American Apparel - Neon Green (wow)

I just loooove these polishes. I have a few AA colours in my collection. But this whole collection are all my absolute favourites from the company.  When I bought this I did the 3/$18 CND deal they have (I bought the whole collection of 6 at $6 each), if you buy them individually they are $8 CND.  They are the average bottle size of .5 fl oz/15 mL size. I believe they are a cheaper if you are shopping in the USA (3/$15 USD or $6 USD each). The first post about these polishes just showed bottle pictures of the entire collection together and now I'm going to show you some swatches. This is 'Neon Green' (creative naming huh?) oh well, they are amazing! Can you say INSTANT TAN! The application was amazing, AA is known for their  'one-coat' polishes, but never have I seen neons opaque in one coat. The swatches are two coats (out of habit) and with NO TOP COAT! Neons usually have a very dull, flat, matte finished when dry, but this polish had a very unique finish to it. I liked it, so I skipped the top coat. The finish was not a shiny one but it wasn't the gross dull matte you would have expected. I would call it a satin finish.  Read my first post if you want to find out more about the whole collection. This Neon collection is Limited Edition, but still available online and in-stores in the Vancouver area.

-Leanne

American Apparel Summer Neons Collection

Now this is love... It's been a long time since I've obsessed over a collection. This is the entire Neons Collection from American Apparel.  It's a collection of 6 screaming neon polishes. These just yell 80s to me, the green and orange when put beside each other right away made me think Michelangleo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. From left to right, Neon Coral, Neon Green, Neon Violet, Neon Red (a neon pink), Neon Yellow, and finally Neon Orange.  These beauties on American Apparel's Canadian store site retail for $7.50 CND (I'm not 100% positive but I believe in stores they are $8.00 CND) and if you buy three they are $18 CND (online and in-store, and you can mix and match). They also have a 7 pack online which also includes a top coat for $44.50 CND.  The application was completely flawless for all of them, they were opaque with one coat (I used two, just out of habit). The one thing I noticed was that on the AA website they list the ingredients as "3 Free" (so no  DBP, toluene and formaldehyde-free), but when you take a closer look at the neon collection they have formaldehyde listed on the back. So the website is deceptive, if you are worried about formaldehyde in polish, this collection is one to stay away from. They are made in the USA and they are cruelty free which is great. I had saw on more then a few other blogs about a month ago that these were in very limited quantities (2000 of each colour) but my AA store got them in stock about a month ago and last week they still had a full display (so there is still time to get you hands on these). The website also had them all still in stock, (http://store.americanapparel.ca), with orders over $75 you get free shipping and you don't need a coupon code. Throughout the week I'm going to have the swatches for all of these.  Click on the pictures to see all the colours closer!

-Leanne