Treasures by Tan ~ Kinky & Blue Hawaiian

Treasures by Tan ~ Kinky & Blue Hawaiian  

Pink & Sky Blue linear holo

I’ve had my Treasure by Tan holos sitting in my stash of untrieds for a while now. And I haven’t really been in the mood for using them, since I was so disappointed in the first ones I played with. And today the sun was out, I had time on my hands, and so I decided to swatch the last two and get them out of the way. I thought that perhaps they might be better than the rest of them. Let’s see how it went.

I started out with Kinky, the pink one. It looks great in the bottle, but the formula is really sheer. I didn’t buy these to layer them, so I started applying. It looked horrible after the first coat, and the second didn’t help much. The third coat helped, and now it was actually wearable, although it still looked really sheer. And drying time didn’t help either. If it had dried super fast, then I could live with three coats, but sitting around waiting and literally watching paint dry – it’s just not worth it.

But: The sun was out, so let me show you what it looks like. Three coats, no topcoat:

If there’s one thing I don’t think of when I look at this colour, it’s kinky. The name is totally mistaken, I think! Straight pink, no kink.

One last shot – this is where the polish presents itself the best. But it didn’t actually look *this* good in real life, I’m sorry to say.

Let us move right on along to the other polish, Blue Hawaiian. It’s certainly blue, like the name indicates. So far, so good.

The formula is just as sheer as Kinky is, if not more so <eek>. I actually had to apply four coats of polish before I couldn’t see my nails peeking up from underneath it. Four coats, dear ladies, and the drying time isn’t fast either. <big impatient yawn!>.

It *is* pretty in the sunshine though, the prettiest of the ones I’ve tried so far:

I like the colour. It’s what I want my sky to look like. Pretty and blue.

And Blue Hawaiian continued to be a pretty colour out of the sunshine. It gets one little plus for that.

Verdict:

It’s way too sheer and it’s only when you apply minimum four layers that the holo effect is strong enough to impress. Drying time isn’t user friendly, which is a real killer if you need three or four coats to make the polish work. However, Blue Hawaiian is actually very pretty, both in and out of the sun – so points for that. Kinky didn’t have that feature, unfortunately - perhaps I should have given her four coats as well. But I didn’t. So basically the verdict is no. Just no. Sorry and all that.

Opacity: 2/10
Colour, prettiness: 4/10
Durability: N/A/10
Value for money: 4/10
Overall: 3/10
Buy again: No