Ciate Dolls House collection swatches: Poppet and Sweet Pea - what a disappointment

I truly debated with myself, should I or shouldn't I post this, but here you go, even with embarrassing photos, or rather good photos of embarrassing application...

Ciate Dolls House collection has 5 polishes all with the Ciate Porcelaine effect line that dries matte, I chose to buy Poppet and Sweet Pea, and I am so happy I didn’t buy more, the formula leaves much to be desired!

Poppet is a pretty pale lilac shade. The formula isn’t as terrible as the formula of Sweet Pea, but it dries fast and has a very poor self-leveling ability. Even if it looks fairly OK when still wet, any wrong move the brush made reveals itself when dry - and it really clings to my ridges, even if i did use a ridge filler base coat.

 - here it is with a coat of top coat that helped a lot..:

Sweet Pea:

Sweet Pea is a slightly grey-toned, dusty super pale mint green.

It has a terrible formula, even if you work fast with a loaded brush it dries so fast and chalky that it’s impossible to get even, and any imperfection in the nail or the previous coat shows. I gave up after 3 coats – and am embarrassed to show it....

- and here with top coat - now it's much better...

Normally I like Ciate polishes - but these really were a disappointment...