I bought these many years ago in a beauty outlet shop for £1.99 each. I was enticed by the bottles and low price. I had never actually used any of them because when swatching them on sticks just after purchasing, I noticed how slow they were to dry so I put them in my "if nothing else matches the colour I'm after, check these" cabinet.
That day finally came when I was after an off-white that wasn't too beige, not too pink but not too white and I ended up choosing Well, Well, Well.
Well well well, I did not have a good time with this polish. So I decided to swatch the rest of this range I bought properly to see if it was a bad formula or just that shade.
The entire color therapy line was released back in Summer 2016, later than I thought. I bought these around 2018, I'm surprised they were discounted so heavily after only 2 years.
Well, Well, Well // Off-white creme
Coats: 3
The first coat of this was extremely patchy and dragged. It also doesn't self-level and towards the tips it separated. The second coat was worse, this polish does not like being applied on top of itself and it felt like I was scraping the polish along the bottom layer. Again it pulled away from the tips to create even worse dark patches.
I finally left it at 3 coats as it was starting to look lumpy and you could see visible drag marks in it. It's also strange that on me this is definitely an off-white, slightly beige shade but on others it looks stark white.
I was not impressed with this formula. It clung to the brush stick and then ran down in large blobs just when you didn't want it to. I found it difficult to control and probably won't use it again.
Make My Clay // Light Olive Creme
Coats: 2
This one has more of a thin jelly formula and was much easier to apply. I does some dragging at the tips but no where near as much.
I absolutely love the colour though. It's a beautiful, pale muted Olive that would suit anyone. This is such a great background for christmas nails, I just wish it would dry faster.
Glow What Fun! // Warm Gold Shimmer
Coats: 2
This is much thinner than I was expecting. I'd almost class it as a shimmer topper. First I wore it on top of Make My Clay and it worked surprisingly well. That turned out to be the perfect base for it and you could tell how thin the polish actually is. Also made the gold a bit darker and richer.
Bronze Reflection // Green to Purple Duochrome Shimmer
Coats: 3
Without a black base coat this is a weak brown shimmer that goes slightly garbage-river-green at the tips; lovely. Ok, I'm being to harsh on this shade. After 3 coats is ok, better when you're outside and the shift is easier to see. With a black base coat you can see the purple more but no matter what, it will never look how it looks in the bottle which is a shame. Because the in the bottle it's beautiful. It's just a lot of effort to get it looking good when you could just purchase Cowboy, Bye by China Glaze for a space worthy, purple/green/holo shimmer.
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