Pretty Serious They Came From Beyond Space! Collection Swatches and Review

This new(-ish) collection from Aussie brand Pretty Serious Cosmetics really doesn't need an introduction.  The polishes pretty much speak for themselves.  Foily.  Sparkly.  Color-shifting.  Just... look at them.  You're gonna like 'em.


Pretty Serious Atomic Brain.  When viewed straight-on, I see a mix of warmer, redder purple and cooler, bluer purple, with little blue and red sparkles throughout.  But, tilted at an angle, the polish gets and awesome yellow, orange and green flash. 


Pretty Serious Galaxy Invader.  A turquoise and deep blue near-foil sparkle that flashes royal purple with a tiny hint of gold and red at one angle, and hints at green and teal at the opposite angle.



Pretty Serious Phantom Planet.  A light green with darker, more mossy-looking green accents from the front.  But change the angle and it flashes bright green, blue, turquoise and gold, and at the opposite angle you get a little yellow and teal and just a tiny hint of purple all the way at the edges.

The formula on these was good.  Thicker than the current standard 3-free polish texture, but not gooey or stringy or anything like that.  It goes on smooth without running or pooling and doesn't seem to clump up from the thickness.  It has an almost foamy or oily texture if that makes sense.  I used three coats here and I thought they all looked best that way.  Dry time is a little longer than average, likely due to the thickness, but applying thin coats and giving each a couple minutes to set reduces the length of drying.

A small collection but a very good one.  You know I'm a sucker for duochromes/multichromes, and these ones are quite pretty.  The finish on them is interesting.  It's not really a glitter, not really a glass fleck, too chunky to be a straight shimmer but not really as dense or reflective as most foils.  It's right in between a foil and a glass fleck, I'd say.  Shiny and speckled-looking, but not rough or chunky like glitter.  Lots of different colors mixed in when you look up close.  Plus, cool sci-fi B-movie theme.  No complaints here.

The Pretty Serious They Came From Beyond Space! Collection is available directly from Pretty Serious Cosmetics.  It's not limited edition, they ship internationally, and you can get a 10% discount on the collection if you buy all three colors at once.

(This was sent for review.)