New Finger Paints Professional Artistic Nail Collection

   Hi everyone!  I hope you all had a good holiday and new year.  I'm starting to feel more balanced  and less crazy again.  At least temporarily.  I'm hoping this means I will be able to get back to swatches and reviews soon.  But today, I have a fun press release for you about the new Finger Paints launch available exclusively at Sally Beauty Supply.  Please enjoy the following information and pictures.  Don't forget you can click on the images to enlarge them for a bigger view.

This spring, feast your eyes on the latest in nail lacquers from Sally Beauty Supply and re-discover FingerPaints™ Professional Artistic Nail Color

FingerPaints™ Professional Artistic Nail Collection

Launching January 2014, with over 90 stylishly saturated shades (including glitters, metallics, shimmers, toppings and soak-off gel formulas), the newly formulated collection provides exceptional wear, resists fading, and lets you change your look as often as you change your mind.

The new line was developed by nail technicians and rivals any professional nail lacquer in the marketplace. The line is richly pigmented for intense shades and the professional brush allows for flawless one coat coverage. FingerPaints features salon-quality, super-high-shine nail color at an affordable price that allows you to create professionally finished nails at home.

FingerPaints are completely free of Toluene, Formaldehyde, and Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP).

SRP: $5.29 available at Sally Beauty and SallyBeauty.com in March 2014

 

 

Finger Paints Plum Startled

   The final polish I'm going to show you from the Finger Paints Fall of Surprises collection is Plum Startled.

   Plum Startled is a red based purple plum with blue and purple/fuchsia shimmer.  I love this polish.  My photos do it absolutely no justice.  It's one of those polishes that make my camera freak out.  The shimmer gives a really nice depth to the polish.  Formula is good and the application was mostly smooth.  I used 2 coats over Finger Paints base coat and no top coat in these photos, but I would recommend 3 coats if you like using thinner coats.  You can see a little patchiness on my ring and pinky fingers where I used thinner coats.

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   If you only get one polish from this collection, it should be Plum Startled.  In person, there is so much more going on than what my camera could capture. 

Finger Paints Fall-ing For You

   Happy Monday everyone.  Today for you I have Fall-ing For You from the Finger Paints Fall of Surprises Fall 2012 collection.  

   Fall-ing is a blue foil polish that teeters between sapphire and teal depending on the light.  The formula is a little runny and shows any flaws in your nails.  Because this is a foil polish, it is a bit brush-strokey.  Fall-ing is very pigmented and only needed 1 coat for full coverage.  I recommend doubling up on the base coat with this one, blues like this do have a tendency to stain.  I used Finger Paints base coat and no top coat for these photos.

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   Fall-ing For You is very vibrant.  I don't know that I would expect a color like this in a fall collection, but I really like it. 

Finger Paints Be-Leaf It or Not!

   Fall is in the air.  Can you feel it yet?  I can in the mornings and evenings.  The afternoons are still a little warm, but that's ok.  I'm still ready to start breaking out the fall polish.  In that vein, today I'm showing you Be-Leaf It or Not! from the Finger Paints Fall 2012 Fall of Surprises collection.  

   Be-Leaf is a sage green foil.  Because it's a foil, brush strokes will show, but they were fairly minor for me compared to some other foil polishes.  Application was good and the formula was ok, but not great.  Medium thick coats are going to be your best bet.  Thin coats will be patchy and too thick of a coat will cause pooling of the polish.  I only needed 2 coats for full coverage.  I used Finger Paints base coat and no top coat for these photos.

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   I love this shade of green and I think it works very well as a foil polish.  Be-Leaf may not be a very unique polish, but it is a lovely shade and the minimal brush strokes that show is nice.  

Finger Paints Pop Rock Pink

   You all know that I'm generally not a big fan of pinks.  But from the first swatches I saw of Pop Rock Pink from the Finger Paints Gumdrops and Lollipops collection I wanted it.  When I found it on clearance recently I of course had to grab it.  Once I put it on, I loved it.  This might be my favorite pink ever.  I've even worn it as a full mani already, as part of a jelly sandwich, and didn't want to take it off.

   Pop Rock Pink is an orange leaning pink jelly with brighter pink shimmer.  It is definitely pink and not coral, which is why I say orange leaning.  I just love the squishy texture and how you can see the depth of the shimmer.  Application was very smooth and the formula is good, but a tiny bit thin.  I used Finger Paints base coat, 2 coats of polish, and no top coat.  With 2 coats you can still see a little bit of vnl (visible nail line), so you might want a 3rd coat if that bothers you.

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   The shimmer flashes a little blue at times.  Please click on the pictures to enlarge them.  My camera didn't capture the shimmer that well, but I promise it's there in person.  

   When I wore this as a jelly sandwich, I used Sally Hansen Princess Cut with Pop Rock Pink.  Princess Cut is a small flake polish with a pink base.  Here's a couple pictures from my phone of that mani.

   Again, please click to enlarge these photos.  What I love about jelly sandwiches is how the glitter or flakes appear to almost float in the polish.  For this look I did 1 coat of Pop Rock Pink, 2 coats of Princess Cut, then 1 more thin coat of Pop Rock Pink.

Finger Paints Grape Gumball

   Finger Paints is a Sally Beauty exclusive line.  There's a decent size core collection year round as well as limited edition seasonal collections.  Grape Gumball is from their Spring 2012 Gumdrops & Lollipops collection.

This is a medium purple with silver shimmer.  There are also hints of pink and blue shimmer, but silver is the predominant color.  The formula and application were good, but the dry time was slow.  A top coat might have helped that, but I'm not sure.   Normally when I swatch by the time I finish cleaning up a polish, taking the 10-20 photos I sort through to find the best ones, and am ready to take a polish off to swatch the next one, the polish is pretty much dry.  This one was not and was still very easily dent/smudgeable when I went to remove it.  My base coat was Finger Paints Base coat.  I used 2 medium coats of polish, but 1 was almost enough.  If you do thick coats, you might be able to get by with 1 coat, but possibly 3 thin coats would be best just to help with drying.  I did not use a top coat.

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   Obviously, I love the color.  I wish the dry time was better, but next time I will try a good quick dry top coat and see if that helps.

Random Recent NOTDs

   Hi everyone.  I'm sooo sorry I haven't been posting recently.  I've been busy with work and pretty stressed, which has led to a pretty big mood funk.  I'm going to try to get back on the blogging bandwagon soon.  In the mean time though, here's some random crappy cell phone pictures of my recent NOTDs.  That's short hand for Nail Of The Day btw.  If you'd like full reviews of any of these let me know and I'll try to get to them quickly.

I'll start with my current mani- Sinful Colors Neptune.  This is a dark denim blue with a nice silvery sparkle.  Neptune is from the new Castaway display/collection out now at Walgreens.

China Glaze Riveter Rouge.  This is a deep wine/burgundy color with a fine silver glitter.  RR is from the Vintage Vixen collection.

Zoya Roxy.  Roxy is a bright fuchsia jelly base with glitter.  I believe this is from the UltraGlitters collection.  I'm including two pictures one with flash and one without.

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Zoya Posh.  This is one of Zoya's matte polishes, but I didn't take a photograph of it matte sorry.  This is with top coat which brings the amazing shimmer to life.

Essie Velvet Voyeur with an accent nail of China Glaze Midtown Magic

Then I added Finger Paints Twisted on top of that

Essie Van D'Go.  I was expecting this to be a bit more peach and less cotton candy pink so I don't think I'm going to keep this polish.

Because I wasn't happy with this color, I added a glitter accent nail in one of the new Sally Hansen Gem Crush shades in Be-Jeweled

Funky French with Zoya Nimue tips and OPI In the Spot-Light Pink base.  This was one of my favorite manis in a long time.  It was very time intensive though so not sure I'll be repeating the look any time soon.

OPI Lincoln Park After Midnight.  I wore this to a wedding last month and really liked it.  Unfortunately it got a little wrecked at the reception.  But it was totally worth it because there was BOWLING at the reception!  And an open bar.  This was quite possible the best reception ever.