I absolutely love this polish! As mentioned several times below it is a dupe for DL. I despise sheer polishes so I used 4 coats to get the opacity I desired. Am not sure if others got a bad bottle but 4 coats went on perfectly for me. I waited 3 to 5 mins until I added another coat and the glitter buildup was phenomenal and wasn't goopy. 3 mins after the last coat I used Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat and in less than an hour my nails were bone dry. Onto the beauty of this polish. Light pale sky blue jelly base with hexagonal blue and pink glitter and pink blue and silver micro glitters. I'm not a fan of any blues but this is gorgeous. Nice for a birthday or when you just want to be girly without all the pink. I would recommend this to all.
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This is my favorite glitter polish. I bought this as a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Glitter in the Air. I love the contrast of larger and small glitters in sweet and soft colours - pink and light blue. Up to this point, glitter polishes are mostly very bright and loud or just boring glitters of the same size and colour.
The glitters are also sparse, to me i think is great because it goes with the soft colours of the glitters, making the look very dreamy and feminine.
The glitters are suspended in a very sheer blueish polish. The formula is good, i think i need a backup of this.
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Adorable nail polish and aptly named! This is a great dupe of Deborah Lippmann's Glitter in the Air. Basically, it's a sheer, pale blue base with small pink glitter and large pink and blue glitter bits. It's not meant to be opaque, so if you're looking for that you may not like this polish. Otherwise, 2-4 coats will get you to a fun amount of glitter. I've had mine on for four days and it's still shiny with no chips. Love this one!
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Didn't like this at all really. It looks so cute and fun in the bottle, but it took literally 5 coats to get decent opacity, and then every coat would remove some of the glitter from the previous one.
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After using this product a few more times, I've changed my review for accuracy's sake. I originally gave this product an overall rating of five, but have since knocked off two points.
I bought this on a whim at local drugstore; the color caught by eye as I passed the Revlon display, and after reading the shade name and recalling the hype on the Nail Board, I decided to give it a go.
In the bottle, Whimsical is an icy, milky blue containing small, silvery-white glitter bits and larger, light pink and blue hexagons. When applied, I noticed fine, subtle shimmer that flashed blue in the light, but I couldn't detect this in the bottle. Despite the high volume of glitter, Whimsical doesn't come off as particularly ostentatious, although it isn't exactly subtle, either.
The color is identical to that in the bottle, but very, very sheer; it will change the color of your polish slightly, but not too noticeably. I've worn this over a mint green color and Whimsical makes the color more Tiffany-box blue than green. I think Whimsical could be worn over almost any shade of nail polish without too much trouble.
As beautiful as this polish is, I had to knock off two points from my original review as the formula is pretty terrible. It's thick and goopy, and while I hope adding some acetone or thinner will thin it out, the polish is not useable as-is. I tried applying very thin coats and got almost no glitter, but when I applied normal coats, the end result made my nails look thick and shell-like. It also took forever to dry, even with a quick-dry top coat. I use New York Color Grand Central Station which usually makes my nails glassy and completely dry within minutes; with Whimsical, my nails still weren't completely dry several hours later, and I woke up with marks on my nails from my sheets.
Like I said, hopefully this polish just needs to be thinned out a bit before I can start using it all over the place. But, because the formula was so awful straight from the store, I can't give this product any more than three stars.
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It's nice to have something different, then just the average color. This is such a fun shade to add to any polish collection. I reccommend putting one or two coats of a pink, or blue polish on before applying whimsical. Since the blue in whimsical is so so shear. LOVE IT! =)
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Whimsical is a semi-dupe for Lippmann's Glitter In the Air. It's a sheer, light blue creamy jelly with blue and pink hexagons and tiny glitter that sparkles blue and green. The overall effect is very delicate, which is something a lot of people don't like. However, this polish is not meant to be a glitter bomb; it's a layering polish. Even if you try, you will need too many coats of this polish to get the bottle color and end up with a goopy mess. It's better to layer this over a creme, or a jelly to retain its delicate quality. Will look wonderful over any pastel jelly.
Formula is a little thick, but not unmanageable. You will need to add the glitter manually, as it is a bit sparse. I wore this for three days without chipping, and it would have probably lasted two more days with minor chipping had I left it alone.
I will definitely be buying a back-up of this, it's a great polish for everyday use without being boring.
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Hmm I like the first reviewers idea of putting this over a baby blue polish to give it opacity (b/c white never works) as my only gripe about this polish is the opacity issue. By itself it is impossible to get the milky blue in the bottle. I did four coats and gave a blue toned milky jelly color but the lightness of the blue combines with the pinkness of my nail beds and it actually turns it a strange purplish grey milky color more than anything.
That said though... I still love this polish. I love Revlon for taking risks lately and I love them for creating dupes of polishes I couldn't otherwise avoid. Lippman's Glitter in the Air was one I ohh'd and awed over but I just don't spend that much on nail polish and then lo and behold Revlon makes a $4 copy. Sweeeet. I love the latest round of Revlon glitters that are in the milkier bases because each layer lets the previous layer peek through and you get this awesome layered depth. I love the glitter colors in this... baby blue and pink, one of my favorite combos. This polish also has smaller bits of blue and silverish white glitter through out.
It is such a cute fun color and it is part of the new Revlon permanent display so no searching for Limited Edition displays!
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It takes 4 coats to get the desired opacity. This looks like a great dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Glitter in the Air! I didn't find any difficulty with application because it dried reasonably fast.
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I picked this up for $6.49 at Rexall. It's a very, very sheer greyish-blue polish that's packed with different types of glitter. I see baby pink and baby blue hex glitter, a teensy bit of silver glitter, and some very fine particles of iridescent blue. This polish is so sheer that I think of it strictly as a top coat. So far, I've tried it over white (which looked patchy and hideous) and over a baby blue (which gave me the look I was after). I'm curious to see what it looks like on top of grey and black, as well. I didn't experience any problems in terms of application, and I found the glitter easy to distribute across my nails. It's a fun polish to experiment with, but when I'm working with glitter polishes, I prefer something that looks nice on its own as well as playing nice when layered with other colours. To me, this is just far too sheer to work well on its own, so it's no repurchase for me.
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