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$4 Petites Color Fever Nail Polishes: Another Reason to Love Rite Aid (and Drugstores in General)

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Written by OIga

Let’s meet Olga of MakeUpAcademia at Rite Aid this afternoon so we can shop for new colors for our nails. She recommends a bangin’ budget line to try in today’s guest post.

$4 petites Color Fever Nail Polishes

After trying and being put off by a few drugstore nail polish brands before (including the regular Petites line), I’ve been sticking to my Sephora by OPI’s. Luckily, however, one day while I was browsing my local Rite Aid beauty section (is there anyone else who finds that therapeutic?), a small bottle of pretty grayish taupe polish caught my eye. It turned out to be a higher end Petites line called Color Fever.

I’ve purchased two Color Fever polishes so far — Periwinkle (525) and Vintage Gray (519) — but if I was not trying to cut down on my makeup expenses, I would have bought a lot more. 🙂

There are some very interesting colors in the line (although many of them are hard to find in stores), and in terms of quality both of the polishes I own are on a par with OPI. For the sake of comparison, the brush is slightly narrower and shorter than that of the brush that comes with a bottle of Sephora by OPI.

These are creamy opaque shades that go on beautifully and last a decent amount of time (up to a week with a top coat).

The Petites Color Fever polishes are more expensive than an average drugstore polish ($3.99 for 0.25 oz, but that’s versus close to $9 for 0.5 oz for Sephora by OPI), but I would still prefer these over OPI polishes — really, how often do we use up even half of a full-sized nail polish before it dries?

PRICE: $3.99
AVAILABILITY: Rite Aid
RATING: 10/10 overall

Olga of Beauty on and out of MakeUpAcademia

Written by OIga

This post was written by Olga from MakeUpAcademia, originally from Russia, but currently a graduate student in Baltimore, MD. She is passionate about physics equations, beauty and skincare products, travel photography and her cat Saathi.

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    • Aww thats too bad, Appu! 🙁 They might have these at Walmart too (I am pretty sure I’ve seen the regular Petites line there, so they might carry Color Fever as well)

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  8. Nice! the colors seem concentrated and evenly distributed on the nail, which is what most drugstore nail polishes lack in my opinion. I’ll have to check walmart…. And yes, I am that one customer who intentionally goes to the drugstore with bare nails for optimal color testing haha!

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  9. The worst is when your drug/grocery store starts selling OPI polishes. It’s been terrible hard resisting, but I’ve only bought one so far. :B

    These Petites sound very interesting, I’ll have to keep an eye out for them next time I stop by Rite Aid or something. I luuurve that grey shade.

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  12. I love this brand. Color 510 is my favorite. You can get them cheaper than $3.99. I love the size of the bottle too.

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