I Feel Like the Colour Blue

For those of you who listen to Aerosmith, you might find the title line familiar (it's from their song Crazy). I think you probably guessed by now that today's comparison will be between two blue polishes!



Left to right: OPI Dating a Royal, China Glaze First Mate, Dating a Royal and First Mate. Taken under a lamp.

Boy, it was so hard to capture these two blues. I must really say that the two colours are much darker than in my pictures. First Mate is a light navy (such a paradox but it's not the kind of navy that's really dark, you can still see it's blue) and Dating a Royal is just a royal blue. It's very rich and it reminds me of the blue in the British flag. In fact, Dating a Royal kinda looks like First Mate's colour in the picture above so you kind of have to use your imagination for this post.

Notice how glossy Dating a Royal Is, that you can actually see the reflection of my camera!



nder indirect sunlight.



Taken with flash. The order is (L-R) First Mate, Dating a Royal, then First Mate again, and Dating a Royal.
God I hate my my pictures came out. Dating a Royal is really hard to photograph and every swatch I've seen online just doesn't do it justice. Honestly, the best picture I've seen of it is this:



It's so rare for the picture from OPI to actually be accurate but in this case, it is.

Anyways, colour aside, Dating a Royal took 2 coats to be opaque while First Mate only neede ONE. Wooohooo, a one-coater! Now, despite it being a one coater, its formula was much better than Sea Spray (from the same Anchors Away collection), which had such a thick consistency and was harder to work with.
I guess my collection will settle with having 2 dark blues because I'm pretty much satisfied with them and don't need any more navy blues unless a perfect one comes along!