Yup, it's absolutely that time. Prior to Claudia's unveiling, there were many concerns that it would resemble an existing Julep polish: Shoshanna. Even though Shoshanna is described as a "Full-coverage yellow holographic glitter", when it was released many felt it leaned green more than true yellow. I was among them. Still a beautiful polish, but one of those you couldn't quite put into a set colour category. Well, I did a comparison. A full blown comparison. First, the evidence for both arguments and at the end I'll give a breakdown of how they are either the same, or different. Enjoy! IT'S SHOWDOWN TIME!We'll start off easy, and use images taken directly from the respective polish's official Julep store page. Are we dupe-ready yet? Let's see what my pictures add to this. Uh oh! It's getting too close to call!What should we do? Time for the big guns: Live action polish! Final Call & Breakdown! Alright, we've seen all the evidence and it got pretty close. Ultimately? I don't think these are appropriate dupes for each other. The breakdown? Let's look at Claudia. She's in the same colour family as Shoshanna; that yellow/green/gold group. While she leans gold, true, next to Shoshanna especially she is clearly much more at home with the greens than the yellows. Claudia's holographic specks I mentioned Here are beautiful and sparkly, but Shoshanna's holographic intensity is much much MUCH more defined. As is typical for holo polishes it was hard to capture her true spectrum, but the video helped us see that, thankfully. Claudia's glitter is much more fine, and creates a smoother finish than Shoshanna's larger glitter that has a tendency to overlap itself with more coats. In a single coat, as shown on the clear swatch stick handle, Claudia offers more coverage by far with her smaller glitter. It's ultimately this smaller glitter, however, that makes her holographic bits less noticeable beside Shoshanna. In summary...
What do you guys think? Am I right in the final judgement? Or is it too close to call? Let me know, comment below with your own thoughts!
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Megan
8/7/2014 08:39:35 am
I totally think you should do a nail side-by-side! That'll be the final test. :)
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