Sinful Colors - Why Not

I do absolutely love this color, it is one of my favorite blues that I have. I'm not crazy about creme colors, I do like shimmers the best, but this just snuck up on me and stole my heart. 

Why Not - this polish is a creme bright blue. The picture is pretty accurate to the color in real life. I have 1 coat here, but for some reason it took a really long time to dry.

I got this polish at Walgreens for about $1.99. 

Do you like how I've set up my blog with the pricing tags and telling you how much I got the polish for? 

Is there any other way you would like me to do this better?

Any thing else?

Pure Ice - Super Star

I made another trip to Walmart, and fell in love with this polish. 

But I have to say, it doesn't look as good on my nails as it does in the bottle, it's just not as dark. I don't know if putting on more coats will make it darker, because there are only two here, but right now I really don't like it. 

I had it on for about two hours, only because I had to run to class, but immediately when I got home it was off of my fingers! 

Super Star - this polish is a deep red with prominant gold shimmer in it. It might be a jelly?

I bought this for $1.97 from Walmart.

Sally Hansen - All Fired Up

I bought this polish on sale, originally it is about $8, but I got it for $1.99! 

Walgreens was having a major sale on this partically brand of Sally Hansen, just the Complete Salon Manicure, all of them were $1.99. This was really the only color that I liked that was left, all the rest were really sheer or just not my taste. 

Sorry my polish is chipped, this manicure is a day old. 

I didn't have time to take pictures before I had to go about my day, my brother came over to visit! I don't get to see him very often and I just did my nails really quick before he came over, they weren't even dry before he came in the door! lol

But now, as you can see, this polish doesn't have a whole lot of lasting power since it didn't even last 24 hours. 

All Fired Up - I do love the color of this polish, a very simple orangish-red creme; however, I do have a few polishes like this already just in my small collection: Revlon Fearless and Wet n Wild Megalast Red Tape. So it is definitely not a unique color.  This needed 2 coats.

Icing - I Like the Nightlife

I bought this along with the other polish, Forget You, at Icing with their buy 1 get another half off sale. 

I really love this color, it has to be one of my favorite blues in my collection. 

Sorry about my horrible clean up... I had to leave for class. 

I Like the Nightlife - it does seem like a jelly polish to me, but I can't be sure of that. It does have a lighter blue shimmer/glitter in it and a light purple sheen to it when the light hits it directly. This took 2 coats.

The price of this polish is $4.50 but I bought it on sale. 

Forget You!

I stopped by Icing the other day for the first time in forever and picked up a few polishes; they were having a buy 1 get 1 half off sale. 

I got my hands on this polish: Icing Forget You, among others. 

Forget You - a pretty purple with a prominent blue shimmer. I love this colors, but the formula was a little had to work with, which made it not so great. It was kind of runny, but still thick? Is that even possible, this polish managed. It was very streaky and tacky. But the second coat did manage to cover this up. However when the second coat when on it became somewhat congealed, I don't know, kind of gritty almost. It was very difficult to get smooth and even after the finish still felt a little gritty. 2 coats to full opacity, but some needed 3 coats to battle the weird formula. But it is a beautiful color so I'll try this one again. 

$4.50 at Icing, but it was buy one get one 50% off. 

Sally Hansen Posh Plum and Designs

I've had this color for awhile and kept passing it up, but now that I've put it on I can't imagine why! 

Posh Plum - this is a gorgeous purple color that has a little bit of a duochrome to it. In some lights it does look a bit more pink than purple, but mostly it gives off that wonderful bright purple color. Fuschia! This is the name that I was trying to come up with, I think this name aplies to this color quite accurately. It does have a bit of a shimmer to it, but it is very fine. 2 coats got this opague and to the color in the bottle. 

I did do a design over this as well. I did something simple because I wanted the plum to still show through really well. 

I used Sally Hansen's Golden-l for the designs. 

This has got to be my all time favorite gold as well! I have used quite a few, Milani Signature Gold, Essie Good as Gold... Nothing compares! And for the price, it is amazing for detailing, designing, or a while nail!

I got these both from Walgreens: buy 2 for $5 or 1 for $2.99

Wet n Wild - On a Trip and Designs AND Comments About this new brush shape

I came across a swatch of Wet n Wild's On a Trip online and fell in love, I just had to have it. So the next time I went to Walgreens I picked up a bottle. And let me just say, on my nails it is as beautiful as it was on that blog. 

On a Trip - a purple creme polish, though it is leaning toward the cool side. There isn't exactly a blue undertone, but it isn't completely purple either. A diifficult polish to name. 2 coats to full opacity and to get to the color in the bottle. These pictures are without topcoat.

Closest to color in real life

Now this is one of those polishes that has those "specially designed brushes", they are thicker brushes that have a bit of a curve to the end. You can see the sticker there on the bottle. Most people have complained about these brushes being too big and bulky, that they made a mess and that they were hard to work with. 

For me, it was the complete opposite! I found the curved end was the exact curve of my cuticles and thus, made it much easier to not make a complete mess all over there, and I actually managed to not paint all over my cuticles, which I usually do. Also, the wider brush allowed to paint my nails in fewer strokes. I made less of a mess with this brush than I usually do, even painting with my left hand. I really don't know what the problem is, and I can see more companies switching to this brush because IT WAS EASIER!!

I also did a bit of a design on top of this with one of the Color Club glitters that I got; unfortunately, these do not have names. I talked about them here however: Color Club Glitters

I used the one that has the pink and blue glitters. 

I got WetnWild for $1.99 from Walgreens and the Color Club I got in a pack of 7 for $7.99

Wet n Wild Purple and Blue

I just got these polishes the other day and absolutely fell in love! 

I was actually quite surprised to see such a developed, by this I mean the duo-chrome/color they had, polish for only 93 cents each! 

The polishes I got were Wet n Wild Wild Card and Wet n Wild Rain Check. 

Beautiful colors! And I almost passed them up too. 

I actually have quite a few polishes from Wet n Wild's Wild Shine Collection, all of these colors from this collection I would highly recomend because of the tendency to have that chrome finish for such an inexpensive polish. 

But anyway, back to THESE polishes! Love at first sight. 

Wild Card - This polish is so hard to describe, the name is so fitting here. The best I can say is that it is kind of a mauve-ish purple with a pink shimmer. It does look pink in some lighting, but for the most part it is that lavender/mauve/purple(? Most bloggers I've read say lavender). It did take three coats however to get full opacity, the first was barely visable. It did have a good formula though it wasn't too thick and it didn't dry too fast, becoming tacky. And! Amazing, it was not streaky, which I was expecting from this chrome-finish polish.

I also did a little design on top of this with the blue that I was talking about above:

Rain Check.

Rain Check is a beautiful blue with a heavy silver/grey undertone. There is also a bit of a purple tone in this polish. This one was only a two coater, but other than that it had the same formula and also did not have any streaks at all. 

For the silver here, I used silver acrylic paint and a striping brush. My first time ever doing free hand painting like this! That's why it looks so horrible. Lol. Except for my thumb, and that's why I had to show it off. 

With matte finish

I also put a matte finish over this in the end, and I must say that I love these colors matted! 

Though they do look great both ways. 

I used Hard Candy Matte-Ly In Love which I got from Wal-mart for $4.00 

What do you think?

Purple Days

So purple is my new favorite color, but my nail polish collection doesn't seem to show that. 

I have only recently started collecting purple colors, like within the past week. I really don't know why they haven't caught my eye before now, or that I haven't even noticed that I only owned about five purples before last week; all of them being very dark. 

Sinful Colors Let's Talk - This color is very hard to place. One minute it looks just purple, the next it looks purple with a blue undertone, then it looks blue! Definitely a strange color but still so pretty and one of my favorites. It definitely does have a blue undertone, that when the light hits it becomes dominant and that's all you really see. It has a little bit of shimmer in it, not very noticable in all lights, but when the light hits it you definitely see it. I really had a hard time capturing the purple color in my pictures... The blue really wanted to come out. I tried all sorts of different angles and lighting.

Indoors (Desk Lamp)

Outdoors

Outdoors (Different Angle)

Indoors (Overhead light and table lamp)

Really messy clean up... I was in a hurry to get to class that ended up being cancelled. 
Sinful Colors - $1 on sale from Walgreens

Revlon Saucy

I fell in love with a post that I found a bit ago, that I ca't quite remember who made... But it had a Zoya nail polish called Carrie Ann in it. Needless to say that I just had to go out and find this polish. 

Well no one around here sells Zoya, unfortunately, but I think I did find something similar. 

I found: 

Saucy - A bright red with a gold shimmer in it. The polish is less orange in real life and more red, but with the gold in it, the camera wanted to make it go orange I guess... But it is a definite red and not orange at all. This polish did go on very smooth with only two coats. 

This is what Carrie Ann looks like: 

(image pulled off google)

Revlon - Appox. $5 (Walgreens)

More Greens

I've been on a green kick lately, and before the other day I had only owned one green polish! Well, now I only have three...

But today I tried something a little bit different. I layered my polishes, I didn't really know how this would turn out because I had never used the top polish before and I hadn't even looked at swatches of it before. 

Here I am wearing Sinful Colors Let Me Go and Sinful Colors Last Chance.

Last Chance - a dark, creme green that goes on very smooth. It did go on very smooth, but unfortunately I got a bottle that the brush was a little bit messed up and flared at the bottom; I am seriously considering returning it for this reason because it was difficult to apply. It went on with only one coat.

Let Me Go - it has a pearlized sheen, and actually looks purple in the bottle, but this color goes on very thin and only gives the color beneath it a kind of pearl look. It did make the dark green lighter and gave it an almost duo-tone. It did bring a yellow into the green as well, and put a little shimmer. 

When it rounds to the edges of the nails (the shadows), in some lights it almost looks deep blue but in others it still looks like the deep green that Last Chance originally was. 

(After Let Me Go is added)

I will use Let Me Go on top of more polishes to show the different effects that it has on different colors and such. 

Here is the bottle of let me go so you can see what it looks like, it definitely has a purple tone to it in the bottle, but as you can see on my nails the purple doesn't show up at all.

Sinful Colors - $.99 each (on sale Walgreens)

China Glaze - Fast Track

When I went crazy and bought a whole bunch of polishes online, I was most anticipating this one and it was well worth the wait! I love it! 

I was exploring Amazon one day and came across the Hunger Games collection and I was kind of iffy about getting them because I had never owned the China Glaze brand before and they were kind of expensive, or at least more so then what I was used to paying for polish, with shipping and tax. But I saw this color and the Luxe and Lush and just fell in love! As you may have seen from my previous post, I also bought Electrify, which I will be showing to you guys in the near future. 

But along with these, I also bought Seche Vite Top Coat, which is amazing! (It came yesterday in the mail) I never knew what a difference a top coat could make! 

Fast Track - it is a light tan color with gold shimmer in it. I have a light skin color, so when light is not hitting my nails, the polish is just barely darker than my nails and almost looks skin color. But when light is hitting my nails it is more of a gold color because the shimmer is so prominant in it. It's so hard to describe this color properly..

When light is hitting, so you can see the shimmer and it is more gold.

When the light is not hitting directly, so it is more tan. 

If I had seen this color in a store, and not swatched on someone else's nails when I was buying it on Amazon  I probably wouldn't have bought this color, and I am so glad that I did! I really do love it.

I really don't like how the color looks in the bottle. It's kind of muddy looking and you can't see the gold at all, unless you hold it really close to a light, or if there's a window near; which, in the stores around my house they are pretty closed off from natural lighting. 

China Glaze - Approx. $4.50 (Amazon)

China Glaze - Luxe and Lush

I finally got China Glaze Luxe and Lush in the mail yesterday! So instead of completely redoing my nails, I just put it on the nails that I already had done because they hadn't chipped yet. 

I had on Sinful Colors Midnight Blue which I talked about here. 

Luxe and Lush - is a polish that  you really need to wear over another color. It's a very large glitter that is foil, if that makes sense... They're foil pieces to make up the polish. They foils are a gold sheen and a pearl-ish opal that change colors as the light hits them.

When I went to put this on, I was dabbing it on at first and it made it go on really thick, as you can see. But on my right hand, which I don't have pictures of, I started to just paint it on like I would a normal polish and it went on much more scattered, and in my own opinion, I like the look better.
The pictures did not capture how beautiful this polish really is!

When I put this polish on however... When I went to put on the clear topcoat, which you will need one because the foil is kind of chunky, but the polish wasn't dry yet.. Well, the blue polish ran over the Luxe and Lush polish a bit! 

Now let me remind you, I have had the blue polish on my nails for a few days now, so I didn't even think that it would have wet it again. 

But now the little foils have a little sheen of blue now. I would prefer that they didn't because it did take away from the shine, but keep this in mind when putting on a top coat. 

Sinful Colors - $1.99 ( Walgreens)

China Glaze - Approx. $4.50 (Amazon)

Sinful Colors Midnight Blue

I've never actually done my cuticles before this set before... My cuticles really only grow out on my thumb and a little bit on my index finger. So I tried on this one, to see if I could. And I don't really know how it came out. I didn't cut myself at least! But as you see the polish get stuff underneath the cuticle on my middle finger from where I pushed it up and didn't cut it back... At least that's what I'm assuming. 

But anyway, I just bought this polish, Sinful Colors Midnight Blue, a few days ago, so I wanted to show it off. 

Midnight Blue - In the bottle it looks very dark, but on your nails it is more of a royal blue. It does have a bit of a shimmer in it and it only took one coat to get it fully applied. It went on smooth and was very easy to put on. 

Sinful Colors - $1.99 ( Walgreens)

Milani Yellow Whiz

In this I am just wearing Milani Yellow Whiz. It is a very bright yellow. 

The bottle says that it is a "fast dry", it did dry quite fast. Faster than most polishes anyway and I didn't put a quick dry top coat on top of it. 

I didn't do anything special with my nails today. In a few days I am going to update this post with pictures of me putting China Glaze Fairy Dust over this yellow to see how it looks because it may tone down how bold this color is and add a bit of sparkle. 

I did add that Fairy Dust to the manicure that I had in the very first post that I have here. It looks absolutely wonderful on top of black. I would've posted pictures, but my camera doesn't pick up the fine sparkles. It does have pink, blue, green, and gold very fine sparkles in it. Though it does make your polish a bit dull because as you might be able to see from the bottle, the actual polish is a bit grey, it's not completely clear. 

But I will post pictures when I put it on this yellow.

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I finally got the Fairy Dust on this polish.
And I was right it did tone down the yellow quite a bit.
I don't know if I like it all that much.. I think the Fairy Dust is more suited towards darker polishes. On this one, it almost makes the polish look dirty, in my opinion anyway.
My camera didn't really want to pick up the little sparkles.. I tried everything. But right now it's getting dark so I can't sit next to a window; I'm just using a lamp. You can see them really good in the bottle and a little bit on my ring and pnky finger... But these pictures do not do this polish justice. It has a ton of little sparkles that catch the light, like they do in the bottle.
But what makes the yellow polish look dirty, is that there are also a little bit of grey fleck in there too that doesn't sparkle. I didn't pick that up when I had it on Sally Hansen Black Platinum, and that could also have been what made it look a little bit dull.

Milani - Appox. $4 (Walgreens)

China Glaze - Approx. $5 (on sale Sally Beauty Supply)