Cool Coral

Soak off gel manicures are already great since you cure and go and nothing can dent or ding your manicure. One step soak off gels are all that plus the fact that you save even more time because you don't need a base or top coat! 

FingerPaints sent me 5 to try out, let's see them! 

*press sample

The hard as steel line contains a blend of fruit and flower oils including pomegranate and purple vipors bugloss seed oil. They also include oxygen carriers. These were designed to be strengthening and ridge filling to hide imperfections. 

I have 9 colors to show you so let's get started. 

Kiss Me Like Hue Mean It

I Have The Painters Hues

2 coats + top coat. 
2 coats + top coat. 
2 coats + top coat. This one was tricky it's a bright almost orangey red and i just couldn't quite capture this bright beauty.
 2 coats + top coat. 
3 thin coats to cover vnl + top coat. 
2 coats + top coat. 

The formulas on these are really nice. I will say as with any hardener or strengthening base coats or colors, I wouldn't wear these consecutively for weeks on end because they can make your nails brittle. Or at least that's been my experience while using too many strengthening products. 

My favorite: My Best Self-Portrait. I love a good delicate shade! 

Its the start of a new week and well, the weekend just flies by so fast doesnt it. What better way to start the week than with some swatches of some soon to be releasing polish! Yay! FingerPaints is releasing a 6 piece Limited Edition Project Runway collection. These 6 shades were chosen by the PR season 14 winner, Ashley Tipton. I have to say I'm liking her choices! And today I'm sharing my swatches with you. Let's get into them! 

Beverly's Touch

50 Shades Of Ashley

Party Teal Dawn

Blushing With Excitement 

Lavender Love

Thank You Berry Much!

All of my swatches are 2 coats plus top coat. I can't even begin to tell you how lovely the cremes are! They are so, so good! Party teal dawn is slightly crelly like and I had the slightest amount of vnl, but it didn't bother me enough to add a third coat. Beverly's Touch is lovely metallic wise, not gritty and flowed onto the nail nicely. I'm not a fan of such yellow golds though. 50 Shades Of Ashley is pretty opaque in two coats, more than I thought it would be. I thought about it layering it but decided last minute to just wear it on its own. I like how delicate and pretty it is on its own. 

Favorites: All of the cremes! If only all cremes could be this way. I'd be in nail heaven.

These Limited Edition shades will be in stores April -June 2016

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That's all for this post. I hope you enjoyed it! Let me know what you think of this collection in the comments!

Thanks for hanging out with me! Until next time!

Xo, Lo 

*Sent for swatching/review. All opinions are honest and 100% my own based on my experiences.

Oh by the way, I'm also one of those picky whiners who doesn't like to wear a white base under a neon. Still, I wanted to see what these were all about. In my opinion this base coat is just a two coat white creme. It's not a hot streaky mess, it's opaque in two coats. I'm not sure if it has any base coat properties, or if it's just a normal white creme. I didn't do any testing time or anything. The top coat has that slight blue uv tint to it, here I held my gel curing lamp up to it so it would give off a glow. Sadly like an airhead I didn't actually take a picture of this top coat on the nail over a neon this way. Sigh. Best blogger ever.
This is 3 thin coats and brighter in person. It has a shimmer running through it also so I decided to skip the neon base coat. I'm sort of wishing I had used the base coat though. This is not quite a highlighter orange but it's still pretty bright. 
So back to that whiny about neons needing white bases..... If I have to use 2 coats of white I draw the line at 1 coat of neon...so this is 1 coat over 2 coats of base + top coat. Definitely bright but slightly uneven. Would have been great with two coats of color I'm sure but 4 coats.... *cue the whining* 
1 coat over 2 coats of base + top coat. This one is definitely highlighter worthy in person. It's also more forgiving in my opinion with only one coat of color. I'm wondering if these marble. Hmm. 
Oh me oh my, this one has my heart. Slightly more green in person. 2 coats + top coat. I've heard some had some slight staining with this one. I used a pretty thick coat of base coat so I didn't experience any staining but just in case, better safe than sorry. I'd double up on a base if you need this one in your life. 

1 dabbed coat over TMOTS + top coat. This glitter is base heavy but totally worth it. Next time I use this one I'll be using a sponge for sure. It's freaking gorgeous!
2 coats + top coat. I'm dying over this one. It's so delicate but sparkly. It's like a magical sand that I can't get enough of. 

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They've recently added 10 new colors to the line. The endless wear lines claims no need for a base coat, but I rarely listen and I always use a base coat. So these swatches are a coat of base coat, two coats of color and a topcoat. Let's see them shall we?

The FingerPaints Endless Wear polishes retail for $7.99 ($7.49 with a Sally beauty club card.) at SallyBeauty.com and Sally stores nationwide.

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What do you think of these? Let me know in the comments! 

Until next time! 

Xo, Lo 

*products sent for swatching/review. All opinions are honest and 100% my own.