Trind Caring Colors Swatches and Review

Trind is a brand new brand to me. Up until a few months ago when they contacted me, I had never seen or heard of them before. If you're like me and this is a new brand to you as well, here's a little background information: Trind is a Dutch company that has been developing hand and nail care products since 1988. Their products are designed to work with the natural consistency of the skin and nails in order to heal, strengthen, improve and maintain their condition without damaging them.

I have a few of the Trind treatment products to review (they're lovely) and today I'm going to start off with the biggest category: the Caring Colors nail lacquers.

Numbers 101 and 102 are the Caring Colors Base Coat and Caring Colors Top Coat respectively, and since they're just clear treatments, they're not pictured here. I'm also missing 116, 117 and 119 through 129.

CC 103. Out of all the shades, this is the only one that gave me application trouble. It was a little watery (you can see where it ran into my cuticles) and somewhat streaky. I did four coats here to even everything out. This is a pure white creme.


CC 104. This shade is a sheer fleshy nude pink. It is intended to be worn sheer, but my nails are stained so I applied four coats for this picture.




CC 105. This is a milky jelly pink. It can be worn sheer at one or two coats or built up to this jelly look with four coats like I did.


CC 106. This is a frosty pearl pink, semi-sheer.




CC 107. This is a sheer warm iridescent pink. I did four coats here, but I think this would be nice for layering to add a bit of a mother-of-pearl look.


CC 108. Hot fuchsia shimmer with slight blue/violet flash.



CC 109. Deep mauve frost.




CC 110. Iridescent cocoa mauve frost. Has a slight duochrome effect to it.



CC 111. Purple mauve metallic. Not quite a foil, not smooth enough to be chrome, but definitely metallic.



CC 112. Warm honey brown frost.


CC 113. Muted dark salmon coral frost.


CC 114. Medium coral shimmer.



CC 115. Bright sexy bombshell red creme.



CC 118. Velvety looking cool toned red shimmer.



CC 130. Light berry creme.



CC 131. Light yellow-green creme. A little murky. Darker than China Glaze Electric Pineapple, but similar shade.


CC 132. Gorgeous turquoise shimmer. The shimmer particles in this are very small but very bright and have a light aqua tint to them.



CC 133. Fiery red glitter in a clear base. Extremely sparkly and pretty. A little rough.



CC 134. Purple glitter in a black creme base. The amount of purple glitter makes this looks like a purple shimmer once it's on the nail. Similar to Wet n Wild Night Prowl.



CC 135. Stunning midnight blue shimmer.



CC 136. Perfect forest green, slight yellow tone, amazing shimmer.


The formula on these is great. The only one that wasn't perfect was the white because it seemed watery. The others have a nice even texture, a little on the thin side, but not runny. The dry time is average. Wear time is excellent, especially when used with the non-quick dry Trind topcoat. The bottles are very elegant. They're antique-styled bottles that have long, slender lucite handles. The brushes are on the small side but they are very even and give a good application.

Regarding the polish formula, here's a little snippet from the Trind website:

"Trind developed an effective mix of “actives” for its nail lacquer, to improve the condition of the nail. With the addition of ingredients like Acrylates Copolymer, Dimethiconol, Dimethyl Oxobenzo Dioxasilane and Mercaptopropionic acid, great results will be achieved!"

These are formulated to maintain the condition of your nails when used with the Trind treatment system. My nails usually stay in the same condition no matter what I do, so I couldn't really detect any changes when using these. I didn't necessarily see any positive changes, but I didn't see any negative changes, either, so I can't say for sure if they really improve the condition of your nails. Maintain, yes, but like I said, my nails stay pretty much the same no matter what I do, so.... The jury is still out. I can say that they're nice, gentle polishes that don't dry my nails and didn't seem to stain when I wore them.

The color range is slowly expanding. As you can see, the first half is all mature, conservative, subtle types of shades, while the higher numbers (newer shades) are more fun and colorful. I've heard that there will be some new shades for summer soon. I love the bottles and the formula so I'd be really happy if they offered more of a selection of interesting colors in their line.

So far, I really like almost everything I've tried from this brand. The color selection is small, but the blue, green and glitter shades are perfect and gorgeous. The bottles might be my favorite part. They don't look so plain and utilitarian like some brands, they look special and pretty that you don't want to hide them away in a box, you want to display them. The treatment products from Trind are the best, though. I'll review them separately, but I have to mention that the oil-free Cuticle Balsam is amazing. Some of the items are a little pricey, but the Cuticle Balsam is really worth it.

On a related note, Trind is increasing the discount for my readers. The code scrangie is now worth 25% off on Trind.ca. Just enter scrangie at checkout to receive the discount. This code is valid until July 14th, 2011.

(These were sent to me for review.)