I feel like this is the color of spring. Not grass green, not the lightest cream either, but a gorgeous creamy green that still has some color to it. Olympia is from the Sinful Colors Cast Away Collection & probably the one I was most excited about. It just looked so gorgeous in the bottle, my husband also said it was a cool shade. Ha. Okay so I made him say something about any of the nail polishes I happened to be hoarding that day & he picked Olympia. Semantics.

Olympia- A mix of mint & pea green paled down & with a creme consistency. 

This actually didn’t apply as well as the others have, which is why I topped it with a coat of Seche Vite. It applied a little chunky/streaky in some areas, but it really means something that I still love it. This also looks great against my fair skin which doesn’t always happen with lighter greens. Sometimes I feel like they make my hands look super vein-y or pale in general. This one does not, woo!

The flowers are Sinful Colors Daredevil for the pink & Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Whirlwind White. Iused a regular ol dotting tool.

Also, this is said to be a dupe of Essie’s Navigate Her! So $1.99 & a little goopy as opposed to $8? You be the judge! I love this shade either way! Please forgive my SO DRY cuticles…I am having an allergic reaction that makes my hands dry as all heck & peel. Gross overshare but I don’t want you thinking you should have cuticles that look like mine!

So if you saw my haul of the Sinful Colors Cast Away Collection, then I bet it was hard to miss this beauty! Basically this is a deeper blue with silver shimmer…glitter…flecks? I am thinking flecks, but that’s me! Its lovely on the nail & was opaque in 2 coats. I did get some bubbling on my middle finger which is strange but I didn’t really notice until I was all ready to take pictures.

Sinful Colors Neptune: A rich, medium to deep blue with dense silver flecks that are very visible on the nail.

So when I saw this shade, I immediately thought back to Zoya’s Skylar. Even though that is a very gray toned blue, I remembered “blue with flecks of metallic” & my true love for this shade. Zoya’s True Collection was a definite favorite of mine & I find myself reaching for them frequently so even though I knew these two weren’t dupes, I thought I would compare them anyway! Skylar looks much more gold/silver next to Neptune, something I would have probably never noticed!

 Do you own Neptune? Are you loving it as much as me?

So when I posted about the Cast Away Collection from Sinful Colors, I let you know this was coming. Normally I don’t have to compare colors that are all in the SAME collection, but this was pretty neccessary no? They are really close! I thought a look at all 3 side by side would help show differences.

In the bottle, Greek Isles & Be Happy are super close. I honestly double checked to make sure that I didn’t have two of the same shade before I left the store! They have a few differences though, which I outlined when I did the bottle shots in the prior post. Still though, to be in the same collection, I think they should have done something a little different with those two. Athens is different enough for me in the bottle & definitely different on the nail! In fact, I love Athens.

  Pointer- Be Happy   Middle-Greek Isles   Ring- Athens

  Pointer- Be Happy   Middle-Greek Isles   Ring- Athens

 Pointer- Be Happy   Middle-Greek Isles   Ring- Athens

On the nail, these 3 shades are very different…luckily.Be Happy is clearly a shade or two lighter, but honestly most people probably won’t need Be Happy & Greek Isles. Athens is a gorgeous murky shade I love that definitely plays more on the green side of the spectrum. These are all 2 medium coats with no top coat. Nice shine right?

 I think I’ve made it pretty clear I love Sinful Colors, especially everything they’ve been doing lately. For only $1.99 at my local Walgreens, I can pick up some seriously gorgeous shades. Cinderella? Daredevil? So it shouldn’t surprise anyone I picked up the entire Cast Away Collection when it became available to me. This collection consists of 8 shades that all remind me of ocean/beachy shades. Although 3 of these are really close in the color family ( Be Happy, Greek Isles, & Athens) I didn’t even care because I can’t get enough teal, blue, cream shades like this anyway. They are coming up tomorrow though, so I’ll hush on that till then. All of these are a bit too light to be color accurate which of course I couldn’t see till they were all up here. Darn natural light. Don’t worry, when swatched I’ll get them all color accurate & such this week.

Neptune: This is a purple toned blue in real life packed with silver micro shimmers. A sister to Zoya Skylar I believe, we’ll have to see it on the nail. Note its darker than it appears.

Pandora: A very dusty peach with pink/orange sheen. I don’t know if it will translate onto the nail or not. I have to admit, the name for this one is definitely not what I would have picked.

Grecian Sun: A true blue shade that reminds me of a lighter version of what most people think of jean blue. I love this shade even though its way too light in this picture. I see myself wearing this a lot this summer especially. No shimmer here.

Zeus: Of course I needed this as one of my pups is named Zeus! This is a really dusty purple with a bright purple sheen. I’m praying this translates well on the nail.

Olympia: I think I could sustain myself on green cremes for Spring, seriously. I love these types of shades. I don’t have Essie’s Navigate Her but I wonder how they compare, anyone have a thought on that? Either way a gorgeous light green that I’m sure to worship.

Be Happy: A super light creme with some super light visible silver/white shimmer. This leans light blue with a hint of green.

Greek Isles: VERY close to Be Happy in the bottle WITHOUT any shimmer. Slightly darker.

Athens: Like Be Happy & Greek Isles, but much darker & murkier. This reminds me of almost a teal seaweed type of color but lighter. I’d say this one might lean a bit more green.

 Let’s start off with if you have been reading my blog, you know teal makes appearances rather frequently. What can I say? I’m a mermaid at heart perhaps! This is gorgeous & although this is only 2 coats, I took a REALLY long time to capture its true beauty. Lots of colors to see! Please forgive my ring finger I jammed recently…ouch…

Kissy by Sinful Colors- A blue & turquoise base packed with micro flecks of lime, gold, green, blue, & teal. This appears both blue & green with flashes of a lime toned gold depending on the light.

The formula on this is great. I did 2 coats so I still have VNL (visible nail line) but I’ve worn it for a week without chipping with no top coat! That’s insanity for me! This is available at Walgreens for only $1.99.