Rainbow Honey Mystery Box

[CAPSLOCK]

You all saved my life (and by life I mean nails) when I discovered the Zoya Renew nail polish thinner and didn't ruin my polish by adding remover.  You are the best!  

I have also just learned that I should be using multiple coats of topcoat to smooth out the glitter.  I've been cursing all day because the glitter keeps snagging on things.  Awesome!

Here's my question:  favorite top coat?  Are any truly better than others?  Or are they all about the same?

 

[meaganola]

Here's my question:  favorite top coat?  Are any truly better than others?  Or are they all about the same?

For quick-dry, I like Seche Vite and the red Sally Hansen stuff.  I prefer Seche Vite, but it does cause tip shrink with a lot of polishes, so I go with the red SH top coat with the rest.  For just plain old everyday touchups, Wet'n'Wild.  The cheap stuff.  When it's on sale, I usually pick up a couple of bottles because I seem to constantly misplace it or contaminate it with glitter or polish that wasn't quite as dry as I thought it was going to be.

 

[Imberis]

You all saved my life (and by life I mean nails) when I discovered the Zoya Renew nail polish thinner and didn't ruin my polish by adding remover.  You are the best!  

I have also just learned that I should be using multiple coats of topcoat to smooth out the glitter.  I've been cursing all day because the glitter keeps snagging on things.  Awesome!

Here's my question:  favorite top coat?  Are any truly better than others?  Or are they all about the same?

My favorite top coat is Rainbow Honey's. Some topcoats shrink your nail polish after it dries (someone mentioned Julep earlier, and theirs does that to me, too), which can make your polish look weird and improperly applied. Others are too goopy for me straight out of a new bottle (OPI). Everyone seems to have a different one they prefer, so it's sort of a personal preference thing, I think.

 

[DragonChick]

Here's my question:  favorite top coat?  Are any truly better than others?  Or are they all about the same?

For super quick dry my go to that's replaced Seche is Glisten and Glow's topcoat, but I also like the RH topcoat, though for me it takes longer than G&G's topcoat to dry. G&G's also doesn't suffer from thickening towards the bottom of the bottle that Seche does, and there's no shrinkage either.

 

[kaitlin1209]

For top coat, I live by the Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat. It keeps my polish on for a looong time (although it isn't really that quick to dry.)  I wore it on vacation two years ago with Orly Bonder as the base and some Essie color as my main, and that mani stayed FLAWLESS until day 9 that I was away. 

I usually use Seche Vite for topcoat but I bring out the Revlon when I want my polish to look good for more than 3 days.

 

[biancardi]

seche vite causes my polish to peel quicker because it shrinks it so much /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />  I love the gloss, but to have my polish just peel off the next morning is not fun.

 

[Tamarin]

I used to use the Rimmel 2 in 1 base and top coat - I think it actually works well and dries quickly but I didn't like the smell. I'm a little wary of trying Seche Vite since I think it has some harsher chemicals, though I've heard lots of great things about it. The RH scented top coat dries pretty quickly, though my trick for getting a smudge free mani is cuticle oil (or really any oil).  Just brush some on after your nails are mostly dry, wait 30 s - 1 min, and then wipe off.  The reason nail polish smudges after it's dry is because it doesn't have time to harden, since there's still some solvent in there.  I think the oil gets rid of the excess solvent. Bonus: it moisturizes your cuticles.  I've also used coconut oil to do this. 

 

[onelilspark]

I got a duo of Butter London top coats - "Hardware" and "Matte."  I really like them - pricey on their own, but I got the two of them on sale for $14.  They dry super fast and are fairly chip resistant.  I find with the Rainbow Honey top coat that it dries fast and I like the scent (duh, they're scented top coats) but if I just use the RH top coat, my nails chip faster.  So what I've been doing is using the Hardware Butter London top coat first, and then a layer of RH top coat.

 

[GirlyGirlie]

The strangest thing just happened with my RH top coat. I was using one of the scented ones on top of a Color Club polish in the color " Ming". I'm not a huge fan of CC polishes, but this is the closest to the true Tiffany Blue color that I could find.. 
When I put the RH top coat on top, it made the CC coats ( 2 coats) smear and get streaky. I've never used a RH top coat prior to today. 
Is the problem likely with the quality or other properties of the Color Club nail polish or with something in the RH top coat? 

If anyone knows of a really pretty Tiffany Blue ( the signature color seen on Tiffany and Company's website) that is better quality than Color Club, please let me know. I've been looking for this particular shade for years. "Ming" does match my Tiffany jewelry boxes, pouches, etc but it's a tiny bottle and now questions about the quality. Julep doesn't have one. I've bought 2 which looked very close but no dice. I also don't think Butter London has one, not absolutely sure.

I should have said that today was my first time to see or use a RH scented top coat.. and it behaved differently from what I am used to. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[Tamarin]

The strangest thing just happened with my RH top coat. I was using one of the scented ones on top of a Color Club polish in the color " Ming". I'm not a huge fan of CC polishes, but this is the closest to the true Tiffany Blue color that I could find.. 

When I put the RH top coat on top, it made the CC coats ( 2 coats) smear and get streaky. I've never used a RH top coat prior to today. 

Is the problem likely with the quality or other properties of the Color Club nail polish or with something in the RH top coat? 

If anyone knows of a really pretty Tiffany Blue ( the signature color seen on Tiffany and Company's website) that is better quality than Color Club, please let me know. I've been looking for this particular shade for years. "Ming" does match my Tiffany jewelry boxes, pouches, etc but it's a tiny bottle and now questions about the quality. Julep doesn't have one. I've bought 2 which looked very close but no dice. I also don't think Butter London has one, not absolutely sure.

I've only tried the RH topcoat with RH and covergirl polishes, but it was fine both times.  Essie has some colors that look similar to tiffany blue.

 

[Kelly Silva]

When I put the RH top coat on top, it made the CC coats ( 2 coats) smear and get streaky. I've never used a RH top coat prior to today. 

Is the problem likely with the quality or other properties of the Color Club nail polish or with something in the RH top coat? 

Sounds like the CC wasn't completely dry yet.

And hey, can we keep the general polish questions in the appropriate section of the forums? This thread is specifically for Rainbow Honey and there are lots of other places to ask about top coats. I just don't want to feel like I'm skipping over your posts because I'm trying to get to the Rainbow Honey stuff!  /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

And speaking of Rainbow Honey, I finally opened my mystery bag today! I really like the Royal Fruits scent, it smells like a fruit salad to me!

 

[meaganola]

I just posted this in the indie polish thread, but I got my Pink Lemonade today, and it was not all PINKPINKPINK like most of the glitter toppers we've been receiving in the mystery bags!  It has pink hearts and circles, but they're scattered, and there are more yellow (two sizes!) and peach circles than pink.  And then there's the fine pink iridescence.  I dig it.  Now I just need to figure out what to put under it and for the weather to cool down!  It's so humid that my base coat won't dry, and that's just a recipe for disaster.  If I change my nails before Wednesday, I'm going to have to go with wraps because of this.  (It's only supposed to get up to 73 on Wednesday, which is what it was today when I left for work at 6am.)

Also, in Summer Mixtape news, I think I need a full-sized bottle of Shark Attack.  It has a small but definitely noticable amount of red glitter!  BLOOD IN THE WATER!  And maybe Night Sky and Lanterns because sparkly.  Or maybe just Lanterns.  I'm going to have to see what my paycheck looks like this week with the OT from last week before I can decide.

 

[GirlyGirlie]

Sounds like the CC wasn't completely dry yet.

And hey, can we keep the general polish questions in the appropriate section of the forums? This thread is specifically for Rainbow Honey and there are lots of other places to ask about top coats. I just don't want to feel like I'm skipping over your posts because I'm trying to get to the Rainbow Honey stuff!  /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

And speaking of Rainbow Honey, I finally opened my mystery bag today! I really like the Royal Fruits scent, it smells like a fruit salad to me!

Hey I'm so sorry but the Rainbow Honey top coat polish was the only product which was new to me this month. It wasn't a general top coat question, it was about the Rainbow Honey top coat I received today. It did different things to my polish than others have /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Smells really lovely. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

I LOVE all the Rainbow Honey scents...I got 3 new ones today along with 6 polishes. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> 

Having a blast with their confetti polishes. I hope you are too, Kelly. I loved both my bags a lot!!

 

[Kelly Silva]

Hey I'm so sorry but the Rainbow Honey top coat polish was the only product which was new to me this month. It wasn't a general top coat question, it was about the Rainbow Honey top coat I received today. It did different things to my polish than others have /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Smells really lovely. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

I LOVE all the Rainbow Honey scents...I got 3 new ones today along with 6 polishes. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> 

Having a blast with their confetti polishes. I hope you are too, Kelly. I loved both my bags a lot!!

It sounded like a general favorite top coat question to me and people answered as such. Sorry, I just see that question more times than I care to count in a Facebook Julep Swap group, and would just prefer this thread to stick to Rainbow Honey. I have said before that I like the Rainbow Honey top coat, and there are lots of scents, or unscented to choose from. I was referring to this question here:

Here's my question:  favorite top coat?  Are any truly better than others?  Or are they all about the same?

I must have missed if you asked this @@GirlyGirlie, but if you did I wasn't referring to yours  /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[GirlyGirlie]

It sounded like a general favorite top coat question to me and people answered as such. Sorry, I just see that question more times than I care to count in a Facebook Julep Swap group, and would just prefer this thread to stick to Rainbow Honey. I have said before that I like the Rainbow Honey top coat, and there are lots of scents, or unscented to choose from. I was referring to this question here:

I must have missed if you asked this @@GirlyGirlie, but if you did I wasn't referring to yours  /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

No, actually I failed to say that the Rainbow Honey came today and was my first one and that it was different in how it affected my ( probably cheap) polish that I used underneath. 

I wanted to clarify that it was a new product for me and I went back and added the same notation to my post so it would not seem to be O/T.

I respect your judgement.I've never asked any questions about top coats or base coats.. I did ask how to remove the RH polishes and I bought a Julep kit " Party's Over", and have it here. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />  I was trying to explain that the top coat took my color coat off, was all. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> I think it was due to the qualities of the Color Club base coat. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[CAPSLOCK]

For me, I don't go to lots of Facebook forums or really any other forums at all. I have a growing collection of polish and am still learning how to use it all. If asking here how to improve my experience with RH is not acceptable,I don't know what to do. I can't find other polish threads here on MUT, which I'm certain is interface learning curve stuff. In lots of other threads here, it turns into "cute dog, here's my kitty" or whatever, but it can skip over a few posts. I thought that in a thread about polish, where a top coat was just sent, asking what top coats worked was a good question. For me, this top coat is not working out but I want to be a nail polish wearer. I am not an expert on polishes or on forums. I guess it was also uncool how to ask about thinning my minis since the rapidly thickening minis was a problem being discussed. I didn't show cute kids pics which would have been random, and I'm just trying to figure out a beauty area that I am becoming interested in. I can't use this polish without finding a good base coat (check) how to thin my polish (check) how to remove glitters (check) or what top coat to use (in progress). To me, these are all discussions that belong here, and I am thrilled that several people took the time to answer me, and that I have a few purchases I am making to try some new things.

 

[SOSRedAlertSOS]

Everyone, let's just get back on topic please. Any chit chat about other brands can be made into a new thread if necessary. This thread is dedicated to Rainbow Honey, let's keep it that way.

 

[Kelly Silva]

I finally got a chance to compare some shades we've seen in the mystery bags. And as we've noticed, there's a crap ton of pink.

Cameo 18 - April bag

Stellar Treat - April bag

Rose Macaron - June bag

Neon Blossom - May bag

Pikake - June bag

Ichigo - June bag, ignore my half empty dried up bottle, I have a full size replacement

Chemical Plant - July bag

Modern Hearts - August bag

And a closer comparison of Neon Blossom and Modern Hearts. Sorry no swatches, I'm out of swatch sticks.

 

[Tamarin]

yeah this is one of the reasons I haven't gotten the mystery bag in a while - pink is my least favorite color and there's always at least 1 pink  polish...RH why you no show love to blue, green, purple, etc  /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[meaganola]

Yow, now that I'm counting, that's more than half of the polishes they've sent out! Perhaps an email asking them to branch out into other colors for the bags might be in order. They do produce enough other kinds of colors to be able to have more options!