My nails have become bad this winter. Between shoveling snow in below zero temperatures and always washing dishes without wearing rubber gloves, my nails have cracked and broken despite taking biotin, using nail treatment products, and cutting them about two weeks ago. Still, lately I’ve been trying to keep them covered with polish.
When I was at CVS recently, I stopped at the Olive and June end-aisle display. Generally, long-lasting and quick-drying polish shades are what they always are. But surprisingly, something different caught my attention: Sugarcoat, a quick-dry polish that I’d never seen in a CVS display before. O&J polishes were 25% off, and I used my Extrabucks for my treatment.
Sugarcoat is a pale pink, iridescent sheer, glitter polish that’s pretty in its own right: to me, it looks like gold. But it also works as a fun topper. I tried it over my week old mani, I Mani in Meetings, a light cool undertone lavender. This change was quite amazing. In some lighting, it came out lavender, while in other lighting, the polish looked like champagne. Tonight, I removed the mani I had on one nail at these meetings 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 changed the look to “fairy pink.”
The colors of the polish combo really vary according to the lighting. Sometimes you see the under color, and sometimes the golden glitter topper takes over.
Here are my messy nails, each nail in a different polish or combo, show-off and sugarcoat, sugarcoat alone, I Mani in Meetings and sugarcoat:
What a fun and versatile polish! In fact, I think this will be my Valentine’s Night polish. However, I will delete it and start again, hahaha!
Maybe I’ll even try sugarcoat as a topper over the red!
Sugarcoats like Olive & June Quick Dry Polish usually cost around $9 Olive and June websiteAt CVS, Walgreens and walmart.com. If you’re at CVS or Walgreens before Vday, see if Sugarcoat is available in your store and consider it for Vday!
