Deboprah Lippmann Bad Romance vs. Revlon's Scandelous Dupe Comparison

Morning dears!


Today I have another dupe comparison for you. I'll be comparison Deborah Lippmann's Bad Romance with Revlon's Scandelous. Scandelous was originally released under the name Facets of Fuchisa. Scandelous is the exact same polish, Revlon just rereleased it under a new name.


First up the bottles

In the bottles these two look almost identical. Bad Romance looks like it has more concentrated small pieces of glitter, but that could be a result of the glitter sticking to each other and might be solved by some serious shaking.


I applied two coats of Bad Romance and Scandelous on my index and middle fingers and then one coat of each over Wet an Wild's Black Creme on my ring and pink fingers.





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On the nail there are a few differences. Scandelous has more of a jelly formula than Bad Romance, so the glitter stands out a little more. It seems to me that the glitter in Scandelous is a little brighter as well.

For these swatches I didn't try to fish out the glitter, I wanted to see what the polish did on its own. Bad Romance is for sure one of those glitters that will require a little bit of fishing to get the big hex glitter onto your nail.





Sunlight

  In the sunglight I noticed the same. They look a little different, but if you spend the time to fish out the glitter from Bad Romance I think they would be exactly the same. 

Application wise, they were very similar. I actually prefer Scandelous to Bad Romance, the glitter comes through nicely and thr $4.47 price tag sure as hell beats the $18 Bad Romance costs. If you are lemming Bad Romance, I would say you can kill that lemming with Scandelous.

Which one do you prefer?

Sincerely Stephanie

Deborah Lippmann and Claire's Candy Shop Dupe Comparison

Morning loves!

A few weeks ago a blog post took the nail polish by storm as someone had found a bottle of nail polish in Claire's that looked like a dupe of Deborah Lippmann's Candy Shop... also called Candy Shop. Since I own the Deborah Lippmann Candy Shop a dupe comparison was in order!

First up the bottles,

You can see right away that the Claire's polish has a hot pink base, where the DL is more of a milky pink.
Labels turned away,

Again it is pretty clear that the two pink's are not identical in this shot. It also looks like DL has more small round glitter while Claire's focuses on larger glitter pieces.

I applied two thickish coats on all fingers, DL Candy Shop on my index and ring fingers and Claire's Candy Shop on my middle and pinky fingers.




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 To many they may look exactly the same on the nail, but I still see the differences. It is really evident that the Claire's polish has a hot pink base, which is more opaque than the DL. Since it is more opaque some of the glitter is hidden underneath the pigment, while DL's the base is more jelly like so the glitter can really show through and take centre stage instead of the pink base.





Sunlight

  Again in sunlight the differences are obvious. Claire's has that hot pink base.




Sunlight

  Again in sunlight.

Application wise, the DL goes on much smoother and all the glitter lays flat on the nail. It is pretty evident on my pinky nail that the glitter is not laying flat in the Claire's polish.
There are NOT exact dupes of each other, but are probably close enough that you don't need both in your collection. I prefer the Deborah Lippmann Candy Shop, because I like that the glitter lays flat and it much easier to apply.

Which one do you like better? Can you see the difference?

Sincerely Stephanie