Sally Hansen Pacific Blue

Happy Monday Lovely Ladies,

Today I have a gorgeous Sally Hansen polish to show you. Pacific Blue is a bright, almost neon blue crème. The color is adorable. I like to use it for both mani and pedi, especially during summer time.

The application is easy, although the formula is on the thicker side. I think it will get even thicker with time (common for many SH polishes). 2 coats are enough for the full opacity. Durability is great (no chipping for 5 days).

If you don’t have Sally Hansen polishes where you live, you can find some dupes from other brands. Pacific Blue is a close dupe for Nails Inc. “Baker Street” and Sephora “Myrtille” ( you can check the swatches here).

Nail Art with Leftovers from the Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips

Last weekend I decided to try Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips for toes. I like toe nails designs, but I never do it. Snake Print I have chosen is super funky and summery with green and purple. 

Because my toe nails are small, I had an entire strip left, so I used part of it for this simple nail art and the rest was enough for the entire manicure. 

The last time I used Sally Hansen nail polish strips I also had one set left for another manicure, but in a week it dried out, so I had to throw it out. Taking into consideration that the set costs around $8-$9, it’s an expensive one time manicure for me, because I don’t wear it more than 2-3 days anyways. 

Hourglass Triangle Manicure

Today I’m showing you my small experiment with the triangle design incorporating crackle polish.

I used:
- L’oreal Night Owl
- Sally Hansen Antique Gold crackle polish

I’m not extremely excited about how it turned out. It was quite hard to make SH crackle nicely and uniformly. I think if I used a regular crème polish it would look better.

What do you think, girls?

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Lavender Marquis

Happy Pink Wednesday everyone!

Sally Hansen Lavender Marquis is one of those shades that are extremely easy to wear. This nail polish is appropriate for almost any occasion…ok, maybe except of the Goth parties. It is also a perfect choice for the French manicure.

Lavender Marquis is a light shimmery pink-lilac duochrome. The formula is very smooth and it dries very fast without the top coat. 

Sally Hansen Crushed Gems – Cha-Ching!

Hi Everyone!

I already mentioned in couple of my posts that I’m quite disappointed with creativity of the some famous brands this year. Definitely, with such a huge variety of brands and nail polish colors and finishes it is hard to stay creative. But to copy almost entire collection…this is a little too much for me.

I understand that OPI and Sally Hansen both belong to Coty. And it is not that surprising to see some similarities between OPI Muppets Collection glitters and Crushed Gems. But when I saw the stand in my local CVS I didn’t think of OPI.
Crushed Gems look exactly like China Glaze Eye Candy! Did somebody notice this as well? Definitely the target market is a little different, Sally Hansen could be found almost everywhere unlike China Glaze, but still…

Anyways, I still bought Cha-Ching! to check out the quality and compare it with Love Marylin from CG.

Cha-Ching! is a bright red glitter with some of silver glitter of the same size. The base of the nail polish is clear. It is a nice color, I won’t deny. And it doesn’t chip for a while. The only downside is that it’s hard to apply near cuticle area. I had to move the glitter while it was still wet, so it will look clean.

Sally Hansen Kitty, Kitty!

This weekend I tried Sally Hansen Salon Effects - Real Nail Polish Strips in Kitty,Kitty. I love leopard nail art design, but I’m not skilled enough yet to be able to do it well myself. So I figured I will just buy the strips.

There are 16 strips in the packaging and the price is around $8-$1 depending on the store. I found it a little bit pricy. Don’t get me wrong, I do buy expensive nail polish, but these strips can last you maximum 2 applications (if you have short nails). I also like to change nail polish at least 3 times a week, because I get bored of the same color or design, so there SH strips are more suitable for people who like wear nail polish for a week or so.

I do love the diversity of the designs though, including Halloween ghost strips.

Funny, but I also found it harder to apply than traditional nail polish. Maybe the second time will be much easier. I would always end up with wrinkles.

Sally Hansen Snow Blast Crackle Overcoat Swatches

Hi Girls!

Was passing by the isles in CVS and found this one. I originally intended to buy Color Club one, but as I hate waiting I thought this will not differ that much too.

Snow Blast is a white crackle nail polish…That’s it. Very simple polish to describe It has nothing else specific except crackle effect. The crackle effect depends on the thickness of the layer. I prefer small and square crackles, so I apply it as thin as possible. In my opinion, it is better to use Snow Blast with bright and dark nail polishes.

I used one coat of Revlon Fire as a base.

Sally Hansen Antiqued Gold Crackle Overcoat Swatches and Review

There have been a lot of the posts about Sally Hansen Crackle Collection recently, but when I finally got to my local CVS store, I could find literally the last one. To my luck it was Antiqued Gold. I’m not a huge fan of crème “Crackles”, so I didn’t miss too much.

Overall, Antiqued Gold Crackle is shimmery gold top coat. One thing that I really like about it is the way it crackles – I passed on similar China Glaze collection, because crackles were more horizontal and uninteresting. Sally Hansen Overcoat reminds me a lot of OPI Shatter crackle pattern.

The brush of the nail polish is a little too long and too narrow. Not that it makes the application complicated, but I would prefer the wider brush, just because the polish dries really fast. Other than that, I have nothing bad to say.

As a base I used Sally Hansen Grey Area.

Geometric

Recently I became quite obsessed about konading. Here's the design from M73 plate.
I used OPI St. Peterburgundy and Sally Hansen Insta-Dry for design.

Saturday Manicure – Silver Stripes

I bought Sally Hansen nail art pen a while ago, but never actually used it, because I’m quite bad with nail art :).

I actually even forgot that I had one.

Today I found it and decided to give it a try. So, here’s SH nail art pen in Silver over Essie Sew Psyched.

 And more..

One good thing about this Art Pen that it can be easily removed with water without damaging base nail polish.