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index/ring: hectic, middle/pinkie: no more war

no more war is darker and warmer than hectic, more yellow toned. the formula was rather similar, both two coaters.

I like them both and they work with my skintone.

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no more war is a deep warm olive green creme. it’s beautiful! and it really is the perfect military green.

the formula was good, better than scrangie and grunge. I used poshe over it, and there was almost no shrinkage. nothing much else to say.

I have compared this to illamasqua hectic, I’m gonna show you this tomorrow. I also did a super hot stamping, coming up soon ;-)

here are the pictures that originally made me think they could be very similar:

venice party

scrangie © www.scrangie.com

you see how similar they look? you will see on the next pictures, how close venice party is to scrangie’s scrangie pic:

index/ring: venice party, middle/pinkie: scrangie

I’m sorry to disappoint everyone who was hoping for a scrangie dupe, but this one is absolutely not. I don’t even need to explain the difference, because it’s pretty obvious. again, I’m wondering, if my scrangie version differs from scrangie’s, because the pictures look so different.

in the last post I was telling you, that I couldn’t use the fast drying tc on scrangie, because it was shrinking. I applied the two polishes yesterday evening without using tc and waited for 3hrs before I went to bed. this is how it looked this morning (all fingers did).

you see, that’s why it’s essential to me that a polish can be combined with a fast drying tc o_O

scrangie is a redtoned purple base with a green iridescent shimmer. I know scrangie describes it as bluetoned, but you will see on my pics that it’s rather redtoned (to me). however the polish looks a bit different on my pics than on hers. and on my nails it looks like on my pictures. maybe she applied more than 2 coats, or maybe the formula is different (which I don’t think).

I really like this shade. it’s very unique and beautiful. but – I don’t like the formula. it’s very thin and blotchy. the first time I applied it, 2 days ago, I used my poshe quick drying tc. this is how it looked 2hrs later:

you see the shrinkage? even worse next morning:

as much as I like this color, it’s a no-go that I can’t use my fast drying tc on it, because being a mum of a 1 year old means, you really don’t have the time to wait some hours for your polish to get dry.

I’m not sure if the polish still is available, because it was part of a limited blogger edition.

grunge is a medium taupe with a subtle silver or light blue shimmer. this is one of the polishes that changes color depending on lighting. it appears rose, lilac, brown, grey or beige. I’d call it a mixture of opi tickle my france-y and orly country club khaki. but the shimmer makes it unique.

the formula was not as good as expected. it was thick but still runny. the brush was a bit stiff. I used 2 coats.