Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Tribal Vibe and Boho Chic Collections (partial)

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Hi everyone!  Today I have some Sally Hansen Miracle Gel polishes to show you.  Recently Sally Hansen has release not one, but two new Miracle Gel collections.  They've also made improvements on the Miracle Gel top coat and have put some limited edition duo packs together.  I have a little bit of each collection, so I'm putting it all in one post.  I'll be doing a separate review on the Miracle Gel top coat later.
*The brushes on these are really wide.  I love them because I have big nail beds and it makes things easy to apply. Please keep this in mind when I talk about application.  If you prefer smaller brushes, you may have a different experience.

Let's take a look!

Sally Hansen Pearl Crush Swatches and Review

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Happy Friday!

Today I have some of Sally Hansen's new Pearl Crush collection already out in stores!  These are all sheer with pearl like shimmer and large iridescent hex glitters in a tinted base. I layered all of these over a base.  Since the formula on all of these are the same, I'm going to post pictures and leave the review for the end of the post.

Let's get started!

Sally Hansen Edgy Creme and OPI Thrills in Beverly Hills - Throwback Thursday

Hi everyone! It's been a while since I've done Throwback Thursday so today I'm bringing it to you double time with not one, but 2 throwbacks!

For this look, I used Sally Hansen Edgy Creme which is one of those pretty ugly colors, but I love these kinds of cameo sage greens.  I'm crossing my fingers for some shades like these in the fall.  I can never get enough!

I then layered OPI Thrills in Beverly Hills on top.  This throw back is a top coat with an antique gold shimmer/micro flakes.  This top coat is a black label and is originally from the Shopping Around the World Collection, Holiday 2005.

And a bonus picture with the OPI bottle.

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Twinsie Tuesday - Fandom

It's Twinsie Tuesday!  This week's post is all about fandom.  That tv show, book, movie, etc that you are absolutely obsessed with and can't live without.  It has you screaming Team ______ and if someone disagrees they get the side eye of disapproval.

I fangirl over a few things like Harry Potter, Adventure Time, True Blood (don't talk to me about that last season), historical fiction books in general, and Psych.  Quite the random mix.  But today's post is dedicated to all things Downton Abbey and especially the Dowager Countess of Grantham: Violet.  No one delivers those one liner insults quite like her.  I have no doubt she'd diss this manicure as well since tradition is of the greatest importance.  As a dedication to Downton Abbey, I decided to go with black lace nails.  I cheated a little, because I used Sally Hansen strips in Laced Up.

And of course this post wouldn't be a Downton Abbey fandom post without me leaving you with a quote from Lady Grantham.

Don't forget to check out the other Twinsies and what they're fangirling over!

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amanda at Fashion Footing

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Bridget at A Painted Nail

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

Kristine at Pink and Polished Nails

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

​Lisa at The Polish Playground

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Sally Hansen Golden Tourmaline

It's Thursday, so how about a bit of a throwback with Golden Tourmaline from Sally Hansen's Nail Prisms line.  This is where I say I wish they would bring them back.  They had some gorgeous colors and finishes that would fit right in with all the holos and multichromes that are popular now.

Golden Tourmaline is a pinkish red holo.  I bought it 4 years ago because for a while it seemed almost impossible to have a true red holo and this seemed like the closest we'd get to it.  Now with indies, there are quite a few true red holos out there. No regrets buying this though, because it's gorgeous!  These pictures do it no justice.

This is 2 coats.

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Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Ever Green

So keeping along with the fall theme, today I have Ever Green from the new Sally Hansen New York Fashion Week Runway Collection for Fall 2014.  I always look forward to these collections, but I can never find them and by the time I do they've been picked over and the CVS store closest to me has a terrible beauty section.  Nothing is ever in place, polish is put out on random shelves without the display and they almost never get anything new that's of interest.  But on to this lovely polish.

Ever Green is well, green.  It's one of my favorite types of green polish, a little murky, a little dark, and of the army green range.  I wouldn't put it in the pretty-ugly category though.

This one applied really nicely.  I forgot how much I love the brush on the Complete Salon Manicure polishes.

This is 2 coats.

Sally Hansen Color Foil Yellow Gold

Recently Sally Hansen came out with a line of metallic polishes.  I picked a few up  and today I have for you Yellow Gold.  Yellow Gold is as the name says, gold, but has a bit of an olive running through it.  Not quite what I was expecting, but it's nice.

The first time I tried to apply this, I was using a normal basecoat and it did not apply well.  It dragged quite a bit.  So I tried it out with Nfu-Oh! Aqua Base.  Much better.  These polishes dry fast, so you have to work fast like a lot of these reflective metallics.  Also be sure to have buffed nails because this polish shows ALL your ridges.

Over all I enjoyed these and I think I'll get a few more.

This is one coat over Nfu-Oh! Aqua Base.

Sally Hansen Pacific Blue and China Glaze Fairy Dust

Sally Hansen Pacific Blue.  We're all tired of hearing about it being discontinued, so I'll just skip that bit.  I've posted about this polish a few years ago, but since my photography skills have improved, I decided to post again and this time with China Glaze Fairy Dust that I recently picked up.  (Side note: why did it take me so long to buy Fairy Dust?  I've known about it for years, but it never made it to my collection and after this mani, I realize it's definitely a staple.  Now I need to find the gold version Golden Enchantment.)

1 coat Pacific Blue and 1 coat Fairy Dust.

Sally Hansen Salon Strips Cross My Heart

I love these strips.  Whenever I'm too lazy to do any kind of nail art, I bust these out.  My only beef is that they're a little on the expensive side, but I usually can buy them with some kind of discount from CVS.

This is the Cross My Heart design.

Sally Hansen Salon Effects How Corny

How Corny is a part of the limited edition Halloween collection.  I was also released last year.  I skipped it last year so I decided to try this one out this year.  It's basically candy corn pieces with a shimmery white back ground.  The whole design has more of a pearl almost frosty look.  I really wanted to like these, but the pearl/frost stops that from happening.  It also prevents it from standing out from further distances.  I think they'd be much better as a creme finish.

Application was the same as all the other Salon Effects I've tried.

Sally Hansen Salon Effects Girl Flower

Today I have on Salon Effects in Girl Flower.  I really wanted to love it, but it's so pixelated it's annoying.  It doesn't look so bad from a distance.

Sally Hansen Salon Effects Spun for You

I put these on for a Halloween party I went to last night.  They're a bit thinner than the others I've tried.  So far the wear is alright, but I have a bit of tip wear.

Sally Hansen Salon Effects Ghoulie Girl

I've reviewed the salon effects before, and these were no different.  Ghoulie Girl is another set from Sally Hansen's Halloween offerings and they are absolutely adorable.  They look like little orange and white ghosts complete with eyes.  The kids that I tutor LOVED it.

Sally Hansen Salon Effects Hot Wired

About a month or so ago I found the Halloween themed Salon Effects and picked up a few and now that we're almost half way into October, I figured I'd better pull one out.  Unfortunately, I was rushing when applying these.  This is definitely something you don't want to rush with because the polish strips can rip, apply wrinkly, and put the wrong size on a nail.  Of course I managed to do all three, but it doesn't look too bad, especially after topping it with some Poshe.  I obviously failed at the sizing of my ring finger as evidenced in the last picture.

(The bottles I am holding are OPI Fresh Frog of Bel-Air and Poshe topcoat)

Sally Hansen Red Carpet

This one is from the Xtreme Wear line.  (Side Note:  Can someone please explain to me why Sally Hansen has 50 million different lines??)  It's a jelly red with red glitter and is a very close dupe to China Glaze's Ruby Pumps.  For a glitter, it dries extremely smooth, which is a plus in my book.

This is 3 coats.

Illamasqua Boosh and Sally Hansen In the Spotlight

I slapped this mani on yesterday because I was in a rush and my students ended up loving it!  They're too cute sometimes.

Boosh is the best black with Wet n Wild's black cream as a close second.  And to think I bought it by accident. I thought I was buying Rampage and imagine my surprise when I opened it up when I got home.  Surprise isn't really even the word.  I was pissed.  And of course when I went back to exchange it, they didn't have any Rampage left, so I kept Boosh and I love it.

In the Spotlight is a holo string glitter in a clear base, and it looks awesome over black.  Science fiction-y good.

This is 1 coat of Boosh and 2 coats of In the Spotlight.

Sally Hansen Wet Cement

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Today I have on Sally Hansen's Wet Cement.  The weather has been pretty craptastic lately, so I decided to do a mani that matches it.  Wet Cement is a lovely gray cream that doesn't have to much blue, purple or green.  It's the perfect light gray color, but I'm not sure how I feel about it on me.

This is 2 coats.

Sally Hansen Rock Star Pink

Glitter!!  I love me some glittah!  This is a magenta glitter in a clear base with some gold, blue and red glitter sprinkled in. It was opaque in 3 coats and wasn't too gloopy.  It dries gritty so a thick coat of top coat is a definite must.

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Sally Hansen Mint Sorbet

Now that the mint craze has died down, I think it's okay for me to like it again.  After MAC's release of Peppermint Patty, the polish world went crazy over mint polish, and polish companies bombarded us with them.  Kind of like what's happening now with "the crack."

Anyways, I decided to pull Sally Hansen's Mint Sorbet out of my untrieds.  It's a gorgeous pastel green.  It was completely opaque in 2 coats, but had that "thick but runny" thing going on with the formula.  For some reason, my camera seems to have made it look a little more blue in it than it really is.

Sally Hansen Salon Effects in Check It Out

I know we've seen these quite a bit in the past weeks, but I decided to try them and put in my quick 2 cents.  These fit my left hand really well, but ran a little smaller on my right hand, which was weird.  I didn't mind too much because you couldn't really tell unless you were blatantly looking at the sides of my nails.  Other than that, these were great.  They are easy to apply, and lasted FOREVER with minimal lifting at the cuticles.  I was trying to wear these for as long as possible, but after day 7 I started pulling them up on purpose so I could change my mani.