Sticks 'n Stones is a copy (of sorts) of Lynnderella's Connect the Dots. Sticks 'n Stones comes in a clear base, which I like. It doesn't affect the underlying color, and the pattern comes across as very crisp. The matte glitter is larger in Sticks 'n Stones than in the other two polishes. Lush Lacquer's Salt N Peppa has a lot of colorful holo glitter large enough to show through and obscure the base color. Sprouse has very tiny holo glitter that shimmers a little, and it has larger blue glitter.
I didn't have a problem with application, and the glitters dried relatively flat and were even smoother after a coat of Seche Vite. I didn't have to fish for glitters.
My husband's favorite was the Salt N Peppa because it didn't "have all those 80's" bars and hexes. My favorites were the other two, of course, *because* they have all those 80s-look bars and hexes. In terms of getting the look of paint splatters that I like, I think the Sticks 'n Stones does it best with a little more white to it. I do like the little blue hexes in Sprouse, though.
In each of the pictures below, I have base coat, three coats of Chili, a coat of Seche Vite, about four coats of Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat, a coat of each of the glitter top coats, and a coat of Seche Vite, and I had been wearing Chili for a week with no chips and just a little tip wear and shrinkage (from the original Seche Vite but not so much shrinkage from the Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat).
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| Outdoors in the sunlight (holding my husband's phone) |
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| Top to bottom: Sprouse, Salt N Peppa, Sticks and Stones, Sprouse. I asked my husband if he could tell which two were the same, and he figured it out! |
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| Top to bottom: Sticks and Stones, Salt N Peppa, Sprouse. |
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| Sprouse, Sticks 'N Stones, Salt N Peppa |
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| Sprouse, Sticks 'N Stones, Salt N Peppa |
In these last few pictures, you can see that the glitter lies flat. There's a little piece of black bar glitter on one nail that was outside the polish area (near my cuticle, ring finger, last finger on the right in the photos), and I clipped it off easily later on.
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