Mad about Matte Nails: Review

Ah, one of my many many lemmings, matte nail polish! I've seen so many hands rocking it all over the interwebz, I had to get myself some of that action!
I looked up all the online make-up stores like a woman possessed and overall found any of these:

1. Matte polishes in various colours
2. A matte finisher polish
3. Absolutely nothing

So, I had a choice between coloured polishes or the finisher, which was pretty expensive. But after weighing it out, I went with the finisher. (I'm sooo not living up to my "Beauty and the Cheap" name after this..)

I got Essie's Matte About You, matte finisher. *Le sigh* It cost INR 560. -__-

Foul temptress!!! >n<

BUT, I still stand by my decision to choose this over the coloured polishes, the main reason being, I can put it over any colour I want and have matte nails!

Plus, you need such a small amount, it will last forever! I will make it last forever! *determined*

I love the look of matte flakies, so that is exactly what I went with. :) I used Maybelline Colorama Marinho as base and used NYX's Pink Ave for the flakes and then put the matte finisher.

Right after application

There are some things I noticed about this polish.

• The finisher will lighten the colour of the polish very slightly.
• The matte finish will start becoming satin like over a few days. After all the oil in your hair, in your potato chips and moisturiser is going to go SOMEWHERE! 
• As opposed to what I've heard about matte polishes chipping almost immediately, this lasted all of 5 days without chips. :) 
• I love the feeling of matte polish! I just kept running my fingers over my nails because of the texture. LOL!



3 days later, satin but no chips!

Don't you love how glowy the flakies look? I can't wait to try it over Purple Ave!

After Day 4 they looked like this:

The index and middle finger nails are almost shiny whereas the hardly used little finger nail is still pretty matte.

Overall, I think if you're going to be wearing matte nails a lot, this is a good investment! As guilty as I feel buying this, I think I'll be getting good use out of it. But if you want to dabble in mattes just to try them out, get a bottle of the coloured polishes. They're half the price! You can find both topcoats as well as coloured polishes at stylecraze.com. I bought my Essie matte finisher at 365gorgeous.in.

To check out my flakies review go here.

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