Review: Jenna Hipp Nail Polish The New Brights

Jenna Hipp is a celebrity nail artist and has a line of nail polishes at Costco, AKA my favorite store! The other day while looking around I bought this set of 8 nail polishes. There were two options, New Moderns or New Brights but since it's summer I figured I'd go for the brights. Costco usually carries decent/good quality items, so I figured these polishes would be ~OPI/China Glaze quality but in smaller bottles and in a large pack.

I was immediately drawn to the pale mint color, and after reading the name I thought it would be love. 

We Are Mint To Be, oh if only.

Unfortunately, though it looks great in the bottle it has terrible application.

2 coats of "We Are Mint to Be" over opaque white nails.

This was it 2 coats later on top of an opaque layer of white. I tried it on a bare nail and immediately removed it because it cannot stand alone.

This was a beast trying to paint dear god. The polish was very goopy and didn't like being spread/painted, plus it applied extremely patchily and wasn't very opaque at all. It was difficult getting a regular layer on and getting a thin layer was completely out of the question, since the brush just left uneven streaks when I tried. It also wasn't fast drying like the box claimed.

In better light you can see how badly the polish applied. The pinky was okay because I basically used one glop and one stroke for the entire nail, but with the pointer finger especially you can see the it just didn't apply smoothly. And when trying to apply on bare nails it looked terrible. The brush wasn't very pleasant, it was rougher and more uneven than Sally Hansen and even comparable Wet N Wild nail polish brushes, except the polish itself was somehow lower quality than $1 Wet N Wild polish. The pack itself was pretty cheap, costing a little over $1 per 5 mL bottle, but I would rather buy 1 or 2 bottles of higher quality polish than this pack of subpar paint. Heck I'd rather get Wet N Wild or Revlon. I would have tested some of the other colors to see if the quality was the same for the other polishes but I plan on returning this and didn't want to waste more than I already had, and after a bit of research I saw that Jenna Hip's creme nail polishes (which all of these are) do not have good formulas. If only I had known that before buying and applying. 

Are there any brands of nail polish you especially adore? I usually don't paint my nails too often but when I do I usually reach for the bottles my nail shop owning aunties gave me, which are China Glaze.