Sally Hansen Sugar Coat - Sour Apple

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I have a polish to show you! Sally Hansen Sugar Coat in Sour Apple. These polishes have been out for a short while now, and textured polishes are very popular recently. It seems every company is jumping onto the bandwagon, to the delight of many. 

Sally Hansen Sugar Coat come in 4 colors at target; Sour Apple (Mint), Razzleberry (Blue), Cotton Candies (Pink), and Bubble Plum (Lilac).

At stores like Meijer, you get a wider variety of colours; Sweetie (Yellow), Lick-O-Rich (Black), Sugar Fix (White), Cherry Drop (Red).

I've even seen a couple of rare ones; Royal Icing (A pale blue with shimmer), and Spare-A-Mint (Teal).

Keep your eyes peeled because you never know what you might find! When I first saw them on the internet, I really wanted Lick-O-Rich, but I decided to try Sour Apple before I went hunting for it.

The polish in the bottles look no different than other polishes, but it's quite a shocker when you start painting!

The polish needs to go on sheer. If the layer is too thick, it takes ages to dry. I made that mistake and had to start over completely.

Something that really gave me problems, was how streaky the application was. I checked other blogs and some of them said they had similar problems, which is a shame. I managed to get it evened out with a total of 2 coats, but I had to work with it a little bit.

The texture on these, aren't fine, they're gritty. I, personally, didn't like this as much as I thought I would.

I only wore this manicure for a few hours, and I had to keep looking down, because I thought I had clay or paint caked onto my nails. It's not something I liked feeling, and I was a little bummed because I was really excited to try this out! It just doesn't work for me.

Pros:

-Layers dry quickly

-Inexpensive, a little over 5 dollars a bottle

-Depending on where you search, a wide variety of colour choices

Cons:

-Anything but the thinnest layers, or you'll be waiting ages to dry

-Super gritty

-I got tip wear, and all I did was type and make rice.

Overall: 2/5

To me, it's not worth it. I wasn't into this polish at all, unfortunately. However, if you're into the texture polishes yourself, this is something I'd highly suggest having in your collection. 

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Flakie Heaven - NOTD

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The lighting was horrid for a few days (either I got home too late, or it was cloudy), so it took longer than it should have for these photos, and I already have edge wear.

It was more of an experiment than anything, and it was a success:

Sally Hansen - Night Fright
Essie - Shrine of the Times
Finger Paints - Flecked and Motley

Combined it's like looking into a rainbow. In certain hand angels, you see yellow and violet colours as well, but I couldn't get them to show with other photos I took.

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Ulta Love Fern - NOTD 2

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NOTD

For this mani I used Sally Hansen in Night Fright, and topped it over with three coats of Love Fern by Ulta.

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NOTD

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My nails from last week.

One coat of Insta-Dri, Night Fright by Sally Hansen, and I applied the 'goo' with Hard as Nails, Limestone by Sally Hansen.

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NOTD, Gets, and Times with Anita

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Okay, it has been a while hasn't it? I was going to do this post Monday, though since Anita left that day I didn't feel like it. Tuesday I wasn't up for blogging, and the past two days I was hanging out with my friend Kirsti, so today is the day~

First off here's the swatch of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Blue Streak. It is a turquoise blue color, with a metallic-like finish. It's a beautiful color, but I don't think it suited me at all. It dried so fast!

Two weeks ago, this was my manicure. Essie Shrine of the Times over Essie Over the Edge. It was a little disappointing. Over the Edge is a metallic dark smokey grey color with dark and silver shimmer. When Shrine of the Times is layered over black, it glows vibrantly with red, orange, yellow, and green. When it was layered over, Over the Edge, it was almost always a fiery red color.

The only time it was easy to see the yellow and green effects, was if the nails were pointed down.

NOTD

This past week, I have been wearing Wet n Wild Craze in Nocturnal. I was incredibly pleased with this color, a wonderful dark navy blue creme. It was a little hard to work with, since it moved a bit, and I had to work a bit to get the color you see, but it was worth it.

Now onto the times with Ani~

I was so happy to see her, it has been so long! And as soon as she got here, I got ready and we were off~ We went all over the place to go to Asian markets and shops, and though we didn't buy too much, it was so much fun!

And since I wanted to check out the sale at Hot Topic, we went to the mall. Though I didn't find anything there, we popped into Forever 21 for a bit (and she got the most ADORABLE sweater ever!) and I got myself a cleansing mask, new nose strips (that work SO much better than the chocolate ones), star earrings, and a new nail polish.

We had so much fun, and ate at my grandmothers house for dinner, and goofed off together. I miss her so much, but it shouldn't be too much longer till we can see each other again~

Now for a bit of a sad post...

My dog Pippy (Humphrey) had a sort of a stroke... it was so upsetting, because he already has a mild form of dementia and gets confused sometimes, but all day yesterday he was wobbling on his feet, and falling over, and he refused to go outside, and peed all over the place and it was just so sad... Luckily the vet said that his lungs and heart are great for an older dog, and he could simply snap back to normal and if he stopped eating/drinking/going to the bathroom that it would be a bad side...

Good news though, after he slept a lot yesterday, he got up and walked around and only stumbled once, and ate and drank a lot which is great! And last night he only got up once to go to the bathroom. And today, he's walking like normal (though he still hops a bit, but that's from his arthritis in his hips) and he was eating a lot, begging for food, running around, and didn't stumble or fall once! I'm hoping that means he's already snapped back, though I'll have to watch over him for a while longer to make sure.


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Review: Sally Hansen HD in Laser

I found this amazing glitter nail polish – Sally Hansen HD in Laser – while shopping at Walgreens! It's a shimmery blue, with a strong violet shift (these pictures don't do this color justice).

You can see the purple shift in the bottle, but no so much on my nails. This is just three coats of Laser applied to the nails.

So after this, I got curious. What would it look like over black? So I tried it!

Answer: AMAZING! Sorry that it's so messed up though. My hands won't stop shaking tonight! I would definitely recommend this. Would I buy it again? Maybe not, since it's also very pricey. $6-7 if I can remember right, and I am sort of cheap, but I do really like this color.

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