Wet N Wild - Wild Shine "Ring In The Year" Disappointment? Review/Swatch

 6 months ago I bought Wet N Wild's nail varnish "Ring In The Year" from the Wild Shine collection. Fantastic dark purple colour with a deep blue shimmer, by far one of the shiniest I own making the dynamic flash of blue very visible and not one of those subtle "OH I PROMISE IT LOOKS LIKE THIS IN THE RIGHT LIGHTING" type of varnishes. And here are the swatches;

And here you can see the blue sheen I mentioned above

The print has worn away but here's the bottle's front

 

And then here's the polish on my hands (I am aware of how messy it is, it is justified)

Blue sheen is very visible

Most accurate image of the shade of purple and most visible air bubbles here

I did try correcting the uneven texture with clear varnish and then I tried distracting from it
with ELF's Fairy Dust varnish but it was beyond saving unfortunately

   And now here's where my disappointment and cause for messy application comes in - the application. I applied it in the same manner as I always apply my nail varnish, which normally gives me no problems, however the formula had gone very strangely thick and hard to get onto the brush this time. I managed to overcome this and apply it, however once it was dried and opaque I noticed a very big issue with the polish - the finish was very uneven as it was littered with air bubbles! If you consider how low res the images are yet how visible they are in these images it may give you an idea of how bad the air bubbles really were. It was simply unwearable and I didn't bother to clean up the polish as it was so bad I had to remove it as I wanted to scrape it off every time I caught sight of the polish. 
  The real disappointment here for me was that when I first bought the polish not too long ago the application was so much easier and so much better than how it is now, but regardless this wonderful colour that was one of my favourites is now beyond use and wear. Considering the average life of a nail varnish after opening is 2 years (24 months) minimum this was just beyond shocking for me.
  Overall would I buy it again? Probably not as the product seems to be discontinued now unfortunately, but even if it wasn't then probably not. The colour and finish was absolutely amazing and as I paid only 99p for it I was a happy camper, however for it to have gone off within a 6 month period is really just unacceptable. I have plenty of nail varnishes that cost both more and less that were stored in the same manner for far longer periods of time that I haven't faced this problem with. 
  If you knew about the issue with the product going off then you'd probably feel pressured to use up the product within those few months but if you didn't then you'd be a shocked customer with an almost full and useless bottle of product, much like myself. Either way it's an unfair position to be in as a customer so this really was a disappointment from Wet N Wild as they are one of my favourite cruelty free brands.