I recently made a post about being in love with the Fall Serenade bundle by ILNP and finding dupes in a Mexican brand called Kuru… weeeell, I am in awe.

I ended up ordering 8 polishes (the dupes and 4 others), a base coat, an acetone free polish remover, and a polish thinner (I made sure it was compatible with my flakies and glitter but the ingredient list also included flaxseed oil so I'm very intrigued). They also added some other goodies to my order: a sage burner that came with one of the polishes (I think it's a collab or something), a tiny glass file, a stone that I think it's for taking off lint from clothes and a card.

First off, the polish remover was great. It took off my full KB Shimmer mani with no issues, even the glitter and thick topcoat, it had no smell and it didn't dry out my skin.
The base coat reminded me in color and consistency to Mooncat's Getting Even, only a bit lighter.
In the pics I am wearing the ILNP "dupes", some were spot on, and some were not IMO, specially the one in my ring finger. The shades are from Indes to pinky Zacahuil, Parque el Chico, Epazote Silvestre, and Tulum.
Most of these had a crelly like consistency, I got full opacity at two coats, except for the dark green one, that one was more of a jelly, after three coats I could still see my nail underneath.
Some of these dried out very dull (I added the KB Shimmer top coat to all) but some were really shiny.
The only thing I didn't like was the brush, it was very square and chunky, but the formulas were really good, self leveling and vibrant, and the packaging is very cute.
All in all I really liked this brand, specially considering the price (all of these were 120 pesos with an added of 30% discount wich made them 80 pesos each, about 4 dollars in today's exchange rate and no tax, of course) so it made sense to order from them as I am in Mexico. I don't know if they ship to other countries and they have very few finishes but they are 12 free, cruelty free and vegan and this is a big bonus for me. This is their page if anyone's interested kuru.mx

TL:DR
I purchased from a Mexican brand looking for ILNP dupes and I really liked them. Not exact dupes but loved everything else.

by GoldenFootsies

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