Anyway, today I'm going to compare the polish that you saw on the blog this past week with another strawberry-inspired polish. Because I'm obsessed with strawberry polish, it was inevitable that I wound up with two similar ones!
Today we'll be looking at Polish Me Royalty's Strawberry Shortcake and Black Dahlia Lacquer's Strawberry Fields. (I did a full swatch of Strawberry Fields at the beginning of last year, and you can find that post here.)
I have Strawberry Shortcake on my pointer and ring fingers, and Strawberry Fields on my middle and pinky fingers.
They're definitely very similar, but also noticeably different. Strawberry Fields is a brighter, more true pink than Strawberry Shortcake, which is a bit more muted and on the berry-purple side. (Is "pinurple" a thing? "purnk"? I'm calling purple-leaning pinks purnk from now on.)
Both polishes have a subtle shimmer that my regular camera can barely pick up. And the flash on my camera is so unbelievably bright that it completely washes everything out this up close - so I have to take any flash photos on my phone. You can kinda-sorta see the shimmers in the flash photo:
You can see that Strawberry Fields' shimmer is more golden-pink, while the shimmer in Strawberry Shortcake is more silvery-pink. They're both very subtle and very pretty.
As I mentioned in this week's post, Strawberry Shortcake is very nearly a OCW. If my nails were shorter and/or I had this in a full-sized bottle, I would probably only need one coat of it. It's a much more highly pigmented formula that Strawberry Fields, which definitely requires two coats, even using a full-sized brush. And as I also mentioned earlier this week Strawberry Shortcake is SCENTED which is awesome! Strawberry Fields is not scented.
So, do I need them all? Well, I do, because strawberries. Although, funnily enough, I don't usually reach for pink when I want to throw on a quick coat of polish. Under normal, non-strawberry-inspired circumstances, I would probably not want to bother owning such similar shades of pink polish (sorry, pink). Buuut they're definitely not dupes, so for a pink lover or a fellow strawberry lover, I'd say that yes, you DO need them all!
Thanks for checking out this month's edition of Do I Need Them All! Which of these shades do you prefer? Let me know in the comments!
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