Sinful Colors Stardust

Posted on March 9, 2013 by joyluscious

While out hunting down Sinful Colors Green Ocean, I also purchased the entire collection of Sinful Colors Almost Famous Collection for Walgreens (or Sinful Pazzarazi collection @ Rite Aid.) The one polish that stood out from the collection is Stardust.

Stardust is a mix of purple and magenta glitter suspend in egg plant purple jelly. The formula is pretty much one expect of a suspension base so a little thick and gloppy. The jelly is rich and the glitters are plenty and I did two coats here. Dry time is average.

Stardust mixture I’d expect to see in a $8 indie polish and definitely worth the $1.99 that I spent on it. I’d use a purple or undie if I do it again other wise, you will need one more coat than I did.

HTF Sinful Colors Green Ocean

Posted on March 8, 2013 by joyluscious

I was browsing one of my favorite blog Nouveau Cheap and she had a post on the annual Sinful Colors Green Ocean display for Saint Patrick’s day. The post dated back in mid-February so I decided to drive around town looking for it. It took me two hours (while browsing and buying other drugstore polishes) and three Walgreens later, an associate lead me to a back display shelf where the display was hidden on the very bottom shelf.

Here you see it layered over Irish Green that I had worn and ruin. I patched it good enough so I can layer Green Ocean over it. The particles hidden the imperfections well.

Most reviews refer Green Ocean as a ‘flakie’ topcoat but I wouldn’t say it is a true flakie. There are a lot of different shapes and sizes of iridescent particles in Green Ocean that gives the illusion of flakie. It is still very pretty but it is a glitter bomb, never the less.

The application wasn’t bad, from experience, Sinful Colors formula varies widely from good to bad. The green tinted jelly base was thick enough to hold some glitter but it does pool to the side. Here I did two coats of Green Ocean and follow by one coat of Sally Hansen Instant Dry topcoat.

For $1.99, this is a price worthy glitter polish. I felt so lucky that I found them so I bought all three bottles of Green Ocean they had to share with ManHands and Runaround Sous.

Sinful Colors Irish Green

Posted on March 7, 2013 by joyluscious

Toxic, acidic, neon, green jelly is how I would describe Sinful Colors Irish Green.

The application was very tricky and streaky. Here you see is four very thin coats and I can still see the nail line. The formula pool easily to the sides and cuticles and the clean up is messy. The green is hard to get off the skin so take extra time and care when using this color.

The dry time is SLOW, hence why I only have one photo to show. When I was putting away the bottle to do other modeling shots, two nails got ruin the in the process. Too lazy to redo so, you get what you get.

Sinful Colors: Soul Mate

Posted on February 15, 2013 by ManHands

This pink has been sitting in my untried box for a while now. I decided to swatch it for this month’s pink celebration. It’s Sinful Colors Soul Mate, a Barbie pink that runs on the warm coral side. It’s pictured below with two layers of polish finished with a topcoat. The first was taken in sunlight and the second was in the shade.

The color made my hands look very lively immediately (a plus since my hands have been dry and ashy from the winter). I thought it was flattering, but more pastel than my personal taste usually dictates. I tend to like nudes with a touch of pink rather than wearing all out pink.

The formula was very smooth though for a cheap drug store brand. It dried fast and was non-streaky. I would probably wear this creme again, but maybe in the summer and on my toes instead. It’s very feminine and makes me think of pretty cupcake frosting. Yum!

—ManHands

Inspired by a Fabric Challenge: Camouflage

Posted on January 22, 2013 by joyluscious

I just realized that this is my 200th post, wow!

I wasn’t sure which fabric inspiration to pick, until this morning when I am doing the dreadful laundry… CAMOUFLAGE .. of course. One of my twin boys is camo obsessed! Camo jackets, camo shirts, camo pants, camo lunch bag, camo pajamas, and more. So here is my mani and his camo pajama bottoms.

Here are the color used: Sinful Leap Frog (untry,) Revlon Spanish Moss (untry,) China Glaze Exotic Encounters (untry,) OPI Don’t Mess with OPI (untry,) and OPI Un-oh Roll Down the Window.

Super Nova

Posted on December 30, 2012 by joyluscious

I have to confess. I own over two dozen of Sinful Colors (who can resist the 99 cent Walgreen sales,) however, I have never worn a full Sinful manicure. So in my effort to use as many untry in this coming new year, I decided to pick Nova and I am glad at did. Nova is part of the Sinful Colors Holiday 2012 collection.

Nova is a dark blue jelly with blue glass flecks or micro glitter… I am not sure which. The dry time is average to a bit slow. Here it is shown in two coats, pretty decent coverage. It looks just like what you see in the bottle, as if you are staring into the night sky.

update: I wore kitchen utility gloves to do some dishes an hour after I finished the manicure. I guess, it wasn’t completely dry so the polish was all wrinkled and pulled from the free edge. I had to take it all off, what a bummer.

Interrupting Halloween with an Exciting Early Holiday Find

Posted on October 21, 2012 by joyluscious

I was just at Rite-Aid yesterday trying to find some more summer clearance items and what do I find? All the Holiday items are out! I know, it is a little alarming that Halloween isn’t here, yet the Holiday stuff are already out.

What I saw were a lot of glitter and metalic polishes which are pretty much repeats and dupes of salon/designer brands. Until, I saw this, Faceted from Sinful Color Holiday Shimmers Collection.

A iridescent bar (which shift colors from silver, to gold, to green) and purple square(!) glitters topcoat that is like peacock in a bottle. It went on a bit thin for a glitter topcoat and to get the bars on, you have to glob the polish on, which is pretty normal for glitter polishes. It dried quickly on the swatches and I just put them over some of my old test plates (sorry, I have no idea what the undie colors are.)

I am super excited to show you these because I did a bit of a search and I haven’t seen many, if any swatches of Faceted. I am totally fascinated!

The Winners, plus Leopard mani is back with BLACK.

Posted on September 14, 2012 by joyluscious

Here is the result of the first give away. After 10 days, now Joyluscious has 35 likes on Facebook, 7 subscribers, and 19 followers on Pinterest! It may be small number compare to other blogs but a big step for us. Instead of going with only Facebook likes, I added up all the entries for the progressive give away. The total comes to 61 so I am going ahead with two winners!

So congratulations to
Sharon Wilson, winner of Color Club set**
Lauren Maillet, Winner of OPI Ger-mini set**

OPI Ger-minis

To claim your prize you need to comment to this post by midnight on 9/21/2012. I will contact you with email address that is used to comment for the shipping address. I will ship to continental US address only and I am not responsible for damage, lost, or stolen packages. I will have tracking information so we can see the package as it travels to its final destination.

Side note: I will be planning a second give away on my 100th post which should be sometime in October. I will be using the popular Rafflecopter which should make the process easier. Then, I want to host a winter holiday nail art contest in December. So all the prizes will remain in the vault until they find their winners!

If that is not enough, I have to show you the last update for the Leopard applique mani. It started blue, then went silver. Now, it is back with black.

I am super impressed with the lasting power of the Sally Hansen Applique. No chip, no dent, and hardly any edge wear after an entire week! It even stood up to filing and buffing as I did shorten my nails by at least 1/8 of an inch couple days ago.*

As a last addition to refresh this manicure, I added a coat of black crackle from Sinful Colors. I have only used this crackle one other time and I can already tell that it is thicken up a lot. The application was quite difficult so it will need some nail polish thinner.

You can see the huge gap between the polish line and the cuticle because my nails grow fast, plus, I leave a gap for easy edge clean up. So this mani won’t last much longer and it will be good-by for this fun leopard applique.

*I love to shorten my nails half way through a manicure because the polish help me shape my free edge and filing takes away the edge wear. With a nice shiny new topcoat, the manicure is good for a few more days!

Crackled and Chromed Rainbow Manicure

Posted on July 21, 2012 by joyluscious

Forth and final day for the originally chrome rainbow manicure and I decided to use another clearance item that I picked up from Rite-Aid, Sinful Colors, Black Crackle.

I waited until the last day to apply the crackle because I haven’t had happy results with crackles. I like effect/finishes to be even andconsistant, but crackle finishe has neither of those qualities.As you can see from the photo above (left hand) the thumb, the middle, and ring finger came out the way I love but the index finger and the pinky did not, hence, I had them out of focus in the photo. On the right hand (second photo,) I did not like any of the effect, but least, they are consistantly undesirable.

Maybe it is my applicaiton technique but I haven’t really seen any swatches of crackles to be consistant… I know, I know, it is not suppose to. Further more, as perdicted, the polish got really goppy when I was applying it on my right hand… probably also a reason why it did not turn out as well.

Anyhow, I am glad I was able to get a few usable photos and crackles are a good way to “disguise” in perfection in a manicure so it will last a few days more. However, mine will be retiring after tonight.

As a side note, I cannot stress how impressed I am with Wet ‘n Wet Chrome formulas. There were nothing but edge wear after three full days of wear. The rainbow colors went to gether so well that I did not change it for 48 hours… shocking, because I usually get bored with the look within 24 hours. I had a lot of fun with these polishes and something I definately will repeat, not to mentioned the shredded masking accent nail design.