Spoiled Are Mermaids Real?

My internet is out at home so here's to the android blogger app! Today I just have a quick swatch of Spoiled Are Mermaids Real? This is a great purple jelly with golden shimmer. It is very similar to one of the Zoya polishes, but I can't think of the name right now...

This is slightly sheer, two coats and still visible nail line but the formula is decent. The brush is horrible as usual for Spoiled polishes (I wish they'd hear all of us complaining and switch over to a new brush!)

The name of this one makes me laugh after all of the drama surrounding a documentary-style science fiction show, Animal Planet's "Mermaids: The Body Found" that fooled many people into believing that mermaids were real. It also aired on the discovery and caused quite a stir. Google Mermaids: The Body Found and you'll find some entertaining reading. :)

Quick swatch! Spoiled Shrimp On The Barbie

Spoiled Shrimp on the Barbie is a pretty pink with yellow-gold glass flecks. It's still slightly sheer with two coats, but wearable. It's a fun color, and I love that Spoiled polishes are available in so many colors and finishes for just $2. I have such easy access to Spoiled that I often stop and pick up a couple on my way home from work after a bad day. Let's just say I have a large and growing collection of spoiled polish. :)

Quick Swatch! Spoiled Dive Deeper

Dive deeper is a dark blue glass fleck with a hint of teal not quite apparent in these photographs. The glass flecks are sliver, and this polish definitely has depth! (Pun intended). This is a great blue, I love the name and I love it!

Spoiled Plastic Flamingo Swatch

My NOTD is Spoiled Plastic Flamingo, a bright pink creme. Although it does appear neon in some lights, it does not have the super-pigmented matte formula of a neon. It's as if someone mixed a white creme and neon pink together. This applies like butter, and dries to a shiny finish with just two coats.

I'm not even tan and look at how tan this color makes me look. :)

One of my favorite things about this bottle of Spoiled is that the brush on it is perfect! Many people have complained about the spoiled brushes, but this one is thin, firm, and slightly rounded rather than thick, mop-like and disheveled.

The good:

... and the ugly:

Some of the brushes for Spoiled polishes are very hard to work with such as this one from Shrimp on the Barbie (which is a truly beautiful color.. making the difficult brush even more disappointing).

Spoiled Haul and some really awful pictures.

At the CVS pharmacy the other day I picked up four new Spoiled by Wet n Wild polishes. I love the bottle shape on these little guys, unique yet simple. Spoiled polishes are inexpensive, and they have some amazing colors. The only complaint I have (which will be familier to you if you've picked up a bottle or read any reviews) is the brush. The brush on these polishes is thick, wide, coarse, and it has a strange angle to one side. This makes it extremely difficult to paint my nails with even though I have very broad nails.

But the colors were too pretty to resist.

I then proceeded to completely botch a few swatches. It was night and my camera wasn't doing any of these colors justice.

From left to right: Shrimp on the Barbie, Plastic Flamingo, Jewelry Heist, Show me the Money, and Ants in my Pants. .

Shrimp on the Barbie is a light mauve toned pink with yellow/gold glass flecks. It's a very pretty color and the glass flecks make it unique in my collection.

This photo doesn't do it justice, but it was the closest I could get to the right color. (2 coats)

Plastic Flamingo. Oh yes, an impossible-to-photograph neon pink creme. This was two coats and applied wonderfully, for some reason the brush on this one was perfect, still wide but not so coarse.

The true color is somewhere in between this over-exposed pink and the dark yet glow-y pink below.

Jewelry Heist I only did a quick swatch with since I was lazy, the glitter was very hard to get out of the bottle (especially with the giant brush) and I sort of had to dab it on the nail (made more difficult with the wide awkward brush). Two coats over OPI Sparrow me the Drama. In a clear base, Jewelry Heist has big hexagonal pink and gold glitter (the gold glitter pieces looks almost curved in the bottle and on the nail) as well as small black glitter and tiny square holographic glitter.

Show me the money can be seen here: layered over top of China Glaze Paper Chasing.

Last, and certainly not least is Ants in my Pants. Its a black jelly base with little red glitter and big hexagonal red glitter suspended in the glitter, truly beautiful! The glitter was a little bit hard to get onto the nail but built up beautifully with three coats.

I'll have to re-do these swatches when I get a chance. How atrocious!