The Formula X City Chic Clix! Travel Set ($25 USD) is 6 polishes in a compact, travel-friendly package. Sephora always does these adorable little polish sets for the holidays, so let me break it down for you...
The packaging is deceiving. I don't think it's travel friendly, personally. Where is the top coat and the base coat? I think a set like the XCEL System to Go is more practical because instead of including all the colours it includes everything you need for a manicure on the go. Perhaps the set would be a bit more travel friendly if it included a base and top coat + 4 colours, instead of 6 colours total.
The colour selection is good and bad. Good because the colours are cute and bad because there's quite a few repeats from last year's holiday collection. Dark Matter (black) seems to always make an appearance in holiday sets. If your friend likes nail polish, he/she probably already has a good black in their collection. Same goes for a deep red like Ignite. The rest of the colours, I'm into. I went through the entire bottle of last year's Thrilling, Elite is the perfect everyday brown, Fine Like Einstein is a fun glitter and Blazing is a more exciting take on a dark red.
Formula X Thrilling (pastel grey, limited edition)
Formula X Elite (medium grey brown, limited edition)
Formula X Fine Like Einstein (pink silver chunky glitter)
Formula X Ignite (smoking red)
Is the Formula X City Chic Clix! worth it? No. $13 CAD for 0.4 oz., so 0.1 oz. is $3.25 x 6 polishes = $19.50. You're paying for the small sizes and the limited edition packaging.
Favourites from the set are Fine Like Einstein, Thrilling, and Elite. And of course they're all limited edition... so I won't be able to find a full size for the time being. Here's to hoping that the shades will be in next year's Formula X Holiday sets.
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