Coolcos ~ 06 and 07

Coolcos ~ 06 and 07  

Pink metallic shimmer and deep purple shimmer

Coolcos is a new Danish brand that hit the shelves here recently. I had said to myself that I wouldn’t be buying any of their polishes, because the first time I looked, I saw nothing but crèmes, and as you know, dear girls, crèmes aren’t my favourite polishes. Besides – I have so many polishes in my stash of untrieds, so, yeah - well, I thought I’d give the new brand a little time to settle in first.

But then I went into the shop with my boyfriend and he immediately spotted a pink nail polish, that he wanted to buy me. Then he found two more - #07 which is a deep shimmery purple, and #05 which is a shimmery neon pink.

Today I’ll try two of them. I started out with the metallic pink and was very surprised to learn that it’s a one coater! I applied an extra coat to one of my nails to see if it made a difference, but it didn’t. It applies easily and drying time is pretty average. There’s one thing about this polish though: It smells. It smells just as bad as Kleancolor’s polishes. But at least it doesn’t dry as slow, haha!!

This is one coat:

It is a little bit brushstroky, but I don’t mind that at all. It’s pretty and shiny. I like it!

 
Then I decided to make a bit of nail art on it, and that’s where it all went wrong. I made a line of dots down each nail with Coolcos #07.

Then I made a glitter gradient with Finger Paints’ “Purple Palette”. I applied a coat of Poshé topcoat to make this shine some more:

You know I’ve made heaps of glitter gradients, and I am using the exact same brand of sponges as I’ve done before. But the sponge didn’t work very well with Coolcos’ polishes. If you take a closer look at my pictures, you can see that the sponge got “dissolved” by the polish, leaving lumps of sponge on my nail :/

Here’s a close up of the sponge.

And the polishes I used:

I’m sorry to report that I removed this mani after having taken these pics. I don’t usually do that, I like wearing my manis. But the bits of sponge ruined this too much for me.

Have you ever tried that a sponge dissolved on your nails like that?

Opacity: 10/10
Colour, prettiness: 7/10
Durability: -/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 8.5/10
Buy again: Yes