My nails are a mess this winter. Between shoveling snow in below freezing temperatures and washing dishes without always wearing rubber gloves, my nails have split and broken in spite of me taking biotin, using nail treatment products, and having trimmed them about two weeks ago. Nevertheless, lately I’ve been trying to keep them covered with polish.
When I was in CVS recently, I stopped at the Olive and June end-aisle display. Usually, the shades of the Long-Lasting and the Quick Dry polishes are the same ones that are always there. But surprisingly, something different caught my eye: Sugarcoat, a Quick Dry polish, that I had never seen before at the CVS display. The O&J polishes were 25% off, and I used my Extrabucks to treat myself.
Sugarcoat is a pale pink, iridescent sheer, shimmer polish that is very pretty on its own: to me, it looks like gold. But it also functions as a fun topper. I tried it out over my week old mani, I Mani In Meetings, a light cool-tone lavender. The transformation was quite amazing. In some light, the lavender came through, while in other light, the polish looked like champagne. Tonight, I removed I Mani In Meetings, on one nail and replaced it with Show-Off, a Quick Dry polish, in Barbie pink. After the two coats dried, I used Sugarcoat as a topper and transformed the look to “fairy pink”.
The colors of the polish combos really varies according to the light. Sometimes you see the undercolor, and other times the golden shimmery topper takes over.
Here are my scruffy nails with each nail in a different polish or combo, Show-off & Sugarcoat, Sugarcoat alone, I Mani In Meetings & Sugarcoat:
What a fun and versatile polish! In fact, I think it will be my Valentine’s night polish. However, I’ll take this off and start again, lol!
Maybe I’ll even try Sugarcoat as a topper over a red shade!
Olive and June Quick Dry polishes like Sugarcoat are usually priced around $9 on the Olive and June website, at CVS, Walgreens and Walmart.com. If you’re at CVS or Walgreens before Vday, see if your store carries Sugarcoat and consider it for Vday!
