Primark PS... Polish Swatches & Review (Vintage Rose, Marine, and Cloud)

I realise I am late to the party here (and by late I mean about 4 years late...) BUT I figured better late than never, right?

I've always liked having my nails painted but I didn't really start getting serious about my nails until about a year ago. This is probably why I have never paid attention to the nail polish selection at Primark. During my latest trip, however, the polishes did catch my eye (finally!), so I bought these 3 to try out. At only 90p each I couldn't really say no! If it weren't for the fact I had loaded up with clothes and my bank account was already crying I would have most likely purchased more than 3.

Marine

Marine is a gorgeous navy blue and was perfect in 2 coats. I have a few blues in my collection but I was lacking a navy, so I am really glad I stumbled across this!

Cloud

Cloud is a very dark green (it reminds me of army green, but darker). Like Marine, it had perfect opacity after 2 coats.

Vintage Rose

Vintage Rose is a gorgeous pink. Like the other 2, it was perfect in 2 coats. I found this one a lot easier to apply, but that may just be because it's much lighter so mistakes are less obvious.

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Honestly, I loved all of these! Vintage Rose is the stand out for me, which is odd as I'm not really a pink nail polish girl.

In terms of application all applied really well with 2 coats, and they all dried quite quickly too. I'm not the biggest fan of the bottle lid/brush handle as it's very wide and can be hard to hold, but I have seen reviews were the wide lid had been taken off. I didn't manage to do that but I will definitely try to the next time I use these polishes. I should also add that I did paint these using my left (non-dominant) hand, which would have made application harder anyway. That being said I didn't need to do a huge amount of clean up around my cuticles, so I would say it probably had a negligible effect.

My only other gripe is specifically with the Marine and Cloud colours. In the bottle it is obvious they are different - Marine is clearly blue and Cloud is clearly green. When applied to the nails it was really difficult to tell them apart, so much so that when I swatched Cloud I had to double check the bottle to make sure I hadn't accidentally picked up Marine again. As these polishes are only 90p it's by no means the end of the world, but it's still disappointing that they ended up looking so similar.

Overall those this was definitely a great purchase and I will be going back and buying more.

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