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| Please excuse the messy cuticles in this picture. I totally forgot to clean up, but this was such a good shot of the glitter. |
No... I know what you were thinking... Why does she have spoiled ants in her pants? You silly readers, it's the name of this polish I picked up the other day! This is by Spoiled by Wet n Wild and the name is Ants In My Pants. I totally laughed out loud pretty obnoxiously when I read the name and then everyone looked at me like I was insane. I feel like people do that a lot.. Oh well! If I'm known as the crazy nail polish chick that's completely okay. I could be called something worse.
This polish is a black jelly base with red glitter. It has large and small hex glitter. It's quite a lovely combination actually. At first I wasn't sure about it, but then I carried it around with me while I looked at other things and it grew on me. I came to the conclusion that I must own this because it is pretty original. How often do you see black polish with red glitter?
But hey hey hey! Guess what! This is a dupe! To be exact, it's a dupe of Deborah Lippman's Ruby Red Slippers. I don't own any DL polishes but from other swatches online, Ants In My Pants is a serious dead on dupe. No joke, go see for yourselves. I payed $1.99 for this polish at CVS. DL polishes are usually around $18 or more. A total steal. Go get a bottle and save yourself tons of money.
The formula for this polish is really nice actually. The black jelly base is a little on the sheer side, but that's typical for a jelly. It's almost a dark grey instead of black, but with more than one coat it's black. So unless you're only going to use one coat, I would just ignore the fact that it's sheer. The glitter stays within the jelly and doesn't drag with the brush which is a super plus! I have 2 coats on in all of the pictures and I don't have top coat on. Trust me... top coat makes it a million times better! I just try not to put top coat on for swatches because I want you all to see what it's like without it. Bare naked polishes baby!! Is that a weird phrase for what I'm implying? Oh well.
Check out my video swatch below!
