Disney Cinderella Collection by Sephora 'A Brush With Fate' Mini Nail Polish Set Holiday 2012 Swatches and Review

Part of the new Sephora-exclusive Disney Cinderella collection is this set of six mini polishes.  As far as I'm aware, these are only available as miniatures as part of a set and are not available individually in full-sized bottles.  The set is called A Brush With Fate and it's $24.50 for six 3.75ml (0.13 oz) polishes.

Sephora by OPI A Brush With Fate Collection

So Totally Enchanted - Step Off, Sister! - I Blue My Curfew - Bibbidi, Bobbidi, Pink! - Self Maid Millionaire - Rags to Rhinestones

 

 Sephora by OPI So Totally Enchanted.  Very light silver frost with subtle blue duochrome plus gold and silver microglitter.  To me, this is the most interesting color in the set.  It's not straight silver, nor is it straight blue, but a color that constantly shifts between the two.  The microglitter is sparse, but it's very pretty and adds a magical look to the polish.  It also stays smooth against the frosty metallic base; it doesn't look lumpy like a lot of frost/glitter combinations tend to do.

 Sephora by OPI Step Off, Sister!  A mixture of fine blue and silver glitter in a clear base.  Sephora.com describes this as purple, but it's not purple at all.  Still, it is pretty and sparkly, very delicate/twinkly and fits the Cinderella theme extremely well.

Sephora by OPI I Blue My Curfew.  A medium/borderline dark vibrant blue shimmer base with silvery blue and aqua crushed flake glitter.  It sparkles like a glass fleck finish, but the shimmer/glitter particles are flatter and more random than in a true glass fleck. 

Sephora by OPI Bibbidi, Bobbidi, Pink!  Medium-sized light, warm, rosy-pink glitter with a tiny, random amount of holographic glitter in a clear base.  Eh... I have a lot of pink glitters that are almost this exact same color and nothing about this makes it stand out from the crowd.  It's pretty, but it's not unique.

 

Sephora by OPI Self Maid Millionaire.  Light golden bronze foil.  Another color that's not really unique, but still pretty.  I love a good foil, and this one has all the shininess and gritty-looking sparkle that makes foils so eye-catching. 

Sephora by OPI Rags to Rhinestones.  Light yellow-toned gold glitter in a clear base.  I feel like this one is a waste.  These types of sheer/sparsely packed gold glitters are a dime a dozen.  They could have filled the sixth slot in the collection with something more interesting and less easily duplicated, though I suppose it is good for layering with the other shades.  Bit of a disappointment. 

 

Since these are mini polishes, I thought it might be useful to give a size comparison with a full-sized Sephora by OPI polish.  Sephora by OPI minis are quite small; the ones in this kit are only one eighth of an ounce, while a full-sized bottle is a half ounce.

The formula on these was good.  Thin and smooth on the shimmer shades, a little thicker on the glitters.  Easy application, good brush, no problems at all.  I did three coats of each polish in these pictures and all but Rags to Rhinestones were opaque in three.  That one's probably best left for layering.  Dry time was average.

While I think this set as a whole is very cute (nice collectable packaging), and the colors fit the Cinderella theme perfectly, I don't think the polishes themselves are terribly interesting.  So Totally Enchanted is the only unique color in the set. It's my favorite one, closely followed by I Blue My Curfew.  Disney collectors will probably want this set regardless, and it's just under $25 for the whole set, so it's not going to put much of a dent in your wallet.  Still, I wish that they had made the colors a bit more interesting considering that it's a special, Sephora-exclusive, Disney princess-themed collection!

The Sephora by OPI A Brush With Fate set is available online now for Sephora Beauty Insiders and will be officially launching in early October.