Bondi Central Park Blossom Swatches and Review

Update: At this time I no longer recommend doing business with Bondi.

This swatch continues my Bondi series, as I slowly buy more and more of their polishes. Central Park Blossom is considered by many to be the most challenging Bondi shade to work with, and even the company admitted that this is their most finicky formulation.


Central Park Blossom was released as part of Spring 2013 Collection, and is currently on sale on Bondi’s website. Here’s the shade description:

“A perfectly pale pink is like a walk in the park. A subtle shade that gets the birds chirping, the bees buzzing and the boys flocking. NYC will never be the same.” 

Although it’s described as pink, the polish is actually the color of a french vanilla coffee creamer with very subtle pink hue; it definitely looks more ivory in real life than the picture on Bondi website. I adjusted my monitor’s settings for colors to be true to life, so what I’m seeing in front of me in these swatches is a pretty accurate depiction of this polish, and I hope you all are seeing the same things 🙂

The polish is indeed extremely thin and streaky, it took me four thin coats with two layers of matte base to reach full opacity, but the end result was totally worth it. There are so many nude colors out there, but I haven’t seen one like this before. I think Central Park Blossom is work and school appropriate, and makes a great base for nail art.

All Bondi New York polishes are free from formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, camphor, toluene and DBP.

PRICE & AVAILABILITY 
$12.50 USD, 15ml. Available at Bondi New York.

INGREDIENTS
Butyl Acetate, Ethyl Acetate, Nitrocellulose, Adipic Acid/Neopentyl Glycol/Trimellitic Anhydride Copolymer, Acetyl Tributyl Citrate, Isopropyl Alcohol, Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer, Stearalkonium Bentonite, n-Butyl Alcohol, Benzophenone-1, Silica, Alumina, Trimenthylpentanediyl Dibenzoate, Polyvinyl Butyral. May Contain (+/-): Aluminum Powder (CI77000), Bismuth Oxychloride (CI 77163), Oxides (CI 77499 / CI77491), Red 34 Lake (CI 15880), Red 6 Lake (CI 15850), Red 7 Lake (CI 15850), Yellow 5 Lake (CI 19140), Ferric Ammonium Ferrocyanide (CI 77510), Mica (CI 77019), Blue 1 (CI 42090), Yellow 11 (CI 47000), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Violet 2 (CI 60725), Polyethylene Terephthalate, Isobutylphenoxy Epoxy Resin, Polybutylene Terephthalate, Ethylene/VA Copolymer.