So while I’m wearing my KISS Nail Dress in Bodysuit & testing out the wear, I thought I would show the the long awaited swatch of Spoiled’s “I Only Eat Salads” which is amazing. I used this in my Rainbow Sponge Manicure & it was a standout for sponging.

Spoiled Nail Polish in I Only Eat Salads: A yellow-green lime shade that’s a creme. No shimmer in sight.

The first coat was streaky, something about the brush, but the 2nd made is completely opaque. I love this polish!

I topped this shade with 1 coat of Seche Vite which glossed right on & made the finished product pretty stunning!

I picked this up at CVS for only $1.99. To see some other shades I picked up (gee I buy a lot!) just type a brand or color into my search bar or scroll down to the very bottom where you’ll see lots of clickable options!

Do you have this shade? Loving it for spring & summer especially!

So I love these types of products, but I always find myself wavering about them. From KISS to Sally Hansen to other decals, they cost about $8-$10, often more. I can get a sweet bottle of polish for that! So when I shell out the dough, it needs to be worth it!

When Influenster sent these to me to review in my Love Voxbox I was over the moon. The print, the shimmer, the metallic touches, …Ahhhh right up my alley! But what could I do to make them more original? How could I make my review worthwhile to readers? Then it came to me. If I want to most bang for my buck, wouldn’t you?

 So you get 3 seperate sheets of decals in the package plus a nail file. When applying, they feel like super thin, slightly stretchy window decals. Easy to stick, I rub my finger over it to seal, & that’s about it. The idea is to file off the excess but I prefer cutting it close to my nail then filing. For each of the 3 methods, see below!

FROM ONE PACKET OF KISS NAIL DRESS:

1. Full Manicure. I was able to apply a full manicure to my hands with little to no mess. I had to cut a few to size because my nails are so small BUT I saved the excess so I could use them in step #3.

2. Pedicure. I was also able to give myself a full pedicure. Granted I have tiny nails, but heck, I’ll take it!

3. Lots left over for nail art! I saved the large pieces from my mani & pedi so I can use them later! Leopard tips? Stripes? Hearts? Who knows, but the options are endless!

Get what I’m saying? That’s a lot of bang for your buck! This set retails for only $6.99 & I got a manicure, pedicure, & extras for nail art! Can’t beat that!

Influenster sent me the option “Bodysuit” which is amazing. White base with hot pink & vibrant purple details. On top of that is a silver shimmer base that’s gorgeous, but not over the top. The last details are black & metallic silver leopard spots, rawr! Love how over the top & Jerseylicious it is!

You should be able to pick these up in this shade & many others (some with jewels!) for $6.99 from CVS, Walmart, & Walgreens.

*As I said this was provided from Influenster.

What’s that you say? I’ve lost my mind? Wait? I’ve gone….MAD? Oh no, this is not a dream.

So I’m hitting up Walgreens for the new Sinful Colors Girls With Pearls Collection (which they didn’t have) & as I am walking fown the aisle I see a bunch of Color Club nail polishes. Imposters? Oh no, because I bought a set in a collection! The glitters on the top row, I spent like $10-$15 on it when it was clearanced! So who is doing this? Who is standing in a corner giggling as I put all of these in my cart to have them ring up as $8? WAIT! THEY DIDN’T! 99 cents a piece people.

So what’s going on? I wanted to know the same thing, trust me. Would there be more? Should I be stalking them? Well here is what I figured out. Notice when I noted the collection I had already bought? Well here it is in a post I did in November, it is called the Glitter Vixen Collection. The mystery deepens no? Well, then I found some empty packages behind Mr. Bunny. Click! They are pulling past collections out, ripping off the packaging, & selling them as singles! You think I’m nuts? Ask Mr. Bunny, pretty sure he saw it all. There was a whole ‘nother wall of these too, but they were all repeat shades. I BELIEVE I got one of each color besides the clear top coat…& the ones I already have of course. I did buy 2 of one shade I already have though for gifts.

As I was checking out, the lady was shocked. I could tell she knew her nail polish….guess we know what she did after I left!

If you see ANYTHING like this in YOUR local Walgreens, PLEASE let me know! I want to know if this is like…because my Walgreens is a rebel or if this happens sometimes? Definitely news to me!

I will be posting pictures of all the polishes ASAP, first I need to find their names though & I wanted to get the word out first!

Summer 2012 is going to be a super stylish season for nails with the latest offering of nail polish collections, Beach and Surf, from the new color of fashion, Zoya! This new splash of color, designed by the Zoya color experts, is kissed by sea and sand translating beautifully onto the nail in the famous, full-coverage Zoya formula.
Dive into the creamy shades of the Zoya Beach Collection or the shimmering sea foils of the Zoya Surf Collection. The choice is yours – this color palette is sure to be a splash!
Zoya BEACH Collection

• Reagan (ZP614) – deep cerise pink cream
• Lara (ZP615) – vivid cerise pink cream
• Shelby (ZP616) – soft pinky pink cream
• Arizona (ZP617) – soft coral orange cream
• Tracie (ZP618) – sea grass metallic
• Wednesday (ZP619) – soft aqua cream

Zoya SURF Collection

• Rory (ZP620) – lotus pink foil metallic
• Carly (ZP621) – thalia purple foil metallic
• Kimber (ZP622) – magenta pink foil metallic
• Myrta (ZP623) – coral orange foil metallic
• Meg (ZP624) – mermaid green foil metallic
• Zuza (ZP625) – aquamarine foil metallic

Zoya is the new color of fashion… 
The Zoya BEACH and SURF collection was designed and inspired by resort runways and tropical get-a-ways.
Ultra long-wearing, glossy nail lacquers by Zoya are free of harmful industrial chemicals like toluene, camphor, formaldehyde, resin, dibutyl phthalate (DBP) that are known to cause cancer and birth defects.
Find Zoya BEACH and SURF as well as over 300 other ultra high-fashion Zoya shades at www.zoya.com. As always, each and every Zoya color is made for women so we name them after women.
BEACH and SURF by Zoya Nail Polish – 12 new colors:
Available April 1, 2012 (USA)
www.zoya.com
Sug. Retail $8.00 per 0.5 fl.oz. bottle (US).

This has been in my dreams seriously. A rainbow sponged mani using all the colors at once? Truth! I saw this on another blog, LaynieFingers, so here is the link to that post! She only did one nail rainbow but totally shows the method & such. Hers is gorgeous!

What I Used:
Red- Sally Hansen xtreme Wear in “Cherry Red”
Orange- Essie “Vermillionaire”
Yellow- Color Club “Almost Famous”
Green- Spoiled “I Only Eat Salads” ( Full swatch soon, loving it!)
Blue- Sinful Colors “Why Not”

White Base- Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in “Whirlwind White”
Top Coat- Seche Vite

Obviously you can sub any of these shades but what I like about these are they are all close to or opaque in one coat & none of them have shimmer.

How to Achieve it: You paint all of the colors on a sponge in rainbow order then sponge on your entire nail! Wam bam thank you ma’am! Really, that’s it! No pesky layering, more control. I loved this method although I didn’t have a ton of time so I left some white. Next time, I won’t bunch up some of my colors either, they blend on their own anyway.

BONUS- My Seriously Creepy Attempt at a Leprechaun….EEEEEEK! ERASE ERASE ERASE!

Voila! I love this, really. My kids went nuts for it too which is always an awesome bonus! Do you have a rainbow mani? Feel free to link below, I’d love to see it!

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.