I must admit, I haven't seen Sons of Anarchy. I intend to. Maybe a SOA marathon soon? Until then I can enjoy a Harley Dyna. Luckily not the bike, I would look ridiculous on it. The nail polish by Celestial suits me much better.
Harley Dyna is a black jelly polish packed with glitter in various colors and sizes, only small glitters, perfect for me. It is really shiny and sparkling, really beautiful.
The application is easy, the glitters is evenly distributed without effort. I did this mani a couple of weeks ago so I'm not sure if this is two or three coats, probably three since it is a jelly base.
I have posted two similar polishes in two different blog posts here. I have been asked to do a comparison between these two, and here it is.
The two polishes are Lilypad Lacquer Frogs Alive and Celestial Mrs Claus Jugs. Both lime-green with strong linear holo effect.
First a comparison of the formula. Frogs Alive wins that section by being almost a one-coater. But the win is minimal since MCJ is a convincing two-coater, and FA too looks it best with two coats. Still FA-MCJ 1-0, or can I give 1-0,5 maybe? Yes, I can decide my scale myself :-)
Next section is holo effect. This is tricky... Both have very strong linear holo, maybe FA could be a micropoint stronger, but I think it depends more on the lights than the polishes themselves. Points for this 1-1. That sets the score to 2-1,5.
Next is the color. Wow, this is tough! I think that even though they are very similar there are still differences. FA is a bit darker and stronger, MCJ is lighter and leans a little bit more to the olive-yellow side, although very little. Must give 1-1 here too. The score now 3-2,5.
Last part of the comparison is very subjective: which one gets my love?
Yes... Both polishes have their well-earned place in my collection. But say I had to give one up and only keep one of them. Knife on my throat, gun to my head and so on... Then I would keep Lilypad Frogs Alive. It just has that little extra ounce of oomph and it factor. Let's hope I never will have to choose. The score here? Hmmm... 1-0,75
Total score Frogs Alive 4 Mrs Claus Jugs 3,25. Even, but Frogs Alive is still the winner.
Oh yes, photos. Of course. I tried to catch a couple of different angles and lightings. I see now that the text in the photos is very small, but it is Frogs Alive on index and ring finger, Mrs Claus Jugs on middle finger and pinky.
Yeah... This type of color is a favorite, no doubt about that. Although I already own the fantastic Frogs Alive by Lilypad Lacquer I still could not resist to buy Mrs Claus' Jugs by Celestial Cosmetics when Edgy Polish had a holo discount a couple of weeks ago.
You know what a polishaholic says: "They are not the same, they are similar..." So true in this case.
In the eyes of an uninitiated these two polishes would probably look the same, but my trained eyes ;-) can see the difference without any effort.
Frogs Alive is still on top, but Mrs Claus' Jugs is not far behind. Both have a lovely lime-green color as base, both have a distinct and strong linear holo effect.
The difference in color is not big but I see a bit of a blue note in the MCJ. Feels a bit strange to talk about blue at all when both polishes are so really, really shiny lime-green, but when comparing the two it makes more sence.
The difference in the holo is that it seems like MCJ is a fraction more fine-grained than FA.
MCJ has a really good formula, although a little bit sheerer than FA. FA is a two-coater but MCJ benefits from three coats. I used a nude color (KIKO 372) as base this time so it was enough with two coats.
It would have been better with a flat brush, but the polish didn't dry too fast so it was possible to put it on evenly anyway.
The drying time was not too slow either, acceptable even without quick dry top coat.
Ergo: I think I need both :-D What do you think?
