Nails Inc & Diet Coke

If you have been living under a rock, you will be unaware that Nails Inc has collaborated with Diet Coke once again and released four beautiful hues of nail polish. Nails Inc polishes usually retail for around £11, but all you have to do to get your mitts on one of these bad boys, is buy two bottles of Diet Coke from Boots. Bargain!

I got sent these a few weeks ago, along with a customising kit (for my bottle of Diet Coke) in order to enter a competition, so thought it was about time I unveiled my design and showed you my swatches. However, I erm... Well, I smashed my bottle of Diet Coke. I was clearing up after my jazzing up sesh and knocked it off the table. Whoops! It was fab too, it had lollipops and hearts on it, with diamantes and gems. Such a waste. So, until I buy myself a new bottle of Diet Coke, it's only going to be swatches I'm showing you today. The four shades released this time are Caramel, Heather Grey, Denim and Plum.

I personally think Nails Inc polishes can be a bit hit and miss - sometimes you will get a really lovely colour with a dreamy formula that is a breeze to apply. Other times you will get a gloopy formula, a streaky formula, or a really thin and runny formula that makes application a nightmare with ugly nails to boot. I am super impressed with these though. I've tried them a number of times now and am always pleased with how easily they go on; no streaks and really opaque, which means you don't necessarily need another coat. I think that the colour palette works fabulously together and the names of the colours are a good representation of what is in the bottle, except Plum.

Plum is a really misleading name for this polish. I expected a really sumptious and velvety deep purple but instead I got a deep raspberry red shade. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful colour, but it is reminiscent of Barry M's Raspberry, which means that it is neither original nor unique. It's just a deep red that is available within most brands and price brackets. Still, for £2 odd you can't reply complain. Though, it does have plum undertones in my pictures. Maybe I'm being too harsh?

Heather Grey is just lovely. It looks like it has a lot of pink undertones in the bottle, but it is definitely a grey-lilac. This is probably my favourite shade out of the four I was sent. I really like the grey-lilac shades that have been available recently, but I usually find them to be to much of one colour. This one is spot on in my opinion, just enough of each to make it original and still pretty.

Caramel is... well, it's caramel really. It's darker beige than nude and the colour deepens further with each coat, but still looks really elegant and made my fingers look really long. This one lasted the longest without chipping, but that could be because I applied 3 coats to make it darker.

Denim is just fab. I don't own many blue nail polishes and the ones that I do are nothing like this. I'm often wary of wearing blue nail polish - I prefer warmer shades to be honest, but this is gorgeous. Not deep enough to be navy but not bright enough to be electric... Demin is the perfect way to describe it, like your favourite pair of darkwash jeans.

I didn't have a problem with the longevity of any of these colours. They did start chipping between 3 and 5 days but that is the norm for me anyway as my application technique is appalling! So overall I am really impressed with these polishes. These are definitely the better of Nails Inc shades and formulas and if they continue making them with this formula, they can't really go wrong.

Have you checked these polishes out yet? If not, why not?! They're a bargain! Also, stay tuned to see my creativity for my competition entry. Better late than never, eh?

xoxo