Sally Hansen 'Laser'

This is one coat of 'Laser' over Essie's 'No More Film' ( a beauteous navy creme). Seriously, I'm not kidding this picture is HIDEOUS in comparison to the real polish. It has this really pretty shift from blue to purple and in the sun it's RIDICULOUS! Do you guys have any HD colors?

Sally Hansen Salon Effects Strips a.k.a FOOLISHNESS!

Ok so the only other angry post I wrote was this post.  Do you know what those two post have in common?  Sally Hansen.  AHH!  Sally Hansen bothers me.  There prices are over priced for their quality ($8 for Gem Crush?  It's so easy to find dupes for half of them!).  But, everyone was saying how great they were, so I tried 'em out. 

In the box there's 16 nail strips in different sizes and a nail file and cuticle stick

I followed the instructions to the letter!  Look at that foolishness!  I don't know if it's just that my nails are weird-shaped, but before i removed the back (ya' know to cover the sticky side) they were shaped just fine.  Just looking at these pictures is depressing.  If these work for you then continue using them, but as far as I'm concerned LIQUID nail polish is the best way.  And you get way more usage for less money! ($10!!!) Ridiculousness) 

And as a side note:  I was at the mall and tried the Incoco nail strips and they fit my nail 10 000 000  times better.  But they were $20 and I repaint at least every other day so spending that much money for 2 days of wear wouldn't make sense but they had some really cool designs.

Day 10: Gradient Nails

I've never done a gradient mani.  I'm not really too sure this counts as one but look and see for yourself  it is pretty though.  And this is the last one in the first chunk of the challenge!  here's a reminder:

So for this I used this polishes one coat of everything except 'Nail Junkie'  (I LOVE that name!)

(l-r: Sally Hansen Inst-Dri 'Brisk Blue', Sinful Colors 'Love Nails', Jesse's Girl 'Glee', Sinful Colors 'Nail Junkie')

I started out with one coat of 'Brisk Blue' then a coat of 'Love Nails'.  I sponged on 'Glee' on 2/3 of each nail.  Covered the top third in a coat of 'Nail Junkie' and re-sponged on top of that again.

Here's a close up.  There's a lot of gold shimmer and glitter in 'Nail Junkie' and 'Glee'.

This picture shows the truest color but it looks so bad.  See what I mean most gradients look like this.

Day 5: Blue Nails

Omg I'm not having to do some lane and depressing proof post!!!! Ok so I had a but load of blue untried polish so I decided to do a water marble and swatch two polishes in one post. Actually I think the saying has something to do with birds and homicide. Oh well. On a side note as I type this I'm watching CRIMINAL MINDS. I LOVE THAT SHOW!! "you may leave school but it may never leave you". Sry it's a quote from the show (did you see the end with Morgan's iPod?). 

On to my water marble I used so many colors. Four Sinfuls, a Sally Hansen and a Jessies Girl. And I used them on different nails like on my ring finger I only used two but on some I used all eight. 

PICTURES!

Left thumb

Left pointer

Right Hand

Sorry this is so messy but clean up is a pain in the but normally with water marbling I just pick at it the next day during school but today with the whole take pictures five minutes later thing...   But this is defiantly not my best water marble the Black and White wm I did.  Tomorrow is purple and I'm going away for the weekend so either Mimi's gotta go into super-posting mode for me or I'll have to schedule post.    errr they both seem impossible!

Proof of Challenge day 3

Sorry big project due tomorrow and my dad's coming home late so i can't use his better camera so i just used the Photo booth camera on my mac.

This is 3 coats of Sally Hansen High Definition Nail color in 'Lite'

Sally Hansen LACQUER SHINE 'Vibrant'

This is my 2nd to last LACQUER SHINE post and then I'll mainly be doing the 31 day challenge. 

Sorry I don't have a bottle picture, I normally do.  But it some how got deleted.  Anyways,  this is a really pretty pink and although there's probably a dupe somewhere I don't have anything similar to this in my collection.  This is two coats and it looks like this but pink. 

A few months back I had made a franken using little holo heart decals from Sally Beauty and purple blue and pink glitter.  I had also slightly tinted the base purple.  Of course I named it 'Unicorn Belly-Button Lint'.

Well that night I was going to a movie and wanted to put on some glitter.  Of course I didn't have a glitter that would match this color so I used my franken.  It's really spread out glitter and you have to work hard to get the holo-hearts but I think it's pretty.

Below is intense blurry close-up to show glitter-y colors of it:

Two Too Many Hauls

I'm a bad person.  I didn't share this earlier because I didn't have a camera.

So this first one is from Rite Aid and the red Sally Hansen was only $.49.  Although I used my moms store card, so every thing was cheaper.  And in my defense I got all of these for around $14.  On to what I actually bought!

(from l-r: Revlon 'Not so Blueberry' & 'Grape Icy', Sinful Colors 'Ciao Bella' & 'Love Nails', Pumpkin Nail Lacquer (no names but a black and orange glitter and a hot pink glow in the dark), Sally Hansen 'Red Hot', and Essie 'Power Clutch')

Aren't they all pretty?!?!  Unfortunately the darker Sinful Colors and the two pumpkin ones (I love those bottles) didn't photograph well.  Although all the other are pretty good.  When I swatch them I'll make sure the colors are right.

(from l-r: China Glaze 'Go Go Pink', Finger Paints 'I'm a Survivor' China Glaze 'Strawberry Fields' and Orly 'Oh Cabana Boy' & 'Passion Fruit')

And then the other day I went to Sally beauty and got a bottle of thinner (everyone needs that stuff) and swatch wheels.  And then Orly and China Glaze had breast cancer displays of all these pretty pinks.  The Finger Paints was on clearance for $1 and the China Glaze was in the pack with the Seche Vite was $9 so those were both on sale.  

As for the colors the only cremes are 'Go Go Pink' and 'Passion Fruit',  all of the others were really pretty shimmers.  And again I didn't try to get the shimmers to show but the colors are pretty accurate, except 'Passion Fruit' which isn't as red.

SWATCHES COMING SOON!!!

We're doing the 31 Day Challenge & Sally Hansen 'Dazzling'

Ok so there's this thing going around called the 31 day Challenge for nail bloggers to do.  A couple of the bloggers I follow have been doing this (Chalkboard Nails, and Rebecca likes Nails) and I had wanted to do it but was to scared our nail art skillz would suck.  But oh well here it is:

No one really knows where this originated from but there a smart people because I really like this idea.

So the first day was red nails and I was going to do a swatching series of the LAQUER SHINES:

And I present to you 'Dazzling'!

This is a deep red with a pretty intense shimmer.  And the lodgical non-nail polish lover in me says that it's a dupe for 'An Affair in Red Square'.  But the polish-crazy in me knows that it's not.  It just isn't.  This is a pretty color but I'm still buying 'Red Square' online.  AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME!! *crazy laugh*

Sally Hansen LACQUER SHINE 'Spark'

So a couple weeks ago my mom had to get some shoes and across from the shoe store was a Ross and I'd heard that they had nail polish, so of course I had to go in.  

(l-r: Shining, Dazzling, Vibrant, Brilliant, Spark)

I found this set of 5 Sally Hansen LACQUER SHINE's and I bought it (duh!) and they're all shimmers except for 'Spark', aka the purple one.  it almost looks like it has actual glitter chunks in it.  It's also the only one that doesn't have another darker version.

Here's a bottle pic and a close-up below

Now I don't know about you guys but this looks totally purple in the bottle.  but strangely on the first coat it turned out to be navy blue.  And it only got darker with each coat (there was 2).

 This picture shows the truest of the color.  Although I was sad that it wasn't a purple I'm kinda glad because I have a lot of purple shimmers similar to this but I don't have any navy shimmers and it's a really pretty color.

Sally Hansen Insta-Dry 'Lightning'

My favorite color is yellow.   I love it.   In fact my room is Sherwin Williams Daisy.   So of course I love yellow nail polish. It's really easy to find a yellow shimmer but it's harder to find a true yellow creme.  Most of them are slightly orange or green.  

And I love Sally Hansen Insta-Dry.  While they aren't what they claim (One coat! One Stroke! and your done!), they're still really good (Two strokes! Two coats! and then a top coat!).  I had already had 'Brisk Blue' and 'Lively Lilac' (I'll swatch and review those another time).  So when I saw 'Lightning' it was a perfect match!

    

Well, it would have been if the formula wasn't crappy.  I used four coats and could defiantly have used a fifth.  And there was weird black things on some of the nails (shown below)  and also on the middle finger you can see these bald spots.  errr  this polish bothered me so much.

here's an up close on my crusty looking middle finger D:< 

And to make matters worse I had decided to matte them.  Because while matte nails are "over" I still like the look (Chanel's coming out with a matte top coat).  When i say the matte made it look bad that is a understatement.  There was so many weird spots and blotches that randomly showed up!  I was so disappointed in this polish.  Guess I'll have to continue on the quest of finding the perfect yellow....