Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Review

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Hey all!  I have a quick Halloween colored mani for you tonight.  I received the new Halloween colors from Sally Hansen Insta-Dri for review.  These three just begged to be worn together.  I started with a base of OMGhost, a great white that was opaque in two coats.  I know Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Whirlwind White was a huge favorite for a lot of people and is discontinued but I think this would make a great replacement for that.  After that was dry I used a chevron pattern from Nail Vinyls down the middle.  The orange is Pumpkin Queen.  It covered the white in one coat and is the perfect orange for Halloween.  The black is Scaredy Matte.  It also covered the white in one coat.  I put topcoat just over the orange so the black would stay matte.

The formula on these was good.  What I had issues with was the amount of polish on the big, flat brushes.  The brushes give a lot of coverage but my nails are pretty curved and I struggle a bit with them.  But that's just me and not a reflection on the polish.  I've seen this collection in a few drugstores around here.  So run out and get the white.  And the orange!!

Have a great night!

Sara

*Polishes were provided to me for review.  All opinions are 100% mine.*

Different Dimension Good Evening Clarice

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So I know Halloween was a few days ago but I really wanted to show you guys the super cool mani I actually wore that day.  This beauty is two coats of Different Dimension Good Evening Clarice layered over Zoya Neely.  GEC is a minty green with a super subtle holo.  Since it was a bit sheer I layered it to give it a bit of a color bump.  GEC is glow in the dark too!  My accent nail is Orly Old School Orange, a rubber finish, with China Glaze Goulish Glow layered on top.  I couldn't handle one nail on each hand not glowing haha.  Then since Mr. MLiP said my green and orange mani wasn't Halloween enough I stamped on a spider from my Mash plates.

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I thoroughly enjoyed wearing this mani.  The glow in the dark was so much fun to torment Mr. MLiP with.  Although karma payback for sticking my fingers in his face was the next night I scared myself when I turned out the light and itched my eye.  It was weird to have something glowing by my eye.  I hope you all had an awesome Halloween.  We had lots of fun trick or treating with my boys.

Talk with you soon,

Sara

Generic Halloween Nails

Hi everyone!  I have a super generic Halloween mani that I wore last week.  This is Julep Cleopatra, a wax finish black, and Julie G Tangerine Dream, an orange texture finish.  The formula on Cleopatra was actually really good.  I had been expecting a pain after reading some blogs but mine was even in two coats.   Tangerine Dream took three coats to not have VNL.

This was my first time wearing a texture polish on a full nail and I have to say it weirds me out.  I can't stop touching it.  Both polishes wore really well.  I was surprised by how well.  I hope you all have a fabulous Halloween.  If work tomorrow doesn't ruin my current mani, I'll be sure to show it to you even if it's after the holiday.

Until next time...

Sara

Halloween Nails

Happy Halloween!!!  I know you're probably on Halloween mani overload right now but I wanted to share mine.  After taking photos of this I realized my topcoat is full of bubbles.  Can't really see it in real  life but the pictures really show it.  I used a base of China Glaze Recycle, pretty much the perfect gray, then layered on Feenix Polish Candy Corn.  Candy Corn is awesome.  Yellow, orange and white glitter in a clear base.  It has pretty good coverage.  This is two coats of Candy Corn.  I only had to do a bit of dabbing on some areas that didn't have enough glitter.  My accent nail is a candy corn.  I know it's been done a lot but for me this is fancy nail art.  I loved it even though it got a bit thick.  Zoya Pippa may not have been the best yellow for the job but it was all I had.

My boys thought this mani was super cool.  We had a great time trick or treating tonight.  I hope you all had a great Halloween.

Sara

KKcenterhk Stamping Plate

Good morning!  Are you sick of all the Halloween posts yet?  I love seeing all the creativity in my blog reader.  Today I have a quick review of a stamping plate from kkcenterhk.com.  Here's the link for the plate I used today.  I had mixed results with this one, which is unusual for me.  The plates I've reviewed in the past have all worked well.  The web and the ghost stamped very well.  The pumpkin on my first finger would not come out clear no matter what I did.  It also had that weird smear spot underneath it that I couldn't avoid.  The image on my pinky is supposed to be a witch but no matter how I looked at it I couldn't see a witch.  I honestly wish I had just stamped the web on all my fingers.  I gave their stamper another shot but it wouldn't pick up the images.  Once I switched back to my normal konad stamper the images came up just fine.

I'm in love with the nail color under the stamping.  It just screamed Halloween.  I used China Glaze Orange You Hot? then used the saran wrap method with a black cream, Sinful Colors Black on Black I believe.  I just love the saran wrap method for simple, quick nail art.

I hope you have an awesome Tuesday.  Until next time...

Sara

*Stamping plate in this post was sent by the company in exchange for my honest review*

Piggy Polish Lightmare

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Hi lovlies!!  I'm going to have a few Halloween themed things for you the next few days.  I've been procrastinating so now I have to jam them all in.  Today's polish was an impulse buy at Ulta one afternoon.  It was sitting with some other Halloween themed polishes and makeup and I just couldn't resist.  Piggy Polish Lightmare is a gray (sometimes it kind of looked a little brown) and orange glitter.  I decided to layer it over Zoya Raven and I'm so glad I did.  One coat gave really good coverage but by the time I reached about the 7th finger the polish was super gloopy and thick.  It's a gorgeous polish but is definitely going to need some thinner next time I wear it.  *Edited to add*  To make this glitter smooth it took two coats of Gelous and a coat of HK Girl topcoat.  Super thirsty glitter :)

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Regardless of the thick formula I really enjoyed this polish.  I got lots of compliments on it.  I like that is looked Halloweenish without being so in your face like the saran wrap/stamping mani I'm wearing right now.  You'll see that one soon :)  I hope you all had a great weekend.  I'd love to see your Halloween manis.  Feel free to share them over on my fb page.

Sara

NOPI Give Me the 1st Dance

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Let me just start by saying that no I am not a Bieber fan.  I'm too old for that.  I do love this polish though.  Nicole by OPI Give Me the 1st Dance is a silver metallic/foil.  I'm really bad with finishes.  This is two super easy coats.  Don't think I'm a fan of the perfect stroke brush.  I would imagine it would be really hard to use if you had small nails.  Mine aren't particularly small and this brush fills my pinkie nail up.

Here in Phoenix, I don't have access to the cool pumpkin or snowman nail polishes they sell at Rite Aid.  My mom loves me though and brought back a few pumpkin polishes from a recent trip back east.  I decided to layer the orange and black string (bar?) glitter over my silver.  The glitter took a little work but I must say the end result made me very happy.  This is 3 coats of glitter, a coat of gelous and a topcoat.  There was a lot of stuff on my nails for this one, but the result is a cute, simple Halloween manicure.  

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 Do you love or hate NOPI?  I don't mind it.  I know a lot of people really dislike the bottles.

Have a happy day!

Sara

PS* If anyone has a dying need to send me some snowman polishes, feel free :)  Just kidding but I do really wish we had a Rite Aid around here.