Seventeen - Rock Hard Couture - Charm Bracelet

I have another textured polish to show you today, the second of my Rock Hard Couture textured polishes from Seventeen, this one is a taupey gold sort of shade called Charm Bracelet.

 

 

These pictures are three coats with no top coat.

 

It applied a bit better than Celestial Pearl which I wore the other day although I still don't like the finish as much as the Kiko Sugar Mats.

Seventeen - Celestial Pearl

Celestial Pearl is one of the Seventeen Rock Hard Couture Nail Effects, Seventeen's take on textured nail polish.  There are four in the collection, Celestial Pearl is the lightest, a creamy white shade which is quite reminiscent of pearls.

 

Although I love the colour of the polish I'm not very impressed overall, these pictures are three fairly thick coats, I found the polish hard to get even and well spread which is unusual for textured polishes I have tried previously and the finish was quite porridge-y looking.

 

Annoyingly I also had quite bad chips and tipwear before I'd even worn the polish out of the house, my index finger looked ragged around the edges only a few hours after painting.

 

So although I love the colour and I am generally a fan of these shimmery textured polishes I am really not keen on Celestial Pearl.  It could just be that I've been spoiled by the excellent Kiko Sugar Mats when it comes to texture polishes but I expect better than Seventeen's effort can offer.

Sparkly Haul

I had some Advantage Card points to spend so I decided to take advantage of Boots 3 for 2 offers and pick up some polish, without meaning to a created a bit of a glittery sparkly theme, here's what I got...

 

First up two if the Seventeen Rock Hard Couture polishes; Charm Bracelet and Celestial Pearl.  I've been meaning to pick these up for ages now but I've been good and waited until there was an offer on.

 

I also picked up one of the textured Barry M polishes; Countess.  I was tempted by others but I already have a few pink textured polishes from the Kiko Sugar Mat collection and the other two in the collection are basically exact dupes of the Seventeen colours above.  

 

I grabbed the new LE bar glitter polish that Boots have available at the moment too, it's a mix of pink, green and blue bar glitter in a clear base.

 

Then two of the new Maybelline Brocades; Foil Flash and Knitted Gold.  I've seen the US collection pictures of these (they seem to have 8) and so I had to try a couple when I saw that Maybelline UK had 4 available, there's also a grey/black and a red but I preferred the silver and gold ones.

 

Finally, Rimmel Space Dust in Total Eclipse.  Since getting back online after the purchase I've realised this is another matte finish textured polish which I didn't know in the shop.  It's a gorgeous colour so I'm looking forward to trying it both with and without a topcoat to see which is prettiest.

 

Look out for swatches over the next few days, I have enough new colours to keep me busy for a good few manicure now. :)  A good use of my hard earned points, I think.