Wednesday, May 29, 2013

ABC Challenge U is for Petites Utopia

Hello lovely ladies! Today we are making our way towards the end of the ABC Challenge (oh no!) and we are on letter U. I think that I only have a couple U polishes in my collection and this one was untried so I decided to go for this.

This beauty is Petites Utopia. Petites is a brand sold (exclusively, I think) at Rite Aid. The bottles are super tiny and they are definitely something that most people would walk right by. I did so many times and somehow this one came home with me one time. 6 months (?!) passed and I never tried it. No idea why I waited so long, because this is beautiful.

Utopia is a teal glass fleck in a jelly base. This was 4 coats and still tons of nail line visible, which I felt was disappointing.




This isn't doing it for you, right? Well it certainly wasn't doing it for me either. So I decided to layer it over black and this happened.


What we couldn't see when this wasn't layered over black was that this was one heck of a multichrome polish! This goes from teal to cobalt blue to purple. It reminds me of a something a mermaid would wear. I love this so much. Seriously, I would have never guessed that this random polish from Rite Aid might end up being one of my favorites of the year!

What do you guys think of this? I think you need it in your life, especially if you have a duochrome obsession! 

Be sure to check out all the U manis! 

xo Elle

**all products in this post were purchased by me**

12 comments:

  1. Much much better over black. Nice save!

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  2. I had never heard of this brand but that polish layered over black is gorgeous!

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  3. OMG!!! I love this kind of polish!!!! And now I need to make an emergency trip to Rite-Aid!! I liked it by itself, but on the black? Incredible!!!

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  4. Good call on the layering! I love it when that happens!

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  5. I like it better over the black! Amazing how layering a polish and change how it looks so drastically! Very pretty polish!

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  6. Gosh, this is super pretty! Love it!!

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  7. Wow! it was nice on its own, but under the black it just pops! Awesome!!

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  8. I love that over black! Just goes to show you that drugstore brands can have some amazing surprises for you. I have to say that by itself it was still a very pretty teal color.

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  9. It looks simply great over a black base!!!!

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  10. I thought it was two different polishes! WOW it's su much nicer over black! :D

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  11. This is absolutely breathtaking over black! Awesome job!

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  12. Gorgeous! I was looking at the first photos and thinking to myself that this would look great over black LOL and sure enough it really did :D

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I would love to hear what you think! <3