Ulta3 - Live life to the Matte Collection

Aussie super brand Ulta3 has some new shades coming out this August, and they all feature a velvety smooth matte finish. The collection have five nail polish shades to go along with five new lipsticks and three pressed powders.

I have to say I did find the collection of five colours a little odd, a peach, two nudes, and ice blue and a dark plum. The Collection doesn't scream winter or spring, but on the up side, they did also release a matte top coat, so you can create the same velvety finish using any polishes, and at $2.30 they are still the cheapest brand available in Australia that is still a good quality.

The formula on these was actually a little tricky for me. I had to wait until each layer was totally dry before doing the next coat and I found that the polish didn't level out as smoothly as a glossy one. Usually this wouldn't matter cause I'd apply a great self leveling top coat like Seche Vite, but because I was leaving these without top coat to see the velvety finish, the unevenness annoyed me a little.

Let's look at the shades. I used two coats for all these swatches, although some of them would have looked better for these swatch photos at three coats.

Adore - a soft pastel peachy pink.

Dashing - a dark purple plum shade.

Ice ice - a very very pale ice blue

La beige - a warm mushroom beige. This one was one that showed the unevenness of the application the most.

Latte - a yellow toned nude.

The two nude shades are very similar, so I did a comparison of Latte and La Beige to show you difference. Latte is a closer match to my skin tone and is shown on my index and ring fingers. La Beige is on my middle and pinky.