Saturday, February 9, 2013

Sprout Non-Toxic Nail Polish Swatches and Review

Hey guys! Today I have a cool new Etsy brand to share with you called Sprout Non-Toxic Nail Polish. When I first saw their shop I was totally loved the variety of pretty cremes and shimmers, as well as their dedication to creating water-based, eco-friendly non-toxic polish, so I was super excited to get a chance to try of them out!

pretty purple plum, cherry chocolate, amped up red, raindrop clear

All swatches are shown with no base coat and one top coat of Raindrop Clear

Amped Up Red is a bright red creme. This one had amazing pigmentation -- only one coat on my pinky! More coats were totally not necessary, but just because I added an extra to the rest of my fingers. Red is not always my favorite color, but if you like red cremes at all, this is absolutely a great one! Can't beat 1-coaters, in my opinion :)

outdoors, sun
outdoors, shade

indoors, natural light
On my nails:
1-2 coats Sprout Non-Toxic Nail Polish Amped Up Red
1 coat Sprout Non-Toxic Nail Polish Raindrop Clear

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Cherry Chocolate is a deep chocolate brown creme; it doesn't show on the nail really but it does have a purple-red "cherry" tinge to it in the bottle. I love this one! Seriously a flawless brown, and this here is one coat also -- amazing, yes? I love how pigmented these are. I see this polish being used a lot in the future :) (I know it looks streaky but that is just shadows dancing in my fantastically deep nail ridges; more on that at the bottom)

outdoors, sun
outdoors, shade
indoors, natural light -- crazy effect here! will discuss below
On my nails:
1 coat Sprout Non-Toxic Nail Polish Cherry Chocolate
1 coat Sprout Non-Toxic Nail Polish Raindrop Clear

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Pretty Plum Purple is a bright blue-toned violet shimmer. I believe this was two coats here; not quite as crazy opaque as the other two but still pretty awesome. I adore this, very lovely shade of purple!



oudoors, sun
outdoors, shade
indoors, natural light
On my nails:
1  coat Sprout Non-Toxic Nail Polish Pretty Plum Purple
1 coat Raindrop Clear

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Raindrop Clear (no individual pictures but pictured as a topcoat in each of the above photos) is a clear polish intended for top coat use. It added a nice shine (these polishes otherwise dried slightly matte if I recall) but it was a bit runny (I used it on Amped Up Red after several minutes of air drying and both of them ran into and flooded my cuticles like nobody's business) and is definitely not quick-dry. If you wait a bit though after your final coat so that there is no running, it is definitely a nice clear polish!

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Overall I love these polishes for their pretty shades and insane opacity. One thing that is a bit weird is how much they emphasize the ridges in my nails (you can easily count each ridge in every single picture, alas). I am not sure if I was just having a bad ridge day when I swatched these, or it's because I didn't use base coat, or if it's something to do with the polish itself (I suspect it is a combo of all three). However while this can cause all my pictures to look weird and streaky, they weren't streaky, just ridge-clingy.

Another thing that worth mentioning is that removal took a little more effort than a usual creme/shimmer -- probably that is the flipside of them being so pigmented, that the pigment doesn't want to leave your nails :)

No big deal, though. I'd say the positives outweigh the negatives -- I adore one-coat wonders, they are amazing for nail art/quick manis/glitter base colors/everything! And they really have a lovely variety of these pretty colors... if they are all just as good, may have to check a few more out :)

If you'd like to check out Sprout Non-Toxic Nail Polish be sure to visit their Facebook or Etsy!

Have a great day! ♥

~This polish was provided by Sprout Non-Toxic Nail Polish for an honest review~

3 comments:

  1. I love the purple. A one coat polish that looks that nice sounds like the one for me!!

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  2. totally love the dark blue so pretty! wld love it if you would drop by my blog and follow if u like :D
    www.fashionistaera.blogspot.com

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  3. never heard of these! the colors are beautiful..

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