Sinful Colors - Holiday Shimmer Collection 2012 (Swatches)

Happy Holidays!

This post is devoted to the Sinful Colors - Holiday Shimmer Collection 2012. Though this time, it's swatches (and bottle shots again).  I wanted to do a quick mini review for each polish as well. Each swatch is 2 coats. (Swatch photo at the end).

First I'd like to start with Super Star. This polish looks great in the bottle, but on the nail, it's a real pain. It actually earned a title from me, the worst nail polish I've ever used! And I've tried A LOT of polishes. This one is just so thick and goopy, it's very hard to neatly paint on, and it ends up being a sloppy mess. Not to mention how long it takes to dry as well. This was a huge flop for me.

Next is Dazzle. Also a beautiful raspberry red, that I later then realized puts of a gold shimmer. This one was a little thick too...but not nearly as bad as Super Star.

Faceted was also fairly easy to apply, but once in a while i found myself struggling to place the little bar glitters evenly, or else they would be really concentrated in one area and not another. In the swatch it looks like its just glitter, but it is in fact a bar glitter.

Ice Dream was a dream to apply! It was also very opaque in 2 coats... no complaints here!

Winter Wonder was also a great application, and looked good with 2 coats.

Nova is a great peacock color. It's basically a really dark blue with greenish blue shimmer. It applied great in 2 coats as well.

Swatches

Overall this collection was a hit... but some of the formulas were just so thick - literally like honey. It made me rethink Sinful Colors! I could never boycott them though, I love them so much, actually my favorite brand of drugstore nail polish! It's also totally understandable to have 1 flop nail polish here and there. I've never had that happen to me with any of their other polishes. My top favorites would be Faceted and Ice Dream .

China Glaze - Ruby Pumps

Good afternoon!

Today I'm reviewing China Glaze's Ruby Pumps. It's a very beautiful sparkly, deep red. The formula was good, but it was rather sheer so I had to apply 3 coats to get the opaqueness I was looking for. It's a great holiday color and perfect for fall. The glitters in are are very fine so its not chunky at all. Also i apologize for the first picture having a yellow tint, and please excuse the minor tip wear!!

Update + Sinful Colors Holiday Shimmer Collection 2012

Hey everyone.

I apologize for not posting as much as to I'd like recently. Not to bring up excuses but my pop-pop just passed away, and I'm still suffering with a bad concussion. Please forgive me because I'm bringing in all the holiday polishes! I'm going to start posting a lot more regularly, and I hope it makes up! So first up is the Sinful Colors Holiday Shimmer Collection. I was on a mad hunt for these. Since the Rite Aid near me didn't carry them, I ventured to a farther rite aid, and low and behold, they had them! I was ecstatic! and I'd like to share them now because there isn't much online about them. These are just bottle shots for now... but I'll definitely have posts featuring them! 2 of the colors are in the permanent line, Queen of Beauty and Frenzy. The rest, which I got, are brand new! There's a surprise polish at the end!