Nail Polish: Battle of Duochromes, Neons and Magnetics

If you would like to see which nail polishes were battling it for the duochromes, neons and magnetics last year then click the colours to be taken to a new page. This year the battles will only be using the new polishes I have gotten since last year. Which is why Duochromes, Neons and Magnetics have been joined as I didn't seem to have as many of these this year.

Firstly looking at duochrome polishes:

Yes Love - 403 | Jade - Velvet | Angelica - Twilight | Rimmel - Purple Reign | ELF - Sea Escape

And the winner is:
ELF - Sea Escape, a gorgeous blackened green


And then the neons:

Ciate - Yellow Taxi | La Femme - Ultra Gold | ELF - Party Peach | Barry M - Mango | Sinful Colors - Courtney Orange

The winner is:
Barry M Mango, I really like this one the formula is perfect and pigmentation is great too.


And finally the magnetic polishes:

Essence - Iron Goddess | Essence - Steel Me | Essence - Magic Wand | Essence - Hex Hex | MUA - Leicester Square | 17 - Blue | 17 - Lilac | Barry M -Burgundy | Barry M - Dark Grey

The winner is:
As much as I really like the circular magnet on the MUA polish I have to chose Barry M Dark Grey as I prefer the colour of the polish on this one.

Swatch: Angelica - Twilight

Opacity: Three coats
Colour: Blue with a duochrome purple
Finish: Duochrome
How Much? 10ml
Cost? £2.50
From? Primark

Swatch: Essence - Chic Reloaded

Finish: Duochrome

Colour: Greens, purples and hints of pink

How Much? 8ml

Brush Type: Wide and flat

Unfortunately Essence products aren't sold within the UK. But you can find Essence in Ireland and the rest of Europe.

Nail Polish: Battle of the Duochrome

Lots of W7 making this round along with Fantasy Fire

W7 - Metallic Saturn , Accesorize - Aztec, Essence - Chic Reloaded, W7 - Metallic Mars , W7 - Metallic Venus , Max Factor - Fantasy Fire, W7 - Metallic Mercury , W7 - Metallic Jupiter 

I had a damaged bottle of Fantasy Fire and ended up putting that along with a back up in a empty bottle. That made the cut along with W7's Metallic Jupiter which is a nice dark petrol on water tone and Essence's Chic Reloaded which is a subtle, more wearable duochome.

And the winner is, surprisingly not Fantasy Fire! W7 has mastered the 'petrol on water' polish and I really like this and when I wear it I am always looking at my nails and wiggling my fingers to see the duochrome change.

Swatch: Rimmel Metal Rush - Purple Reign

Purple Reign!

 

 

Opacity: Thee coats
Colour: Flits between red, purple and slightly blue
Amount: 12ml

Swatch: W7 - Metallic Venus

Finish: Metallic / Shimmer

Opacity: Three coats

Brush Type: Standard

This has a slight colour shift to it, sort of glows. Pink - blue - purple, I really struggled to capture all of these shades in my photos.

£1.95 - 15ml

Nail Polish Direct