Sally Hansen Fuzzy Coat: Wool Lite

I stopped into my local Priceline recently just to have a bit of a browse and see if there were any nice deals I could take advantage of, and this nail polish just happened to catch my eye. I'm usually a sucker for polishes what with all the lovely colours, but I never really get into consistently painting my nails so I usually force myself to resist adding another polish that might get a couple uses out of it before being rested to the collection. But this Sally Hansen Fuzzy Coat nail polish was just too adorable to resist.

I have a tendency, when I do paint my nails, to generally have them some sort of blue shade, but when considering the blue polish in this textured nail polish, I thought it would look better (and safer) to try out the light pink in Wool Lite. But I really should have gone with my gut feeling and resisted this nail polish. I only have a few Sally Hansen nail polishes, and, admittedly, I love their Diamond Strength line. But this polish was so very disappointing. Firstly, and probably unrealistically, I was expecting cute, fluffy looking nails. Almost like the velvet nails by Ciate, but not quite. More sheen and a bit rougher, and obviously not quite as much texture to the eye and to the touch. But despite realising that I wasn't going to get that effect out of just a polish (rather than a polish and texture added on top), I still hoped that it would give at least the look of fuzzy nails, as the name of the product implies. However, I got another let down instead. I'm not sure whether it was just the shade I chose or what, but this took a ridiculous amount of coats to even get my nails half covered in the tiny, confetti-like pieces.

In the pictures above, my thumbnail has (I kid you not) about 7 coats on it, and the rest of my nails have about 4-5 coats. Very disappointing to say the least. But I looked up what other people thought of this polish and swatches of different shades, and while, those that had the same shade as I fared much better, I noticed that the light blue shade (Wool Knot) looked pretty damn good. It seemed to be far more opaque than the other shades too, so perhaps, if I'm really determined, I would give that shade a try. Maybe if I tried a coloured base coat too, that would help bring this polish to life rather than it looking like I painted my nails then went crazy scratching at them. 

Overall, I do absolutely love the trend and the look of textured nails, but this polish simply did not cut it. I have tried caviar nails before (though it was a pretty cheap brand and did not last AT ALL) and loved that effect. So we'll see if next up will be the velvet nails I'm sorta maybe kinda coveting.