I chose this next color when I was indulging in my usual Sunday night routine of ‘take out your anxiety with John Mayer and a bottle of nail polish remover’. View this next polish picture accordingly by imagining the opening beats to ‘Heartbreak Warfare’ accompanied by a strong smell of acetone:
Sally Hansen Smooth Perfect ColorCare Nail Polish in ‘Sorbet’
While the picture is pretty, the general review is not. Five coats later, this polish induced more stress than it saved. Currently layered on my nails to achieve this opacity? A base coat, a white coat, then THREE coats of this formula. My nails were still tacky over an hour later && I have a fingerprint or six to prove it [so, basically, the complete opposite of ‘smooth’ and ‘perfect’]. I feel as if you’d need an upwards of six coats just to achieve the light orange color that the bottle appears to house. The upsides? The polish dries with a shine that mirrors a top coat, and the classic Sally Hansen flat brush is one of my favorite applicators. Also, I listened to Battle Studies in its entirety while waiting for this to dry [not a polish upside, but I’m grasping here]. Overall, I don’t think this polish was worth the purchase. You can find a similar shade that doesn’t take 4+ coats and forty minutes to dry.
While I don’t enjoy writing negative reviews, I enjoy wasting my Sunday night stress ritual significantly less [should have skipped the soul searching, gone straight to the sushi] Here’s hoping this saves you from a similar experience!
sammifax says:
I literally just got home from Target with this nail polish and THEN read the review. Awesome lol. Hopefully I can make it work.
Char! says:
pretty colour, shame about the crap formula xx
Gauri says:
Fab review 😀
Em_skee says:
Hey Carly I found a polish the other day that resembles this and reminded me of you, so I bought it!! It's Essie called 'A Crewed Interest'….and two coats of it is awesome! Check it out 🙂
kristyhank says:
It looks pretty, but I hate when you need so many coats to achieve the result you want. Shame!
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LAURA says:
so close to buying these yesterday but then i remembered this post!! i hate sheer polishes!
Laura x
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