Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Revlon Royal... Cobalt jelly, anyone?

Hi Kids!
I can't believe I haven't seen anyone Blog about the new Revlon Top Speed enamels! I found a large step display in Walgreens and picked up 2- Royal and Emerald.

Revlon Royal is an unbelievably gorgeous shade of deep cobalt blue. This is one of those polishes that's not a creme, and not a full jelly, but somewhere between, a hybrid. For the sake of classification, I'm going to say this is a highly pigmented jelly. The formula is thick and sticky, making application a bit tricky because it's too thick for the Revlon brush. I didn't add thinner because I knew from swatching on a nail wheel that Royal is a 2 coater, and I didn't want to mess with that. This polish skimmed over very quickly and dried to the touch to a satin finish in minutes.

I love this one sooooo much. Revlon Royal positively glows with richness, and depth and is the most perfect shade of vivid cobalt blue I have ever seen in a nail polish. It's unfortunate that my pictures do not bring out just how amazingly rich, deep and vivid this polish really is.
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This is why I'm calling this a jelly. Look at how glow-y this looks with light shining through!
















Here is  a side by side with Orly Royal Navy. If you back away from your monitor, you can see the base difference a bit better. Irl, tRevlon Royal looks *almost* blurple next to the Orly.

21 comments:

l0verlada said...

I completely looked at this display and didn't find anything that looked unique but I'm going to have to search it out like today because holy cow is that a nice blue.

Eli said...

I'd cut off a finger for this color :)

kelliegonzo said...

SUPER gorgeous! i haven't seen these on display yet :(

serena_nuvola said...

WOW! this color is <span><span>freakin amazing!!! *.*
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sonidlo said...

Superpretty blue!

Megan Harmeyer said...

I think *this* would cure my blue jelly hunt.  Yay!!  GORGEOUS!

Jackie S. said...

Did someone say blue jelly? Oh yeah ababy, Im there!

scandalouslypolished@yahoo.com said...

holy cow! Ok that just went right to the top of my *need* list. This looks beautiful on you.

stephanie said...

I actually almost picked this up last night then remembered they test on animals. It is gorgeous though

Danielle said...

wow! this is awesome, definitely going to have to hunt this one down ;)

JQ said...

HAVE it!  Love it!!!  Just haven't had a chance to swatch yet, but no matter because your nails and photos show it off far better anyways!  Looks great!  I really wanted fire and emerald too.  Perhaps they'll appear in my stocking this year!

Zara Petkovic said...

Oh, that is GORGEOUS! I haven't seen these yet in a store...but that is amazing. I will definitely be keeping my eyes open!

Kanji said...

This has to be the most beautiful deep blue I've ever seen in my life!

Starlight said...

I LOVE Cobalt blue! This one really shines! I might have to take it for a test drive!

Lexa said...

WOW that is beautiful! I think I need it.

DesertNails8 said...

Ooh, after reading your post I went and got this color at Walgreens.  It's gorgeous!  And I got a coupon good for $5 - and can be used towards a purchase of $5 or more.  So the next bottle will be free!  There was a silver foil color that I might just get for nail art...  By the way, that's a really nice shot of the light showing through the nails from underneath.  (Makes me wish I could grow mine past the length of my fingertip, hee hee).

lisa said...

Oh my goodness, I need to get this. The hunt for the perfect blue jelly might just be over.
I guess this where the hunt for the perfect brown jelly begins..hehe

makeupgirl21 said...

I have to buy this.  It's a gorgeous gorgeous shade of blue.  The shine is amazing. 

kelaltieri said...

I'm wearing this color now!  It's so squishy and pretty.  I love it with AND without a top coat.  2 totally different looks.  yay!

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