Haul!!

New Sally Hansen and Coral Colours plus some remaindered stuff.

Sally Hansen Diamond Strength - 460 Save the Date

We've had a lot of overcast days lately, so I wasn't able to get a photo of this in direct sunlight to show you the sparkling depth of the colour. It's a real shame because this is now one of my favourite colours! And what is a bonus is that it's a replacement for my very sad bottle of Constance Carroll "Blackcurrant" from back in the 90s which I've tried to revive several times.

I love this colour so much but I did find the formula was a bit gluey to apply. It's purply red, it shimmers like satin, has heaps of depth. It is even better with a super shiny top coat.

Sally Hansen crackles

Are in Terry White chemists.

Sally Hansen Nail Prisms - Pink Rose Diamond

Lucky me - I found 3 of the Nail Prisms in a discount basket in a
pharmacy. They have holographic glitter in them, so love love love!!!
I've only done one coat in this pic, but added another coat today. The
polish is a bit soft - a bit of problem getting it dry. I put it down
to age. Afterall, these came out ages ago. The holographic effect is
top grade though. Even better than the one I paid $20 for!!

Nail Prisms!! Sally Hansen

I was quite excited to find three bottles of this discontinued line of holographic nail polish in Ashgrove today!! Sadly my nails have been flaking and I am giving them a rest for now.

Sally Hansen Lacquer Shine - Luminous

As I said about the other Lacquer Shine I had on, this goes on like a dream. What an incredible formula. I've got 3 of these, so when the time comes I will review the other one. In the bottle I had imagined it was more of an orangey tone, but on the nail it seemed like a straight out hot red, not a hint of orange at all. These are quite old polishes, being in the discontinued basket, and for all my life only have seen them in one store, a Terry White chemist with not much clientele. Still, I cannot tell you that after the last few polishes being put on, I had rather dreaded that perhaps I was declining into old age and unable to hold a brush anymore or create even strokes.

This polish has told me: It's not you! It's them!

Anyway... I'd had trouble with those new fangled wide brush things and this is rather the average long bristled straight brush and it surely, surely is wonderful to apply with. *gush gush*

I've had tons of compliments. Last night, my friend was ordering in an Indian restaurant when the woman stopped him mid sentence and said: Those nails are AMAZING. Truly. She endured taking our drink and entree order and finally had to blurt it out. (dramatic writing licence used).

But seriously, yes, at work today had comments about them. Last week at work also. That's right... LAST WEEK. These babies have rode my dead skin cells for approximately 5 days. They had done the washing, scrabbled around in my handbag and it was only yesterday they took chipping. In fact, the last photo was taken 2 days ago. You can see some wear on the tip but the polish clung on for dear life.

So, it's a bold tomato red and is a pearl. It has delicious, beautiful depth. I think this series Lacquer Shine was really taking those deep, shiny asian lacquerware as inspiration, if you can visualise the layers and layers of varnish that give it that glittering warm depth.

Sally Hansen Lacquer Shine - Glossy

I'm disappointed. I was hoping that there was be more of a deep chocolatey brown with a rich red shimmer as it looked in the bottle. The colour on nail is quite flat, none of the depth seen in the bottle, and mostly it just looks like black. Under a light bulb or sunlight you can see the red reflect, but under normal office lights there is nothing. Sally Hansen Mega Shine top coat actually made it less shiny - so it lives up to its lacquer shine name, but it also started wearing off the tips quite quickly. In fact, within the next few hours, a white line of wear was on the tips just from your regular abrasions - clothing, typing, folding up... Ridiculous! Guess its ok I only spend $2 on it!

I have to say though, it was one of the EASIEST paint ons I've done with a dark colour. For once, a Sally Hansen with an immaculate brush. It was long and smooth and the polish quite runny so I took aaaages and got the polish nice and smooth.

 

In daylight without direct sun it just looks black.

And here we are under a florescent lamp - finally, some sparkle! But where am I going to walk around with a lamp directly over my nails?