Sally Hansen Pearl Crush Swatches and Review

*Products Sent for Review

Hey guys!

I am back today with another great product and review from our good friends over at Sally Hansen.

I was sent two groups of polishes from two of their new collections, and these are three from one of those. In the package I was sent, there was a casualty and one of the polishes broke in shipping. I was meant to show you four polishes from this group, but now it is down to three.

This set of polishes are from their line called Pearl Crush. These polishes are part of an eight piece collection that give a shimmery, iridescent look that combines some chunky glitter. They play off the light and give off lots of dimension. 

Here is a group shot of the three that I received that survived the trip.

The first one that I have up to show you is called Rainbow Fish. This one is a an iridescent blue with hex glitter. This was the only one that I was able to get tons of glitter out of, as I sat it upside down for a few minutes. Application was great!

Next up, this one is called Shell and Tell. This one is a nice shimmery sheer lilac filled with large hex glitters and bits. I did two coats like the last one. Application was great. The color doesn't show up as much here, but I still love it. Might be great over white or a lilac cream.

Last up, this one is called Mer-Mint. This is a sea green shimmer filled with hex glitter. This one was the only one I didn't let sit upside down before applying, so I hardly got any glitter out. I didn't notice the color being sea green but that's what the color is supposed to be per the information sent to me in the package. I did two coats. Application was great, again.

My opinion on these polishes? Fantastic! I love colors like these, especially Rainbow Fish, my favorite of the three. These probably would be better over another color of your choice, or do another coat or two for more of a color payoff. Rainbow Fish could do with just another sheer coat and it would look perfect by itself in my opinion. Shell and Tell and Mer-Mint could use two more, and Mer-Mint would do best over a mint color I feel. 

These polishes can be purchased at any mass retailer and popular drugstore, such as Rite-Aid, CVS, Walgreens, Target, Walmart, Kmart, etc. They will retail, starting this month, for around $5.99, probably more in such states as mine, Hawaii.

Well, that's it! I hope you guys enjoyed my post. Up tomorrow or Monday, I will have the second set of polishes that I was sent by Sally Hansen to show you up on my blog! I hope you guys enjoyed. See you all later, bye!

Belated Two Year Anniversary Giveaway!

Hey guys!

It has been quite a while since I held a giveaway on my blog.

I just realized that this past May 4th, my blog hit the two year mark. Since I started my blog, I have has less time to post and it takes me loner to get swatches done, but I still give my blog some time each month to make a couple of posts, and that is good enough for me as of right now. Currently, my job is most important, but don't worry, I still love you guys a lot and will continue to show you my lovely looks.

For my giveaway to celebrate hitting two years, I decided to ask one of my favorite people in the nail polish community and my favorite indie maker, Alicia De La Cruz of Leesha's Lacquer. She always love to help me out in giveaways and I love to swap with her. I love to pick up polishes and makeup stuff I find on sale and send her packages. She just loves anything!

Here is what her and I are putting up for the giveaway, hope you guys like them!

My prize includes: Sally Hansen Triple Shine in Reef Raf, China Glaze Crinkled Chrome in Wrinkling in the Sheets, and Formula X for Sephora in Galaxy and Maniacal. This all goes to one winner!

Leesha's Lacquer's lovely prize: One full size bottle of Boardwalk, from her own line.

And a surprise third prize given by me. One full size bottle of Leesha's Lacquer in Very Pinteresting.

Here is a link to the giveaway widget to enter! Three winners, three fabulous prizes, who would not want to win any of these polishes?

Belated Two Year Anniversary Giveaway

Thanks for following my blog and continue to stick with me even if I don't post every single day! Love you all! 

Hits Speciallita Polishes

*Products Swapped For

Hey guys!

I am back today to show you a manicure that I did today. My old manicure wasn't holding up well after just a few days, so I decided to wipe it off and do something new.

I swap every so often polishes with other people, and in my swapping, I have got a small collection of four Hits polishes. Two shimmers, one glitter packed polish with a strong colored base, and one chunky glitter topper.

I decided to use all of them in a manicure. I had the day off from work so I had time to just do whatever with my nails.

This doesn't include any nail art, I don't have a steady hand for it, but it did come out nice in my opinion with the way I chose which color went where.

I used the colors Toxic Galaxy and Daring as the two main colors. On my thumbs and middle fingers, I put Toxic Galaxy. On my pointers and pinkies, I put Daring. Both of these colors come from their Mari Moon line. Two coats of each with a Barielle top coat. On my ring fingers, I used Cirandinha, which comes from their Soy La De Crianca line.. I did two coats of that. Lastly, on top of Cirandinha, I put Arnsterda, from their line Glitter's World, one coat.

It is a little bit of a wild mani with no color scheme, but I kinda like that about it. I just figured I would just use all of the colors and so what if it doesn't quite match.

Application for all of these was great! Toxic Galaxy felt a little chunky, but not at all unworkable.

Hits polishes can be purchased from Llarowe. They have ten for sale at $2, and then regular price for these start at $6.50 to $8. These come in skinny 6ml bottles. Even though you don't get as much polish, you get big impact and I think they are worth it anyways!

Well, that's all I have for you guys for now. I will talk to you all later, bye!

Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Swatches and Review

*Products Sent to Me for Review

Hey guys!

I am back today with another great review of another great product from your friends over at Sally Hansen.

If you have noticed, many brands now, mainstream and not, have come out with their own versions and interpretations of gel polish. Some of them requiring light, and some without and only requiring a special base or top coat to give it the gel look that we all know and desire.

Sally Hansen has come up with their own version over the past year, and I say their hat thrown into the ring looks pretty good.

I was sent two polishes to show you. Since I included other products and images in this post, I won't do a collage this time around.

The first one that I have up to show you is called Dive Bar. This is a nice light sky blue, ocean cream gel. I did three coats and topped it off with their signature Miracle Gel Top Coat made specifically for these polishes. Application was great, but I had bad issues with staining as you will see later on.

Next, since I forgot to swatch this when Sally Hansen and New York Color sent me this last time, I figured now was as good a time as any. I applied one coat of New York Color's Strip Me Off base coat. It goes on white and dries almost clear, unless you are like me and have some spots that were done a little more heavier than others.

 

You might be able to notice here that I had a little staining with my nails from Dive Bar. The base coat covers it up a little bit, but without the base coat, my nails look more blue, especially my pinky.

Over Strip Me Off, I applied the next Miracle Gel Color, Swimsical. I appologize up front, my camera is the worst. It is supposed to be a nice green-blue teal, but my camera wouldn't capture anything but a medium blue that only showed the slightest hint of teal. I did three coats with the top coat over it. Application was great, and I think this one doesn't stain as bad as Dive Bar.

After I took the swatch, I did what the base coat was given its name for and stripped/peeled the polish off to test if it was really good or not. I am not sure if gel polish or gel-like polishes would come off harder than regular polishes, but this is my results without struggling too much. I figured if I sat there and picked and struggled to get off the rest, then that wouldn't quite be the point of the base coat.

(Please ignore any peeling going on my fingers and any roughness.)

My opinion of these polishes is pretty good. I am sorry I couldn't get a good color representation of Swimsical because I have a bad camera and can't really see spending money on  new one at the moment. Other than that, I recommend picking some of these up and trying them out. Pick up the Miracle Gel Top Coat as well, it really helps to give it that lovely, gel-like shine that people lust for with gel polish. As for the Strip Me Off base coat, make your own opinions. Maybe I used it wrong, maybe it requires an orange stick or something like that. I was just testing it the way the name said. I wouldn't buy it myself, but it was neat to try out.

Well, that's all I have for you guys for now. I will talk to you all later, bye!

Revlon Colorstay Gel Envy in "Full House"

*Product Purchased For Me

Hey guys!

I am back today to show you this lovely color my mom picked up for me and I painted my nails with a couple of days ago.

I am not huge into gel nail polish, but I love polish brands that make gel nail polish without all of the fuss. No lights, no curing, no waiting. Many easily accessible brands have some nice gel polishes, such as Loreal, Sally Hansen, Covergirl, OPI.

The brand I am showing you today is Revlon. Their gel line is called Colorstay Gel Envy. In their gel line, all that is involved is their polish color, and then their special diamond top coat.

The color from this line that I have to show you today is called Full House. This is a nice light blue that can appear eggshell blue in certain lights. I love the name. I am sure it has not one thing to do with the show Full House, nor the other Asian drama of the same name, nor does it really give off the color vibe of a full house. I love it all the same though. I did two coats by itself.

It is shiny. I love the wet look that it gives. In terms of how long it lasts, I am on day two of wear and some of my nails have chips and some don't. No polish lasts long for me, usually polish chips the next day, but it may just be my weak nails.

These polishes from this line from Revlon usually range from $5-$8, depending on the store. It costs more here in Hawaii, with markups and such.

Well, that's all I have for you guys for now. I hope you guys enjoyed! I will talk to you all later, bye!

Swatches and Review of AphOrism mini nail polishes

*Products Purchased By Me

Hey guys!

I am back today with swatches and review of a new set of polishes that I recently picked up.

On a recent trip that I went with my mom to our local TJMaxx, I spotted this neat collection of nail polishes that I have yet to see before. It is a ten-piece set, from a brand called AphOrism. I have not a clue what their name means. These are all mini polishes.

I tried to look up their brand online, but basically no traces could be found. I have no idea on the retail value of this set, but I paid $7.99 and it said on the box that it retails for at least $14.

The colors in this collection all range from white, gold, coral, red, pink, and purple. Here is a preview of all of the lovely colors this set has to offer:

All of these polishes have no names, so I will just describe the colors.

First up, this is your average white cream. I did three coats by itself. This color is nothing special.

Next up, this one is a nice, sheer, pink shimmer topper. I did three coats by itself. This is probably best over another color, like the white that came in this set or even a pink. I love the look on it's own though.

Third up, this one is a metallic light gold. I did three coats by itself. This is a nice color that I think any sheer colored polishes would go nicely over.

This one is a nice medium coral cream. I did three coats by itself. This would be good under a nice glitter topper or shifter polish. I just feel like a mint colored one would be neat to try.

Next, this one is a rose/dark blush shimmer polish. It has a bit of a gold shift to it. I really like this color, but this one was so hard to photograph clear. I took tons of shots and none were really that good, so this is the best of them. I did three coats by itself.

This next one is a nice medium coral-y pink cream. I did three coats by itself 

Seventh up, this one is a nice medium magenta cream. I did three coats by itself.

Next up, this one is a nice maroon-mauve cream. I did three coats by itself. I love colors like this. While it isn't totally unique, it kinda always feels like it is when I try them out.

This one is my favorite of the bunch, and the one that photographed the best out of every one of these polishes. This one is a shimmer-shifter, dusty purple that has a bit of a pinky shift, which is hard to see in the photo. I did three coats by itself.

Last up, this one is a nice orangey-red cream. I did three coats by itself. My camera, as you know, hates bright colors, so this one was hard to photograph.

My thoughts on these polishes? Nice colors, and all without topcoat are super, super shiny. Application wise? Most of them apply streaky or patchy. When swatches some of these colors, the application was so bad on some nails that I had to swatch them twice to get it to look decent.

If application issues don't matter to you and you are one to make any polish work no matter what, then by all means, pick these up. For me, I am not too fussy with application so I don't mind SO much, so I will be keeping these polishes.

Well, that's all I have for you guys for now. I will talk to you all later, bye!

Glitter Guilty Bubble Yum

*Polish Swapped For

Hey guys!

I am back today to show you this wonderful polish that I picked up in a swap.

I did a swap maybe a week or so ago with My Boyfriend Hates Makeup. I sent her Picture Polish Watermelon and she sent me Glitter Guilty Bubble Yum and a Wet n Wild Coloricon polish, name unknown.

What I have up to show you is one of those polishes. This is Glitter Guilty in Bubble Yum. This is a nice, bright, bubblegum pink polish filled with blue, white, and hot pink hex, rectangle, and bar glitters. I did three coats by itself. 

The glitter was hard to pick up. I got a bunch on my swatch hand, but hardly any on the other, and too much on my swatch hand's thumb, but that's alright. Application was great. I just love this color so much and it photographs so well! I recommend you guys pick up this color or try other Glitter Guilty polishes if you haven't already!

Well, that's all I have for you guys for now. I'll talk to you all later, bye!