Breast Cancer Awareness - Pink Week (Revlon Posh Pink)

Day 2 of Pink Week! Here's the second fact...that's a scary number. Early detection is key. Please do your self exams.

For today's pink polish, I decided to revisit some pinks I haven't used in awhile. This is Revlon Posh Pink. This is a medium toned Barbie pink with a touch of shimmer that gives it a "pearly" look. It's not one of my favorite pinks which is why I topped it with Sally Hansen Strobe Light.

While using Strobe Light I remembered, I've been wanting to compare a few of my pink glitters. Shown below is one coat of each over black: OPI Teenage Dream, Sally Hansen Strobe Light and Sinful Colors Show Stopping. What they all have in common is the hexagonal irrdescent glitters and smaller micro glitters. Teenage Dream is on the thick side, more dense and could be worn on its own with VNL. Strobe Light appears to have some micro square glitters. Show Stopping is the most sparse of the three, this would be best for "melting" a gradient together.

Blue and Sequins

Would the average person be able to look at these blue nails and tell that there is two different polishes? (click to enlarge) Well maybe not the average person, but a self-proclaimed nail polish lover might be able to spot the slight difference. I put emphasis on the might because when I purchased one of the two, I did not remember having a similar polish. I am wearing Sinful Colors Ciao Bella on my index and pinky (and thumb) on my other two fingers I am wearing China Glaze Blue Years Eve. I got BYE last year courtesy of my "mother-in-law" and picked up CB at the beginning of this month from a Walgreen's I don't go to often. BYE has more finely packed shimmer while CB is a little more spread out shimmer. I used 3 coats of each.

 

Then I layered on Jordana Glitters Sequins. This was purchased for me by Loro but picked out by his mom. I don't know why it was so difficult to get a clear picture of the glitters.

Valentine Nails 2

Hey bonitas! I had intended on doing an abundant amount of Valentine's Nails for my blog/readers but I'm not that great at coming up with nail art ideas at the top of my head and most designs I try will be inspired by or re-creates and that may be a little boring or repetitive. Nail art is not my strong point.

First, the base color of my "Valentine's nails". This is Sinful Colors Rich in Heart. RiH is a deep chocolate burgundy and appears black in low lighting. Besides my deformed brush, it applies nicely and was opaque in 2 coats although I did use 3.

Brand: Sinful Colors

Line:  Core?

Color Name: Rich in Heart

Finish: Shimmer

Number of Coats: 3

Top Coat: No

Next up, we have a swatch comparison of NYX Girls Dorothy and Ulta Fashionably Late over RiH. I previously swatched Dorothy before but a great friend of mine sent me Ulta Glitterati Minis and now I have a dupe/back-up of one of my favorite glitters. They are basically an exact match for each other.

Brand: NYX Girls (Index) Ulta (Middle)

Color Name: Dorothy (index) Fashionably Late (middle) over RiH

Finish: Glitter

Number of Coats: 1 over 3 coats RiH

Top Coat: no

See in low lighting, RiH looks black, while in others it looks like a chocolate brown. Below is another attempt at hearts on my nails. For the hearts I used Shades of the Season Red. 

Perplex and Naughty

Today I will be sharing a polish that lost it's "spark" for most because everyone pretty much has already covered it. That polish is Perplex/Naughty. When Perplex first came out I hunted every store in my area to locate it and was completely devastated when I could not find it. I thought it would never grace my fingertips. I gave up on it but then lo and behold, Revlon re-released it under a new name, Naughty. Imagine my excitement when I saw it on display in Walgreens.

So I was finally the proud owner of Naughty. Then I saw Perplex in Big Lots, I was crunchy. I left it there because why would I possibly need to have both Naughty and Perplex. Yet it kept eating at me...and I finally broke down and went to get Perplex "for the blog"to see if they really are one in the same...

AND they are. On my pinky and 1/2 ring finger is Naughty, the other 1/2 of ring finger and my middle finger is Perplex. Then on my pointer I decided to compare Color Club Rad Nomad (It's close but doesn't have the shimmer like Perplex) So unless you are  crazy like me, you do not have to get both Perplex and Naughty.

Below is Naughty with a Finger Paints Flakie over, I believe this was Asylum.

 

Swatch Comparison: WnW Sparked vs Revlon Sparkling

As a lover of pretty pink polishes, when I saw Essie A Cut Above, I really wanted it. But I knew there were other $8 polishes I anticipated getting and I was more than positive I saw something similar. Lo and behold, Wet n Wild Sparked and Revlon Sparkling. (I compared all three in store and at the time purchased only Sparked). I went home and researched and found while similar in color, Sparked is not as close to A Cut Above as I hoped. I later returned that same day to pick up Sparkling because like A Cut Above, Sparkling has large and small glitters. Although it should be noted that A Cut Above has more large hexagonal glitters than small glitters. As for now, I am satisfied with my sparkly pink purchases. Now let's compare Sparked vs Sparkling.

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Both sparkly pink glitters are in a clear base. Sparked looks like a combination of pink and silver glitters. Sparkling is all pink with a combination of large and small glitters. Both polishes would require more than 3 coats to reach opacity.  Since I was just swatching to compare, I did not use a top coat so I am not sure if they eat up top coats like most glitters do. As I recall, they do not dry smooth but what (affordable) glitter does?

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Swatch Details

Brand: Wet n Wild

Line: Wild Shine

Color Name/Number: Sparked/435G

Number of Coats: 3

Top Coat: No

Brand: Revlon

Line: ?

Color Name/Number: Sparkling/261

Number of Coats: 3

Top Coat: No

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Have you picked up any of these sparkly pink glitters? Do you think it is necessary to have them all? 

WnW Hush Hush vs Essie Marshmallow

(pardon my cuticles - this was taken in between manis)

Part of my Christmas present from Loro was nail polish and as many times as he told me "You always ask for nail polish, I don't know which ones you already have. (Meaning: Don't you have enough?)" he still got me some. I asked for Essie and pointed a few out to "MIL" just in case. When we opened presents he gave a small little package with 2 WnW Megalasts as my joke gift. (one was a double I already had so I gave it to "MIL") The other was Hush Hush. Then he gave me another box and that had my Essie polish in it, one of which was Marshmallow. Later on, I noticed they looked very similar so I did a comparison swatch.

2 coats each (flash)

2 coats each (no flash)

Do you own Hush Hush or Marshmallow?

*both of these items were gifted