I'm gonna keep this quick because I'm short on time, but today I have swatches. LOTS of swatches. All are from Revlon and most of them are so very wonderful I had to share. So lets get going!
First we have Sunshine Sparkle which was my least favorite out of the bunch mostly just due to formula. The color is great but it was really streaky and uneven going on. I'm pretty sure this is 4 coats.
This is Electric, and unlike Sunshine Sparkle this one applies smooth and evenly. I love the bright color and the subtle shimmer to it. I used 2 coats, which I gotta say is pretty damn good for a yellow.
This is Super Nature. It's a great darker lime green cream polish and the consistency on this was perfect. It dries super fast and has amazing coverage. I used 2 coats here on most of my fingers but some were only 1 coat
This is Wind Fall. I wish pictures could express how lovely this shade is. It's like a bright jungle green with a subtle shimmer that really is very pretty. It's definitely one of my favorites. Also I only used 1 coat and it was so smooth and shiny, a perfect 1 coater.
Here we have Stormy. Another 1 coater. The color is a muted brown color, or kind of a dark khaki, it's really quite pretty, even though browns aren't unusually my thing.
This is Smoky Canvas. It's yet another excellent polish from the collection we are looking at today. It's a nude but it leans more to gray than the typical nude. This was 2 coats, but was also a great formula with great opacity
This is Orchid, a great shade for those of you who like girly colors, personally it's not my favorite color but the formula is great. It's kind of a muted magenta-ish color in a metallic finish.
Guava is a great coral type shade. It leans a bit more towards pink than your typical coral. I used 2 coats here, but could maybe have stuck to just one if they had been a bit thicker.
Mock Snob is like Guava's move vivacious sister. It's also in the coral family but leans more red/orange. I LOVE this shade. I used 2 coats.
This is Cloud. It's a very pale greyish blueish lavender. I've never seen a shade quite like it. It's very elegant and classy. I used 2 coats with this one as well.
Oh my frickin goodness. This is Gold Rush, and my absolute favorite out of the bunch. SO gorgeous. 1 coater with a metallic foil finish, and it's just perfection. When I bought this I thought it was close in color to another gold I have and the shade is bit different, but it totally kicks the other polish's ass in terms of consistency and pigmentation.
Last but not least we have Carbonite. The formula is just as good as Gold rush. The color is a brownish pewter color, and it's right up there for me with Gold Rush. It seems very close to Chanel's Graphite, which I would compare, but I don't own a single Chanel polish because I'm too cheap to be forking out that kind of dough. I may eat my words one of these days, but for now I'll stick to Carbonite. : )
Over the past week or so I have picked up a handful of polishes (no buy month is not working out so well.) so I figured I would do some more swatches. So today I've got these beauties for you. Pictured above are Sinful Colors in Luminary, Wet n Wild's Spoiled in I'm So Jaded, Finger Paints in Grape Gumball, and Lemon Sour. So here we go....
Sinful Colors' Luminary just can't take a picture to do it justice. It's a pretty peachy coral color with a shimmery sparkly something special to it. When I walked by it at the drug store it immediately grabbed my attention. It's part of the Sheer Shimmer collection, but coverage was surprisingly not that sheer. Pictured here are 3 coats and it seems to cover decently.
Next we have Spoiled in I'm so Jaded from Wet n Wild. The name doesn't ring true for me if they were going for the obvious pun. This green is far from jade colored. It's a darker lime green with GORGEOUS gold shimmer. It kind of reminds me of a lime green hot rod. Application is interesting due to the wonky brush that this line has. This one was much better than some of the others I've gotten, and I like the color enough to make up for it. Pictured above are 3 coats.
Finger Paints in Lemon Sour is part of the Gumdrops & Lollipops collection which has been available at Sally's for a few months now I suppose. It's actually clearanced right now, and you can find it here for $3.29. It's a creamy light yellow. Yellows for some reason tend to be streaky but this one isn't too bad. I only used 2 coats and it applied pretty evenly. This seems like a yellow worth having.
Finger Paints in Grape Gumball is also from the Gumdrops & Lollipops collection and is also on clearance. It's a really lovely purple color. I gotta say I am in love with this shade. It leans kind of towards blue and has a subtle shimmer to it which didn't photograph all that great but you can see it a bit there in my pinkie. I liked this color enough I didn't want to take it off so I just decided to swatch a glitter I got recently as well and layer over top Grape Gumball. Picture here is ONE COAT!. I could hardly believe that. I urge anybody that doesn't have this shade to go get it before it's gone forever.
So you guys get a bonus swatch (sort of). I recently got this beauty at my local CVS. It's Tazmanian Devil by Confetti. It features medium and small sized hex glitter, and super tiny (I'm assuming round) glitter all in a rainbow of colors, but silver being the most prominent. Here it is layered over Grape Gumball. It lays really smoothly and is a pretty dense glitter. I used 1-2 coats depending on the nail.
So I have been at Walgreen's everyday this week buying a couple bottles of nail polish. Most of them were Sinful Colors, but today I picked up a couple Sally Hansen to diversify my haul for the week a little bit.
From L to R: Sinful Colors in Nirvana, Queen of Beauty, Pandora, Summer Peach, Forget Now
Part 2 from left to right Frenzy, Hottie, Irish Green, and Mint Apple.
Part 3 from left to right Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Golden-I, Lacey Lilac, and Sally Hansen Salon Nail Lacquer in You-Gurt Style which I got at Big Lots for $1.50.
I realized that since I have been really actively buying nail polish there are a bunch I haven't used yet, and figured I ought to swatch some so I know how they behave. I have never swatched anything before so, if anybody has questions don't hesitate to ask.
First we have Sinful Colors in Summer Peach. I don't get the name on this one. This polish is a bright orange neon as far as I'm concerned, and there isn't much peachy about it. In the picture there are 3 coats. It was a bit streaky going on the first couple coats but the 3rd cleared it up nicely. I skipped the base coat and I'm happy to report I experienced no staining.
Next we have Sinful Colors in Irish green. I love the color on this one. I love greens, and this is maybe one of my new favorites. I found it with the neons at Walgreen's, but beyond the bright green color this polish behaves nothing like a neon. It's a jelly! I love jellies! It's sheer of course and pictured is 3 coats. It goes on pretty smoothly and doesn't cure to a hard finish, but I really love this polish. I highly recommend it.
the last of my swatches today is Sinful Colors in Nirvana. I'm typically not big on brown, but this one is kind of different. It's a beautiful grayish brown cream polish with great coverage. This is only 2 coats, and I feel like if my first coat had been a bit thicker I might have been able to pull off a single coat. Usually I would say Browns are more of a Fall/Winter color, but this shade could easily work all year round.
Thanks for reading!
Micoleslaw
