Mish Mash Challenge Week 16: Faux Stone

Happy Wednesday and welcome to another installment of the Mish Mash Challenge! This week our theme was Faux Stone, so I headed over to Google to search out some stones. I decided to try and do Turquoise one because I seen a really cool tutorial on it and two because it is one of my favorite stones!

I started out with 2 coats of Wet n Wild's I need a Refresh-Mint, then I used a black cream to do a Water Spotting to get the veins of the turquoise and lastly I took Milani's Signature Gold on some plastic wrap and 'sponged' some gold on each of my nails.

My index and middle fingers are my favorite from this mani and my little finger is my least favorite because I got too much black on it. Overall though I really like this mani, it's different from any thing I've done before.

Review: SinfulColors SinfulShine with Gel Tech

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SinfulShine is a new product from SinfulColors with rich color and superb shine. Claims that the finish is 5X more gloss than a patent leather shoe! SinfulShine is available exclusively at Walgreen's for a limited time for $2.99 These are in the same type bottle as the regular line of Sinful Colors with the exception of the shiny silver top, which I love.


I received a bottle of SinfulShine from Influenster in my Sunkissed VoxBox in the shade Rendezvous. It's a beautiful mint green color, to me it looks a lot like, if not identical, to I Need a Refresh-Mint from Wet n Wild. I actually think that Wet n Wild is a little more shiny than the SinfulShine. You can judge for yourself in the photo below.

With the word Gel in the name of this polish, I expected the formula to be a little thicker than a regular polish, it is not. Seems to have the same consistency as a regular polish. It goes on very smoothly  and it took 2 coats to make it fully opaque. Drying time is pretty good, first coat took about 5-7 minutes to try and the second coat took around 10-12 minutes. It does have a shiny finish, I didn't apply a top coat in the photo below, but with that being said I find that the claim of it being 5X more glossy than a patent leather shoe does not hold up.

For me the wear of SinfulShine, with the shape my nails were in when I used it, was great. Usually I'm lucky if my manicures last one day with out chipping. With SinfulShine I got about 3 days wear out of it before it started chipping. I'm sure if my nails were not peeling, I would have got longer wear before it chipped.

I'm really pleased with this polish and I would pay and extra dollar for it just because it lasted so long before chipping. Hopefully I'll get to a Walgreen's, as the closest one is about and 45 minutes away, before these polishes are gone. I think they should make them permanent and put them in Rite Aid stores as well.

Quality: 5/5

Price: 5/5

Value: 5/5

Packaging: 5/5

Formula: 4/5 Only because I think it could be shiner to hold up to it's claims.

Longevity: 5/5

Pigmentation: 5/5

Overall: 34/35

Have you tried any of the SinfulShine polishes? What did you think abut them?