I was one of the lucky winners of Meimei's Megan Miller Giveaway, which was held earlier this year and was randomly sent Roja (the red one)! Then, when I was talking to Susan, who also won one of the Megan Millers so we decided to decant a tiny bottle and send each other the polish we won so we would have two colours each! Best of both worlds!
This lovely dusty turquoise one is called Caribbean and it has a very jelly finish. I'm wearing three thicker coats on my index and three thinner coats on my middle finger, which is why Carribean looks a little darker on my index. Like I said, it has a jelly finish and I've read that some people had some issues with VNL but since I have nubbins, VNL never bothers me! The first coat was a little streaky but coat two even things out and coat three applied pretty easily. Each coat also dried pretty quickly so Caribbean is very buildable, unlike Essie Turquoise and Caicos, which Carribean looks like but is horrible to paint.
This blazing one is Roja and I'm wearing three thin coats here. Two regular coats would have sufficed but I went with three to bring its true colour out. Roja applied like a dream and despite the fact that I have a couple of reds in my Helmer, I don't have any dupes.
Now, on to the BEAUTIFUL Megan Miller bottle...
GOSH, I absolutely love the peacock feather motif on top of the cap!
And here's how the brush looks like! I was initially extremely curious how it would be like before I received the polish and whether it'd be easy to paint my nails with such a brush but let me tell you, the cork makes holding the brush so easy! It's like Orly's rubberised cap but BETTER! It's soft so it's very comfortable to hold. The brush itself isn't all that wide, which worried me at first but the polish surprising glided on easily.
One thing I must add though, is that when I wanted to open the bottle on the second time, the entire cork fell off the plastic cap on the inside. Don't know why but it just did. I glued it back and it's working fine. No one experienced this though, from all the reviews I've read so far so it might have just been a faulty bottle I got. But really, not a big deal because it was very easily fixable!
If you'd like to get yourself a bottle of Megan Miller, do drop by Meimei's. She's the local distributor for Megan Miller and they're going for $18 over at her site. For the exquisite bottle and the quality of polish, it's really worth the price premium. In fact, I'm eyeing Coral Bliss already! (:
The cork fell off mine too! But only because I forced it out cos I initially thought it opens like a wine bottle. Had a good laugh about it.
ReplyDeleteI saw your picture! Luckily the plastic cap was easily glued back into the cork! (:
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