My first review in a loooong time, how exciting! I found the new Sally Hansen Triple Shine display at my Walmart a few days ago! I wanted ALL THE COLORS! But I only decided to try out 4 of them, because while the glitters were all gorgeous, none of them looked exceptionally unique compared to things I already had in my collection.
Unfortunately, because I decided I was going to return two of these, I only swatched them on one nail each and didn't get any more pictures before I made my decision. Then once I'd decided to return them, it seemed pretty tacky to keep using more of the polish just for swatches. The four I got, as they appear in the photos below are: Slick Black, Sparkling Water, Bait Me, and Play Koi. And honestly I got Play Koi solely because of the name. As I mentioned in my Halloween post, orange is my absolute least favorite color, as well as the only color that I dislike almost every version of, almost all the time.
Slick Black and Sparkling Water
Slick Black was one of the polishes I decided to keep. It has a fleck type of finish, with mostly black/dark gunmetal colors, but also some hints of green/teal and magenta. It has great opacity, too - completely opaque in two coats, which can be unusual for this type of finish...as evidenced by Sparkling Water. Sparkling Water is a gorgeous teal and blue fleck polish, but it's really more of a jelly finish as far as opacity. It looked stunning in the bottle, and would probably have looked nice over coordinating undies, but it was similar enough to Watermelon Rind by China Glaze that I just didn't think I needed both. I couldn't get pictures to show the color correctly, and it's really not as blue as it shows up. It's definitely more of a teal shade.
Bait Me and Play Koi
Bait Me is a very pretty, slightly off-white. It was a bit sheer - I believe I used three coats for that swatch - but not overly goopy or thick once it was on. I returned this one, but not because of the quality, simply because I don't use shimmery whites enough to need it. Play Koi, I bought just for the name. This one didn't show up well in the pictures, but at 3 coats, there's still definitely VNL. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with this one, besides maybe a jelly sandwich with some non-matching color underneath so it alters the bright orange hue. If you're looking for an orange jelly (I'm thinking this looks pretty similar to the orange from that L'Oreal collection earlier in the year), this was a pretty nice polish. It applied with no streaks, and wasn't excessively goopy even at three coats.
Slick Black, Sparkling Water, Bait Me, Play Koi
Slick Black, Sparkling Water, Bait Me, Play Koi
Overall, the formula on these seems a bit on the thicker side, but they also seem to dry fairly well, and don't stay goopy forever if you use a fast-dry topcoat with them. If I didn't already have so much nail polish, I'd definitely be interested in more shades from the collection, but most of the colors in the line are very similar to, if not dupes for, things already in my collection. The packaging is one of those where the large square "overlid" comes off, and there's a small, round, "normal" handle inside of it. The brush was nothing particularly special, although my Play Koi brush had several stray hairs on it. As pretty as a lot of their packaging is, I do with Sally Hansen could just stick with one or two bottle designs. I'm normally not one for excessive attention to packaging, but these bottles just remind me too much of obelisks or tombstones for me to think they make cute polish bottles.
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