Kokie Green Trio

Sample provided for review

 

Kokie has sent me several more polishes from their Green line, which is plant-based, bio-sourced, vegan, and cruelty free. (To see the ones they sent previously, see here and here.) Today I have Tan Line, Moonbeam, and Coffee Break.

 

Coffee Break is a light warm milky brown creme. It's not quite rosy enough to be "mannequin hands" on me, but it's a good neutral look for my skintone nonetheless.

 

 

Tan Line is a dark orange shimmer.

 

 

 

Moonbeam is a white cream. I feel a good white cream is essential for any nail polish collection.

 

 

For fun, I added dots of Tan Line and Coffee Break to Moonbeam, then added clear topcoat to smooth everything over.

 

 

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Wheel S15: Pink Cremes

As with many of my creme wheel's, some of the pinks I have today for Nail Wheel Wednesday wander off the brief. There are a few pastel peaches and some mauves, but I'm more concerned about keeping this project moving forward than perfection.

 

1. China Glaze Let's Chalk About It (3 coats)
2. Ciate Amazing Gracie (3)
3. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure In the Flesh (3)
4. Revlon Parfumerie Pink Pineapple (3)
5. Butter London Happily Ever After (3)
6. SinfulColors Mad Matter (2)
7. Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Femme Feather (2)
8. Morgan Taylor Plumette with Excitement (2)
9. Nails Inc. Mayfair Lane (2)
10. Bonita Salon Sweet Ever After (3)
11. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure At First Blush (2)
12. Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Berry Juicy (2)
13. SinfulColors Baewatch (2)
14. Studio M Vintage Couture (3)
15. American Apparel Coney Island (3)
16. Deborah Lippmann Marine (3)
17. Sephora by OPI XOX Betsey (2)
18. Kiko Smart Fast Dry 129 (2)
19. Kiko Velvet Satin 689 Vintage Rose (2)
20. Zoya Satin Brittany (2)

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Salon Perfect Dippin' Dots Collection

Continuing the "Easter in July" Skittles theme I started last week with Sally Hansen x Peeps, today I have the Salon Perfect Dippin' Dots colors, which caem out around the same time. These aren't necessarily Easter, though the palette does resemble candy eggs. I'm pretty sure I have similar colors from any one of a number of "soft neon" or "pastel neon" or "sunwashed neon" collections that have come out over the years, but the Dippin' Dots tie-in got me. It's been ages since I had any of that delightful ice cream of the future, so having the nail polish to look at is good. Top: Banana Split, Orange Creme, Strawberry Swirl, Birthday Cake. Bottom: Berry Freeze, Cotton Candy, Cool Mint, Lime Ice.

 

I wanted to try these over white, so I first grabbed two of the colors to try that. Left to right: Banana Split (2 coats), Banana Split (1 over white), Lime Ice (2 coats), Lime Ice (1 over white). The white made a slight difference, brightening the color a touch. The formula on these was a bit tricky; definitely pigmented but also a bit runny and didn't self level as well as I'd like. Still, not too hard to work with.

 

Then I got to Skittling, without the white base. Top to bottom: Banana Split (2 coats), Orange Creme (2), Strawberry Creme (2), and Birthday Cake (1 thick).

 

 

Now the cooler shades (all 2 coats): Lime Ice, Cool Mint, Cotton Candy, and Berry Freeze.

 

 

I don't think any of these are must haves, but I can see wearing them for summer pedicures.

Wheel R15: Glitters from Sally Hansen

Today for Nail Wheel Wednesday, I have more glitters from Sally Hansen. These are from the Miracle Gel, Complete Salon Manicure, and Color Therapy lines.

 

(all have clear topcoat in addition to coats noted below) 1. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Rock On (2 coats)
2. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Gift of Blue (2)
3. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Living in the Presents (2)
4. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel All the Jingle Ladies (2)
5. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Snow What Fun (2 over peachy beige base)
6. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Snow What You Want (2 over peachy beige base)
7. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel The DeVil is in the Details (2 over peachy beige base)
8. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Glitter to Santa (2)
9. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Sprinkle & Spice (2)
10. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Mixture Perfect (2 over peachy beige base)
11. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Pretty in Punk (2)
12. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Online Shop-bling (2)
13. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Oy to the World (1 over peachy beige base)
14. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Miracle Snow Globe (2 over half black base)
15. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Miracle Bride n' Joy (2 over half black base) [this has deteriorated in storage; it was a much brighter pink in the display in 2015 and the glitter seems not right either]
16. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Miracle Pink Dream (2 over half black base) [this one was never any pinker according to the 2014 display]
17. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel All That Glitters (1 over peachy beige base)
18. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Miracle Vintage Confetti (2)
19. Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Goldie Rocks (2)
20. Sally Hansen Color Therapy Season's Grey-tings (2)

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Sally Hansen x Peeps Insta Dri Collection

Yes, Easter was a while ago, but I bought the Sally Hansen x Peeps colors and wanted to at least Skittles swatch them before they went into the queue to get on nail wheels. Left to right: PEEPS White, PEEPS Pink, PEEPS Lavender, PEEPS Blue, PEEPS Yellow, PEEPS Fruit Punch, PEEPS Sparkly Wild Berry.

 

I did the White, Pink, Blue, and Lavender together. They were what I expected from Insta Dri, plenty opaque in two coats. I'm sure I've bought the white at least a half dozen times now under new names each time it's re-released. That's okay. A good reasonably priced white is a good find. I probably have close enough shades for the others, maybe not all in the Insta Dri line, but didn't take the time to do comparisons because I didn't really want to know.

 

Sparkly Wild Berry is a topper with pink metallic and white matte hex glitters in various sizes.

 

I put one coat of Sparkly Wild Berry on top of the Skittles then added clear topcoat. The white glitter got lost on the white creme base of course, but on the other bases, Sparkly Wild Berry looked good.

 

 

Looking at the two cremes left, I didn't want to just swatch them on alternate fingers, and while Yellow would play nicely with Pink and Blue and Lavender, Fruit Punch seemed the odd one out. Then I remembered I'd bought Sprinkle Sprinkle, a crelly glitter with sky blue, soft orange, and golden yellow hexes in it.

 

I put Sprinkle Sprinkle on my index and pinky fingers, with Yellow and Fruit Punch in between. Neither of those cremes quite matches the glitter, but they both coordinate well enough. All were two coats.

 

I'm thinking I should do a couple wheels with Insta Dri cremes to carry around in my car so I can bring them into the store any time Sally Hansen does a new collection and perhaps not buy so many look alikes, but that probably won't work anyway. I have mostly managed to not re-buy the Pride colors every year, so that's something. This year I only got two, the orange and the brown. But that's another post, if I ever get around to it.