Manicure Monday: Bare Minimum

This was the first nail polish I had ever tried from the ULTA brand and I was pretty impressed.  I got this as a free gift for accumulating a certain number of points on my Club at Ulta card and I wasn't disappointed.  The application was easy with just two coats that dried quickly but not too fast.  I removed this polish after three and a half days and at that time the only wear was a small amount of barely detectable tip wear.

The only thing I didn't really like about this polish was the way the color translated from the bottle to the nail but I think that also has a lot to do with my skintone.  In the bottle, this looks like a frosty gray-leaning taupe but on my nails it looked more like a sad, faded silver.  I think it might look better on someone with a darker skin tone than I have.  On my pasty skin, it looked rather unflattering.  I will definitely have to keep this line of polish in mind for the future, although I don't really feel that I would be willing to spend $6.00 a bottle unless the shade was really unique.