Monday, August 31, 2020

Sinful Colors Quick Bliss

Today I have nine of the Sinful Colors Quick Bliss shades, bought at Walmart in person before before I went into isolation for the pandemic. Since then, two more colors were released, but I haven't been able to get those since the Walmart closest to me doesn't carry the brand anymore, and I'm staying close to home. I do have a preorder in for a set which includes them plus an exclusive shade but shipping of that has been delayed twice and I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever see them. Ah well, time will tell. For now, let's enjoy the ones I do have. Top, left to right: Sweet Cheeks, Juicy, Climaxxx, Cherry Chaser. Bottom: Blackcherry, Flushed, Ice Ice Cherry, Hit the Spot, and Bite.

SinfulColors Quick Bliss

There are two pink cremes, because of course there are ... that's what a lot of people want. I probably shouldn't have bought them because my interests are elsewhere now, and I have several lifetime's supply of pink cremes already, but my completist nature got the better of me, so I have them. Climaxxx is the lighter pink, swatched at three coats on my index and middle fingers. Juicy is the darker pink, also three coats, on my ring and pinky. They're fine. This is supposed to be Sinful's quick dry line, but I didn't notice them being especially fast, maybe because of the three coats I used. Two didn't seem like enough to me. I'm not crazy about the names for these; Climaxxx is just trying too hard and Juicy would seem better suited for an orange rather than a pink.

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Climaxx and Juicy

Ice Ice Cherry is also pink, but much more up my alley because it's a shimmer that works as a topper. It's got pink and gold shimmer with a bit of shiftyness to it.

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Ice Ice Cherry

I added one coat of Ice Ice Cherry over the pinks, and it made them so much more interesting to look at.

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Ice Ice Cherry

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Ice Ice Cherry

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Ice Ice Cherry

I played with the reds and yellow orange next. Top to bottom: Hit the Spot (yellow orange creme) with cloud design in Cherry Chaser, Hit the Spot alone, Cherry Chaser (orange-leaning red creme), and Sweet Cheeks (pink-leaning red crelly). All of these were three coats. You can see that Sweet Cheeks was not quite opaque at that point (and I swear my nail line wasn't actually dirty).

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Hit the Spot Cherry Chaser Sweet Cheeks

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Hit the Spot Cherry Chaser Sweet Cheeks

You know I had to try Ice Ice Cherry over these. I added another cloud to my index finger with it and put one coat on the other three nails.

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Hit the Spot Cherry Chaser Sweet Cheeks

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Hit the Spot Cherry Chaser Sweet Cheeks

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Hit the Spot Cherry Chaser Sweet Cheeks

I wanted to take advantage of the sheerness of Sweet Cheeks by doing a jelly sandwich, so I put two coats of it on, fished some glitter out of SinfulColors Love Sprinkles, and topped with two more coats of Sweet Cheeks. There's my next Valentine's Day mani sorted.

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Sweet Cheeks

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Sweet Cheeks

For reference, here's what Love Sprinkles looks like in the bottle.

SinfulColors Love Sprinkles

The next shades I tried were what I think of as the two sophisticates in the collection: Flushed, a rose gold flecked shimmer, with an accent nail of Blackcherry, a vampy red subtle shimmer. I used two coats of each of these.

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Flushed and Blackcherry

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Flushed and Blackcherry

Direct light shows off the shimmer in Blackcherry better than indirect:

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Flushed and Blackcherry

I added one coat of Ice Ice Baby to my accent nail, and the deep base provided by Blackcherry really brought out the pink to gold shift in the topper. Cool.

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Flushed and Blackcherry

Bite was the last one I bought (first store was sold out or hadn't gotten it yet, I don't know which) and the last one I swatched. This lime green has blue and pink shimmer it in.

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Bite

I used three coats for my swatch and my nail line was still visible (though did not look as dirty as Sweet Cheeks had made it look). The pink shimmer I could see in the bottle was mostly absent on the nail, letting the blue dominate, though at some angles I could see the pink too.

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Bite

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Bite

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Bite

I did one last swatch before I put these away, of one coat of Bite over a cool green creme base. I liked this better than Bite alone. If I'd used a brighter, warmer green for the base it would have looked closer to Bite by itself; I plan to try that next time I pull it out. If I remember, which let's face it, I likely won't.

SinfulColors Quick Bliss Bite

I think Sinful did a decent job with the shades in this new (well, new-ish by now) line. There are the reds and pinks for the mass market but also some interesting things for those of us who want more. One of the newer shades I don't have yet is purple so I'm looking forward to seeing that.

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Wheel H13: Even More Green Cremes

Some of the shades featured this Nail Wheel Wednesday are what I think of as "true" greens; some lean toward yellow. That just means I'm getting closer to the time when I'll be done with greens for a while and move on to putting another hue on wheels. Maybe blues, so I can corral all the blue-greens together, the ones that were stored with green and the ones that were stored with blue. Or maybe I'll head across the color wheel to reds and pinks, which somehow I've collected way more of despite swearing off them for quite a while. I've got some time to decide; there's still a wheel or two worth of greens to do beofre I stop for this round.

green creme nail polish


1. Revlon Parfumerie Lime Basil (3 coats)
2. Essie Mojito Madness (2)
3. Catrice Miss Piggy's BF (3)
4. SinfulColors Hey You (2)
5. Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Royal Shyness (2) [matte finish]
6. Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Green Thumb (2)
7. Zoya Jace (3)
8. SinfulColors Exotic Green (3)
9. Fresh Paint #Winning (3)
10. Deborah Lippmann Defying Gravity (3)
11. Rescue Beauty Lounge Become One (2)
12. Butter London Sozzled (2)
13. OPI Envy the Adventure (2)
14. The New Black unlabelled (3)
15. Twee & Honey Disagreen (2) [bought this one for the name, which makes me smile]
16. Spoiled Greeen to Be Heard (2)
17. Essence Colour & Go The Green & The Grunge (2)
18. Essence Colour & Go Trust in Fashion (2)
19. SinfulColors Garden Party (2)
20. Milani Color Statement Enchanted Emerald (2)


Bottles 1 through 4:

green creme nail polish

5 through 7:

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8 through 12:

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13 through 16:

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17 through 20:

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green creme nail polish

green creme nail polish

green creme nail polish

green creme nail polish

green creme nail polish

green creme nail polish

green creme nail polish


Monday, August 24, 2020

For the Love of Polish Box for May 2020

Yet another pandemic indulgence purchase today: the May For the Love of Polish box, with the theme Desert Bloom. The three shades in this one are Polished for Days Super Bloom, Lollipop Posse Lacquer Prickly Pear, and Pahlish Sleeping Atacama.

For the Love of Polish box May 2020

These are all pretty, though it was the Polished for Days contribution that sold me on the box this particular month. Super Bloom is a medium purple with flakes that shift along the pink/purple/green spectrum, shimmer with a pink/blue/teal shift, and holo microflakes. So much pretty in one bottle!

Polished for Days Super Bloom

I needed only two coats of this beauty for my swatch. I did add clear topcoat as well to enhance the depth.

Polished for Days Super Bloom

Polished for Days Super Bloom

Polished for Days Super Bloom

In direct light, the holo came out to play.

Polished for Days Super Bloom

I didn't get any great shots of the shimmer shift, but here's a blurry one where you can see it doing its thing.

Polished for Days Super Bloom

Lollipop Posse Lacquer's Prickly Pear is a bright pink with purple/pink/greenish gold shifty flakies and shifty shimmer in similar shades.

Lollipop Posse Prickly Pear

Prickly Pear has a crelly base, so even at three coats (plus the clear topcoat), there was a hint of visible nail line.

Lollipop Posse Prickly Pear

Lollipop Posse Prickly Pear

Lollipop Posse Prickly Pear

I wanted to see how Prickly Pear would look over a coordinating base color, so I pulled Sally Hansen Insta Dri Razzle Dazzle Rose out of my stash.

Lollipop Posse Prickly Pear

I did two coats of Razzle Dazzle Rose (probably could have gotten by with one if I'd gone thicker) and added one coat of Prickly Pear (topped with clear once again). This combination was pretty darn close to matching the look of Prickly Pear in the bottle. Obviously the flakies weren't as dense and layered with this approach, which is okay.

Lollipop Posse Prickly Pear

Lollipop Posse Prickly Pear

Pahlish Sleeping Atacama rounds out this trio. It's a sky blue with silvery pink flakes and green/blue shifting shimmer.

Pahlish Sleeping Atacama

Pahlish Sleeping Atacama

Pahlish Sleeping Atacama

Pahlish Sleeping Atacama

In direct light, the shimmer came out to play and the green shift was evident.

Pahlish Sleeping Atacama

In sunlight filtered through a window, the flakes popped more.

Pahlish Sleeping Atacama

The only problem with this box is that I can't buy it every month. Some months that's more painful that others. June had an absolutely juicy orange from Dreamland that I regretted not getting every time I saw a swatch in the FTLOP Facebook group, for instance. July was easier for some reason, and August I just went ahead and got as there's a swampy green from Pahlish in it that I just knew I'd feel sad about not having.