Maybelline Acid Wash - Ripped Tide Swatch

Hi everyone!

I have a little swatch for you today! The Maybelline Acid Wash collection came out a few months ago, but it was only last month that these polishes finally arrived in my local polish store - ugh. I had to wait for ages to get my hands on one, and can you believe it now, I actually don't like them after swatching them.


I picked up Ripped Tide because that was the colour that spoke the most to me, and I had seen some great swatches of it (for example by The Nailasaurus). Ripped Tide is a bright turquoise/blue jelly with white glitters in it in various sizes. I used three coats for my swatches, but ugh. This looks so chunky...

I did this swatch a while ago and took the polish off after that because I didn't like it. I sadly can't remember what top coat I used, but I think it was my Gel Like Top Coat from Only You.

The colour of the polish is really nice, and I got the glitters out just fine. The glitters didn't drag (a lot), but I still don't like the overall look. For me, this looks too thick (unfortunately not the good "jum jelly" or "jum glass top coat" kind of thick) and chunky. It's not the consistency of the polish itself that is too thick because that was fine, but it's just the entire thing with the big glitters.

It looks great on other people's nails though (or on most people's nails anyway), so I'm not sure what went wrong with me. Maybe my nails are a bit curvier so the glitter wont lie flat? I haven't had this problem with other glitter polishes though.

How do you feel about this polish? Have you tried any of the Acid Wash Maybellines? Maybe I could try layering one coat on top of a white base coat to lessen the chunkyness?

Anyway, a little public service announcement for you all too: I'm currently starting a new year at University, after finishing my master's degree in Literature and Linguistics. I'm doing Journalism now, which is really interesting and fun, BUT also a lot of work. Which is why I haven't posted yet this week or visited your blogs a lot... I'll be posting as often as possible and there will be times when twice a week is no problem, but just so you now, it could also happen that I vanish for a week because I'm buried in work ;)

Thanks for reading!