Sinful - What's Your Name

What's Your Name is supposed to be a dupe of OPI Unripened, or a tiny bit sparklier. I own Unripened, but only in the mini size, and I haven't worn it yet, so I don't know for sure whether I think it's a dupe or not.
Despite what this photo looks like, What's Your Name is a black jelly with duochrome (?) glitter. If you look at it straight on it looks like teal glitter, but at some angles it's purple. This effect is visible on the nail but I just could not get that in the pictures. It is visible in the bottle, though.

Basecoat: Gelous (1 coat)
Color: Sinful What's Your Name (3 coats)
Topcoat: David (1 coat)

The application for What's Your Name wasn't terrible. It's black, so cleanup was kind of a pain, and the glitter was a little difficult, too. But overall I didn't really have any problems.

This is one of those polishes that definitely looks black indoors unless you look closely. For that reason I wasn't super thrilled with it, but it's very pretty in the sun.

Sinful - Summer Peach and UFO

Despite its name, Summer Peach is in no way peach, and if I saw a peach this color I would not even think about eating it. Summer Peach is a bright screaming orange neon. UFO is the orange version of Nail Junkie and Hottie.
UFO looks more muted than it is only because Summer Peach really freaked out my camera.

Basecoat: Salon Sciences Fiberglass Network (2 coats)
Color: Sinful Summer Neon (4 coats)
Color: Sinful UFO (3 coats)
Topcoat: Seche Vite (2 coats)

I originally was just going to wear Summer Peach. I got to four coats and it wasn't streaky or anything but I still had really noticeable VNL. What's a girl to do? Add glitter.

Summer Peach had a sort of difficult application. For the fourth coat I added some thinner to my bottle and that really helped. UFO had typical application for a Sinful glitter bomb.

This is a lot of coats and I fully expect to have shrinkage tomorrow, but that's fine. I really love these Sinful glitters - I think I have all the colors they made, but if they make more I'll be buying those, too.

Skittles

Today I decided to wear skittles. I've never worn skittles for longer than a comparison, but I'm planing to wear this one until Friday. I was originally going to do funky French tips but I have so much trouble using those stupid tip guides. I thought I might have magically gotten better since I've really gotten into polish, but nope.
I'm not going to have time to change polish at all this week, and I couldn't think of anything I wanted to wear all week long, and hey, five untrieds done, right there.

This is two coats of Fiberglass Network, 3 coats of color, and one coat of Out the Door. From thumb to pinky, I am wearing:

Sally Girl neon pink
China Glaze Happy Go Lucky
Claire's itty bitty teeny tiny neon green mini
Savina Marine Life
Sinful Dream On

These all dried matte except for Happy Go Lucky. Happy Go Lucky and Marine Life were pretty much two-coaters, but I did three anyway. Marine Life is a gorgeous, vibrant teal, but it stained in the short time I had it on for my "do I need a white basecoat" mini-swatch. Dream On is a beautiful neon purple.

The Claire's mini.... the set I bought this in is a direct copy of the China Glaze Poolside collection. Right down to the shimmery blue. Their version of Flip Flop Fantasy has shimmer too, but otherwise they're identical. I own Kiwi Cool-Ada, and I did a mini-swatch of it for this mani and decided not to use it because it would have needed a white base. This mini isn't quite opaque either, but it's much more opaque than Kiwi Cool-Ada.

I didn't really have any application problems with any of these. Cleanup was relatively easy, also.

No new posts until Friday, so have a great week!

Sinful - Happy Ending

Today I have Sinful Happy Ending. This is a medium green with gold shimmer.
In the bottle this looks pretty but not that special. I've had this for a while but I keep putting it back every time I pull it out. I should have worn it sooner. This is outside, in fading sunlight.
Basecoat: Salon Sciences Fiberglass Network (2 coats)
Color: Sinful Happy Ending (3 coats)
Topcoat: Seche Vite (1 coat)

This is a really pretty green. It reminds me a little of Zoya Midori, but I haven't worn Midori in forever so I couldn't say for sure. May try to compare them tomorrow, but I won't be home in time to catch any sunlight so I probably won't bother. I might do it this weekend, though. The gold shimmer is very pretty and even though the first two coats looked brush-stroke-y, the final product doesn't show brush strokes. I do have a little bit of NVL but only at certain angles - I'm probably the only one who will notice it.

I redid my pedi today, too, but there's already no sun on the ground for me take any photos. I used two coats of Milani Fresh Teal and two coats of Northern Lights silver holo topcoat. It's really, really pretty.

I'll probably have a new post tomorrow night and again on Thursday night, but that's it for this week. Have a good Monday!

Comparison - Jessica Electric Teal, China Glaze Turned up Turquoise, Sinful Rise and Shine, China Glaze Custom Kicks

When I ordered Electric Teal I got it to round out my order of Yellow Flame. I didn't notice until I was holding it that it has shimmer to it, and I thought it might be similar to China Glaze Turned up Turquoise. When I was going through my Helmer to find TuT, I came across Sinful Rise and Shine and threw that in, too. I also threw in Custom Kicks.
In the bottle we can see already that Custom Kicks isn't really close, but I swatched it anyway. Everything else seems to be pretty close.
All of these are three coats, no topcoat. Index finger is Jessica Electric Teal, middle finger is China Glaze Turned up Turquoise, ring finger is Sinful Rise and Shine, pinky is Custom Kicks.

Everything but Custom Kicks is very, very close. The VNL in the photos doesn't show in real life. Here are the three close ones inside.
Electric Teal is the most saturated of the three, but it's still really, really close. Turned up Turquoise has more shimmer. Rise and Shine is a tiny bit dustier than the other two. Verdict: Only a true polish addict would notice the difference - I do. Otherwise, these three could all pass for each other, even though they aren't true dupes.

I also had a chance to take photos in the sun of yesterday's mani - Sinful Pink Glitter over Fusion Neon.

No idea what I have planned for tomorrow. Until then, have a great weekend!

Sinful - Pink Glitter

Well, I'm pretty sure you can guess what this is from the name, hmm? This is Sinful Pink Glitter. I am layering it on top of yesterday's mani (Sinful Fusion Neon) because I am just lazy.
If you've seen Hottie or Nail Junkie, or I-forgot-what-the-orange-one-is-named, you've seen Pink Glitter. This is a super sheer pink jelly with pink glitter and larger, round holographic glitter. I had a heck of a time getting good nail photos of this - I wish I had a chance to take pictures during the day. If I still have this on this weekend I'll do it then.
This shows a little better the glitter in the bottle but doesn't do much for on the nail.
This one shows the glitter on the nail a little better, but not as good as I'd like.

This is two coats of Pink Glitter and a coat of Seche Vite.... over everything I had on yesterday. It did tone down the neon-ness of Fusion Neon just a touch, but not really that noticeable.

Pink Glitter is jam-like in consistency, and that's OK, because it was really easy to control and get even glitter distribution. Sinful cremes are pretty terrible in their application, but they sure as heck can do a fantastic glitter, and this is definitely a winner.

Sinful - Fusion Neon

Today I have Sinful Fusion Neon. Fusion Neon is a bright neon pink.
Application on this sucked. All the problems of a Sinful creme with the added balding and streaking of a thin neon. But hey, I'm tired and I wanted something that would dry fast, so I can get some sleep tonight.

Basecoat: Gelous (1 coat)
Color: Sinful Fusion Neon (4 coats)
Topcoat: Out the Door (1 coat)

This color really screwed with my camera - it is a brighter pink in real life.

In other news, my Jessica order came in. I really wanted Yellow Flame, since I've heard it's an opaque neon yellow that doesn't need a white base. To round out my order and justify the shipping, I also picked up Pink Explosion and Electric Teal. I didn't know until I saw the bottle that Electric Teal has shimmer. Turned up Turquoise dupe? Maybe. I may compare them this weekend.

Sinful - Neon Melon

This is one of the oldest Sinfuls I have in my stash. I used to have two old boring nude shimmer Sinfuls but I sent those in during last year's Zoya exchange. I saw Neon Melon in a neon display a couple of months ago, but Neon Melon is definitely not new. I think I got this last fall.
I did a little test swatch when I took of Kiki, so I knew I'd have to do an opaque base coat. Here is the finished product:
My hands are not really this red in real life. Here's another one that is a little more color accurate.
Basecoat: Orly Ridge Filler (2 coats, for opacity)
Color: Orly White Tips (2 coats)
Color: Sinful Neon Melon (3 coats)
Topcoat: Seche Vite (1 coat)

This is a pretty standard neon yellow. It is a little less streaky than most and a little more opaque than most, but it's still streaky and sheer. If I look closely I can still see streaks. I plan to change it tomorrow, probably back to another Zoya with Color Lock.

I finally couldn't stand Kiki any more. I could still dent it when I got home from the office this evening. I'm not writing off Color Lock altogether, because Kiki's texture was not the typical Zoya smooth formula - it was a little thick and slightly goopy. Tomorrow I'll pick up another color and try again.

Sinful - Folly and Milani - Pink Out Loud

I wrote this last night but Blogger was being obnoxious and I couldn't post until this morning.  Now that I've seen this in the sunlight I think it's almost a dead dupe for China Glaze Strawberry Fields.  There is a tiny bit less gold sparkle in this mani, though.

A good way to go through the "untried" pile faster is to layer polishes.  I did it again tonight, except I didn't realize it would look so similar to CG Red Curl Girl, which I wore last week.  Oh, well.

Basecoat:  CND Stickey (1 coat)
Color:  Sinful - Folly (3 coats)
Color:  Milani - Pink Out Loud (2 coats)
Topcoat:  Seche Vite (1 coat)

Another photo, blurry on purpose to show the sparkle in Pink Out Loud:

This is nice and sparkly.  Again, it's very similar to Red Curl Girl, but it is definitely a touch pinker.  It's particularly annoying because the Texas Rangers are home and playing Monday-Thursday, and since I have season tickets, I'll be out at the ballpark all week.  Unless I work at home a day, I won't have time to change my manicure until next weekend.  So, not only am I wearing something very similar to what I wore last week, I'll be wearing it all week long, too.  Blah.

As has been my experience with Sinful cremes, I had some application issues.  Folly was a bit gloopy and definitely a bit streaky, but Pink Out Loud is just dense enough and its base pink color is just opaque enough to cover it.

This is pretty, but my overall feeling is "meh".  I probably should have gone with a neon or something.