My Polish Collection Swatches: Part 1, Nail Wheel 112

The numbers in the first photo correspond to the list, which indicates the brand, polish name, line/collection/edition (if applicable), and bottle number. Oh yeah, and FYI, the little red marks above each swatch are how I keep track of the number of coats I used to achieve the resulting color.

Outdoors, natural light.

Nail Wheel 112

1. Sinful Easy Going 300
2. Sinful Courtney Orange 30
3. Sinful Black on Black 103
4. Sinful Beautiful Girl 314
5. Sally Hansen (SH) Wild Life 32 - Xtreme Wear
6. SH White On 02  - Xtreme Wear (old formula)*
7. SH White On 300  - Xtreme Wear
8. SH Twisted Pink 240  - Xtreme Wear
9. SH The Real Teal 39  - Xtreme Wear*
10. SH Rockstar Pink 140  - Xtreme Wear
11. SH Purple Potion 13  - Xtreme Wear
12. SH Mint Sorbet 340  - Xtreme Wear
13. SH Marine Scene 23  - Xtreme Wear
14. SH Lime Lights 22  - Xtreme Wear*
15. SH Black Out 24  - Xtreme Wear
16. Sinful Let's Talk 929
17. Sinful Irish Green 198
18. Sinful Happy Ending 946

Indoors w/Flash.

Indoors w/flash.

Leave a comment if you want to see a full swatched manicure review of any of these  polishes featured  in this series!  

* = Discontinued

** = Discontinued and hard to find (HTF)

*** = Discontinued for ages and VERY HTF

Day 14 of the 30 Day Mani Challenge: Animal Print

Okay, since I really don't like animal prints on anything other than animals and I don't like to wear bright colors, I decided to use all my brightest nail polishes and stamp all of the animal print patterns at once. Why not, right?

I actually really liked the final result. It took me FOREVER and it was tedious but when I was finished I was rather surprised on how much I actually liked it. I even wore it for a few days (most of my manicures are lucky to make it a full 36 hours before I get the itch to do the next one).

 Left Hand, Indoors w/flash

 Right hand, Indoors w/flash

Outdoors just before sunset, no flash

To Get This Look: I've numbered each nail on the above photo so I can list the base polish, polish I used to stamp with, and image plate (in that order) for each nail.

1. SH Insta-Dri "Lightening" (base), Wet N Wild "Black Creme" (stamp), m61 (image plate)
2. SH Insta-Dri "Lickety-Split Lime", Revlon TopSpeed "Grape", m78
3. Maybelline ExpressFinish "Go Go Grape", Revlon TopSpeed "Electric", BM221
4. Wet N Wild "Sunny Side Up", SH Insta-Dri "Brisk Blue", BM211
5. Maybelline ExpressFinish "Timely Turquoise", Konad Light Pink Special Polish, BM223
6. SH XpressFinish "Twisted Pink", Wet N Wild "Black Creme",  SH25
7. Sidenote: I decided that animal footprints technically fall under the "animal print" category heh heh. Maybelline ExpressFinish "Go Go Green", Revlon TopSpeed "Espresso", SH08
8. Sinful "Pull Over", SH Insta-Dru "Rapid Red", m78
9. SH XtremeWear "Blue Me Away", SH Insta-Dri "Whirlwind White", BM211
10. SH XtremeWear "Caribbean Coral", Revlon TopSpeed "Electric", BM223

There ya go. Lot's of time for something I thought I'd hate but ended up liking. I hope the other challenge I'm dreading turns out so good (I'm scared of water-marbling...).



Day 13 of the 30 Day Mani Challenge: Stripes

For the Stripes challenge (challenge details here), I first did [attempted] some freehand crazy color stuff that turned out to clash so bad, it seriously hurt to look at my nails so I decided to go with simple stamped B&W stripes, a mani I've been wanting to try anyway.

 Indoors w/flash

Outdoors in the shade

Base: Sinful "basecoat" (1 coat), Sinful "Snow Me White" (2 coats), SV Fast Dry Top Coat* (1 coat)

Design: Shany plate SH23 stamped with Wet N Wild "Black Creme" and topped off with 2 coats of SV

Simple yet effective. :p

*From here on, my future entries will refer to Seche Vite's Fast Dry Top Coat simply as "SV" since I use SV ALOT and I'm a lazy typer.