Rescue Beauty Lounge Swatches: Sheers, Neutrals and a Red!

I'm sure you all know how much I love Rescue Beauty Lounge. I tried it on a whim and now I'm hooked. The colors, the formula, the bottles, the brushes, all perfect. Well, perfect except for one color, but I'll save that for last.

Since I seem to gravitate toward dark colors 99% of the time, I thought I'd try Rescue Beauty Lounge's sheers and light colors. I mean, if I'm gonna do it, it might as well be with Rescue, right? (<---- justification!)

This is Ani. I really like this color- pale, beigey shimmer. I had a lot of trouble with this one- there seemed to be unmixed chunks or blobs of pigment or dried polish in this. I had to re-do this twice to be able to take pictures. It came out really chunky. I think I got a bad bottle.


Clear Pink. I think this is probably meant to be a one-coat polish, but I hate seeing my nails through my polish. This is three coats of a lovely light natural pink.


Medium White. This is more of a creamy butter color. Not quite yellow, but not quite white. It applies very smoothly and stays semi-sheer until three coats (pictured). I think this would make great natural looking tips for a french manicure.


Om. I love this one. There's just something about it that makes me feel calm. It looks boring, and I'm pretty sure it is boring, but for some reason I'm drawn to it. What is it about this color? I don't know. I just like it. Is it like Apple Jacks?


Opaque Nude. This is really cool. It reminds me of coffee with way too much cream. It's opaque and smooth and really unique looking.


Opaque Pink. I think that's the name. It's a different shade of pink than Clear Pink and it's more opaque. It's almost skin-colored. Very pretty and natural.


Underwear. The most perfect one-coat holy-crap-that's-white bright white polish ever.


Purple Haze. This picture makes it look slightly more blue, but I assure you it's purple. It's a nice deep lilac shade that's darker than OPI Do You Lilac It. I don't own another polish like this.


Chinoise. How do you pronounce this? I have no idea. This red is bright, flashy and smooth as glass. This applies like a dream- I almost couldn't believe how perfect it was.

And, not for the faint of heart, here's what could possibly be the most unflattering shade of nail polish ever created:


Sheer Natural.

I'm not sure what's natural about this. The yellow tint in a creamy base makes it look like I have some sort of nail disease or fungus. Gross. I remember when we went to study the cadavers for biology, and their nails looked like this.

Okay, maybe I'm being a little harsh on poor Sheer Natural. I'm sure this is meant for someone with a different skintone (not sure what skintone that would be, though). I just don't see how a yellow-tinted polish could be flattering. If I'm wearing yellow, I want it to be YELLOW. Oh well. It was worth a try.