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!

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.

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.

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.

FingerPaints Groovy Green Nail Polish, Two Coats

Outta Sight Orange is pretty much what I wanted the Sephora Cheetah orange to be.

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.

FingerPaints Psychedelic Sunshine Nail Polish, Two Coats

Here's one coat over Mimosa.  Looks like the light in the picture below was different.

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.

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!