$.99 Buy for Some of the Best Colors

Walgreens is my favorite place today. They have Sinful Colors polish on sale for $.99. This basically adds up to but one get one free since they are normally $1.99. This sale is until 10/27/2012.
I have done a month of blogs about Sinful Colors polish. The color below is Cinderella. This color is a pale blue with small pink shimmers visable in light only. I only did a basic mani in this color because I found it hard to find something to do with the color that would not destract from the colors simplicity. Okay little sappy if I do say so myself. LOL.
Well I hope you take advantage of the sale because I know I did. Until next time keep on polishing.

My First Dot Gradient

     So this idea was born out off my over use of my new dotting tools and my epic failure(my person feelings even though others said it wasn't bad) at a regular gradient. I was looking for something where I could give my fingers a break from all of the color because my nails were beginning to turn yellow. Yes, I do use a base coat to those that are thinking that is what my problem is. I just think I need a new base coat but I have not decided on what I am going to use. I am still doing research on that.

     I started off with my current base coat and then placed on one layer of Sally Hansen Hard as Nails. I then keeping with my theme of 30 days of Sinful Colors used my dotting tool and started with Sinful Colors Bali Mist (a purplish pink). Kismet (pink with brown undertones) is my next dot. The final color comes from the recently released Sinful Colors metallic line called Hot Wired. I finished it off with my Sally Hansen Top Coat and Viola! it is done.

   I am quite pleased with the my first attempt at so many dots and a gradient. I am sure it would have been neater had I not decided to do my nails during the second presidential debate. Jumping around and hollering at the television is not a good thing when painting your nails.

A Newbie's Must Have Color!!!!

    Okay I have only been this excited about a color one time before now. This Metallic Sinful Color Hot Hot Heat is my new go to color!!

     I knew after the first coat that I had a replacement for my previous favorite color. I want to paint my toes fingers and anyone else's fingers and toes with this color. The color is flawless in application. Whatever is in this formula I am begging Revlon (who recently purchased the brand) to make sure that this formula is kept and even duplicated to other colors.

     I dare you to find another color that can go on this easy and make your nails look this good with this little effort. I don't even have accent nail and you know that is not normal for me. There is only one picture with no top coat because that is all is needed.

Until next time keep on polishing.

Winter's Coming And Boy Is It Beautiful!!!

Today's Sinful Color is Winterberry. I chose this color as a tribute to National Domestic Violence since it is October.

I sort of get the feeling that a little pink and grey were mixed in with a grape purple. The color alone after only two coats was beautiful. This is the first polish of the Sinful line that I can say I do not have a compliant about. It went on smooth and even.

The sparkles are coming from NYC Starry Glitter. I originally was only going to do a accent nail but I mistakenly painted the wrong nail. I liked it so much that I decided to paint them all.

Well until next time keep it clean and simple.

Moss Have Sinful Colors Hot Metallic

Green has never been a color good on me until now. Sinful hit it out of the park with this color Moss Have.  The color is mute and vibrant all at the same time. Three coats were needed to get the color opaque to my liking. I am still not happy with the slight streaks that still existed after the three coats. I am wondering if it was because of metallic in the polish.
I decided this time to not spend all night with my accent nail so I took some silver glitter and just pressed it onto my favorite nail and then added a top coat. While simple the pictures did not do it justice. t made the finger just pop. My four year old nephew just could not believe his auntie did that all by myself. It made me smile from ear to ear.
I always have a top coat and even with that on the color chipped in two days time. This is my second draw back with the color. I however decided to refresh the manicure using the Moss Have as a accent using my dotting tools. I know this is a month of Sinful Colors but I had just purchased Zoya's Ivy.
This color is a burgundy red with multitude of gold shimmer. I really like this color and think it helps the Moss Have shine even brighter. I only have on two coats on of Ivy. I bet it would only get better if I get up to four coats. I guess later I will test that theory and get back to you. 

Sinful's Courtney Orange

     Well I know that Halloween is a ways off and that most people would have left this color for review at that time. I however do not celebrate Halloween and I felt like seeing what my first orange nail polish looked like on my hands.  This color Courtney Orange is from Sinful Colors 2009 collection.  
     Since this blog is for people like myself just getting into polishing I decided this time to show you what my hands look like from start to finish. I knew after a polish test that I would need to double up on the base coat. I always do a polish because I like to be able to sometimes where nothing but clear polish and need them to be white. A good base coat keeps the nails looking like the picture below. I also overlapped the base coat just to make sure that I could get any mistakes cleaned up easy.
     I only had to use two coats of the polish due to the richness of the color. I have to say this also went on without any streaks or splotches. I really liked this color and I am not a orange person. I think the color while vibrant is not loud. My accent nail was done with my dotting tools I purchased from amazon.com. I would like to say thank you to Teddi from the blog Teddi's Tips. I placed two drops of Caribbean Cocktail by Sephora by OPI on a piece of paper. I then took my large dotting tool and just dipped it in one time and then placed it on the nail. This was the first time that I used the tool and I found that I am going to need to find a way to make the polish thicker for the larger dot tool. The larger dots are the only dots that ran. They had more of a oval shape then circular one.
     Well until the next sinful moment have a great time.

I'm a Nail Junkie on the island of Fiji.

After my first attempt at a water marble I really began to like Sinful Colors nail polish. After picking up some hard to find colors I decided to do a month long tribute to Sinful Colors.  This first manicure is of two colors.

Fiji is a beautiful purple. It starts off looking like a thin layer of grape jelly. As you apply more coats it gets to be so much deeper with almost a mirror shine. I have on four coats. I would have gone to six because I just could not believe how great this color was looking. It went on smooth. This is one color that I was not putting on more coats to cover up streaks.

Nail Junkie is light blue base with multi colored and size glitter. I only put one coat on because I wanted the Fiji to still be seen but just jazz it up a bit. While I only did this as a accent nail I will one day make this my complete manicure. I feel that it is interesting to wear as a night out on the town but still professional enough to wear to the office.

Clean up of the excess polish was easy since it was only the first coat that was outside of nail bed. I can not wait until my next polish! Check back and see what color I do next.

A Little to Bright for Me

     I have learned my first lesson with ordering polish off the internet site unseen. Please don't get me wrong I never thought it would be exactly as I saw it online.
However I never thought it would be soooo far off. I ordered six polishes during Zoya's buy one get one free. I picked the color Kylie2 because it looked like a soft coral with a nice shine. When I put it on the color screamed at me. It was almost neonish. I figured okay maybe like paint on a canvas it has to dry to tone down.

     My only problem with the drying is that the polish because it was streaky required four coats of polish. So one hour later and I still had this almost glow in the dark color on my nails. So now I am wondering what to do? Do I take the time to remove it? No, because I have somewhere to be in two hours an could not get my nails clean and painted in that time (remember I am newbie to this). So then I decided let's cover it up only leaving one nail clean as the accent nail. Okay so what to cover it up with???? I needed something subtle without a high shine factor. NYC Starry Silver Glitter would do just the trick.

     I like the NYC polish because it does not have to much glitter in it so one coat can give just enough coverage so that the glitter is a accent instead of a cover up. I was not totally happy however I made do.

     If you love bright colors then this color will be the one for you. I still like Zoya but I will definitely be giving this one away. Until next time keep on polishing.

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Colored French Tip Mani

     So today I did a French manicure in non traditional colors. This was my first time trying this and I think it came out pretty good.
    
     I used Zoya Faith as my base color. I was not sure when looking at it on Zoya's website (www.zoya.com) that I would like it but at the time I was going thru some things and the name said so much to me. This beatuiful pink that is almost red really is not done justice on the web or just looking at it in the bottle. My only complaint is that it is a little streaky even at three coats.

     The tip is done in my third favorite color Gunmetal by Sally Hansen. I also used that color for my accent nail. I just could not resist. I adore the shimmer and the subtle blue in the gunmetal. I can say this mani takes a steady hand and some patience. I waited at least 40 minutes after the Faith dried before I placed the Orly french tip guides on the nail. A few suggestions for the tips, I would make sure when using the guides that you run a finger across the entire strip. If like myself you have cute chubby hands you will want to trim the guides so that the egdes don't run. Finally allow at least a seven minute dry time between coats to keep the guides from wrinkling up with moisture and allowing polish under the guide. After you remove the guide if you find that the line created is a bump put your top coat on in reverse and it will smooth that bump right out.

     So for all the first timers who are trying this just remember to set aside at least 1.5 hours for this manicure.


DISCLAIMER: All photos of human parts on this blog are for my use only. Any reuse without my writing consent is not allowed.

First Time Marbling

     I have always like nail polish but never thought I had the nails for it. I always felt like you had to have the perfect curved nails like in the blog Teddi's Tips to warrant polishing them. Plus I would never let them grow past nubs since they interfered with things like basketball, bowling, playing piano and most importantly at that time making a fist, LOL.

     A few years ago my child asked me to go my nails out because he thought my already pretty hands would look better with some nails. So I agreed to go them out. I started off painting solid colors. I changed my colors once every four days if they did not chip. I then moved on to a accent nail. I am now trying some of the techniques my friend Tedisa has told me. This is my first water marble.

     There are four colors in this water marble. I started with two coats of Jordana Garlic Growth Basecoat. I then in a small top 3/4 full of water put one drop of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Gunmetal, and two drops of the following; Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Purple Potion, Zoya Marina, and Sinful Colors Let's Meet. I finished with a top coat of Seche Vite.

   This being my first marble I am okay with the look. I did learn a few things. One is that not all colors even those made by the same company are not created equal. The Gunmetal would not spread like the other colors which made me over mix so a couple of the nails look muddy. I will never use that color first anymore. The Let's Meet spread the easiest which I probably would need three drops if used as the first color. I also found that the tape needs to pull the sides of the fingers down tight to get the sides of the nail. Also because the polish is wet if you don't like the marble you can remove it with the wipe of a slightly damp napkin within the first five to ten seconds tops.

    Well until next time keep on polishing!