're close-ish.

Violetta dries to a satin finish like most neons.  It did stain my skin where I wasn't super careful, but it wasn't too bad at all.

I'll definitely be buying more Pop polishes if they all apply like this one.  I have one shimmer I'll post when it gets cooler.