Sunday 27 May 2012

Primark Neons swatch

If you hadn't noticed, the weather is amazing in the UK right now! With the summer weather finally arriving, it's time to take out the neon colours. Yesterday, I went into Primark and saw these neon polishes (and a few colour collections) at £2 for a box of 4. Mega bargain!

Unfortunately, my camera struggled to get the colours right. The pink and orange are accurate, but the green and yellow are tons brighter in real life. The yellow is more of a highlighter yellow, with shimmer, and the green is super bright, and kinda yellow-ish.

For the swatches, I painted each of my nails except the ring finger in a solid colour. For the ring finger, I put some of each colour on the nail then swirled them together at the edges. This created a colourful tie-dye effect. The inspiration for this was from Nail Stories.


The swatches are two coats of each colour. This got them to be the same colour as they appear in the bottle. The application was a bit difficult as the brushes didn't flatten out too well for me, but clean up isn't a huge issue. Also, I'm not a huge fan of "fat lids", I prefer the skinny ones as in Barry M polishes. But that's just down to personal preference. The formula was to be expected of cheap polishes. It was streaky in the first coat, and kinda uneven, but with a second coat and a top coat it was fine. Also, the smell was odd... it's as if they used something to cover up the usual chemical smells, but I can't put my finger on what it is.

Overall, I think they're well worth the price and I look forward to trying more of Primark's collections!
On a side note, the yellow looks like it could be a dupe of China Glaze's "Sun Kissed" from their 2012 Summer Neons collection. I have that coming in the post, so as soon as it arrives I'll do a comparison!

8 comments:

  1. I can't believe I never saw nail polishes in Primark :)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I found mine right by the tills, in the baskets! Have a look over there. :)

      Delete
  2. They look like really nice polishes and they are so cheap! Our penny's have a good load of polish so hopefully they will have these too :) I love your accent nail btw. It turned out so well!!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you! And, I was really impressed with the polishes too.

      Delete
  3. I keep seeing everone post about primark polishes but my store never seems to have any. Nice mani x :-)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks! Just keep looking, for the price I think they're worth the wait.

      Delete
  4. love this post so much, will defo be popping in to primark soon.
    im now following your blog hope you dont mind x

    ReplyDelete