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| FingerPaints Sparkle Top Coat, One Coat over China Glaze Velvet Bow |
Showing posts with label FingerPaints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FingerPaints. Show all posts
Sunday, November 13, 2011
FingerPaints Sparkle Top Coat over Velvet Bow
Good morning, Dear Reader!
For today I just added one coat of FingerPaints Sparkle Top Coat to my China Glaze Velvet Bow manicure and finished it off with a coat of Sally Hansen Speed Shine, and I think it turned out well. The sun is shining, so I was able to get a sunlight picture of it.
The duochrome of Sparkle Top Coat comes out to play quite nicely in this manicure, and I like it!
That's about all there is to tell you today, so until next time, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
FingerPaints Sparkle Top Coat
Good evening, Dear Reader!
Tonight I tried out FingerPaints Sparkle Top Coat, which is one that I have no manufacturer information about, but it was on sale and looked cool when I made my recent Sally Beauty Supply trip, so I picked it up. In the bottle, it's a sparkly translucent off white like the CND Effects, and I'd wager it's closest to their Raspberry Sparkle but I haven't compared.
For the manicure, I used Illamasqua Base Coat, which I ran into half a bottle of when I was looking for the color I wanted to put under Sparkle Top Coat. Before finding the one I was after, I ran into my mini of Lippmann Devil in a Blue Dress from the Party Like a Rock Star set, a navy blue jelly, and went with that. I used two coats of Devil in a Blue dress, gave it a couple minutes to set, then added one coat of Sparkle Top Coat. I finished it off with Tout de Suite to dry it, and it made for a really cool mani. Pictures will make telling you what I like about it easier. The light outside was dim, so the first picture is artificial light and the second is indirect sunlight.
I included both because the different light shows different things. The artificial light picture is the more accurate in terms of color and how the finish looks in general, but the second picture in natural light caught the slight duochrome effect Sparkle Top Coat has. If you look near the cuticle at my thumb and index finger, you can see a greenish gold tinge, and that really shows just walking around. The overall look of this manicure reminds me of the custom paint job on a my neighbor's sports car when I was 14 (which I recall clearly because they spelled his name wrong on the driver's door and he left it that way).
For one coat, I think this is excellent. I'd planned on two coats, but I like how it looks so much after one that I thought a second might take away from it and left it alone. That's what I know about FingerPaints Sparkle Top Coat and all I have for you today, Dear Reader, so until next time, love and nail polish to you!
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
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| FingerPaints Sparkle Top Coat under Artificial Light |
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| FingerPaints Sparkle Top Coat in Indirect Sunlight |
Thursday, November 3, 2011
FingerPaints Fun-Fetti
Good evening, Dear Reader!
I got an unexpected surprise today, so I can show you FingerPaints Fun-fetti, the stand-alone FingerPaints holiday glitter release I'd shown you the press release for last week. I hadn't really expected Sally Beauty Supply to go through the hassle and shipping expense of sending samples of this one out, but it showed up today. I had something to go to earlier tonight, and I opted to change my manicure to Fun-fetti rather than wear makeup. It got a good compliment, so I think it was the right pick - the woman next to me while I was out touched a finger and said "It's beautiful!", which was nice.
I looked at the bottle next to Sephora by OPI Spark-tacular!, and the FingerPaints glitter is both bigger and brighter. I don't have OPI Rainbow Connection for comparison.
For the manicure, I thought Fun-fetti could use an opaque base, and I chose silver. I used Orly Dazzle, but I think any silver foil would work well (Dazzle is good and I've used and like Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Celeb City and FingerPaints Easel Come, Easel Go myself, and have only heard good about Zoya Trixie). Dazzle needed two coats to not be blotchy, and after giving that a few minutes to set I added two coats of FingerPaints Fun-fetti, which is a bit on the thick side but easy to apply and fast drying. It currently has one coat of Tout de Suite for top coat, and although it's not perfectly smooth and I'll add another layer of top coat in the morning, it's surprisingly not lumpy. The glitter lies far flatter than I'd expected given its size.
Here's a closer look at the glitter.
I really like this. Some of the glitter's at the upper end of how big I like it, but in the bright colors it works for me. Typically random compliments come on manicures that are a lot of work, so getting one simple layered glitter was an indicator of how cool this polish is. I also think it'll be pretty versatile in terms of colors it can be layered over.
The press info tells me this will be available from November through January only at SallyBeauty.com for $4.99 and is a limited edition, and that's a link to it on their site (I just checked to get a link and found it there already). That's what I know about FingerPaints Fun-fetti, so until next time, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
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| FingerPaints Fun-fetti and Sephora by OPI Spark-tacular! Comparison |
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| FingerPaints Fun-Fetti Nail Polish, Two Coats over Silver |
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| FingerPaints Fun-Fetti Nail Polish over Silver, A Closer Look at the Glitter |
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
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.
This is the one with the availability information (sometime in November through sometime in January at Sally's Beauty Supply).
I just wanted to give you a peek! Until next time, love and nail polish to you!
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
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.
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| FingerPaints Fun-Fetti Bottle Picture |
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| FingerPaints Funfetti Swatch Promo Picture |
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| FingerPaints Fun-Fetti Promo Picture |
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
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.
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.
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!
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
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.
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| 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.
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| 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!
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
Friday, October 21, 2011
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.
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.
The last is a tinsel-y silver, Frosty Night, and it could likely use a fourth coat to be totally opaque.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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.
I'm excited about these, and as there's more to tell, I shall. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
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.
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| 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!
All Rights Reserved, Siobhan@The Nailphile. If you're reading this elsewhere, it's stolen from a real nail polish blog.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
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.
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!
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.
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| 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!
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
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.
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.
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.
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).
Haute Taupe is a soft light brown creme, a good basic polish.
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!
Vintage Velvet is another contender for the Favorite position, a muted blue green creme. It's an unusual, modern, very pretty shade.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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).
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| FingerPaints Purple Pinstripe Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Haute Taupe is a soft light brown creme, a good basic polish.
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| 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!
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
Monday, July 18, 2011
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.
I just wanted to pass that on, so until tomorrow, love and nail polish to you!
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.
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| FingerPaints Fall Fashionista Collection for Fall 2011 |
I just wanted to pass that on, so until tomorrow, love and nail polish to you!
Saturday, May 14, 2011
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.
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!
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.
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| 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!
Friday, May 13, 2011
FingerPaints Summer 2011
Good afternoon, Dear Reader!
I have swatches of FingerPaints Peace, Love and Summer collection for you today, which Sally Beauty Supply sent me to review. Overall, it a great collection, but that's about the only generalization I can make, so I'll get on with showing you pictures and tell you about the polishes.
All You Need Is Color is a gorgeous teal glitter, which I wore after swatching yesterday. It's comfortably thin to apply and opaque in two coats. This is with one coat of top coat, which smoothed it out surprisingly well.
Give Pink A Chance isn't really giving pink a chance at all - it's more of a bright coral creme. It's a very good consistency and was easy to control. I used two coats here, one would probably be fine as a base for something else.
Groovy Green is a beautiful spring green shimmer. The polish is somewhat thick and very well pigmented, so the first pictures I took of it looked strange. I'm wearing it today, so I took a new picture with top coat.
Outta Sight Orange is pretty much what I wanted the Sephora Cheetah orange to be.
Psychedelic Sunshine is super sparkly fine glitter in a yellow jelly base. It's very thick, and applying it was a bit more challenging than the others. I tried it on the day it arrived when Chanel Mimosa didn't wow me, and I also have a swatch of two coats of Psychedelic Sunshine alone.
Here's one coat over Mimosa. Looks like the light in the picture below was different.
The last one is Peaceful Purple, a really nice purple glitter. This one was thinner, like the teal, and easy to apply. Here's two coats of it.
As usual, I'm thrilled with a seasonal collection from FingerPaints. Be on the lookout for these at Sally Beauty Supply soon.
That's the update for today, Dear Reader. I'm told yesterday's post and comments will return - there have been some Blogger troubles and it keeps disappearing and reappearing, but I can't do a single thing about it either way. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!
I have swatches of FingerPaints Peace, Love and Summer collection for you today, which Sally Beauty Supply sent me to review. Overall, it a great collection, but that's about the only generalization I can make, so I'll get on with showing you pictures and tell you about the polishes.
All You Need Is Color is a gorgeous teal glitter, which I wore after swatching yesterday. It's comfortably thin to apply and opaque in two coats. This is with one coat of top coat, which smoothed it out surprisingly well.
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| FingerPaints All You Need Is Color Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Give Pink A Chance isn't really giving pink a chance at all - it's more of a bright coral creme. It's a very good consistency and was easy to control. I used two coats here, one would probably be fine as a base for something else.
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| FingerPaints Give Pink A Chance Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Groovy Green is a beautiful spring green shimmer. The polish is somewhat thick and very well pigmented, so the first pictures I took of it looked strange. I'm wearing it today, so I took a new picture with top coat.
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| FingerPaints Groovy Green Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Outta Sight Orange is pretty much what I wanted the Sephora Cheetah orange to be.
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| FingerPaints Outta Sight Orange Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Psychedelic Sunshine is super sparkly fine glitter in a yellow jelly base. It's very thick, and applying it was a bit more challenging than the others. I tried it on the day it arrived when Chanel Mimosa didn't wow me, and I also have a swatch of two coats of Psychedelic Sunshine alone.
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| FingerPaints Psychedelic Sunshine Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Here's one coat over Mimosa. Looks like the light in the picture below was different.
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| FingerPaints Psychedelic Sunshine Nail Polish, One Coat over Yellow |
The last one is Peaceful Purple, a really nice purple glitter. This one was thinner, like the teal, and easy to apply. Here's two coats of it.
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| FingerPaints Peaceful Purple Nail Polish, Two Coats |
As usual, I'm thrilled with a seasonal collection from FingerPaints. Be on the lookout for these at Sally Beauty Supply soon.
That's the update for today, Dear Reader. I'm told yesterday's post and comments will return - there have been some Blogger troubles and it keeps disappearing and reappearing, but I can't do a single thing about it either way. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!
Saturday, February 5, 2011
FingerPaints Spring 2011
Good morning, Dear Reader!
Last week, I showed you the press release for the FingerPaints Palette of Petals Collection for Spring 2011, and this week Sally Beauty Supply sent me a set for review, so I have swatches of them for you today. I'll get straight to the pictures and tell you about each as we go.
Aren't You Glad-iolous? is a greyish lavender creme, and it's a true one-coat polish. Its coverage was so good in one coat that I photographed it that way. Here's one coat of Aren't You Glad-iolous?
Did You Ast-her Out? is next, a pink creme with just a touch of coral. Something about this color reminds me of Sally Hansen Sumptuous Petal from a few years ago, which I liked but was way too jelly for me. At two coats, it's more of a jelly and I could see through my tips, and at three, which I used here, Did You Ast-her Out? is opaque.
Last week, I showed you the press release for the FingerPaints Palette of Petals Collection for Spring 2011, and this week Sally Beauty Supply sent me a set for review, so I have swatches of them for you today. I'll get straight to the pictures and tell you about each as we go.
Aren't You Glad-iolous? is a greyish lavender creme, and it's a true one-coat polish. Its coverage was so good in one coat that I photographed it that way. Here's one coat of Aren't You Glad-iolous?
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| FingerPaints Aren't You Glad-iolous? Nail Polish, One Coat |
Did You Ast-her Out? is next, a pink creme with just a touch of coral. Something about this color reminds me of Sally Hansen Sumptuous Petal from a few years ago, which I liked but was way too jelly for me. At two coats, it's more of a jelly and I could see through my tips, and at three, which I used here, Did You Ast-her Out? is opaque.
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| FingerPaints Did You Ast-her Out? Nail Polish, Three Coats |
Heavenly Hydrangeas, a kind of dusty purplish creme, shows me that the one-coat coverage of Aren't You Glad-iolous? is more than just luck. Heavenly Hydrangeas is also perfectly good in one coat.
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| FingerPaints Heavenly Hydrangeas Nail Polish, One Coat |
Chrysanthe-mum's the Word is one where the promotional image raised questions. The picture showed a lime shade, but the description said it was mint. It turns out that it's about halfway between the two, either a particularly dark and yellow yellow shade of mint or a very blue shade of lime, and it's a creme. One coat was almost enough, and in two Chrysanthe-mum's the Word is perfect.
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| FingerPaints Chrysanthe-mum's the Word Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Carnation Creation is a teal creme, also a two coater.
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| FingerPaints Carnation Creation Nail Polish, Two Coats |
Finally, the sixth shade is Dahlia My Number, an orange shimmer. It's also a two coater, and FingerPaints seems to have decided that if there's only one shimmer in the collection, it would be a heck of a shimmer. Here's Dahlia My Number.
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| FingerPaints Dahlia My Number Nail Polish, Two Coats |
As for the Palette of Petals Collection as a whole, I'd have to say the quality is exceptional, particularly when cost is taken into consideration. They're unusually heavily pigmented (with the exception of Did You Ast-her Out?, which seems to be by design) for any polish, let alone for a line that retails for $4.49. I always look forward to the FingerPaints seasonal collections, and this one lives up to my expectations.
I have one more picture to show you for Palette of Petals - remember the great big flower things on the bottles in the promo picture? Well, one of those was included with the polishes, and it's like a ring with little metal bars threaded over elastic on either end for a band. Here's a picture of my fabulous new cocktail ring.
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| FingerPaints Palette of Petals Collection Ring |
Girly things attached to nail polish bottles really bring out my inner five-year-old. I have a strong desire to wear this in public for some reason. I most likely won't since neighbors already see me wandering around outside taking pictures of something I'm hiding in my hand, and I think playing dress up in public in conjunction with that may be a bit too eccentric for this area, so I'll restrain myself.
That's what I know about the FingerPaints Palette of Petals Collection for Spring 2011. Until next time, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!
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