Face Of Australia in Funky Town

Funky Town, 

I saw you at Kmart a couple of weeks ago and I almost got you but unfortunately I saw Boogie Wonderland first and it stole my heart. Today, I wandered into the same shop and saw you again. I thought 'Why not? I have the funds to purchase your pretty little bottle'. To my surprise you were only 71 cents! Pity you were the last one there or I would have grabbed another one to gift. 71 cents! You have become my cheapest polish ever!

I must admit, you have so much potential to be amazing but there's something about you that stops me from getting my mind blown. I mean, look at that periwinkle blue base with hex silver, blue and black glitter all over you. What's that? You have larger hex gold and black square glitters too? I can see all the glitters you mention but I'm sorry to tell you the black square glitter hasn't made an appearance yet. 

After two coats of your slightly thick but very manageable formula, you became very opaque but I couldn't see the glitter from the first coat anymore. I hope you aren't trying to hide anything. I must give you credit for being fast drying, allowing the glitter to come up with the brush and not having to dab it to get good placement. 

I think I know what's bothering me. The glitter looks very dense in the bottle but it doesn't translate to the nail. I'm not mad, I'm just a tad disappointed.

Is that a square glitter I see in the middle? Why couldn't I get it on the nail?

You also dried quite chalky and bumpy so I had to add a coat of Seche Vite to make sure you evened out and shone like you should.

Funky Town. It may seem like I'm complaining a lot but I like you. I really do. I wouldn't consider you my favourite but I hope we can remain friends. You have so far taken the title of cheapest polish in my collection, something I think may take a while to beat. Maybe if I layer you onto another polishes, we can have a close relationship. We'll see.

Until next time, 

Laura

Face Of Australia in Boogie Wonderland

I've been really good lately and have only been buying about two bottles of polish in average for the last three months or so. Yesterday, when having my lunch break at work and realising I still had 10 minutes left over, I wandered off to Kmart to see if they had anything on clearance. I didn't find anything spectacular that was reduced but I came across Face Of Australia's new Glitterati collection. At $4.95 a bottle, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to acquire a new polish. There are 8 glitter polishes in this collection, 5 in a clear base and 3 in milky, coloured bases. 

The one that jumped out at me the most was BoogieWonderland, swatched below with three coats and no top coat (I'm still waiting on my Seche Vite!). This polish has pink, orange, blue and purple small hegaxonal glitter, silver holographic hexagonal larger glitter as well as silver holographic, green and blue bar glitters suspended in a milky, very slightly violet base. 

The formula was surprisingly good for a Face Of Australia polish as it dried fast, it's shiny without top coat and it didn't flood my cuticles like others polishes I own from this brand. The glitter has to dabbed on but after three coats, the coverage is pretty good and varied, which also makes it look like it has a lot of depth. I'm quite smitten with this bottle. The only  issue I have with this... Look at the curling from the blue and green bar glitters.

It's not really noticeable in real life but it feels like they're gonna snag on clothes, hair, catch fluff, etc. I'm sure I could have poked them into place when the polish was still wet but I was hoping they would lay flat like the silver bar glitter did. Maybe a THICK top coat could do the trick. 

Anyway, Boogie Wonderland was still a good buy for the price, the unusual mix of glitters and the surprisingly good formula. I would recommend it. Never know, someday there may be a big sale at Kmart and I'll be able to get the rest for really cheap.

Till next time, 

Laura