Sinful Colors - Hot Chilli Swatch & Review

I was pretending to go to sleep on this pile of blankets with my almost 2-year-old which is by the couch with a surround sound speaker on a stand next to it. Little rambunctious boy does some kind of Tasmanian devil/ninja move and knocks the speaker over onto my face. I caught the edge of it with my forehead so now I've got this enormous goose egg and this is one of those rare moments I'm actually thankful for cutting my bangs. At least I was the one who got smashed, if we're going to look on the bright side like sensible people.

Today I have kind of a bizarre polish to share with you. It's called Hot Chilli and it was part of the Sinful Colors Spice It Up! collection out last Fall. I never ended up seeing the collection for sale anywhere so when I saw Hot Chilli for sale on Storenvy I figured I may as well get it.

It's got a silver cap, which for Sinful Colors means the polish is textured or part of the Diamond Lust collection, neither of which it is (though please correct me if I'm wrong here; I only did a little research here and by research I mean I Googled "Sinful Colors silver cap" and those were the only two things that came up).

Hot Chilli is sort of this metallic red base with small and micro holo glitters hanging out in there. It's a little on the thick side, but it wasn't frustrating to work with.

Shown below is two coats with topcoat.

I'm so kind of 'eh' about this polish. I don't hate it because it's kind of nice to look at, but there's just something about it that I don't love. I don't really know how to describe it. Or maybe this is just the self-diagnosed concussion talking. I don't know, guys. I probably won't ever wear it again but I'm going to hand on to it because I'm intrigued by the whole silver cap thing.

The siiiilver caaaap.

Any ideas as to why it's silver?

OPI - Push and Shove Swatch & Review

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Hey, Push and Shove was on sale at Sally Beauty for half off! And I almost bought it at Ulta for zero off! Bullet dodged 4 sho.

Do you remember that Maybelline Mirror Image nail polish set from the 90s? Or was it the early 2000s? Well, this is pretty much that.

Push and Shove is a reflective chrome polish that is sold with a mini base coat called Lay Down That Base that essentially smooths out the nail's surface since the polish highlights every little teeny tiny flaw on the nail. It works all right but I buffed my nails prior to application for full mirror-ocity and you can still see a bit of wonk on my ring and pinkie fingers. I tried, okay? Geez.

Shown below is one thin layer of Lay Down That Base (per instructions) with two coats of Push and Shove (also per instructions) without topcoat.

I really like this polish. It wears awfully (my tips are chipped and I just put it on five hours ago. To be fair, OPI does state that it's only a one-day kind of deal. Also to be fair I did a crap ton of dishes in those five hours, so I mean) but it looks real neat. The formula is nice and it's pretty fast drying -- note that immediately after application it looks kind of like a brushstrokey nightmare but the brushstrokes diminish once dry. Hooray!

Also it gives me robot fingers kind of! Anything that gives me robot fingers is all right in my book, you know?

Finger Paints - Hammered Terra Cotta Swatch & Review

I have one of the new textured additions to the Finger Paints core line today called Hammered Terra Cotta. True to its name, HTC is a textured metallic copper (think brand new penny) with small gold hex glitter. Application was a breeze, free of texture bump-clumps and opaque in 2 coats.

The first two pictures shows two coats only. The color is brighter and more metallic looking in real life.

(I forgot to take a third picture without topcoat. Oopsie.)

The next set of pictures shows two coats with a coat of Essie G2G on top. I KNOW I STILL NEED TO GET GELLOUS.

Top coat deepens the color and gives it more of that terra cotta shade. I really like this polish overall-- it's one of those colors that when it's on I find myself looking at throughout the day, all finger-wiggly and stuff. I love the addition of the gold glitter. My only qualm is that I wish the bottle had any indication that this was a texture polish. I know there are a couple others, but there are a few colors that I'm not sure whether they're just glitters or what. As much time as I spend with nail polish, you'd think I'd be able to tell these things.

Finger Paints - Chromatic Creation Swatch & Review

Visited my Sally Beauty yesterday to take advantage of the 2-for-1 sale on Finger Paints nail polish. In addition to Chromatic Creation, I got one of their new textures, Symmetrical Symphony and a gorgeous red glass fleck I hadn't noticed before. I really like Finger Paints' rebranding-- the bottle font before was just so, I dunno, wacky.

Wacky, she says.

By the way, I don't love chrome polish. I'm pretty interested in OPI - Push and Shove but I'm pretty excited for the day when polish can be formulated to have a legitimate mirror finish. Chromes just fall a little flat to me. Metallics, in general, just aren't my thing.

That being said... Chromatic Creation is a silver chrome with barely-there linear holo. Neat that Finger Paints tried jumping on board the holo train but I wish it had more of an impact. I didn't, uh, use a base coat for this swatch so you can see the true effery that is the state of my poor abused nails. I have every intention on getting Duri Rejuvicote or Nail Envy, really.

Chromatic Creation built to opacity in three thin coats (though I'm sure two would probably be acceptable) and is shown below without topcoat.

I'd like to note that I tried every available light source around me to bring the holo out and this was the strongest I could get it (my trusty OttLite who I swear does not endorse me in any way). This is how it looked even in direct sunlight, in my camera's flash... even in the awful kitchen light that I have dubbed The Holo Whisperer.

If you're looking for a decent, bright silver metallic/chrome, this isn't a bad option. Just don't get it looking for dem rainbowz because the chrome is definitely more of what this guy is about.