Summer 2017 Comparisons - China Glaze I Sea Ponies (My Little Pony)

From left to right: Message in a Bottle (Message in a Bottle, Spring 2017), Angie (Paradise, April 2015), What’s Your Sign? (Halo Hues, Spring 2015), Alicia (Urban Grunge, Autumn 2016), I Sea Ponies, DS Coronation (2008), Mirrorball (Sparkle, Holiday 2014), Galactic Gray (Hologlam, Spring 2013)

I Sea Ponies is pretty dead-on with DS Coronation. I Sea Ponies has finer glitter but you don’t need both. Alicia has a strong gold shimmer in it and everything else is completely different.

Spring 2017 Comparisons - Deborah Lippmann Message in a Bottle (Message in a Bottle)

From left to right: Carrie Ann (Light and Shadow, November 2016), Message in a Bottle, What’s Your Sign? (Halo Hues 2015, Summer 2015), DS Opulence (2008 Designer Series), DS Classic (2008 Designer Series)

Carrie Ann is a similar color, just more beige. The holo is also stronger, but in most lighting it just looks golden. Message in a Bottle is pinker and a subtler, more scattered holo. Given how much of a bubble nightmare Carrie Ann was, even though it’s cheaper I can’t in good faith recommend it to you. Let’s hope Message in a Bottle isn’t the bubbly mess Carrie Ann was! What’s Your Sign is more silvery and has a way stronger and more linear holo.