Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Claire's Mood Polish Swatches

Hello again! I have the coolest s*** to show you today! I have had so much fun with these new polishes that since Saturday, I have already worn all of them. I can't get enough. They are mood changing polishes from Claire's which are essentially just polishes that change with temperature. They have a "hot" color and a "cold" color.

Claire's Mood - Daring/Innocent, Happy/Earthy, Calm/Wild

Daring/Innocent - This is gray when cool and turns to a yellowish, beige cream when warm. I can imagine the hot color would be difficult to pull off and isn't necessarily "pretty" but I do still like it!

Happy/Earthy - This is a bright, grass green when cool and super bright, nearly neon, slightly green-yellow when hot. The times it was green were strange sometimes. In some lights it looked like a dusty green, like RBL - Diddy Mow. It wasn't like it looked darker in some lights because there wasn't the same amount of light; it was seriously like it was a completely different color all together. Weird. I don't think I have experienced anything like that before. I got these in the mail and when I opened them up in regular incandescent lighting I thought it was a dusty, gray green. Until I put it on and saw it in good light! Then it was like, "BAM! IN YO FACE!

Calm/Wild - This is a medium purple with silver shimmer when cold and bright pink with silver shimmer when hot. Very pretty either way! This baby is packed with shimmer!

The formula on these was very good. I did 2 coats with Daring/Innocent and Calm/Wild but had to pull out three for Happy/Earthy.

EDIT: I forgot to mention: these do not dry shiny. They dry rather flat/matte. All of my swatches have topcoat.

Before I tried these I was under the assumption that they would always look two-toned where the nail bed would be the warm color and the tips would be the cold color but I was wrong. They did look like that a lot, but they also just stayed the cold color a lot, probably because I generally have cold hands. And the weather is still on the cool side. I'm sure in the summer when it's sweltering, I will see the hot color more often. They change very easily regardless. It's a lot of fun. You're sitting on the couch will some wine all cuddled up with the dog and your man so they are warm. Then you go to the fridge to get a snack and then they are cold. You reach into the oven to get your chicken nuggets, they get warm. Then you wash a dish, they go to cold. Then you wash another dish now that the water warmed up, they are warm. You let the dog out, they are cold. You take a shower, they are warm. You run around doing your post shower activities, they get cold. You blow dry your hair, they get warm (you intentionally shoot the dryer at your nails for fun and let your man do it too!) There is no end with these things!! They are sooooo fun!

I like these so much better than the solar changers. The solar changers are fun too, don't get me wrong, but they're only fun if you have sun. You don't need sun to play with these and there are so many changes from moment to moment. I especially like washing my hands in public and then using the hand dryers and seeing people doing double takes of my nails. "Wait! They were just a different color...weren't they?" So much fun.

I must say that I don't think the wear on this is too impressive. I only wore Daring/Innocent for about half a day before I wanted to try out the next one so I didn't notice any wear with that one but I wore Happy/Earthy from Saturday night to last night (Monday) so that was about 48 hours, but I started to see some major chippage by the middle of the day yesterday. Not all the chips actually even chipped. Some spots were just lifting and getting ready to chip. But regardless, it should be said because I don't usually find any polish chippy, ever. It did make it over 24 hours though and I am currently wearing Calm/Wild and did it last night and it's flawless. We shall see. I don't really care because it is worth it!!

At one point I was gawking at them to the BF and I said "I wish all polish did this". Can you imagine it? Even he found them amusing. We were sitting on the couch together and I was holding a mug of tea. He looked at my hand and was like "Look at your nails! Now look at the level in your cup!" The mug was filled about half way and the fingers on the lower half of the mug where there was still hot tea were the warm color and the fingers higher up were the cool color. Everyone loves these!

What do you think? Have them? Want them? Love them? Hate them?
:c)

PS - These are available at Claire's stores now!

27 comments:

  1. OMG, I neeeeed these! lol. Thanks for the great swatches. Calm/Wild is definitely my fave. :)

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  2. I absolutly love these and have to have them!

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  3. I tried so hard to like Daring and Innocent. I love greys but the hot color is just too unflattering on my skin tone. I bought Peace/Calm and I love the colors. I tell myself it's CC Wild Child/Orchid and the green is ChG's four leaf clover

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  4. Recessionista! - You are welcome! And yes, you do need them! :cD

    Jessica - I am glad! Get them!

    crotchfairy - I totally understand. I can imagine that color being hard to pull off. It somehow works just fine against my very red skin so I like it!

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  5. Oh how I love mood-changing polishes! These look great! I hope my Claire's gets these in soon (although they only just got in Dream Catcher so it may be a while). Thanks for posting these swatches. A lemming has been born!

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  6. gahhh i neeeeeeeeed these so bad, but my claire's doesn't have them yet *grumble*
    happy/earthy will be MINE!! lol

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  7. I got the green one yesterday and put it on my toes. I knew my feet were always cold but YEESH... the colour was "Jade is the New Black" (which I had just removed to try the Mood). the colder my feet got, the darker the green. When I got in a hot shower they quickly changed to a bright yellow. LOVE!

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  8. i am so excited to try these. super fun :)

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  9. Wait... these are CURRENT polishes? Ones that I can go out and find a buy and love??? :D

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  10. I bought two of these over the weekend. Calm/Wild and the one that is two shades of pink (I'm not at home so I don't know the name). The chipping scares me. The last time I bought a Claire's polish I returned it because it didn't last a day without huge chunks coming off. I hope these wear better.

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  11. I love these! I am currently giving away three sets of these suckers.

    I was very surprised at how much I like the grey color on me.

    You on the other hand have nails that can make anything look amazing!

    :o)

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  12. I love these! I bought all five of them as soon as I saw them around the blogosphere and on the MUA nail board. I missed the Claire's Dreamcatcher boat, so I'm glad I caught these. They're chiptastic but the color change is too much fun for me to care. If the polish fanatics write to Claire's corporate, might we hope for more MOOD polishes?

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  13. These are lush

    Love the green one... I am gonna have to get these from states :)

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  14. I would buy all of them! i LOVE special effects! I wonder if they would be available here in europe...

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  15. Darn, I passed these by a while ago,ggrrr. Now I must go get.
    ~Sylvia

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  16. Aren't they so much fun? I only got two of them, but now I'm wanting the one that's two shades of pink, it looked so cute. I had a blast experimenting with them!

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  17. I hate(not really :P) all you bloggers posting swatches of these out there! urghhh! I want these! oh why don't they sell claire's here :(((((((((((((((((

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  18. I have three of these polishes, the blue one, the purple shimmery one and the pink one. They are awesome! On me, I always have the warmer color, until I go outside then it turns cold. On my co-worker, they are always two toned, her tip are always the cooler color..its so cool!

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  19. Olá, sou do Brasil e adorei o seu blog!

    beeijos

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  20. Where can I buy this? Its great!! I love it!!

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  21. I Waaaaaaaant *---*

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  22. I got the one called calm/excited. It is bright coral when cold and a light peach when warm. It is so fun, the tips look dark most of the time, like a two tone mani. It is either a hard line or a gradient depending on the temp. The wear is great on this one. The Nordstrom cashiers freaked out yesterday and said she was going immediately to Claire's to purchase these polishes. It matched my skirt perfectly, which was the same shades from dark at the bottom to light on top.
    http://addictedtoopi-yum.blogspot.com

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  23. Hello, I'm from Brazil and would like to know where they are sold. Loved your blog!
    Kisses...

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