As promised, I wanted to provide some comparison swatches of L'Oreal Blue Marine and Sally Hansen HD Spectrum. When I first purchased Blue Marine I realized it was very similar to Spectrum and of course worried that I had a dupe. Luckily I was wrong! These two colors are very similar, but not enough to call them dupes.
As you can see, there are some subtle differences. This is 3 coats of each, without base coat or top coat.
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Blue Marine leans more green, has smaller duochrome flecks (making it more opaque), and has a less obvious duochrome shift.
Spectrum leans more blue, has chunkier duochrome flecks (creating more bald patches on the nail), and has a very obvious color shift.
Both polishes seem to have the same color shifting flecks (green-blue/purple-pink), although they're in different sizes.
These are similar enough that you could probably have one without the other, but they're definitely not dupes.
As always, thanks for reading! :)
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