Sinful Colors - Innocent

Hello! I've got a new favorite to show you today. Sinful Colors make up almost a whole drawer on their own in my collection for a good reason, they have great colors and pretty good formula for really cheap. I love greens so I had to get Innocent when I saw it. It's a very interesting color.. very yellow, slightly murky. I think dirty chartreuse is the best way to describe it. It's certainly bright! The formula is a jelly-creme, meaning it can get streaky on you if your coats are very thin. I did one thin coat and then one thick coat on top. Since the formula is on the thin side, the thick coat did run into my cuticles a little bit but I always do cleanup anyways, so it wasn't a big deal. It evened out nicely with a great shine that only got glossier when I added topcoat. I really love these slightly unusual colors and I'm glad that Sinful Colors is there to bring some diversity to the drugstore nail polish range.

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China Glaze - Ahoy!

Based on the number of polishes from the Anchors Away collection I've swatched here, it might be fair to say it's been my favorite of the year. I've shown you First Mate, Life Preserver, and Sea Spray before, so here's Ahoy! to round it out. Ahoy! is well-pigmented like the rest, needing only two coats. It's a yummy juicy raspberry pink full of pink-gold shimmer that unfortunately isn't showing up too well here. I've worn this on both my fingers and toes and it's just such a great summer color.

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OPI - Glamour Game

Hello! I have another frosty polish for you today. I don't know why but I've been drawn to them lately. I know a lot of people don't like them but I do, on occasion. Glamour Game is a silvery-beige color with fine gold glitter distributed sparsely in it. It's an interesting color, neutral without being boring. My only complaint is that it is fairly sheer, what you see here is 3 coats and you can definitely see my nails. I've been picking these OPIs up at my local Publix grocery stores and it's kinda cool to see what you can find.

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Sephora by OPI - Leaf Him At The Altar

Hello! Today's polish is one of the few Sephora by OPIs I have in my collection. Their colors aren't generally stand-outs but you get some real winners from time to time! Leaf Him At The Altar is a light green full of silver shimmer, really the closest I think I've gotten to finding a true green foil polish. It reminds me a lot of sage plants, very calming color. If you don't like frosts or frost-ish colors you might want to avoid this one though, as you can see in the sun it does show brushstrokes. It's not too bad, though. This went on smoothly in 3 coats with no problems.

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Zoya - Faye

Hello everyone! Here's another swatch for you. This polish should have gone up the other day but I just couldn't get enough sunshine to show it off properly until now. Faye is a new summer release from Zoya and it is GOOOORGEOUS. So sparkly! It's a pretty grape-ish purple base loaded with gold flecks of shimmer. Zoya always does these kinds of finishes the best. It went on really nicely in 3 coats and is perfect for summer because it has to be seen in the sun to be fully appreciated. Sometimes I'm wary of micro-glittery polishes like these because they can be tough to remove but Faye came off easily with my normal non-acetone remover. It did leave my fingers covered in gold glitter though, but that can be washed off.

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Orly Nail Rescue Saves The Day!

Hi everyone! Sorry for the late post, Florida is still being all soggy and cloudy so I decided to do a post that doesn't need sunshine to be shown off. Orly Nail Rescue is a simple but tremendously useful system that will save your cracked, broken nails. I can directly credit this with letting me keep my long nails for as long as I did. Without it I'd have had to trim down much earlier. Here's what you get in the box (minus the instruction sheet):

On the left is the nail glue. As far as I know it's the same as any other nail glue you'd get off the shelf, the bottle says you can use it for applying fake nails too so it's not limited to just fixing your nails. The key component here is on the right in the little round container. It's full of a very fine, white powder that, when combined with the nail glue, hardens into a resin that holds together the broken part of your nail and protects it. It's easy to use. All you do is brush the glue onto the broken section and then dip the entire glue-covered part into the powder. Then you can lightly dust off the excess powder and use the included file to smooth out the repair. I usually buff it with a finer file just to make it extra smooth. I've tried using tea bags and silk wraps in the past to repair cracks and tears but nothing has worked as well for me as Nail Rescue. The only thing you need to keep in mind is that to take it off you will need pure acetone to dissolve the glue-powder mixture so you might want to avoid using acetone-based remover to keep from weakening the patch. I use non-acetone remover all the time anyways so it's not a problem for me, but just a heads up. I hope this review is helpful to any of you who have fragile nails like me!

Orly - Lemonade

I am SO VERY HAPPY to bring you this post today! This color satisfies a long-time desire of mine: an opaque and easily applied pastel yellow. Both pastels and yellows are noted for being difficult, so when you combine the two you generally get disaster. This was true for the first pastel yellow I tried, Sinful Colors' Unicorn. Streaky mess. I looked around on the internet for a good while and found some contenders. I picked this polish up at the store the other day and came home to put it on with some trepidation. Heck, I was even getting angry in advance expecting it to apply awfully. The first, very thin, coat was somewhat streaky but not too terrible. I decided to do a rather thick second coat after waiting about 5 minutes to prevent the first layer from dragging and SUCCESS! That's what you see here, pure buttery sunshine perfection. I really sort of don't want to take it off but I will, of course. At least I know I have a little bottle of pretty pastel yellow waiting for me. :)

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