Try It On Tuesday - Sally Hansen Sugar Coat in Sour Apple

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Hello Lovelies! Well, it seems that I totally underestimated just how busy I would be today, so I have another late night post for you. I'm really hoping that I'm able to post during daylight hours tomorrow, but the way things are going, I'm not convinced. Every day several surprise errands keep popping up, and they're not small errands either. I'm starting to think I need a clone.

Also, I want to warn you all the my poor fingers are a bit inflamed. I had a bad reaction to some cuticle balm (I'm out of my beloved Pure since I managed to lose the bottle. Thankfully a new on is on its way!!!) so the skin around my nails is still a bit swollen. I was a genius and tried it out again last night to see if it really is the balm, or if it's something else I've been using, and lo and behold! it's the balm. Ugh. My poor cuticles and skin are already so dry and grumpy without Pure, this is just insult to injury!

For this week's Try It On Tuesday, I just had to wear one of my textured polishes. Darn it, I love these polishes, and I have a ton, yet I rarely get to wear them. TIOT is the perfect excuse to give these babies some love!

Today's pretty is Sour Apple from Sally Hansen's Sugar Coat line of textured polish. I honestly could not decide which one of these to wear, so I asked IG, and this color actually won out. I'm pretty pleased with that since Sour Apple is a beautiful Mint texture - the perfect shade of mint green I do believe.

This is 2 thin coats, no top coat:

Yeah, I think I dig this polish. I DO NOT dig this stupid swelling and dry cuticles and skin! Again, let me tell you how much I love my Pure Nail Oil and am so happy that it's on the way. Being without it sucks!!!!!!

Anyway, I love Sour Apple. The color is fabulous, even if it does bring out my olive undertones! Formula was a bit on the thick side, so I added a few drops of thinner and voila! Much better! Application was a bit tricky until I added the thinner- lots of dragging and balding and very hard to get the polish to spread out to the sides of the nail. Once I added the thinner though, I had no problems. The texture can be a bit finicky - I had to re-do my ring and pinky since the texture didn't really show on the first try. I had to shake the bottle really well and swirl my brush around in the polish to make sure I had alot of those little texture beads in order to ensure that those two nails would dry as textured as the rest.  Dry time is fairly fast, and wear is excellent, considering this is supposed to be worn sans top coat.  I do feel the need to mention that despite being a pastel, this baby is a stainer. I tend to polish close to my cuticles, which means that when I clean up, my brush will usually smear some polish along my cuticle and I'll have to go over it again to clean that off. In those few moments between swipes, the green managed to settle into my cuticles and leave a slight green cast. Those little texture beads are a bit of a pain as well - spreading all over during clean up and really sticking into cuticles.

Despite the semi-tricky application and initially thick formula, I really love these. I have a good 12 of them, so I'm sure you'll be seeing these pop up often on TIOT. Of course, that means that I have to pick a color, which is near impossible for me. If you have a Sugar Coat that you'd like to see, by all means let me know.

What do you think of Sour Apple? Are you a fan of textured polish?

I'll be back tomorrow (before midnight, lol!) with week 3 of the Mish Mash Challenge! I also have some Luscious Potion, Polish TBH, Fandom Cosmetics and Love, Angeline coming up!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber


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Milani Texture Nail Polish - Purple Streak

Hello Lovelies! It's already been on heckuva morning here at KLK. First of all I'm having a down kind of day. Sometimes the little things get to me, and today is one of those "sometimes". I think that we all forget how much work goes into blogging, and that there are actual people behind those pretty pictures. Then I opened up my comments, and the reason why I blog slapped me in the face again.  I blog because I love to share my love of all things nail polish, and my readers are pretty damned awesome. So thank you for being here, I appreciate each and every one of you. You guys rock!

Then I managed to kill my Flakie Friday Mani and had to start all over again. Needless to say Flakie Friday has been delayed until this evening.  But enough of the down stuff...let's see some awesome polish!

Today I have one of the new Milani Texture Polishes to share with you (Texture Creams? Texture Nail Lacquer? Texture Collection? I've seen all of these...I'm just gonna stick with Nail Polish for now!). I found these babies at Walgreens last week and have been dying to play with them. The other night I decided to take a break from just swatching and gave in to my need to play!

Purple Streak is a beautiful deep purple textured polish. The textured finish is so cool! It's different from the liquid sand polishes, yet has a similar texture. Check it out!

This is 2 coats of Milani Texture Nail Polish in Purple Streak, no top coat (please note that there are no irregularities in the texture IRL. The side that the light is strongest on tends to look less textured in these shots):

I am really loving these polishes. One thing that makes them stand out from the liquid sands (to me anyway) is that these are a solid color. I think these are also a bit m ore textured as well, although they weren't annoying at all. I played with the texture a bit, but I didn't have the urge to scrape this off my nails. I don't have any of the Zoya Pixie Dust polishes yet, but I think I need to grab some so I can compare.

Purple Srtreak's formula was excellent. Thin, yet not watery, it applied effortlessly with just the right amount of texture. I did find this to be streaky on the first coat, but the second coat evened things out beautifully. Dry time was very fast, and since this applied so well I barely had to worry about clean-up (and you know how OCD I am about my polish lines being perfect!).

I really need to mention the wear-time with this polish. The pictures you see here were taken a full 24 hours after application. At that point I had no tip wear and no chips, and the finish hadn't worn or dulled at all. I was worried that since I wasn't wearing top coat that this mani wouldn't hold up, but it held up incredibly well. I had even showered, bathed the baby, done some laundry, and household chores before taking photos. Impressive, right?

Milani Texture Creams can be found at select drugstores and online at Milanicosmetics.com. I grabbed mine for $3.99 each at Walgreens.

What do you think of the textured trend? Do you have any of the Milani Textured Polishes?

Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned for Flakie Friday!
-Kimber