Orly 'Passion Fruit'

Ew.  In the bottle 'Passion Fruit is a bright pink creme.  But, on the nail it's a drab awkward orange pink matte color.  This is 3 coats and the formula was RIDICULOUS!  Every time I did another coat it would wipe of part of the precious coat. and it had a matte finnish and that didn't save the application at all.  I had bought this at Sally Beauty (shown here) and I had so much hope, but no.  Oh well.

And on a side note the VOTING is going GREAT!  Thank you all for your votes and the news of them that you have shared!  And I'm hoping that those Orly's will be better than this one (not to hard a thing to do...)!

China Glaze 'Go Go Pink'

I bought 'Go Go Pink' forever and a day ago (ok in October) at Sally Beauty and it's been sitting on top of my melmer since then (then being when I 1st showed it).  TO THE SWATCH!

I was really exited about this because the only other baby pink I have is my absolute favorite Essie 'French Affair' and I only like to use that on special occasions.  Ummm...  yeah... no...  this was a TERRIBLE formula, it was so sheer, and what you see above is *5* coats and it's still awkward and has a VNL (nail lingo for Visible Nail Line).  Plus, not good dry time.  Took FOREVER.  But I do like the color, which makes me look tan ;).  But It's really not worth the 1 000 000 000 coats it's gonna take to look good as a full mani, but as a base for a glitter would be a good use.

Do you guys have any pretty polishes with crummy formulas??

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.

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....