Yes! The feeling of getting paid is the best you can ever have! Yesterday also being the day of multiple MAC launches, I decided to stop by the store on my way home from class. I originally had my eye on the Biker Blue nail lacquer from the Jeanius Collection and from the Sheen Supreme Lipstick, I wanted to try out Ultra Darling, Full Speed, Gotta Dash! And Bare Again. Oh I forgot to mention that I was interested in the Cremeblend Blushes in the shades Posey and Something Special as well! The MAC counter that I went to had completely sold out in the Gotta Dash! shade and Bare Again as the only one that seemed to be the only shade that matched with my complexion. As for the Cremeblend Blushes, I really ended up liking Something Special but it seemed kind of pale in the store so I wasn’t entirely sold on it. As for the nail lacquers, the store had completely sold out of Frayed to Order so I only had a chance to check out Biker Blue. I read on Temptalia that it comes out really sheer so I’m not 100% sure if I’m going to keep it or not yet. I also wanted to try out Frayed to Order just to see how the shade turns out. Fortunately MAC has a decent refund policy where they accept any returns within 30 days of purchase with receipt. So if I don’t like any of my purchases, I’ll probably just return them.
In the end, I ended up picking up Biker Blue Nail Lacquer ($17.00 CAD), Bare Again Sheen Supreme Lipstick ($17.50 CAD) and hunted down a bottle of Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer ($17.00 CAD) at another counter. If anything I’ll probably end up returning the two nail lacquers (what a shame, seeing as I’m such a lacquer-holic) and probably purchasing one of the Cremeblend Blushes in its place or maybe another Sheen Supreme Lipstick. For today, I’ve swatched Frayed to Order so that I can get an idea as soon as possible as to whether or not I’m going to keep it.
Frayed to Order in the bottle seems to be a yellow-based white with a slight baby pink duochrome shimmer. Once on the nail, it dries to the exact color that you see in the bottle which is what I always aim for! The finish is a matte, but I found that it dried a lot slower than mattes usually do, and even after 5 minutes, I could still cause dents in the polish. Unfortunately, this polish is very sheer and dried with streaks all over my nails for the first 2 coats. It took about 3 coats to even out the color and I even went as far as putting on a fourth coat to achieve complete opacity. If you don’t mind the sheerness and streaks, I think that this is an adorable color! It feels very warm and doesn’t appear to be a stark white-out-esque white that you would see in other shades of white.
After I did the swatch of the polish itself, I decided to layer on a top coat just to see how much more pronounced the pink duochrome would look. I used Seche Vite Dry Fast To Coat and it did seem to help bring out the pink shimmer much more.
I really do enjoy this color; however the downsides in quality are really pushing me towards returning it. Hopefully Bike Blue will yield better results! I hope that you guys enjoy the swatches!
P.S. I also forgot to mention the price point of this product, sitting at $17.00 CAD a bottle, it comes out to almost $20.00 CAD when tax is included. I already have a problem with OPI being roughly $10.00 CAD a bottle for me so the cost of MAC polishes aren’t something I am completely content with. For the time being, I think I’m only going to purchase lacquers that perform above average if they are to cost this much. This lacquer definitely isn’t worth paying $20.00 CAD for but if you have some extra money to use then go ahead by all means. But I feel that I could probably snatch up something nicer from China Glaze or Essie instead of spending $20.00 CAD on just one bottle.
