Wet n Wild Spoiled For CVS Trust Fund Baby!

The last of the Spoiled glitters that I got, there is one more but it is sold out everywhere! And I think I kind of need it haha

 

Macro of Trust Fund Baby.  This is a clear base with medium hexagonal blue, black and gold glitter and square pink/magenta glitter. Man, I love square glitter, cannot get enough of it. There really should be more square glitter in the world.

 

One coat of Trust Fund Baby over one coat of Sinful Colors Black on Black.

 

Two coats of Trust Fund Baby over one coat of Sinful Colors Black on Black. 

As you can see, this glitter is pretty sparse in one coat, but is decent in two. You do need to do the dabbing thing just like with the other two glitters. Formula is just like the others, kind of goopy and the brush is also uneven and pretty bad. 

I do like the colors, I don't have a glitter with these same colors. Pretty interesting combo.

Until next time,

The Wicked

Wet n Wild Spoiled For CVS Jewelry Heist!

Another late post, almost forgot again *sighs*

 

Marco of Jewelry Heist. This is a clear base with larger rose gold and gold hexagonal pieces, smaller round rose gold and gold glitter and smaller square holo glitter.

 

One coat of Jewelry Heist over Sinful Colors Black on Black.

 

Two coats of Jewelry Heist over Sinful Colors Black on Black. 

The formula on this was like Pet My Peacock, pretty thick and kind of hard to work with. Glitter tends to clump together and not spread out evenly and too many coats of this polish gets really goopy.  Again, you have to dab the glitter on to get it more evenly distributed. The brush is also wonky like the other Spoiled polishes that I have tried. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that all the brushes are pretty crappy. 

An upside is the glitter. I love the color combination and the different shapes. I definitely do not have another glitter like this. I love love love the little square holo glitter, it's something you don't see everyday and really adds something special.

Until next time,

The Wicked

Wet n Wild Spoiled For CVS Pet My Peacock!

So, I almost forgot that I had to do a post today. Whoops, I fail, but good thing I remembered so lets get on with it shall we? Oh, I would suggest enlarging the pics so you can see them better.

 

Bottle Macro! Close up of Pet My Peacock (yeah, the name). 

This is a clear base with purple, blue, tealy-green, silver and light gold hexagonal glitter.

 

One coat of Pet My Peacock over one coat of Sinful Colors Black on Black.

 

Two coats of Pet My Peacock over one coat of Sinful Colors Black on Black.

This is a kind of chunky glitter, it's not really chunky per say, just the glitter/sequin pieces are pretty big. I love the color combination it definitely reminds me of a peacock. 

Now, the downsides. The formula is pretty bad, kind of thick and you don't get much glitter per swipe. What you have to do is get as much base off your brush as you can while still keeping most of the glitter and the easiest way to get a more even coat of glitter is to dab it on your nails instead of actually painting your nails. Also, the brush is like the one in Bite Me, unevenly cut and wide and just not that great.

But I do really like the color, so it's not a complete loss. I can work around a crappy formula. Now that I think about it, some nail polish thinner might actually really help. I'll have to try that and report my findings!

Until next time,

The Wicked

Wet n Wild Spoiled For CVS Bite Me!

As most of you know, a collection came out a few months ago exclusively for CVS called Spoiled. Now it literally took me until I bought some of these polishes to know that they are made by Wet n Wild. Not sure how I missed that detail. I was noticing that some names and colors were the exact same as some Wet n Wild polishes that I have, but just didn't put two and two together lol

 

Bite Me, two coats. This is a blackened base with dark red shimmer. Does this remind you of anything? OPI Sanguine, maybe?! I've been looking for a dupe of it and this comes pretty close. I'll have to do a side by side comparison to make sure though. I love love love this color, it's so pretty and vampy and dark and just awesome.

The formula was actually really good. It was opaque in one coat, which is amazing, it also dried pretty fast if I recall correctly. The main problem is the brush, and I found this with all the Spoiled polishes. The brush is shaped kind of like the Sally Hansen Insta-Dri brushes, like a paddle shape, but the bristles are much harder and they are so unevenly cut! The brush on this was cut almost on a weird diagonal. On some of the other polishes, some bristles were longer than others, it's kind of a mess. They are also a bit too wide for my nail beds at least and can get a little messy.

Other than the brush, I really like this polish! 

Until next time,

The Wicked

Valentine's Day Nails and Zoya Promo!!

Like every other holiday, Valentine's Day snuck up on me. I had two looks planned, but didn't do either of them. So, I thought I'd show what my Valentine's nails looked like even though they weren't actually Valentine's themed.

 

So, this is pretty bad lighting and I apologize.

OPI Vampsterdam (to be reviewed) as the base and an accent of Wet n Wild Spoiled Jewelry Heist (also to be reviewed) on the ring finger.

It's kind of Valentine's day-ish, but not really lol. I thought it was pretty either way, I'm a fan of the glitter accent I did.

Also, Zoya is having a Valentine's Day promo! You get a free bottle of red polish and free shipping with any order with code WELUVU. This ends today at 11:59pm so jump on it! I wasn't going to get anything, but it's such a good deal that I had to. I got Avery and Sooki!

Until next time,

The Wicked

New Wet n' Wild Megalast and Sally Hansen Smooth and Perfect Color Care Collections!

Last time I was at Harmon's Discount, I noticed some new displays and had to take pictures of them for you guyssss

The first one I saw was this new Sally Hansen Smooth and Perfect Color Care collection

The display says "Hides ridges with a breathable, porcelain smooth finish"

- Promotes stronger, healthier looking nails

-Allows 20% more oxygen to reach nails

-Streak free

- Patented formula

So this seems to be boasting a lighter, healthier formula for you nails. The colors are all pastels and neutrals and I'm pretty sure they are all creme finishes. I think they ran around $4-5 a bottle, but I can't really remember.

Then I saw this new Wet n' Wild Megalast collection

The display says "Salon- quality opaque color provides 5 days of long lasting, chip resistant wear."

The first thing I thought of was Sally Hansen Salon Complete Salon Manicure polishes. The bottle shape is pretty similar, but not exactly the same and it seems to advertise the same sort of quality. These are nice bright colors that are great for spring and there were also some neutral shades thrown in. All these polishes also had creme finishes and they are $1.99, wayyyyy cheaper than their Sally Hansen counterparts. My grandma actually picked up two of the shades that I have swatches of below!

Wet n' Wild Megalast in Through the Grapevine, one coat. This is actually a little darker and a little more purple in real life. My camera decided to make everything look lighter that particular day. Anyway, this is a creme purpley-pink color. 

Wet n' Wild Megalast in Candy-licious, one coat. This one is actually more bubblegum pink in real life, definitely a little darker and brighter than in the picture. 

So the formula on these is AWESOME. Seriously. They were both completely opaque in one coat, which is amazing. The formula is smooth and has great coverage and pigmentation. The brush is a little odd, it's one of those flat, beaver tail like brushes, but not too bad. I think the awesomeness of the formula makes up for it. I'm completely impressed and I'll probably be going back to the store to get a few more of these to see if the formula is this good across the board.

Have any of you seen or tried any of these new collections?

Until next time,

The Wicked

Wet N' Wild Cougar Attack

Happy first day of October!!! (It's actually also National Dessert Month!) I've created a personal challenge for myself this month, every post I do will be Halloween themed! I'm really excited and I have some really fun ideas.

But, first and foremost Cougar Attack from the Wet n' Wild Prowl collection.

As you can see form the bottle, it looks like a black base with orange glitter, but that's a trick! I guess that totally goes with the halloween theme, the bottle tricks you but the polish is a treat... yeahh.

Cougar Attack, two coats. The base  is actually a semi sheer brown base and the glitter is a coppery orange. I was really surprised at how much I liked this polish. I really wasn't very excited about it in the bottle. I was ready to layer it over black, thinking it wasn't going to be opaque but I was very pleasantly surprised when I tested it out on my sister lol. Its very opaque in two coats because the glitter is so dense and the base is dark enough to become opaque when layered.

The formula is pretty thick because of the glitter, not too thick, but more so than I expected. It goes on smooth with good coverage, but be careful not to move it around a lot or you can get some empty spots. The glitter stays put and this polish dries super fast! That was a great feature. But is does dry a little dull so it needs a top coat.

Overall, I really like this polish. The combination of the brown with coppery orange is pretty original, I haven't seen another polish like it. It has that great fall look without being too halloween, which is really nice. Also, I really love the name. In high school our mascot was the cougar so I have an affinity for them...but also just the fact that it's called Cougar Attack is freaking awesome!

Speaking of cougars... heres mine

Haha. It's Cleo!

Until next time,

The Wicked

Wet N' Wild Behind Closed Doors

I got this polish and another one I'm saving for October lol from the Wet n' Wild On The Prowl collection for halloween! Now, I love halloween more than I can even express in words, so when I see something halloween related, I need it. No questions asked.

One coat of Behind Closed Doors over one coat of Sinful Colors Black on Black. I did a semi-crappy job because I did the base coat at like 11pm in half lighting and then it smudged and stuff, so sorry about that. But anyway, Behind Closed Doors has a blacked jellyish base and has small round red glitter and large red hexagonal glitter. Does this look familiar? Yep, looks just like Deborah Lippmann Ruby Red Slippers! A cheap alternative. It's only $1.99! This will be going on the dupe list that I'm working on, plus many others. So keep an eye out for that.

Back to the polish, there a few irregular pieces that just look like they were supposed to hexagons but were cut strangely. Also, sometimes the polish isn't very evenly distributed so you'll have a lot of glitter on one side of your nail but not much on the other, so just be aware of that. 

But look at this! Just my luck I got a really wonky brush. It's bent! I have no idea how this would even happen lol looking at it kind of makes me laugh though. It doesn't really affect putting the polish on too much because not a full coverage polish. 

Other than this, I didn't find any problems with the polish at all. I actually went back to where I bought this and they were all sold out! So, I'm happy I got it when I did. If you want it, you may have to search around!

Until next time,

The Wicked

Wet n' Wild Gray's Anatomy!

A week or so ago my boyfriend sent me a picture of a ratchet he bought and it was super pretty.

And as I was looking at the picture I though to myself, "this would look awesome as nail polish". A few days go by and I am forced to go buy shampoo and conditioner, of course my trips never end there and I wandered into the nail care aisle for cotton rounds and just to look around. While at the Wet n' Wild display, I saw it. Some polish that weirdly reminded me of that ratchet. It had to be fate, so I bought it.

Gray's Anatomy, five coats. It is super super sheer and it really wasn't opaque enough for me until five coats. It took me an hour and I messed up my back from sitting on the floor but it was worth it. It took foreverr because I let every layer dry before I applied another. This is one of their fast dry polishes and I have to say it did dry pretty quickly. I waited about five minutes between each application. It may look a little streaky if you don;t do an even application but it smoothes out a bit as it dries. It's kind of iridescent and duochrome and has a definite frosty finish. As usual I have a base and top coat. I seriously had to take a bajillion pictures in order to get the different colors to show up on camera. 

The color changes from an orchid color to a grey green and then a slate color. 

This is the only one I took in the sunlight, because for some reason all the duochrome got washed out and it pretty much stayed this lilac, orchid-y color. But you can see how it almost looks like a foil! Which is pretty cool and unexpected. 

This is a last minute picture I took. I think you can see the differences in color the best here. 

So overall, I really like this shade even though it is not as pigmented as the ratchet. In real life, it is a little more pigmented than in the pictures and it's a little frostier. I think there was a Sally Hansen shade that looked exactly like the ratchet but I'm pretty sure it was discontinued and I can't remember the name. I'll definitely be on the lookout for more shades like this.

Until next time,
The Wicked

Girl on a Budget: Party of Five Glitters vs Happy Birthday

I'm super stoked about this particular comparison. I think it's the closest of all the comparisons I've done so far. Today I'm going to show you guys Wet n' Wild Party of Five Glitters (left) versus Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday (right).

 

Holy similar! I spotted this when I was out getting Nail Junkie, I caught sight of it and it immediately reminded me of Happy Birthday. In this picture of Party of Five Glitters the colors are a little off, they're somewhat muted and not exactly right. It has large hexagonal silver pieces, smaller green, magenta and light blue hexagonal pieces and very small red, green and yellow round pieces. Happy Birthday has mostly the same color glitter, but it has orange and it also has more of a variety of colors in the bigger pieces. Happy Birthday does also have hexagonal glitter, but instead of having small round glitter is has small square glitter. They both have clear bases and the coverage is about the same.

On three fingers I have one coat of Nicole by OPI Razzle Dazzler and the other finger has two coats of OPI Alpine Snow, then on all fingers I have one coat of Party of Five Glitters. It can be kind of difficult getting an even coat of the glitter because they tend to stick together sometimes. I prefer it over the black, when its over white you lose the silver glitter. It does remind me of birthday cake when it over white, like Funfetti cupcakes! 

Let me just say that this is supposed to be one of Wet n' Wild's "fast drying" polishes, but oh man did it take FOREVER to dry. I did the base colors then the glitter and then Seche Vite to smooth it out and it just refused to dry. Seche Vite usually speeds up the dry time, but I have no idea what was up with this. I finished my nails at 7:30 pm and I went to bed at 11:30ish and when I woke up the next day my nails were all imprinted and ugh it was terrible. I would suggest letting every single layer dry before adding another one if you're going to use Party of Five Glitters. 

Also, I think its worth mentioning that Milani came out with a glitter  called Gems that is like this as well. It was even a little more similar to Happy Birthday. Gems isn't in stores as far as I know of, but you can find it here, cherryculture.com. It's $4.99 plus shipping, for Milani polish I'm not sure how worth it that is. You can get Party of Five Glitters probably everywhere and it's $2.99 which is great. Both are really good alternatives at really great prices.

Until next time,

The Wicked

Sally Hansen HD

Today I have an oldie but goodie, Sally Hansen HD in Pixel Pretty. These came out a good while ago, and I remember seeing the promo ad for these and being in love with this color. 

This color reminds me of islands and the ocean and sunshine, which is ironic because it is pouring rain here. I hope all you guys are having better weather than we are. 

So shiny. I wish the sun was out :(

The color is actually more of the color in the first picture but with the shine of the second. It's interesting. Since it reminded me so much of an island I decided to do an experiment.

It's and island! Hah. I did it free hand (I think I did pretty good!) and its still kind of wet in the picture. This is my first time doing anything like this free hand and I apologize for the blurriness of some of the pictures. I think its cute and it really makes me want to go on vacation. The trunk of the tree is OPI You Don't Know Jacques, the leaves are Sally Hansen Green with Envy, the sand is Wet n' Wild Shield and the sun is Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Lightening. Oh, and I did do a top coat of the love of my life, Seche Vite.

I was debating about doing this last night when I couldn't sleep. I was hoping I'd have my black shatter by now so I could do that, but sadly I haven't gotten it yet. Sad. But I like this. I only did it on my left hand and I'm not planning on doing it on my right ( I don't think my left hand could handle that kind of pressure). Well I hope you guys like it and I hope to have my black shatter and my surprise polish soon!

Until next time,

The Wicked

Triple Threat Thursday!

So I decided to kill 3 birds with one stone in this post, even though I really hate that saying. I mean when you think about, it's such a mean saying, I don't want to kill any birds. Poor birds...

Anyway, so the next e.l.f. color I chose to do was called Royal Purple, which actually isn't very purple at all.

Obviously this looks pink. In the sunlight the color is more of a magenta, it does have a nice shimmer to it in person. If you look closely enough (in person) you can see some blue-purple flecks in the shimmer. Kind of like periwinkle.. yeah totally periwinkle. It does look a little more purple in the shade, but not by much. It's definitely far from royal purple as the name suggests, it's very misleading. Other than that, it's a good polish, no complaints. Good coverage, good pigmentation. It does dry a little dull, like the other one so I do suggest a top coat. Here, I have on 2 coats and a top coat.

So I decided to do double duty with the last color from the trio. It's called Moonlight and I decided to compare it to Wet n' Wild Shield that I haven't reviewed yet.

From left to right:

Moonlight

Shield

Moonlight

Shield

Moonlight is an off white, beigey color with a pearl finish and Shield is a bronzey color with silver, gold and maybe even some orange glitter. You can see that Moonlight is pretty sheer, but its actually very well pigmented. Since I literally just put these on, I got to compare drying times. They both dried very fast, but Shield was faster but not by much. Both are a little on the sheer side, so I would suggest 3 coats, I have 2 of each on here.

Out of the jewel tone trio, I think that Dark Navy is my favorite, but they're all nice polishes. No complaints for $1.50 for 3 polishes!

I'm excited for the next mani I'm planning on doing. I won't spoil the surprise so you will all have to wait until Saturday!

Until next time,

The Wicked

Double Valentine's Day Trouble!

Yeah yeah I know I have succumbed once again. The ruffian was kind of boring for me (I have another one in the works), so I had to change it up.

Here I have on 2 coats of Wet n' Wild Lust. I really was impressed with this color. I was expecting it to be really sheer, but it was actually really nicely pigmented. Way better than usual Wet n' Wild colors. It was pretty opaque with one coat, but I added another for good measure, and it dries super fast. Like wow fast. After that I used my Konad M57 plate with the black stamping polish and finally added some of the bigger sparkles from Revlon Galaxy. It was kind of tedious to put the sparkles on just because I had to fish out one at a time and place them all. After they were all placed, I did a final coat of Seche Vite to smooth every thing out. I think it was kind of a play on naughty and nice. The pink being nice and the fishnet type print being naughty. I thought it was fun lol

But as all my manicures, it didn't last long. So this is the next one I did.

This is my attempt at replicating the nails on the Illamasqua Throb ad (they used different colors of course, this is my take on it). I have 2 coats of Sally Hansen Red Cherry and for the black I used Milani Black Magic. It's supposed to look like the top of a heart, I did it free-hand and it took me 2 tries until it looked decent. It was actually harder than I expected. With the red and black it kind of reminds me of the Queen of Hearts so I was into that. I love Alice in Wonderland. I really like this but I'll have to do a bit of practicing. 

Actually Illamasqua was featuring all of their naughtily named products for Valentine's Day, its hilarious. Check that out here http://www.illamasqua.com/, and you can also find the Throb ad there.  

So there you go, some not too girly Valentine's Day looks. Hope you guys liked them!

Until next time,

The Wicked.