Rescue Beauty Lounge Stormy

Medium grey cream. There’s a drop of green in it that pulls out the red in my skin tone. This is one of the two RBLs I have, the other is Scrangie. I used Stormy as a base under Aritaum Tweed Jacket.

My RBLs were the luxury brand polishes I ever bought. I got them through a mass order during a 50% sale but they were still expensive after shipping and conversion. The formula for Stormy is fantastic though, easy to control and very opaque.

Polish peels:
• NailTek Foundation II (1 coat)
• Rescue Beauty Lounge Stormy (2 coats)
• Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat (1 coat)

Aritaum 21 Tweed Jacket

Collection: Modi Glam Nails

Clear base with black and white glitter. There are small and medium squares, medium hexagons, and bar glitter. This is my first black and white glitter polish and I love it so much I had to show you right away! It’s obviously inspired by a certain Lynnderella but it’s not a copy.

As with many Asian polishes, 21 is the code for this shade. This brand also names their polishes – in Korean. Tweed Jacket is what Google Translate provides me with so I’m not sure how accurate that is.

There’s a good amount of square glitter in this, the other glitter shapes are sparser. That’s alright for me, because I have a huge weakness for square glitter. Hexagons are just, well, normal glitter ;)

The clear base is rather thick and dries fast – it was starting to get clumpy as I tried to spread the glitter. I recommend the dab and spread method as it gets more glitter on (as seen on the index). I used the normal painting motion for the other nails.

Polish peels:
• PVA Glue (1 coat)
• Rescue Beauty Lounge Stormy (2 coats)
• Aritaum Tweed Jacket (1 coat)
• American Classics Gelous (1 coat)
• Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat (1 coat)

Aritaum is a cosmetics brand from South Korea. I discovered them while searching for swatches of Innisfree (another S. Korean brand) polishes. Like most of you, I don’t read, write or speak Korean. After a lot of googling, I bought their polishes from Qoo10 (our local Gmarket) and the package took around two weeks to reach me.

You can also find this brand on the Korean Gmarket site, or you can check out their brick and mortar stores. The Glam Nails shades are 10ml while the Juicy Nails are 7ml. I think the original shop prices are KRW2500 (7ml) to KRW3500 (10ml). They also have other interesting shades; a few are inspired by popular Deborah Lippmann colors.

Rescue Beauty Lounge Scrangie

Collection: Blogger (2009)

A medium purple with green iridescence and microshimmer. I did a comparison on Scrangie previously, but I realized that I hadn't done a proper swatch of it yet. Besides, the comparison had horrible pictures and I wanted to get better ones of this beautiful polish.

I think two coats should be enough but I did three so see if it would provide better depth. Be sure to give it enough time to dry between coats or there'll be cuticle drag. Here's a slightly blur picture for a better look at that green iridescence. Feel free to click on the pictures to enlarge them!

Thanks for looking!

Polish sandwich:
• Poshe Fast Drying Base Coat (1 coat)
• Rescue Beauty Lounge Scrangie (3 coats)
• Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat (1 coat)

RBL Scrangie & Sally Hansen Grape Going!

Sally Hansen Grape Going!: index and ring fingers (three coats)
Rescue Beauty Lounge Scrangie: middle and little fingers (two coats)

As stated in my earlier post, the main difference between the polishes is the shimmer, Scrangie has green shimmer and Grape Going!, blue shimmer. On photo, the blue shimmer is shows up clearly while the green shimmer is more difficult to capture. However, in real life it's pretty clear that they're two different polishes.

From a different angle, Grape Going!'s blue shimmer is less visible but it's still quite obvious they're different polishes. Grape Going! has a slightly lighter purple base. Both are beautiful colors to own but I love the green shimmer in Scrangie. I understand that Scrangie was created to look like a beetle's wing and I think that it does! In terms of application, Scrangie is better as Grape Going! has some visible brushstrokes. Scrangie applied like a dream for me but I'm sure I could have done Grape Going! in two coats if I had been more careful. Both colors were applied without base coat or top coat.

RBL Scrangie & Sally Hansen Grape Going! Swatches

Rescue Beauty Lounge Scrangie (left)
Sally Hansen Grape Going! (right)

Both polishes are similar but not dupes. Grape Going! a medium purple with blue shimmer and a slight blue duochrome. Scrangie is also a medium purple but with green iridescence and shimmer. Scrangie also has a slightly darker pureple base. The most telling difference is the color of the shimmer. I guess they could be called cousins. I'll do a comparison nail swatch to show the differences soon. I've done the comparison swatch here.