Adorned Nails: Herôme W.I.C. Mykonos

I know this looks like a white polish. It's not.

Herôme W.I.C. Mykonos is a very, very pale mint green. I expected more green on the nails but it's so subtle that it looks almost white. A disappointment, if you ask me. It has a sheer formula with shimmer and I applied four coats. I could have done a fifth, but I got tired.

Herôme, by the way, is a sister brand of KOH, with Herôme positioned as a mid-price player and KOH on the higher end. Herôme polishes retail for around €7 (different stores have different price tags) for a 7ml bottle. The W.I.C. in the name stands for World Inspired Colours.

It's commonly known that Herôme polishes thicken after a while. I've had Mykonos for many months and indeed it had thickened a fair bit.

As with my previous experience with Herôme Ottawa, Mykonos took a long time to fully dry. I did wait for at least twenty minutes between coats but still, I had a deep dent in one thumb three hours later. And just like Ottawa, when it's really fully dry, it's pretty hardy.

I'm not a fan of white polishes. I bought this only because I wanted a pale mint green polish. Mykonos the polish turned out to be so plain. It needed some stamping. So, I chose the bamboo design from the KONAD plate M66 and used the green of Etude House Petite Darling GR603.

I like the delicate design of the bamboo on the nails.

The other polishes mentioned:
Herôme Ottawa
Etude House Petite Darling GR603

Adorned Nails: Etude House Petite Darling GR603

I believe the official name for this polish is Etude House Petite Darling Nails HD Beam GR603.

[catches breath]

Oddly, that already mouthful name does not include a non-digit name for this green (not that I could find anyway). Unfortunately, I can't read Korean, so I can't tell what's written on the label. I did some checking on the internet and this is supposed to be a 7ml bottle.

This is another one of those polishes that I got last year while on holiday. Just like Skin Food that I talked about some months back, Etude House is a Korean brand. Just like Majolica Majorca (not Korean, but Japanese), it's got a koochi-koochi cute brand image.

The brand plays on our little girl fantasy of being princesses. In their own words: Etude House resembles a princess's private room; a romantic interior full of ornate trinkets imagined and inspired by her dreams. Their white and pink stores ooze sticky sweetness. Even their sales assistants are dressed like little girls.

Hmm, right. I won't kid myself here. I was born too early to fit into Etude House's target market, but hey, who cares. I zoomed in on their nail polishes all the same. GR603 is a dark green leaning slightly towards blue and is dense with beautiful shimmers. The formula was on the thin side, but application was superb. You are looking at three coats here.

I think the Petite Darling nail polish range has been discontinued as I don't see them on Etude House's website. Pity, as I love this polish. Instead there are now Dear Darling nail polishes housed in slightly re-designed but still curvy bottles.

Check out the Etude House website for its current range of nail polishes.

Posts of interest:
Skin Food Nail Vita VI408 Violet Stone
Majolica Majorca