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Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Lacey Lilac

Happy New Year's Eve, Dear Reader!

I really wanted to use another of the new Sally Hansen Xtreme Wears today even though it was just a creme (last year's NYE mani was so blingy I broke off a nail removing it!), so I decided to just go with it and add a little glitter.

It turned out that Lacey Lilac, the lavender creme from the Xtreme Wear display I recall nothing about, is a fantastic layering polish. It's super pigmented, so it only took one coat to be completely even and opaque. For a pastel, that's a big deal. If I were to wear Lacey Lilac alone, I'd do two coats so it would be nice and shiny, but as a base for some glitter, one coats was plenty. I added one coat of FingerPaints Floatin' on a Cloud to it, topped it off with top coat, and now I have a glitterific pastel manicure.

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Lacey Lilac with FingerPaints Glitter, One Coat Each

I hope you have a safe and happy New Year's Eve, Dear Reader, and until 2011, love and nail polish to you!

FingerPaints Fun-Fetti Holiday Limited Edition

Good morning, Dear Reader!

I had an email from Sally's PR this morning about Fun-Fetti, their limited edition holiday polish release, that has swatch and promo picture I thought you'd like to see, so here they are. Clicking the pictures will open it, and you can see a giant version in another tab by clicking the "Show Original" link on the bottom left.

FingerPaints Fun-Fetti Bottle Picture

FingerPaints Funfetti Swatch Promo Picture

This is the one with the availability information (sometime in November through sometime in January at Sally's Beauty Supply).

FingerPaints Fun-Fetti Promo Picture

I just wanted to give you a peek! Until next time, love and nail polish to you!

Posted in FingerPaints , Glitter , Holiday

FingerPaints Winter Dreams Collection

Good morning, Dear Reader!

Sally Beauty Supply sent me samples of their FingerPaints Winter Dreams Collection for Holiday 2010 to review, and I have swatches of them for you today. I'm a fan of FingerPaints in general, particularly the seasonal collections, but the FingerPaints holiday collections are always my favorites with great colors and finishes. The Winter Dreams Collection does not disappoint, either - every one of these polishes is a winner.

Winter Wishes is an elegant champagne shimmer with very fine gold glitter. I used two coats of Winter Wishes and topped it with a coat of Seche Vite so you could see how it really looks (the glitter was making it look less than attractive without top coat).

FingerPaints Winter Wishes Nail Polish, Two Coats

Holly Good times is a mixture of gold and red fine glitter in a clear base. I used two coats to make it opaque, and somehow this one reminds me of apple cider.

FingerPaints Holly Good Times Nail Polish, Two Coats

Just Plum Fun is a rich plum with a subtle shimmer, also a two coater.

FingerPaints Just Plum Fun Nail Polish, Two Coats

Merry Mittens is a rust red shimmer with fine gold glitter. In two coats, the polish is opaque and the fine glitter shows through very well without being over the top - it's festive without being too much at all.

FingerPaints Merry Mittens Nail Polish, Two Coats

Mistletoe Mischief was the only one of the six that required a third coat for me. The polish was a bit thin, but for a Christmas green shimmer with tiny flaky bits, I'll do a third coat.

FingerPaints Mistletoe Mischief Nail Polish, Three Coats

Last up, in keeping with the traditional ordering of things, is my favorite of the collection, Mulberry Madness. This one's a mulberry base with silver and mulberry glitter. It's gorgeous and it's good in two coats.

FingerPaints Mulberry Madness Nail Polish, Two Coats

So those are the six colors in FingerPaints' Winter Dreams, and I really like every one of them. As for generalities regarding the collection, I found the shimmers with lots of glitter (Winter Wishes & Mulberry Madness) were quite thick, but after two thin coats and two coats of top coat, they're perfect. With the other four, when applying them I questioned whether they could be possibly opaque in inly two coats because the first looks really thin, but they're just fine. No changes have been to the brush or bottle, and I had nary a wonky brush, so I really have nothing at all to complain about.

The FingerPaints Winter Dreams Collection will be available online on Sally Beauty Supply's site and in stores in November. That's all I have for you today, Dear Reader, so until next time, love and nail polish to you!

Posted in Beige , FingerPaints , Glitter , green , nail polish , purple , red

Konad m85 ~ New Plate!

Good morning, Dear Reader!

I was thinking of what to do for a mani today, and I have an absolute ton of fun stuff to show you at this point (especially since I found some cool Wet n Wild glitter polishes yesterday), but when it came right down to it I did not yet have the heart to remove Winter Sky, the blue from the FingerPaints Merry & Bright Collection. It's way too pretty and I'm not done enjoying it yet, so I considered what I could add and realized I hadn't yet shown you Konad plate m85, the other new one that WowSoCool sent for review. Here's their image of the plate so you can see all its patterns.

Konad Plate m85 from Wow So Cool

I chose the floral full nail pattern, the one at about eleven o'clock on the plate, with Konad White Princess Polish. I'd planned just an accent nail because I wasn't up for twenty stamps, but I found that the pattern is open enough that it looks fine with a single stamp that has a bit of free space at the top and bottom, so I went for ten stamped nails since that's a much more manageable number. Some people may disagree with me on whether double stamping should have been done, and that's okay - they're not the one facing the task of lining up twenty stamps!

I used the Konad multiscraper that I showed you with plate m84, and it was very fast and easy, far more so than a separate scraper and stamper for me. There were no do-overs or troubles at all, and then I sealed it with Sally Hanson Salon 10 Day Speed Dry (the old SH Salon, not Compete Salon Manicure). I think it might be my new favorite for Konad. The 10 Day part of its name is likely accurate - it makes my manis bulletproof, with no chips or tip wear no matter what, but the Speed Dry part is open for debate. The top coat itself dries very quickly, but it doesn't dry the polish under it well at all and I've never had a success with it drying polish. I don't know if I've used it to seal Konad before, but it didn't make even the tiniest smudge on a single nail, and it also has a fantastic shine (that's what I'd repurchased it for), so I think it'll be what I use over most Konad. Maybe one day I'll be brave enough to see if it works over Konad Black, but maybe not, we'll see.

After the top coat dried, I went out and took pictures under a cloudlessly sunny sky, and here is my first use of Konad plate m85.

Konad Plate m85 over FingerPaints Winter Sky Nail Polish

I love this pattern! I have a strong but inexplicable attraction to the full nail patterns that look like wallpaper, and this qualifies as one for me. Every time I go a little while without using Konad, the next time I use it I wonder why I don't more often because there's not another nail decoration I like quite as much. The Sally Hansen Salon Effects are in second place, but Konad's lead is pretty strong!

That's my first Konad m85 manicure and I'm sure there will be many more. Until next time, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!

Posted in Blue , FingerPaints , FingerPaints Merry Bright Collection , Konad , Nail Art , nail polish

FingerPaints Holiday 2011 Swatches

Good afternoon, Dear Reader!

This afternoon I have swatches of the FingerPaints Merry & Bright Collection, their Holiday 2011 release. The collection consists of six polishes, three glitters and three shimmers, and the pictures of all six are in sunlight and without top coat on the first five (the last one is the post-swatching manicure). I'll start with the glitters...

Each of these is super fine glitter in a clear base, the powdery fine kind of glitter. I used three coats in each of the swatches for complete coverage, and since they are swatches rather than dried manicures, I don't know how much top coat they require. However, since the glitter is unusually fine, I doubt more than two could be necessary. I'll tell you for sure when I wear one as a manicure.

Drummer Boy is a bright blue glitter, a really nice holiday shade of blue. Three coats gives the completely encrusted in glitter look.

FingerPaints Drummer Boy Nail Polish, Three Coats

Santa Kisses is the red of those metallic looking overly fragile glass ball tree ornaments, the good ones from long ago that would shatter into a zillion shards if someone looked in their general direction. It screams Christmas to me.

FingerPaints Santa Kisses Nail Polish, Three Coats

The last is a tinsel-y silver, Frosty Night, and it could likely use a fourth coat to be totally opaque.

FingerPaints Frosty Night Nail Polish, Three Coats

Those are the three glitters. For the three shimmers, I used only two coats each. Yule Be Merry is a pinkish red with a really interesting glowy shimmer. The color strikes me as a happy one that's still good for winter.

FingerPaints Yule Be Merry Nail Polish, Two Coats

Comet's Collar is the green, and it has my favorite name. The shade of green is kind of a pale holly shade, but the really cool element of Comet's Collar is the shimmer - there are multicolored sparkle bits in it that just make it really fun to look at.

FingerPaints Comet's Collar Nail Polish, Two Coats

The last is Winter Sky, and it's the one I did a full manicure with. It's a vivid deep sky blue with an almost-secret shimmer. One coat of Winter Sky was totally opaque and even, I added a second because it's the one I'm wearing.

FingerPaints Winter Sky Nail Polish, Two Coats

I think FingerPaints holiday collections are the ones I most anticipate, and this one did not disappoint me at all. Each of the shimmers is really well done, and the super fine glitter in the glitters makes them apply and build well. I think Comet's Collar is my top pick of this collection simply because its shimmer is so outstanding, but I couldn't wait to wear Winter Sky either.

Those are my FingerPaints Merry & Bright swatches, so until next time, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!

Edited to add a link to the FingerPaints Merry & Bright Promo Image & availability info and a removal note: When I took off Winter Sky, the skin on my hands stained teal (no nail staining, just the skin upon removal). Tom's of Maine whitening toothpaste and an extra soft bristled toothbrush took all of it off easily. I panicked at the sight of teal hands, you don't have to - just use toothpaste and it'll come right off.

Products were sent for independent review.

All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.

Posted in Blue , FingerPaints , FingerPaints Merry Bright Collection , Glitter , green , nail polish , red , Silver

FingerPaints Holiday 2011 Promo Image

FingerPaints Merry & Bright Swatches

Good afternoon, Dear Reader!

I just got an image in my email I thought you'd be interested in. It's FingerPaints Merry & Bright Collection, their Holiday 2011 release.

FingerPaints Holiday 2011 Promo Image

I'm excited about these, and as there's more to tell, I shall. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!

Posted in FingerPaints , FingerPaints Merry Bright Collection

FingerPaints BCA Nail Polishes

Good evening, Dear Reader!

Sally Beauty Supply sent me samples of the two 2010 FingerPaints Breast Cancer Awareness nail polishes, and I have swatches of them for you today. As for the charitable contribution associated with them, Sally Beauty Supply will make a $65,000 contribution to Cancer Support Community next month.

I Pink I Can is a light pink with a really cool shimmer. It's delicate, but still pronounced. I used three coats of I Pink I Can to make it completely even and opaque, which is pretty typical of a lighter pink.

FingerPaints I Pink I Can Nail Polish, Three Coats

The other color is I'm A Survivor, which is a bright pink shimmer. The shimmer in I'm A Survivor appears to be the same as that in I Pink I Can, but it's more evident in the darker base color. I'm A Survivor was good in two coats.

FingerPaints I'm A Survivor Nail Polish, Two Coats

I really like these a lot, they're a nice change from the sheer pinks that are usually released for BCA. This has been a really good year for BCA colors so far.

Both polishes will be available in brick and mortar Sally Beauty Supply stores as well as on their website on October 1st.

That's it for today, Dear Reader. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!

Posted in FingerPaints , nail polish , Pink

FingerPaints To-teally Chic & Konad m63

Good morning, Dear Reader!

Today I went with another from the FingerPaints Fall Fashionista Collection, To-teally Chic. It the teal creme, as the name implies, and I used two coats for perfectly smooth, opaque, shiny goodness. After it had dried, I stamped it with the ribbon-y pattern from Konad plate m63 in Konad White Pearl Special Polish.

My stamping fell a little short of my usual standards, I think because of the humidity. Everything through picking up the stamp was business as usual, but applying the stamp, the polish stuck to the stamper and only about half of it transferred to my nails with the other half staying on the stamp. Some polishes have done that before, but White Pearl never has and it's a color (and particular bottle of that color ) which gets plenty of use, so it seems like it has to be an outside factor. Since I was left with light image on the stamper after applying, rather than double stamp to cover the small edge that was left bare, I just applied leftover bits from the stamper to fill it in. Some came off, some stayed stuck, but I was able to finish the mani that way.

FingerPaints To-teally Chic Nail Polish with Konad Plate m63

See? Not great, but not awful. If I'd managed to make super clean stamps, in which case I would have done a careful double-stamp to fill in rather than a half-assed job of using stamper leftovers, this one could have been really striking, I think. I'll have to give it another shot after either the weather lightens up a bit or I figure out a workaround.

That's today's near miss of a manicure, so until next time, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!

Posted in FingerPaints , FingerPaints Fall Fashionista , Konad , Nail Art , nail polish , Teal

FingerPaints Fall 2011

Good afternoon, Dear Reader!

Today I have swatches of FingerPaints' Fall Fashionista Collection for Fall 2011, which will be available at Sally Beauty Supply in August in stores and online. For the swatches, all are two coats of color over a base coat and finished with Poshe, which I allowed to dry for about five minutes before I took a picture in sunlight.

Fall Fashionista is a collection of nine cremes, and they're all incredibly nice to apply. The formula is very smooth and even to work with, and it's so well pigmented that only two of the nine shades actually needed the two coats of color I used. The remaining seven were even an opaque at one thin coat, but I added a second because I prefer the look of two coats on my nails (I have ridges, they don't show with the second coat). However, for nail art stamping, layering, pretty much anything other than wearing the polish alone, one coat would be just fine for me.

Catwalk Queen is a weird-in-a-good-way sort of Dijon mustard colored creme, and it's one of the two that really needed both coats to achieve the color in the bottle. My middle nail is not shiny here because my nails fogged up from the heat and humidity, and that went unnoticed until I was selecting pictures.

FingerPaints Catwalk Queen Nail Polish, Two Coats

Military Green is a really cool one - it's the same color as U.S Army uniforms, that green with a touch of grey mixed into it. It's good at one coat, but here's a picture of two.

FingerPaints Military Green Nail Polish, Two Coats

To-teally Chic (that's the press release spelling, the label says "To-telly Chic," but it looks like a sample label, so we'll know which it is when they're at Sally's) is a vivid teal creme. I believe this is the nicest teal creme that $4.99 will buy you . Again, one thin coat was even and opaque for me, but the picture is of two coats.

FingerPaints To-teally Chic Nail Polish, Two Coats

Purple Pinstripe is a very pretty muted purple creme, and like most of the others, the color was great in one coat. The second gives a little more depth and a lot more shine, so here's two coats of Purple Pinstripe (and I see the bottom finger's nail fogged up).

FingerPaints Purple Pinstripe Nail Polish, Two Coats

Haute Taupe is a soft light brown creme, a good basic polish.

FingerPaints Haute Taupe Nail Polish, Two Coats

Raspberry Taffeta, a really gorgeous berry shade, is one of my favorites. A couple of months ago I was looking for an article of clothing, and in that process noticed for the very first time that at least half of my clothing that's not black or white at least includes this shade. It seems I'm a big fan!

FingerPaints Raspberry Taffeta Nail Polish, Two Coats

Vintage Velvet is another contender for the Favorite position, a muted blue green creme. It's an unusual, modern, very pretty shade.

FingerPaints Vintage Velvet Nail Polish, Two Coats

Stunning Stilettos, a grey creme, is the other one that really needed a second coat (so I needed two for Catwalk Queen and Stunning Stilettos, all seven others could have gotten away with one coat of color). It's a good grey creme.

FingerPaints Stunning Stilettos Nail Polish, Two Coats

Last but very definitely not least is the one I am wearing, Cordur-Orange (I know the name looks silly, say it out loud and it makes sense). It's a Fall orange that brings to mind maple leaves changing and apple cider for me, but somehow FingerPaints avoided doing to Cordur-Orange whatever OPI did to Ginger Bells because Cordur-Orange is pretty. It's the one I'm wearing today.

FingerPaints Cordur-Orange Nail Polish, Two Coats

That's all of them. My sense of the collection as a whole is that it's perfect for Fall, and several of the colors are an interesting take on a more ordinary shade. The quality of the polishes is exceptional, and the application is amazing. I don't have a favorite picked out yet because there are four battling for it, and since I'll change my mind about it tomorrow anyhow I haven't really put the screws to myself to sort that one out.

That's what I know about FingerPaints Fall Fashionista Collection for 2011, so until next time, love and nail polish to you!

*FingerPaints Fall Fashionista was sent by Sally Beauty supply for independent honest review.

Posted in FingerPaints , FingerPaints Fall Fashionista , nail polish

FingerPaints Fall Fashionista

Swatches of FingerPaints Fall Fashionista Collection for Fall 2011

Good afternoon, Dear Reader!

I just got an email from Sally Beauty Supply with a promo image of their FingerPaints Fall 2011 limited edition release, Fall Fashionista, and some of the colors look really cool so I thought I'd give you a look. If the font is too small for you, clicking on the picture will open a full-sized version in another tab.

FingerPaints Fall Fashionista Collection for Fall 2011

I just wanted to pass that on, so until tomorrow, love and nail polish to you!

Posted in FingerPaints , nail polish

OPI Pink Cupcake & FingerPaints Floatin' on a Cloud

Good morning, Dear Reader!

Today's manicure is just an excuse to post pictures. I got pictures of the billboards that are in Johannesburg from the South African nail polish distributor who bought rights to some of my pictures, and thought I'd show them to you. In case you don't care, I'm including a Nails of the Day picture from last week.

The manicure is two coats of OPI Pink Cupcake topped with one coat of FingerPaints Floatin' on a Cloud.

OPI Pink Cupcake with FingerPaints Floatin' on a Cloud

OPI Pink Cupcake, Two Coats, with One Coat FingerPaints Floatin' on a Cloud

If you don't care about the billboards, feel free to skip to the end.

There are five billboards along Johannesburg's busiest highway, and the "Clicks" on them, from what I'm told by a South African reader, is something like a mega Ulta.

Billboard #1

Some Guy Putting Up a Giant Picture of My Hand

A Two-fer

A Big Row of My Hand

It was pretty cool to wake up to the email with these pictures - it's a little surreal to see my pictures like that! I'm all excited though, and forwarded the email to my dad- he'll laugh.

That's all for now, Dear Reader. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!

Posted in Billboards , FingerPaints , Glitter , nail polish , OPI , Pink

FingerPaints Groovy Green & XL A

Good morning, Dear Reader!

Today I'll be removing a manicure I've had on for two days, FingerPaints Groovy Green with a pattern from plate XL A stamped on it in Konad White, which I really like. The pattern I chose kind of looks like a soccer ball (or a football to the rest of the world) on the plate, but I think it's really flowers made of interconnected hexagons. At least that's what I've decided it is on this manicure. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

FingerPaints Groovy Green & XL A Stamped in Konad White

It's base coat, two coats of Groovy Green, then top coat to start, and after a fifteen minute wait I stamped it, sealed with Konad top coat to avoid smudging the pattern, then quick dry top coat to make it dry fast.

I don't have anything noteworthy to tack on here, so I'll just wrap it up. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!

Posted in Chez-Delaney , Chez-Delaney XL-A , FingerPaints , FingerPaints Peace Love and Summer , green , Nail Art , nail polish

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