Is LA Colors Jewel Tone a dupe for Models Own Disco Mix?

Disco Mix is probably one of my favourite glitter polishes of all time.  It is nearly always on my toes and it seldom chips.  As a result of this, I am nearly half way through my bottle.  I was planning on buying it again when Models Own had their sale this year but one thing lead to another and I forgot.

Regular readers know that a trip to Westfield with me is never complete without me having a good old staredown with the LA Colors stand in Beauty Base.  On my last trip there, I found Jewel Tone.  This polish immediately caught my eye as it looked very similar to Models Own Disco Mix.

In their bottles, they look similar, the only difference I see is that Disco Mix has more pink in it than Jewel Tone does.  The density with which the glitter is packed in is also something that becomes obvious. I find that you can get total nail covereage with two coats when using Disco Mix but with Jewel Tone, you need about three or four.

L.A. Colors Top Coat

One of my biggest problems with nail polish is that it never lasts on my toenails.  I bite my (finger) nails so toes are the only thing I can really paint.  I only paint them when wearing peep toe shoes/flip flops or if my toes will be on show.

The nail polish begins chipping after the first wear of a pair of shoes and that used to frustrate me no end.  You know what I mean.  You paint your toes, wear shoes..taken them off and BAM!! Chip central..and not the good kind of chips either.  Those I could live with.

I bought the LA Colors Top Coat from..you guessed it, Beauty Base yet again although this time I was on my own so was free to browse for as long as I wanted.

I only got it out a few weeks ago as I thought Summer had arrived and that it was time to get my feet out.

For those of you with a foot fetish, I'll let you know now that my feet will never grace this blog so you might want to look somewhere else for your fix of brown trotters.

I can't vouch for how long/well this lasts on your fingers because I don't paint them.  However, I do have toenail news and views.  I applied it on a Saturday afternoon, traipsed around Western International market on a rainy Sunday, kept my feet in court shoes all week and my polish didn't chip at all.  I even had a 45 minute soak and my polish didn't slide off.

I thought that top coats would be thick and gloopy but this is really nice to apply.  You do need to let your polish dry before you put this on but you don't need much of it to cover a nail.  It spreads really well and it does dry quickly.  And you don't get streaks which is always a plus.

It doesn't have the typical nail polish smell to it but I can't say if that's what all top coats smell like as this is the first one I've used.

Here's what it looks like over polish, you can't really see a difference but then you're not really meant to, are you?

You can't ask for much more, especially considering it was only 99p! 

NOTD: LA Colors Tropical Breeze aka my Jo'Mina dupe..

I was in Beauty Base in Westfields (ages ago now) and my glamourous assistant Simon was getting pissed off because I couldn't decide which polishes I wanted.  It wasn't MY fault they didn't have the nice pistachio green I was looking for..

I came away clutching another LA Colors polish, this time the object of affection was Tropical Breeze.  A lovely purple number..

I was a bit saddened that one coat was SUPER thin (as you can see in the photo) but it built up nicely when I was on three coats.  It was not at all streaky although the brush does pick up a fair bit of polish so you have to get rid of the excess.

I find that LA Colors polishes behave differently depending on whether the colour is light or dark.  My darker ones (Wired, Jungle Fever and Circuits) don't apply as thin as this so one coat gives you the colour you see in the bottle.  That's not a problem them and for the grand sum of £1, I'm more than impressed with them..

I didn't even THINK this could be a dupe for Jo'Mina when I picked it up..it was just the nicest light colour they had.  I wore it for a week or so and the ladies at an Illamasqua concession were quite surprised when I told them it wasn't the infamous Jo'Mina..

Anyone else tried any LA Colors nail polishes?  Does this look like a dupe or is it way off?