Sinful Colors Matte Top Coat Review, Swatches, Comparison

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Sinful Colors Matte Top Coat

As I posted, I recently found a display with a new Sinful Colors matte top coat (which sells for $1.99, the same price as the other Sinful Colors polishes).  I’ve tested it out, and I have a review and some comparison swatches for you!  In the photo below, I have two coats of Nails, Inc. Black Taxi (a shiny black creme) on all four fingers, and then my index and ring finger each have one coat of the matte top coat.   There’s not really much to say about it; it certainly works!

Sinful Colors Matte Top Coat

I only own one other matte top coat – NYC’s Matte Me Crazy top coat, which is also $1.99.  For the following photo, I left the two Sinful Colors nails alone, and painted the two glossy nails with one coat of the NYC topcoat.

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Sinful Colors and NYC matte top coat comparison

Please let me know if you can detect a difference – because I definitely couldn’t; the finish was identical.  The consistency of both polishes was identical as well – just slightly thicker than I’d prefer, but easy enough to work with.

I’ve heard that the NYC Matte Me Crazy is less matte / more satin as compared to some other topcoats (like the Essie Matte About You), but I couldn’t find a clear comparison of the two.  If you own multiple matte topcoats, please let me know in the comments whether you can tell them apart!

 

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  • Icequeen81

    on the naked eye it looks exactly the same, but you need to see which one is gonna start chipping first and there you will see the difference

  • Becca @ The Beauty Sample

    I haven’t ever tried a matte topcoat before but recently, I saw an amazing mani online done with a matte topcoat and now I really want one! These seem good, especially for the price! They seem identical to me as well, though it appears that the Sinful Colors one is just a tiny bit more smooth-looking!

  • hh

    I have the Essie matte topcoat, which I loved at first, but the bottle has gotten old and has turned into a dandruff topcoat. Looks fine when it’s wet, but now dries to a matte finish covered in little white flakes. So I’m definitely interested in checking out a $2 replacement!

  • If I can find this some where I will be picking this up. I keep seeing the matte polish with gloss tips combo and I want to do it too!

  • I’d love to know about the results of your comparison!