First Pick and Mix Challenge: Texture!

Hasn't it been ages since there's been an entry to a nail polish challenge, for some reason today was entry a design day. It's been brilliant so far, you may be seeing some more entries for the Pick and Mix Challenge as it's so easy. Just pick which weeks you want to enter, maybe give it a go yourself? Anyway onto the actual nail polish, it features a texture brand that cannot be beaten. Sally Hansen's Sugar Coat collection! Follow through for some more lovely photographs:

Top Picks from... The Poundshops!

It seems that this little nail polish blog is forever going on about the bargain polishes which can be found in the Poundshops (Poundland, Poundworld, 99p Stores etc.) and raving about how brilliant they are. Yet never really picking out polishes that are favourites in their own right, instead blaming it all on the price and where it's from. So today's going to be some picks of brilliant polishes which have by coincidence come from these shops...

Bright and textured: Candy Corn by Sally Hansen.

 

These polishes are such fun! Sugar Coat is a collection of texturized polishes so they appear to have a layer of sugar across them, making them very popular. Many other posts on this collection can be found here. Today's post is on the beauty called 260 Candy Corn which is a bright orange but not quite neon, let's see some more:

The Sugar Coats Return: 250 Spare A Mint?

Today's a swatch day and it's a reappearance from one of the many notorious Poundshop hauls that I've secretly been on. As well as this it's a returning favourite of mine which has been featured heavily in the past - even had a mini series found here. It's the Sugar Coat polishes! 

This lovely looking teal polish is called 250 Spare A Mint? by Sally Hansen in the Sugar Coat collection. As mentioned it's teal nail polish that's a tad darker than the normal teal colours as it's more on the blue than green-ish side. It's a special effect polish due to the fact it's texturized to look like your nails have had a coating of sugar on them! Let's get onto the swatches which we are all here for:

GOT Challenge: Texture.

Now it's been quite a while since a GOT challenge has been participated in, probably due to the other posts which have been created and then just HAVE to be put up because they need to be seen straight away. (Not really that's just me being silly.) Anyway onto the actual posts, it's going to be a flying visit with a textured polish:

It doesn't come as a great surprise that it's a Sally Hansen Sugar Coat polish as these were very heavily featured a while back in a series of blog posts. (They can be found here, here, here and finally here!) Sugar Coat polishes went down really well as the effect came out much better than anticipated, so much so I'd go and check for them in the pound shops. Bubble Plum was purchased and never used so it's from the great pile of unused polishes.

March's Polish Party: Spring!

It's that time of the month again for the Polish Party nail art challenge. The winning theme from the vote was spring which is a pretty wide area meaning loads of different designs. By pure accident, I've also managed to tie this challenge in with this weeks Golden Oldie Thursday challenge as well seeing as it's yellow/peach and that's the chosen base colour for this design:

Another Sugar Coat makes an appearence!

Now there was a little series a week or two ago, seeing as a splurge was made in Poundland regarding the Sugar Coat collection by the brilliant Sally Hansen and other little bits. However the whole collection wasn't purchased seeing as they weren't all there which was a little disappointing as Bubble Plum, Cotton Candies and Razzle-Berry weren't there. Which has meant yet another excuse to pop in and see if they had restocked, last time they had which meant another nail polish purchase... oops!

Razzle-Berry was swiped off the shelf as soon as it was seen, it's a bright blue but it's not light shade. It's a little darker than normal. Obviously it has the same textured effect as the rest of the collection which is certainly growing on me so much so there may be some other brands with this effect appearing soon... Let's get onto the swatching!

Final Sugar Coat

It's the last one and probably my personal favourite of the lot. (Of the selection purchased - 500 Razzleberry is on the 'need to get' list.) Especially since the darker colour makes the layered up effect even better as it stands out such as 300 Cherry Drop. Today's review will be on 800 Lick-O-Rich!

When I found the Sugar Coat nail polishes, I was unsure whether a black one would come out as well as the other lovely bright colours but then I got it seeing as it would definitely stand out, in addition to this these where all found in a £1 shop so I was willing to take a little risk. Lick-O-Rich applied really evenly across the nail both polish and effect, wasn't clumpy or gloopy in any areas. Really opaque as well! Here's the first layer.

Another Sugar Fix!

 

It's the next post in the little series about the lovely Sugar Coat nail polishes by Sally Hansen. So are you dying to find out the ones I'll be reviewing today? Well you'll be off the edge of your seat now as here are the selected polishes:

They'd be a great contrasting nail polishes, maybe I'll do odds and evens with them some day. These particular nail polishes are called 300 Cherry Drop and 200 Sugar Fix which is really cool seeing as Cherry Drops are a favourite sweet of mine which I love when I need some sort of sugar fix. Right let's get on with reviewing and showing the lovely photographs...

First up will be 300 Cherry Drop, this is certainly a bright colour. When I applied the first nail, I thought this must be an uneven part of the solution making it so bright but it wasn't all of the nails are really bright red. It's brilliant and very even coverage you could of left it there are one coat if your going on colour. However the effect wasn't at it's best so a second coat was needed sadly.

A wish really did come true!!

Now the last post was about some wishes for nail polishes, today I went out shopping for some presents and general bits/bobs and managed to snap up some on the list. How weird is that!?

These are the hidden gems I found, I'll be doing a little mini series of doing two a week seeing as I don't want you guys getting loaded down with them or get bored! (Also don't really want to do them all at once - information overload.) Today's edition will be based upon: 600 Sour Apple and 400 Sweetie. So let's get started!