notd: revlon parfumerie wintermint

hi guys! i had a ton of cvs coupons to burn, so i picked this up yesterday. this is my first and probably only bottle from the parfumerie line, mostly because the scent doesn't last very long and i generally pick my polishes for their color than their scent. some of the other ones that i thought looked pretty, i didn't want to buy because wasn't interested in their scents. i picked up this particular bottle because it reminded me of deborah lipmann's mermaid's dream..but it's drugstore--it's cheaper. and it's mint scented. hello.

obviously, because this line of polishes is scented, you do not want to apply a topcoat; but if you don't care about them smelling nice and want them to last..then go ahead and apply some.

while applying this polish, it does smell like mint. now, i don't advise going and sniffing straight from the bottle, but the 'normal distance your face is from your hands while you're painting your nails' is enough to smell the mintiness. after they dry, you can actually smell its true scent. from what i've read and heard, the scent doesn't linger for too long--a couple days at most, considering normal people work with their hands, doing stuff..or at the very least, you wash them occasionally, right?

regardless, i like how this came out. now i did paint three coats to make sure it was super opaque (it's fairly so after 2) and i did not add a topcoat. this polish because of it's nature, with the glitter and all, dries to a textured finish. i likes it, in concept and prettiness, but i probably won't get another from this line.
~Lin-chan ^.~