Duri 2012 Valentine's Day Collection Swatches and Review

Duri Cosmetics has a nail polish collection out for Valentine's Day this year. It's your standard pink-and-red Valentine's Day fare, but some of them are pretty nice.


Duri Breakfast in Bed. This is a pale, ever-so-slightly lavender-toned creamy pink base with a very subtle, very fine blue and purple shimmer. The shimmer is nearly invisible, but at certain angles it comes out as a blue flash across the surface of the polish.

Actually, maybe it's not actually breakfast in bed. Maybe it's Breakfest, like a festival where you go around smashing things and break dancing.


Duri Cranberry Crush. Medium berry-colored jelly. More mulberry than cranberry, slight purple tone.



Duri Every Day is a Valentine. A super bright cherry red jelly! This one I really like. It's a very glowy type of red, due to the depth of the jelly finish. Doesn't look flat or dull. The two bright reds in this collection are nearly identical; this one is the cooler-toned of the two.



Duri Forget Me Never. A warm pink creme. Not as bright as it looks here, but still what I'd consider to be a bright/hot pink. Reminds me of OPI Elephantastic Pink, actually. Dries darker than bottle color.



Duri Hot Date. This looks more red than it is in real life, but it's still a mauve-berry jelly. More purple-ish toned than pure red. I have a strong dislike for most berry polishes on me and this is no exception. Bleh. Plus, the name! Hot Date, really? I don't know if I'd really consider Bingo Night to be all that hot, but to each their own, I suppose...


Duri Sweetheart. If any of these colors say "hot date" to me, it's this one. This is a fire-eating belly dancer type of color! It's bright, the jelly finish gives it depth and it's very, very glossy. This is the warmer toned of the two bright reds, not quite a coral or an orange, but no blue undertone like Every Day Is A Valentine has.

The formula on these was varied. The two bright reds were unexpectedly thin/runny in texure, but had a really even application. The pink cremes were perfectly normal. The berry jellies were thicker and had a little drag to them. The brushes in these were all nice, so that helped application. I did three coats of all; they each needed all three. Dry time is average.

Not a particularly creative collection, but some of the colors are really nice. I didn't like the two berry shades at all, I liked the two pink shades well enough, but I loved the two bright reds. I am very fond of the jelly finish on the reds, and they're so bright and eye-catching, I can't help but love them. If you have a lot of reds in your collection (and I'm sure you do, as any nail polish enthusiast invariably ends up with way more reds in their collection than they ever intended to own...), there's nothing new here. All of these colors are pretty common and probably look like something you already own. The only one that I can't immediately think of a match for is Breakfast in Bed- the light pink creme with the blue flash.

These are all available from Duri's website, and I don't believe any of them are limited edition.

(This was sent for review.)