Spreadin' the Love - Sinful Colors "I love you" and "Forget Now"

Hello my dears, it's me again!

Today I have two precious little gems from my Sinful Colors Collection for you. Let's be serious, 1.99$ for these beauties is perfect value for your hard earned bucks. I do like sinfuls formula, it does tend to be a tad bit runny sometimes and with some colors I had some issues with streaking, but hey, 1.99$? I am a happy camper =)
In case you aren't one of the blessed ones who have a walgreens near them, www.cherryculture.com does carry the brand and yes they do ship internationally, sweet news, huh?
So back to my color picks...
First up we have "Forget Now" a beautiful, bright sparkly pink with purple glass flecks/glitter. It is pretty sheer, but if you build up about three coats you do get nice coverage.
Next we have "I love you", and yes, I do love this cute little purple glitter jelly number. Plus, here we have some serious purple, no blue-purple or black-purple mix thingie...

But enough talk, it is time for the pictures!

Oh, before I forget, I will definitely do a pretty "Thank you 100 followers" giveaway, so all we need here are six new subscribers and the giveaway can kick off =)



Sinful Colors "Forget Now"


















Sinful Colors "I love you"













Hope you enjoyed this, see you soon again!

Vampy burgundy goodness - Sinful Colors "Merlot"

My dear fellow fiends!

What a day! I got stuck in complete snow madness today *yikes* all the chores I had to do today took about 3 times as long, so instead of being home in the afternoon, I just made it in time for dinner *darn*
Alas, I planned to swatch a couple of vampy polishes I had picked out for you guys, but blame it on the weather! I just managed to do one. Well, at least it is an incredible pretty one *winkwink*

Oh, coming up this weekend will be a "Pretty in Pink Valentine" Swatchapalooza, where I plan to swatch all the pastel/cream light pink polishes I own, so stay tuned for that one!

Also, I will do an update for my Pink&Purple Giveaway, which will commence once we have 50 followers here (only 8 more to go, yay!) I will add 3 additional polishes, which ones is a secret, which will be announced in time :-)

So here we go, let's get a bit vampy here...Sinful Colors "Merlot" is ready to hit the blogging stage!



I have to admit, I am a fan of the Sinful polishes, because in my opinion, you do get a good quality polish for the money. Of course the formula is not as good as OPI or China Glaze, but considering the price it is fine. This one applied really nice, no streaking or goopy formula. 2 Coats are plenty to get it nice, deep and opaque



I am in love with the color. Deep, vampy slightly shimmery bordeaux red. It does look a lot like dark red wine! I Think it is a red that goes with a lot of skin tone, since it doesn't have too many warm or too many cold components, it is pretty balanced.



Isn't wonderful? So you girls out there, if you plan to play the seductress one night, this polish is for you!

That's it for today, I am off hitting the hot bathtub, read you soon! :-)

New Loot and Duochrome Madness

Hello my dear fiends!

I had so much fun swatching my newest additions, the only turn off was the beyond crappy weather *yikes* Especially the last couple of pictures are really dark, sorry for that!
Well, what did Auntie Charis pick up this time?



I picked up 4 Scherer Chameleon polishes, Sinful Colors "Merlot" a really pretty bordeaux red and Essie's "Nude Beach" a pale pink with opal shimmer

OMG those Chameleon polishes made me almost faint when I laid my eyes on them! They are 4 wonderful shades and all, I repeat, ALL of them are DUOCHROMES!!! Can i get any more goodness for only 2,99$ per bottle? I guess not!
I am just really sad that I had no sunlight at all (all grey, dark and rainy here in Munich), because those babies show their real beauty only in sunlight. So from my swatches, you can only guess how beautiful they really are. As soon as the weather will be decent, I will re-swatch them, promise!
All the swatches are 2 coats, on my bare, naked, short and stumpy nails, no TopCoat. The Formula of these is RUNNY, I mean really liquidy. I like thicker polish, but hey, that's personal preference. The first coat was a bit streaky, but fortunately the polish evens out when you apply the second coat. The brush was beyond crappy, it lost it's hair faster than I was able to apply the polish...darn. But I just used another brush, fine by me, I can live with it for the price.

But now on with the pics...

Scherer Chameleon "Dreams"





This is a beautiful, pale pink with opal duochrome shimmer. It makes me think of light pink pearl necklace in the sunlight. The first coat was pretty iridescent, so I might do some layering experiments with this polish


Scherer Chameleon "Blue Frost"







Lovely, light frosted blue with pearl pink duochrome shimmer. Makes me think of ice crystals.


Scherer Chameleon "Calypso"





Metallic lilac with rainbow colored duochrome shimmer. Absolutely awesome in my book, only turn down is that the lilac has a good portion of a dusty rose color in it, which is too warm toned for my skin. But hey so what, the polish is awesome.


Scherer Chameleon "Blue Sky"





My personal winner. A dark, lilac-blueish base again with rainbow colored duochrome shimmer. It makes me think of Nubar's "Peacock Feathers" polish.


Again, I feel kinda sad that none of the pictures I show here do the colors full justice. But I promised to re-swatch them as soon as the dun decides to return to Munich. So see you back soon!

Yes, it's a Dupe!

Hello my dear fellow fiends!


While fidgeting around in my polish drawers, I came across two identical looking polishes. At first I thought, duh, what did I back up now? But then I realized, no, no back up, but actually two different polish brands with identical looking colors. Of course, I couldn't resist and swatched those darlings right away. Guess what? Both are twins! Yay!

So the colors I am talking about are

Sephora by OPI's Mermaid to Order and Sinful Colors Aqua






I guess the only difference we have here is in the formula, Aqua is way more runny than Mermaid to order and I needed 3 coats instead of 2 to get the full color look





Pinkie and Ring: Mermaid to Order
Middle and Index: Aqua

are you able to tell which is which?




I think it is a fantastic color, no matter which brand you choose. SOPI gives you the better formula, for a higher price (9$), Sinful gives you the same color for less (2,50$) but the formula is a bit of a pain in the rear...so it's up to you guys whatever you prefer