Wet n Wild Fastdry Nail Color Collection (Part One)

Continuing with Wet n Wild Week here at Nouveau Cheap, today I'd like to show you nine of the 18 new shades in the brand new Fastdry Nail Color collection! Today I'll be showing you the blues/greens/silvers and later in the week I'll show you the reds/yellows/oranges/pinks/purples.

As with the new 8-pan palettes, there are some awesome dupes in this collection and I've tried to identify as many as I can right off the top of my head. But of course if you spot any other dupes, I'd love to hear about them in the comments!

I just LOVE the tv-themed names in this collection. They are so fun! Let's get started:

Wet n Wild Fastdry Nail Color Collection

(retail: $1.99 each, 0.46 oz)

I want to apologize for the state of my fingers and cuticles because I did these swatches all in one sitting so my skin really took a beating with all that acetone!

You can enlarge and then magnify each collage for a much better look at these shades.

Gray's Anatomy

(three coats, no top coat)

The moment I applied Gray's Anatomy I thought: "This is like a softer, stripped down version of Orly Space Cadet!" In other words, it doesn't have the glass flecks/foil/whatever other magical things are floating around in Space Cadet, but it's got that same multichrome appeal, only just with a soft, heather-gray base. It's got the purple and green flashes like Space Cadet but, to me, this is a Safe For Work version. It's so much prettier in person, too.

Blue Want To Be A Millionaire

(three coats, no top coat)

Hello, Milani Cyberspace dupe! Whoo hoo! I pulled out my bottle of Cyberspace (which as you know just won my Cheapie Award for best drugstore nail color) to compare them and Blue Wants To Be A Millionaire is more blue while Cyberspace has a bit more silver to it. Also, the holo particles are a bit more fine in the Wet n Wild version. The formula was a little bit thick on this one, but definitely not impossible to work with. I just love it, but then you know I'm a sucker for light blues (and holo).

Teal of Fortune

(two coats, no top coat)

I don't even want you to look at these pictures. Why? Because they DO NOT do this color justice in the slightest. This is a Zoya Charla/OPI Catch Me In Your Net/Orly Halley's Comet dupe and in real life is it 1,000,000 times more gorgeous than what you see in these pics. My camera can't pick up the true sparkle in this formula, but trust me when I say that the little glitter particles of teal and gold make this shade dance on the nails. I don't own any of the three shades I listed but from what I can tell, Teal of Fortune's base is more of a true Mediterranean blue, while the base of the others leans more teal. Also, I think that Teal of Fortune's glitter may be a tad less dense. I'll be very curious to see the side-by-side comparisons that I'm sure some of my favorite nail bloggers will do (please, please do!) to truly see how close this is to those other shades.

Tip: To avoid "smurf hands" use a good base coat and pure acetone to remove this one. It is very pigmented and the blue might stain your fingers a little bit otherwise.

And because I'm such a polish freak, I HAVE to show you what Teal of Fortune looks like layered over Ebony Hates Chris. This combo is H.O.T.!

Ebony Hates Chris

(two coats, no top coat)

If you're looking for a non-streaky, true, deep black with absolutely no blue undertones, this one's for you. I found it a breeze to apply and I would also like to take a moment to comment on the brushes in this new line. They are not the super flat, wide brushes that are all the rage right now (hello Sally Hansen), but they are a little flat, and have a slightly curved tip. I LOVE these brushes and, for me, they make for an extremely easy application. If you look at the pics above, I did not require ANY clean-up after I painted my nails. This is exactly how my nails looked the second I was done painting them.

Sage in the City

(three coats, no top coat)

This is a lovely green with fine gold shimmer and my pics do not do it justice. I know that we see lime greens all over the place these days, but this one really appeals to me because I feel that it's got a deepness and richness to it that other lime greens sometimes lack. You know how sometimes lime green polishes just look flat? Not this one.

Silvivor

(two coats, no top coat)

This is a pretty standard silver metallic foil, but I do love that it doesn't leave crazy brush stroke marks on my nails. These pics were my final round of swatches in a looooong night of swatching. I was tired and delirious when I painted my nails for these photos, and they still look pretty awesome. So if you are lacking a silver metallic foil in your collection, this would be a nice one to get.

SaGreena the Teenage Witch

(three coats, no top coat)

Move over, Sinful Colors San Francisco! My favorite "Christmas green" has just been replaced! SaGreena the Teenage Witch does not have the blue undertone that San Francisco has, and I also found that it's a lot less streaky. I think that a lot of greens require more than two coats for good opacity, so I wasn't surprised I needed three for what you see in these pics. BUT, unlike San Francisco, which can still look a tiny bit streaky after three coats, this one was perfect. It just makes me happy to look at this color.

Saved by the Blue

(two coats, no top coat)

This one's like Revlon Royal only with shimmer and not streaky at all! If you like bright, electric royal blues, you'll probably love this one. To me, Saved by the Blue doesn't veer into the "blurple" realm at all. It stays true blue on my nails, which I tried to capture by doing a little bit of post-editing (which is why my fingers look so red). I really wanted you to see how vibrant this shade is, and I think these pics capture it.

Teal or No Teal

(three coats, no top coat)

My camera hates blues. So let me tell you right off the bat, the true shade of Teal or No Teal is somewhere between these two pictures. It's not as yellow as the top picture, and it's not as blue as the bottom picture. It's actually a soft, mermaid-y type of teal and as far as teals go, this might be one of my all-time faves. I love the soft, golden almost duochrome shimmer to it that you can only really see when the light catches it just so. So so pretty, this one.

Without official side-by-side swatch confirmation, we possibly have a Milani dupe, two Orly dupes, an OPI dupe, and a Zoya dupe so far! Not bad at all, considering these new Wet n Wild polishes will only set you back a cool $1.99 each!

Thanks for reading, and please stay tuned for Part Two of the Fastdry Nail Color collection later in the week (my cuticles need some time to recover!).

In the meantime, what do you think of this collection so far? Any must-haves here? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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