Re-review: Nerd Lacquer Cold & Calculating

Sometimes, if I don't feel like digging through the reusable shopping bag holding most of my polishes, I like to pick a polish I reviewed a long time ago, re-do it, and feel superior over myself from January this year. Yeah, past-self-put-down five! Let's take a look at a polish I first reviewed all the way back on January 4th, Nerd Lacquer Cold & Calculating.

Cold & Calculating is a purple franken polish with a frosted purple base and a smattering of pink and silver glitter. As with a couple of other Nerd Lacquer polishes, I suspect this has been mixed with Kleancolors. I've always had issue with Kleancolors taking ages to dry and this one was no exception. Even with a Seche Vite top coat and drying drops, four nails have wrinkled, rage. I'm not really sure why I reviewed this one again - it wasn't especially impressive back in January and still isn't...

The Verdict: What a surprise, I'm better at painting my nails now than seven months ago! Cold & Calculating still isn't very exciting, although I do feel special as you can't buy it any more which really makes this post all the more pointless, but whatcha gunna do!

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