Revlon Sunshine Sparkle and Finger Paints Flashy

Hi dolls!  =)

A little embarrassed to say that I got horribly out of order with some posts.  Today's post is the manicure I wore right before I went on vacation to see Sissy.

My base was Revlon's Sunshine Sparkle, which I picked up from my local Target on clearance back in the beginning of "winter," or at least when everyone was releasing their winter collections.  It's a really pretty sheer pastel yellow with a yellow/gold micro shimmer in it.  I think I did this base maybe three times because I royally messed it up the first time.  Way too much polish on the brush with not enough time in between coats just made a big mess of my nails.  The second time they got half way dry then Mom grabbed my fingers and scraped half the polish off my nails and onto her hand.  Neither of us were happy about that.

So like Goldilocks, the third time was just right.  The picture of this third and final time with this one manicure is just two normal coats.  This was also before my clean up, so please forgive the messy nails.

Every single one of my nails also decided to break down to the quick while I was at work the day I did this.  It was very depressing and kind of painful.  Poor little nubbins.

Finger Paints released their flaky polishes at the beginning of January at Sally's Beauty Supply, and I purchased my two bottles as soon as they were released...and then forgot to post about them.  Sorry. 

I love anything that is shiny and/or sparkles.  Flakies are a very nice subtle way of getting your bling nails past your boss in case your work has a strict policy about flamboyant nail polishes.  But every company and their mom this year released flakies, where last year you could barely find the lovelies.  Were the glitter factories having a sale on flakies?  

I can't honestly say one flakie is as good as the next, because I haven't tried them all.  Almost all of the ones I have laid eyes on come in a different colored base and have different colors in the flake themselves, so your selection depends entirely on what you want to wear them with.  I just bought two that I thought I'd be happy with having in my hoard collection.  For now.

Finger Paints Flashy is a multichrome flakie in a yellow-ish base, so I thought it went well with this manicure.  The colors in this are mostly yellow, pink, and orange, but I kept seeing bits of blue, purple and green in different lighting.  I tried to get all the colors to show up in the pictures above, but the lighting is a little washed out.

Thanks for humoring me with this late post!  I think I got Finger Paints Flashy for about $6 before the Sally's discount card.

Facets of Fuchsia

Today I'm posting what might just be a decent dupe for an OPI Designer Series color.  Everyone knows that OPI has a superior formula to most of the other main stream lacquers out there.  I also thought that this could stand in for an L.A. Colors shade, but after looking at the website I'm not so sure.  If any of you lovely people reading this know exactly which one it is a good dupe for, please leave a comment of email me.  I saw it on another blog, which I unfortunately can't remember which one, so I know it has been compared to something else.

This is Revlon's Facets of Fuchsia over essence 21 Fabuless.  I used two coats of Fabuless, which has the tiniest bit of shimmer to it, so it would be great on its own, and one coat of FoF.  Facets has large hex dark purple glitter pieces and micro purple glitter pieces in a black jelly base.  I was tempted to try this glitter over just a purple, but the black jelly looked weird on top of it.  Maybe if I find the right purple...Hmm.

This manicure lasted me a solid four days with little to no chipping, and shrinking from the tips only on one or two nails.  All this might be attributed to a new top coat I'm trying out, one of those "no chip" kinds, but we'll see after a few test runs, then I'll give a full report.  Facets of Fuchsia's glitter pieces were really easy to move around and I didn't have to load up the brush a million times.  Fun to work with, in my opinion.

I thought this could have been a dupe for L.A. Colors Glistening Purple, but all the pictures I see of it just looks like a purple glitter.  Then I thought it could have been one of OPI's Designer Series, but that's also wrong.  Either way, I really liked it.

Revlon Facets of Fuchsia retails for around $5.50 US plus sales tax.
**essence 21 Fabuless was provided to me for review by a third party, I did not buy this one.  But it retails for about $1 US

Gold Finger

Am I the only one who feels like today (Wednesday) feels like a Friday?  Why isn't it Friday?  This week will never end.

Anyway, my nails are GOLD today!  Like brushed 14k gold.  I love metallics.  It's Revlon's "Golden" from the quick dry line.  Indeed, it did dry quickly, and I added a quick dry top coat (also from Revlon), so I figured it would dry extra quickly.  Turns out it dried a normal quick dry, but I ended up putting too much polish on my left thumb nail and I hit something with the not-dry-yet nail and ruined it.  Had to start all over.  One of those "Aw, seriously?" moments.

It applied kind of streaky, but it looked much better after I added a top coat.  This color actually got me a very nice compliment when I went out to dinner earlier from the owner of the restaurant, who is a huge LSU Tigers fan.  It helped that I had on a dark purple top, but whatevs.  I did get a very nice "Ooh la la," and a "Geaux Tigers!" out of him though.

I have a feeling that this color will look great during the summer or even just with a tan.  When it first dried and I sat there admiring my nails I felt like I should be in a James Bond movie.

Revlon Top Speed Nail Enamel retails for $5.99 US plus sales tax.