CHEAP, DRUGSTORE BRAND SWATCHES - THE PINKS

Last night I was in a swatching mood so I decided to pull down a few boxes of nail polish and pick some out to swatch. You might remember that I recently started keeping my nail polish by color, so I pulled down PINK, GREEN and BLUE boxes to pick from. I didn't even realize until after I picked out several bottles that the majority of what I had was cheaper drug store brands. After swatching them, I really wanted to stress to you all just how great some of these brands really are. Most of the ones I am showing you cost me $2 or less for each bottle!! So next time you are at your local dollar store or drug store, don't just pass by those cheap brands. Get one and give it a try, you just might be surprised that really nice nail polish doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg.


This first post will highlight the PINK nail polishes I picked out.


BIANCA, SCANDAL, BEAUTIFUL GIRL


Sinful Colors usually gets ripped about being streaky and thin. And that is true for some polishes (but I think that goes for all brands too), but not all of Sinful Color's polishes streaky. I used three coats for each, which is what I consider normal.

Sinful Colors retail for $1.99 at Walgreens.


BIANCA






Just to jazz it up a little bit, I used LOVE MY NAILS in Dazzling.Love My Nails I believe are $1.97 and can be found at Walmart.

(As a side note, their tag line of "For that deep, wet look" has to be some MALE marketing there.)








SCANDAL





For this one, I chose to use a Nabi - Milky Glitter. I purchased my Nabi's from a flea market in Las Vegas for $1.00 each. I have really been pretty impressed with Nabi brand and they have some really nice, unique colors as well as a ton of glitters to choose from. This particular glitter polish I used was really easy to apply. I didn't have any problems that cheaper glitters sometimes have of not applying well. I did not have to fish the glitter out or apply it any different way for this to show up on my nail. Very nice Nabi, very nice. Milky Glitter has two types of glitter in it, THREE different sized round glitter and small bar glitter.







BEAUTIFUL GIRL






To top this one off I picked a Misa. Now this isn't a cheap, drug store brand, but like I said, MOST of the ones I picked out were. Misa is a really nice brand of polish. Every time I use one, I want to get more of them. Not only do I just ADORE the bottle shape, the polish is really, really nice. I used Candy Girl to top this off. I loved how girly this was.






Stay tuned for my GREEN and BLUE posts coming up!

OLDIE BUT A GOODIE

I know you have all seen this polish before. So let's all stare at it again, shall we?

****putting finger up to your lips******
shhhhhh...
don't talk...
just look...
ok??

















Even though it is overcast today, I took a couple of outside shots just because.

WATER MARBLE MANI UPDATE

Did you know that nail polish will eat through a Styrofoam cup?? In like a matter of minutes?? Well I didn't but I do now!!



I sat down last night to do my water marble mani and immediately ran into problems. I was all prepared with my 10 little cups for each finger, ready to start marbling my nails!!!
When I let the first drop of polish fall into my Styrofoam cup there were problems. The drop sunk right down to the bottom. It wasn't spreading out like I have seen it do for everyone else. So I thought it must be the kind of polish I was using. Nope, same thing with a different brand. SO after about 10 drops of nail polish in my cup I got up to go wash my hands and came back to my table over flowing with water.

I had no clue that nail polish and Styrofoam weren't friends.

The water marble mani saga continues . . .

WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA?

Why, it's SpongeBob SquarePants of course!



STARFISH PATRICK
Every time I say this name it comes out "starfiss" instead of starfish, eerrr! I *liked* this polish but I can't say that I can just rave over it. I knew that these were going to be sheer, so I was at least prepared for that. This is four coats. I think this came out looking better in the pictures than it actually did on my nails.





BIKINI BOTTOM
Again, I was prepared for the sheerness of this polish. That doesn't make it any less disappointing though. This was four coats, but I really think it needed another one. This was more of a grayish blue than I was expecting when I put it on. I think this would work better over a base color of white, blue or even gray.





SQUARE PANTS
This was the one that I thought I was just going to love. And I didn't. Don't get me wrong, I like it, but I don't love it like I wanted to. I was surprised when I was editing these pictures that this polish has some shimmer to it. I wish it didn't. I think I would like it better with a jelly finish like Bikini Bottom. Maybe that is why this fell flat with me.





All in all, I'm glad that I got some RBL polishes for my collection. I don't think that these particular polishes were even worth the half price I paid of $9. I wish that I would have gotten one of the creme polishes since that is what everyone raves about.

THE GANG IS ALL HERE!

Yes, I got my Rescue Beauty Lounge order before Christmas folks! It arrived in time for me, errr I mean "Santa" to wrap it and get it under the tree and everything! Did everyone else receive their orders??