I'm going to take these in order from least shimmery to most shimmery, starting with Spring Break, a bright pink creme. At least I think it's a creme; you'll see with some of the shimmers coming up that it can be hard to tell with some of the ones in this group. I know for sure I used two coats, no topcoat (nothing today has topcoat until quite near the planned end of this post; I'll tell you when that happens).
Hit the Lights is a yellow that looked like a very, very subtle shimmer in the bottle but read as a straight up creme on my nails and to my camera. I used three coats; it was a tiny bit streaky but not at all bad for a yellow, which tend to be ill behaved as a group, at least for me. This is nicely pigmented, and I probably could have done just two coats if I'd been paying attention.
Love Song is a medium purple with an incredibly subtle shimmer. I used two coats of this one.
What looks like it might be dust in the photo below is actually the shimmer; it's that subtle.
The namesake polish in this collection, Selena, is a rosy peach, again with a subtle shimmer. This was three coats.
I did get the shimmer in Selena to show up in a low light photo.
Naturally is a medium pink with a very similar shimmer to that in Selena, and it was also three coats like Selena.
Low light shot of the shimmer in Naturally:
Pretty in Plum is a red violet with a more traditional shimmer, meaning I can see it clearly on the nail. I used two coats of this one.
I feel like Pretty in Plum would have benefitted from topcoat, but nonetheless it glowed very nicely in low light:
Scarlett is a warm red flecked shimmer. There was some gold visible in bottle, but that didn't really show on my nails. Two coats of this one gave fine coverage.
For fun, I put on a white base color and used the three lightest colors—Hit the Lights, Selena, and Naturally—in a dotticure. This does have topcoat on it; if I'd left it off, it'd probably remind me even more of a candy that many of you reading this are probably too young to remember—tiny candy buttons which came on a paper strip. (Apparently, this candy has a Facebook page. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by that, but I am.)
I think this is a great collection for spring—as a group, the colors make me think of a field of tulips blooming. I'm not so sure about the very subtle shimmers; it bothers me a bit when I can't tell if something's a creme or a shimmer or if I need a category on my stash spreadsheet for subtle shimmers. Not that I won't buy them if I like the color (see a lot of my Dior collection), of course.
The polishes shown in this entry were provided free for review purposes. The content of the entry was not dictated by the provider.
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