Miss Sporty Metal Flip Nail Polish | Aurora Borealis

Miss Sporty Metal Flip Nail Polish £1.99

After reviewing the Miss Sporty Transformers Sparkle Touch nail polish (here) and being considerably underwhelmed by it, I decided to give the Miss Sporty nail polishes another go, as they're very cheap at £1.99 each and readily available. I bought two 'Last Chance Saloon' polishes from the Metal Flip range as they looked like incredible dupes for the Beetlejuice range from Models Own. I bought Aurora Borealis and Beetlewings. Annoyingly, the bottles don't have names on them.. they only have numbers. I only found their true names by looking on the Miss Sporty website. I really liked the Beetlejuice range from Models Own so I hoped these would be good, as they're more than half the price. Aurora Borealis is extremely similar in the bottle as Aqua Violet.

The Miss Sporty websites description of these polishes is; "According to the lighting, the colour of your nails changes for a breathtaking metal flip effect". Sounds exciting huh? Well it's not to put it bluntly. 

If you take a look at the pictures above, I've tried to show you the different stages of application. It took a massive four coats of this polish to get a fully opaque non streaky finish. I don't think I've ever used a polish which was such hard work? Picture one is showing what one coat looks like on the nails.. you can see how watery, and thin the polish is as you can see my nail tips clearly. Picture 2 is with three coats on,  it might not translate well in the picture but it's not fully opaque and quite patchy. Picture 3 shows the end product, with 4 coats of the polish- and no topcoat. 

Picture 4 shows the colour of the bottle, and the colour of the polish. I'm so disappointed with Miss Sporty nail polishes now, with this being the second complete let down! The polish in the bottle does look multi-toned like the description... but none of this translates onto the nail? The end colour is just a one dimensional shimmery lilac colour, which is pretty enough.. but not what I bought. I have looked my finished nails in a variety of different lights, and there is no 'metal-flip' effect whatsoever. It's just one colour. 

Granted, these polishes retail for only £1.99 so maybe I am expecting too much? I personally don't see how they're able to make false promises about their products? It's not fair when the consumer is spending money on their products and expecting what they read on the packaging/website to be true? I couldn't recommend these polishes to anyone. Ignoring the whole colour/finish side of the review... the polish doesn't wear very well, with chipping within a day (without a topcoat). 

I hate writing such a negative review.. but I think it's important to be honest, especially when people are going to spend their money on these products.