Color Club

In the bottle it's a light midtone warm peach with a hint of sparkle with a pinkish-red "flash" with hints of silver glitter. The formula is very good, but due to the milky peach base, you have to use a little care with it vs a true sheer, but it's still very easy to apply (saying this as someone who can not apply hard to work with polishes) and a good polish. One coat on the nail is semi-sheer, more on the sheer side. It's a slightly yellow (very slightly, but it's there) peach with a faint hint of shimmer that's very subtle. It looks lovely in one coat and very clean and natural. I prefer two coats to peach up the yellow and add more subtle sparkle. It's semi-sheer and the red-pink flash is there but very subtle, it just adds "something" vs a flat finish, but is not very noticable at all. It's more peachy and less yellow in two coats and on the nail is about 2 shades lighter than in the bottle. 3 coats would be a waste unless you needed to even it out or just wanted more sparkle or layers. It's not a favorite polish, but it's nice. I do like it but would only buy it again if on sale, as I'm not a big fan of peach tones. But for that family of color (which I don't really like and don't really suit my coloring) it's nice. It's not tacky or too peach due to the hint of the pink flash. It's one of the nicest peach tone polishes I've tried and liked.

The color is a light peachy pink and on the nail is a lot sheerer and more peachy than in the bottle. One coat is semi-sheer and a clean look. Sadly, it's a tricky polish to work with. I found I could do well with one coat (but not 2 or 3 on either hand) when done with my dominant hand onto my non-dominant hand. It was a lovely milky french nude. But sadly when using my other hand it started to show what a tricky polish it is. And the 2nd and 3rd coats on either hand tended to be a bit patchy (bare spots), some streaking. It's not the worst compared to harder polishes and many Essies and Opis (and I love both brands) are far worse and harder to work with. But I ended up with some patchy areas even after topcoat. I tried several times 1, 2, and 3 coats and it didn't perform well even as a sheer, there were streaks or patchy areas. I just couldn't make it work.

Written in the Stars is a part of Fall 2017 Retrograde Rising collection. It’s a blue-green shimmer polish. It’s very pretty, but not the best colour on me. The formula was a little confusing. The consistency is a little runny so it’s important not to overload the brush. I thought I achieved perfect opacity with the 2 coats, but the following day (in good lighting) I could see lighter patches on some of the nails, so perhaps 3 thin coats would have been best. I had no problem with drying or wear time. All in all, it’s a nice enough polish, but far from favourite in my collection, so I wouldn’t repurchase.