May 5, 2013

Revlon Haute Tropics Collection, Part One- The Blues!


Base: one coat Nicole by OPI Base Coat Plus
Color: three coats Revlon Coast Is Clear
Top: one coat Poshe
Application: good (out of poor, average, good, excellent)
The Revlon Haute Tropics collection was sent for review. All opinions are my own honest thoughts.


The Revlon Haute Tropics collection is exactly what I want in my summer polish collections. To start off with, the name "Haute Tropics" makes me imagine that I will wear these polishes during glamorous steamy summer night parties at the beach. In reality, I will be wearing them while sitting at home sweating my butt off very unglamorously, but at least I'll be admiring my nails. Secondly, this collection has six shades and three of them are blue or blue-green. WIN! Of course, I had to swatch the three blues first! The first beauty I tried was Revlon Coast Is Clear, a gorgeous pale blue-green with a light smattering of silver shimmer. Coast Is Clear is so gorgeous! This is kind of what I wished Essie Turquoise and Caicos looked like, but on me that is just a watery mess (and it's way more sheer).


I needed three coats for Coast Is Clear, it is on the sheer side. It was a champ at self-leveling though and that prevented a lot of streaks from happening. The application was good, no real problems. Any streaks that I thought would happen disappeared, thanks to the aforementioned self-leveling. (By the way, Revlon says that is from their exclusive "silk-protein shield" that instantly helps to even out the surface of the nail while smoothing away bubbles, streaks and brush marks! I say it works!).




Base: one coat Nicole by OPI Base Coat Plus
Color: three coats Revlon Lagoon Afternoon
Top: one coat Poshe
Application: good (out of poor, average, good, excellent)
The Revlon Haute Tropics collection was sent for review. All opinions are my own honest thoughts.




Revlon Lagoon Afternoon is STUNNING! Unfortunately, my pictures are NOT accurate at all. This rarely happens to me and I am so MAD. I wanted to capture Lagoon Afternoon in all of it's teal creme-y beauty and I failed. I never adjust the color of my photos when I edit (I just crop), but in this case I had to try. I would say the first photo is closest, but it is still too blue. Lagoon Afternoon is a really nice mix of green and blue, and it's very unique in my collection. My pictures make it look pretty average. Try to see this one in person, it's pretty accurate in the bottle.

 This picture is color corrected and weird looking. I was trying to show you that there are green tones here!

Lagoon Afternoon applied really well and had the same great self-leveling as Coast Is Clear. I used three coats, but I probably could have done two easily. I hadn't had all of my coffee yet when I did this, so my first coat was strangely applied (my fault). Also, I LOVE the name "Lagoon Afternoon". I have always wanted to swim in a lagoon, but sadly, Connecicut is very lacking in tropical lagoons.



Base: one coat Nicole by OPI Base Coat Plus
Color: two coats Revlon Plunge Pool
Top: one coat Poshe
Application: excellent (out of poor, average, good, excellent)
The Revlon Haute Tropics collection was sent for review. All opinions are my own honest thoughts.



Revlon Plunge Pool is an amazing deep blue shimmer! This color looks like it's glowing in person!! I'm sure this isn't the most unique shade in the collection, but it's a shade of blue that always grabs me. It's deep and jewel-like, but not too dark that you want to save it for winter. The shimmer is so nice and smooth looking, it really does make me want to go swimming.


Plunge Pool has an excellent formula, it practically painted itself on my nails. It only needed two coats (it was nearly a one coater), and was easy to control. I would definitely suggest taking a look at this lovely blue.


The three blues from Revlon Haute Tropics are instant favorites for me. We all know I'm a sucker for blues, and these are lovely. Lagoon Afternoon is quite unique and the other two are shades that I can never get enough of and have good formulas to top it off. I also learned that Revlon has been free of DBP, Toulene and Formaldehyde since 1992! This is really cool, because all this time, I thought I had been wearing chemical-laden polish as a child, but I actually wore mostly Revlon polish! So, I may not develop an 11th toe later in life after all! I'll have the other three shades in this collection up in a day or so, and they look pretty nice too.

Revlon Haute Tropics is available now at drugstores and mass retailers. I just saw a full display last night at a Walgreens near me.

The Revlon Haute Tropics collection was sent for review. All opinions are my own honest thoughts.


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