What's your name?

Hello everybody! Sorry for the delay in posting, but I've been having a lovely bout of kidney stones! You would think all this time off work would give me lots of oppurtunities to paint and re-paint my nails, but sadly sitting hunched over my desk is the last thing I want to do at the moment. That being said, this manicure is actually about 3 days old.

Sinful's "What's Your Name" is a near-black polish packed with teal micro-glitter. These pictures just don't do it justice. Everyone thinks I've been loopy on my pain pills because I just keep staring at my hands (that and the fact that I am loopy on my pain pills...).

It went on like a dream, so smooth and glossy. The only issue I had was a little inconsistancy in the opacity, some nails took two coats, some needed three.

I'm also a little dissapointed by the amount of shrinkage and chippage for not-even a week of wear. Sinful usually leads the pack in chip-free polishes, especially their glitters, so this was a suprise. In this image, you can clearly see the shrinkage on all of my tips, as well as a good-sized chip on my pinky. I have 3 medium-sized chips overall. This is also as close as I could get to capturing the gorgeous teal micro-glitter.

 

Ratings:

Application: 8 out of 10. Close to perfect, but it had inconsistent coverage.
Color: 9 out of 10. Awesome, awesome teal glitter in near-black base.
Clean-up: 8 out of 10. Easily removed, but left a slight stain on the rough parts of my cuticles, as all dark colors are prone to do.
Appearance: 7 out of 10. Color and shine are great, chipping and shrinkage bring the score down. 

Still, the sheer-awesomeness of this color makes up for it's low durability. I think you'll be seeing this color on me again soon! Wouldn't this look great as a marble with a light base? That would really make the teal pop!

I know I've promised you half-moon manicures with the burnt oranges from OPI's Burlesque line (terrible movie, great polishes!), but that will have to wait until I can stand sitting up for long periods of time. Here's hoping!

Frosty Claws!

 I think I accidentially jumped straight over fall shades and into winter. I was hoping Hottie by Sinful Colors would have the same bold, almost neon-blue color as it is in the bottle. Alas, it came out less Californial Gurls and more Cinderella. Though the bright flash in the photos shows a bright-blue, it's more of a light, powder blue in real life.

If Jack Frost had an illagitamate love child with the Little Mirmaid, this is what the baby's nails would look like.

There are other problems with this polish. First, it took 5 coats to get full coverage. FIVE! Second, while I understand that removing octogon-shaped glitter is always going to be a challange, these glittery bastards refused to let go of my cuticals, despite using straight acetone and an orange stick. Seriously, my skin is red from all the chemicals and scraping. (I'm hoping that some of the glitter on my skin will come off with wear). There is also a serious shrinkage issue, even before I layed a top-coat of MegaShine. So much so that I had to file the nail after application to reduce the amount of white peeking over the tip. The worst part was that the shrinkage was not exactly uniform due to the octogon glitter from hell, so I bassically wound up tearing the tip of the manicure every time my file caught on a piece of titanium glitter. Oh yeah, Did I mention the clumpy formula?

I guess the finished product looks nice if you dig the sparkely-pastel thing. Otherwise, I would only reccomend this product used as an over-coat, and then very sparingly.

Ratings:


Application: 3 out of 10, very clumpy and streaky
Color: 4 out of 10. Nice color on it's own merit, but noting like the bottle.
Clean-up: 3 out of 10 Evil, evil glitter.
Appearance: 6 out of 10 It has a nice depth, and the glitter, though a total pain in the ass, does shine like the dickens. It also has a much smoother finish than most glitters, and took the top coat very well. The overall appearance rating took a big hit because of the unusual amount of shrinkage from the tip.

Next time I'll be taking a stab at a scotch-tape french tip in pinks and whites.