Revlon-Royal Cloak

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Royal Cloak is a medium to dark purple base with lots of silver glitter of various sizes. When I saw this in the store a few weeks ago I grabbed it immediately and couldn't wait to try it on. But now that I have I'm not all that enthused.

indoors, artificial light

The formula for this is weird. It's on the thicker side, but after two coats I still had a few bald spots. The bigger glitter were easy to grab. Or should I say easier than most. But it's not like there were big flakies, which I think I would have liked in this. The drying time was actually pretty good, which I'm not used to with Revlon.

indoors, artificial light. close up.

Here's the thing with this, I think I like the idea behind it. A darker color creme with glitter in it to make it interesting. But the finished product didn't really work for me. I think the purple is too dark (it's darker in real life than in the pictures). It actually reminds of a those jelly sandwiches everyone loves (nail kind, not like the pb&j jelly sandwiches). But it's not as impactful. Maybe if the polish was a purple jelly? Maybe if the color was lighter? I don't know.

outdoors

So, yeah. I'm not wow'ed by this, despite it being a beautiful purple color and the silver glitter. It's pretty, no doubt about that. It just fell a little flat for me.