Review: Sally Hansen Thinking of Blue + Bonus Red French

Every couple of weeks or so, a friend of mine and I make the comparatively epic journey to Sally's in northern Toronto. The first few times we went it was awesome as they're the one place I know of that sells Orly and Finger Paints. However, the past few times we've been my opinion of them has fallen drastically because 1) they don't see a problem selling an two entire cases of Finger Paints Special Effects to one person and 2) never getting anything new. So, to spite them, I went to the Rexall nearby and bought all the on-sale polishes! Notable in the polishes I picked up was the following, Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Thinking of Blue (urgh, pun-tacular).

I've always been a fan of the Complete Salon Manicures as I like the brush and the application is always simple. Thinking of Blue was no exception, it applied nicely in two coats. It's a really pretty blueberry creme, too. As I can't leave manicures along, I just had to give my nails red tips, as I love the colour combo. Looking through my stash, I couldn't go past A England Perceval - a stunning, rich, metallic red. I have this one all ready to be reviewed with pics so check back soon for that one.

Don't you love how rich both these colours are? I especially love Perceval, it's so rich and is opaque in just about one coat.

The Verdict: I'll be reviewing Perceval in a separate post so I'm just going to sum up Thinking of Blue for now. It's such a pretty colour, applies really well and you can usually find the Complete Salon Manicure polishes for about $5 in various drug stores. A winner in my book.

Review: Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles is Accurately Named

It's amazing what you can find when you wander around at night. My favourite time to go shopping is ridiculously late and I'm extra happy when it pays off. I've been looking for Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles for a while now at that couldn't be more up my alley if it tried. I finally managed to find it in a Shoppers last night and it really does live up to its name. A Million Sparkles is a predominately blue glitter that has an amazing ability to look like a foil after a couple of coats. Combine that with gold, silver and pink bar glitter and you have a winner. It's seriously so sparkly I got distracted from what I was saying at lunch today. Application is decent but you really need four coats to get completely opaque coverage. That's ok, glitter dries fast. It's a little rough too but nothing Seche Vite can't fix. The Verdict: Yay glitter! If, like me, you like sparklies to the point where it's the biggest tag on y

I'm a Proper Mermaid This Time Beeeeaches

Ermerger guys, I don't have any glitter on me! Well, I do, just on my nails. I always have glitter on me. And cat fluff. It's funny how often my bf comes home with glitter in his beard. That means it's been there all day... Anyway, new nail vinyls mean something a bit different. I swear I'm not actually obsessed with mermaids, it just seems like it... Anyway, again, shall we?

Overlaid Red, Black and White Gradient Nails!

Ever since I did this mani recently I've been wanting to do a better version. The colours seemed like they would work together but it just didn't turn out how I wanted. I wanted to try again and decided to learn from my original mistakes. For example, make sure you use a super opaque creme polish on your top layer, don't bother with horizontal stripes and using thicker lines looks cool too.

Polish All the Nails

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