Butter London All Hail The Queen vs. Color Club Love 'Em/ Leave 'Em Comparison

I have been hearing a lot of buzz about Butter London's All Hail The Queen and how gorgeous it is. I had also read that Color Club Love 'Em/ Leave 'Em might be a dupe for it. Not wanting to pay the money for the Butter London (but admitting to myself I may buy it eventually), I bought the Color Club on Ebay.

left to right: Butter London All Hail The Queen, Color Club Love 'Em/ Leave 'Em 

Index and Ring Finger: Butter London All Hail The Queen

Middle and Pinkie Finger: Color Club Love 'Em/ Leave 'Em 

I would not say these are dupe of each other, but if you like one you will like the other. Butter London All Hail The Queen is more of a taupe-y brown with subtle holographic microshimmer. Color Club Love 'Em/ Leave 'Em is a copper-y brown with more obvious holographic shimmer.

Do you have Butter London All Hail The Queen or Color Club Love 'Em/ Leave 'Em? What do you think of them?

Sally Hansen Barracuda Nail Polish (Swatch and Comparisons)

Light blue nail polish seems to be everywhere for spring and summer. My Essie Borrowed and Blue post is one of my most popular blogposts! I found another popular light blue polish: Sally Hansen's Barracuda. This polish is part of the Tracy Reese collection, and seems to be quite hard to find. In this collection is also Delphinium (click here for my post). Below is my video comparing three baby blues: Essie Borrowed and Blue, Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau, and Sally Hansen Barracuda. I am also having a giveaway on the Barracuda polish in the video. If you would like to enter, please do so in the comments of that video only.

Sally Hansen Barracuda 

This color is a light blue, but as you will see it has a green undertone compared to the other polishes I will be comparing it to. The formula is a little finicky, watery yet thick. This swatch was 3 coats to get it opaque. Despite the effort to apply, the color is gorgeous and worth it.

Comparison:

left to right: Essie Borrowed and Blue, Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau, Sally Hansen Barracuda

Swatches: (left to right) Essie Borrowed and Blue, Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau, Sally Hansen Barracuda

As you can see, these polishes are all in the same family but are each different in their own way. Essie Borrowed and Blue is the lightest of the three, having a more white base. Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau is a darker, more vivid sky blue. Sally Hansen Barracuda is still a light blue but has more of a green undertone compared to the other two. 

Do you own Sally Hansen Barracuda Nail Polish or the other polishes? What do you think of them? Will you be picking any of them up?

Current Polish: Essie Borrowed and Blue (swatch & comparison)

Recently Essie released their 2011 Wedding Collection and what caught my eye were not the standard pinks, but the light blue, Borrowed and Blue. I love that Essie did a little twist on the standard wedding polishes and came out with a blue. My fellow nail polish addict and taste twin, Rachel, was raving about it as her new favorite light blue polish so I had to pick it up! I am definitely not disappointed as it is a gorgeous color and unique to anything I own. 

Essie Borrowed and Blue

Borrowed and Blue is a light blue. It's a lot lighter than your average light pastel blue (will get to that in a sec!) and has a lot of white in it. In the bottle it looks a bit grey but that doesn't translate much on the nail. This was two coats.

Comparison:

left to right: Essie Borrowed and Blue, Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau, Essie Mint Candy Apple, Nicole by OPI My Lifesaver

 

Swatches: (left to right) Essie Borrowed and Blue, Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau, Essie Mint Candy Apple, Nicole by OPI My Lifesaver

Essie Borrowed and Blue is great for a spring manicure that's clean yet colorful. I am loving this polish for spring and can see it being a winter color as well as it's not too "seasonal".

Have you picked anything up from the Essie Wedding Collection? Have you tried Borrowed and Blue? What do you think of it?

Current Nail Polish: Color Club Revvvolution

Along with trying to make use of my many shadows, I am making sure to actually use my new polishes I get. I have a tendency to buy it and then put it on my nail rack to join the prettiness, and the polish is never heard from again! Color Club's Revvvolution is supposed to be a dupe for OPI's My Private Jet and if MPJ is anything like the Color Club, boy is it yummy.

Color Club's Revvvolution is a deep grey with holo throughout. The formula is amazing, I could have done just one coat and been fine but this is two. I love that this is a different type of dark polish, though I wish the holo was more vivid.

 

The flash really picks up the holographic effect. Prettiness!

This polish is unlike anything I have in my collection! A dark polish with holo? Whoever thought of this is GENIUS! I wish I could compare this to My Private Jet but I don't own that.

Do you own Color Club's Revvvolution? How do you like it? What's on your nails?

Color Club Untamed Luxury Swatches

Hey loves!

Ever since I first saw the Color Club Untamed Luxury Collection, I have been obsessed with it! It look like the perfect fall colors and on my youtube channel, I've gone as far as describing it as the Naked palette of fall nail polish, the colors I got especially, in that these are all the colors you would probably need if you weren't such an addict! I got the first 7-pack from Transdesign for $17.43. Amazing deal!

Ironically, the Naked palette is in the background =]

This is my first attempt at nail swatches so excuse my amatuer-ness!

Pretty in Platinum- This is a light silver. The application was amazing! I could almost get away with one coat but this was two coats just to even out.

Wild Orchid- This color is like a concrete grey with some subtle silver shimmer. This color was more sheer and required three coats to even out.

Positively Posh- The picture makes this color seem a little darker but it is a milk chocolate color. This was another one of the sheerer colors and needed three coats.

Soft as Cashmere- This is a khaki-grey-beige type of color. For some reason, the camera made it more green/olive toned. Another sheer one, three coats.

Nothing but Truffle- This is a brown with strong red/gold shimmers and irridescence. The gold doesn't quite show up on the nails. This has an amazing formula and only needed two coats.

Jewel of a Girl- This color is pretty similar to Nothing but Truffle but it is a deep red, where Nothing but Truffle is more brown. Both are gorgeous, deep colors. This one had a great formula and needed two coats.

Ready to Royal- This is a deep, deep purple. The application was a little iffy but still was opaque in two coats.

I only have half the collection but my overall view on this part of the collection is very positive. Like I said, these are amazing basic colors for fall and I highly recommend checking out this collection.

Thank you for reading <3