Yeah definitely getting my own card! Totally sucks about all of them being dupes! Is the gold as well?ferretkingdom said:
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here they are:
The gold one (award winning) is I'm sure a dupe of one of the Gelish golds (I think it's a Dupe for Allure, but since I don't have the gelish gold i'm not positive. I think Wicked is the other gold). ETA: After looking at some swatches of the two, I'm almost 100% positive it's a dupe for Allure. Wicked is very sheer. If you have Allure, I wouldn't get this one.
The silver one (I can't believe it) is a dupe for Waterfield. It might have a touch more larger glitter in it than my bottle waterfield, but it's not a significant difference to me. I certainly don't need both of them!
The other one (it's a champagne night) is a dupe for Gelish Reserve.
Comparison of I can't believe it and waterfield
Comparison of It's a champagne Night and Gelish Reserve
I added Gelish Glamour Queen in just for the sake of comparison
The gold one (award winning) is I'm sure a dupe of one of the Gelish golds (I think it's a Dupe for Allure, but since I don't have the gelish gold i'm not positive. I think Wicked is the other gold). ETA: After looking at some swatches of the two, I'm almost 100% positive it's a dupe for Allure. Wicked is very sheer. If you have Allure, I wouldn't get this one.
The silver one (I can't believe it) is a dupe for Waterfield. It might have a touch more larger glitter in it than my bottle waterfield, but it's not a significant difference to me. I certainly don't need both of them!
The other one (it's a champagne night) is a dupe for Gelish Reserve.
Comparison of I can't believe it and waterfield
Comparison of It's a champagne Night and Gelish Reserve
I added Gelish Glamour Queen in just for the sake of comparison
I'm pretty sure they are. Looking at the bottle colors I could probably almost peg them all as dupes. LOL.
Aww, that's like they're cheating. Or just lazy. Do they need somebody with more imagination to help them think of different colors? Maybe we should charge them a consulting fee and help them out a little. The waterfield dupe is prettier than waterfield, but so close, a person wouldn't need both, that's for sure. The Reserve dupe is EXACT! What on earth is the reasoning there? The gold one looks more opaque to me than Allure, but it could just be the picture. I would like to see a swatch comparison as I already have Allure. I also have Glamour Queen. It is close enough to Reserve that I don't feel the need to have both. If I want to "orange it up" a little, I can add the orange gelish aurora effects polish.
ferretkingdom said:
That gold looks like allure. I'm disappointed they're dupes but probably better for my wallet!! Guess the next new colors to come out will be Gelish Candyland and the Lechat spring colors!!!!
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Too bad they're so close. I do agree with NanaSue. My first thought upon seeing your swatches was that Award Winning was like solid gold compared to Allure which tends to be a little sheer. I think the Waterfield dupe is much nicer than the original. If I were to get rid of 2 of them I'd give up the Gelish versions.
Same company I guess, and since many of these aren't available as the Gelish Mini's at sally's it gives people the opportunity to have more of the gelish range. Still, I wish they'd stop having dupes! Or at least admit they are friggin dupes so I wouldn't buy them!
If I didn't have waterfield already, I'd probably get this one, as it does have a bit more of the larger glitter in it. It's not that significant really though. I bet if I shook the crap out of my waterfield I'd be able to dredge up more bigger pieces LOL.
The swatch of Allure I was comparing mine to is here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.216361888388938.61702.186674468024347&type=3. I hope that link works. It's in one of the photos of swatches they have posted there. It would be probably semi-sheer on the nail. If i hold it up to the light I can see light through it, so I would say the RCM one is not totally opaque in 2 coats, which is what my swatch is.
Yeah, I didn't believe it - I would've been shocked if it was really a duochrome. That would've been something brand new!
How many coats is your swatch? Can you get opacity with Reserve?
Thanks for posting so fast, btw.
Ok, play along for fun
what do you think they are? The neons are obvious but what about the rest!Although it sucks for us, I think in Harmony's mind they are marketing to two separate audiences for the most part. We should all post on their FB how disappointed we are, so they can see they have more cross-over customers than they think
Yeah, I didn't believe it - I would've been shocked if it was really a duochrome. That would've been something brand new!
How many coats is your swatch? Can you get opacity with Reserve?
Thanks for posting so fast, btw.
Ok, play along for fun
Although it sucks for us, I think in Harmony's mind they are marketing to two separate audiences for the most part. We should all post on their FB how disappointed we are, so they can see they have more cross-over customers than they think
Yeah, i'm sure they do think they are marketing to separate audiences. I did post on their facebook page in a comment on the other gals post these are dupes though, and I posted a pic of my swatches.
All my swatches are 2 coats unless otherwise noted. I rarely do more than that for a swatch. Reserve is opaque in 2 coats easily. I did find with the shorter, fatter RCM brush it was very easy to apply it super thin. Almost too thin for the purpose of swatching, where I tend to apply it a bit thicker, LOL. I like the short, fat brushes, but I think they could be a bit softer, they are sort of stiff IMO.
Well, lets see.........LOL. I actually wish the picture of all the bottles lined up was a little bit bigger. then it'd be easier.
I don't really know that I'd be able to pick them ALL as dupes.
I'm hoping the other silver one they have pictured there is the one that will be a dupe for Night Shimmer, LOL. Since that was what I wanted with this silver one.
I'd say the neons they have there are going to be Shake it till you samba and copa cabana banana for sure. The blue is probably ooba ooba blue.
All those light pinks i can't figure out, there are too many and the bottles all look the same to me, lol
there's another where the bottle looks awful similar to the color of the bottle that is the Champagne Night one. Maybe it will be a glamour queen dupe.
Second one from the right looks like maybe a very dark red - All about me? Black Cherry Berry? Something like that perhaps.
Not sure about a couple of them honestly, but given the color track record, i'm sure they'll be dupes.
Nooooooo, I just ordered waterfield off eBay last week.
I really don't think there is a great difference in the two. If you have waterfield on the way i wouldn't go out and bother to order the RCM one. I bet if I shook the crap out of my waterfield that I could get some more larger glitter to come out, LOL. It's a tad more in the RCM one, but that is also something that could easily vary from batch to batch, how much glitter they put in.