Arden here! In my very first post on Casa de Polish I swatched a couple of Cover Girl's Outlast Stay Brilliatn nail polishes, and now they're back! Cover Girl has just released a bunch of new summery shades in these cute smaller bottles they call "glosstinis." I have long been a fan of miniature versions of items, so these mini bottles of polish called my name as soon as I spotted them. I ended up getting four colors to try: Pink Lady (#500), Lemon Drop (#525), Blue Hawaiian (#535), and Purple Freeze (#540). (Cover Girl still insists on not listing the name of the polish on the bottle, just the number.)
First up is Pink Lady, two coats plus top coat. I will admit that this is probably my least favorite of the shades I bought, but I also am not a big fan of pink polishes. It is a lovely light pink shade, and I didn't own anything like it (again, because I rarely buy pink polish), but on my nails it didn't really pop out at me as much as I'd hoped.
Next is Lemon Drop. I really like this polish-- it's a shade lighter than the other yellows I own, but it's still plenty bright and summery. It also had good coverage-- this is only two coats plus top coat. The one downside to this polish is that it stained my skin when I took it off with acetone. You can tell in the next picture how my knuckles kind of have a yellowish tint to them. I'm sure I could have scrubbed harder with acetone to remove it all, but this is usually not as bad a problem with other polishes.
