MAC Bad Fairy and Accessorize Pink Spice Comparison

There's been a lot of mutterings in the np world about possible dupes for the much sought after Bad Fairy from MAC's Venomous Villans collection.

As I was lucky enough to score a bottle at the airport and then got my hands on some Accessorize polishes from their online store I thought I'd do a comparison.

First up, ignore horrible state of my hands/cuticles. One day I will remember to apply handcream *before* taking the pics :-) And ignore the fluff (where does it come from?)

All of these pics are 3 coats of each plus seche vite top coat

Pointer & ring finger are BF, index and pinkie are Pink Spice


















Sorry for so many pics but I wanted to show the polishes in different lights and from different angles.

In terms of application they were very similar, very sheer and uneven on the first coat and then the colour builds. If anything the Accessorize brush was better, my MAC brush was a bit fat and splayed at the end. Similar drying times too. The MAC brush was easier to hold though, the Accessorize one is like a fat stubby nails inc brush.

I can see the difference between the two, but most people, certainly what Liz Hurley would call the 'civilians' of the nail polish world, won't be able to tell!

So, in conclusion, for me they're not *exact* dupes, Bad Fairy has slightly more bling, like the sparkle/foil particles are slight bigger and in certain lights you can see the copper duochrome more in Bad Fairy.

But Pink Spice is a very close sibling and for the UK gals (and the limited countries that the Accessorize website will ship to) I think it's a damn fine alternative.

Airport Haul

These are the ones I couldn't fit in my Germany Haul post.

This is a MissGuided polish that they were giving away with Cosmopolitan. I'm slightly too old for Cosmo now but who can resist free polish!



I think this was the best of the 3 available - cue frantic searching through all the copies in WH Smith! IIRC the other 2 were a pale pink creme and a bright red?


Closeup to show the sparkles

And look what they had in the MAC shop @ T5!!



I wandered over to ask about polish stock, fully expecting them to laugh in my face, but the SA to my surprise said they had Bad Fairy in stock! So, reader, how could I resist? I bought some. Oddly the other 2 in the collection were out of stock. This is actually my very first MAC polish!