Sunday 15 July 2012

Sally Hansen Gem Crush Swatches

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Happy Sunday Ladies (and maybe 1 gentleman?),

It is a glorious Winter's day in the Chur (haha); sun shining, reasonably warm with little wind and lots of blue sky! And to make it even more perfect my besties are gonna come round for mani/pedi Sunday!!!!!!!!

For now though I have my picks from the Gem Crush collection that came out over the 2011/2012 holiday season.

I pined over these blingy looking glitters for about 6 months, trying to decide if i would take the ebay plunge. Luckily I resisted because their finally made their way to NZ (which I did not expect!!!) and incredibly they have an RRP of just $12.99 each!
Since basically all SH products (at Farmers Dept Store at least) cost around $20+ I was GOB-SMACKED!

I snatched up the 2 I needed the most in a buy 1 get 1 half off sale - Be-Jewelled & Big Money and bought Lady Luck from Polished Claws Up's blog sale (for super cheap, thank you!!!).



Be-Jewelled
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Be-Jewelled is a mauve purple micro glitter with rose pink holo hex strewn throughout. I used 3 coats for the swatches above. It applied fairly well, but gets quick thick. I may try just 2 coats in the future because it's a pretty hungry guy when it comes to top coat.


Big Money
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 Big Money is a gold micro glitter with chunkier mauve purple hex glitter (same colour as the base in Be-Jewelled). Same thickness issues, but I could have left it at 2 coats - only did a 3rd for photo purposes. It's just as gritty.


 Lady Luck
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Lady Luck was the Gem Crush I lusted over most!!!!! Such a pretty magenta pink or maybe just a dark pink or fuchsia-ry micro glitter interspersed with chunkier pieces of silver holographic hex glitter. Very blingy indeed! Again I used 3 coats, but 2 would have sufficed.

By the time I swatched Lady Luck I had some Glitter Gloss (from Aqua Daisy) that helped tame the gritty beastie, needing about 2 coats and 1 layer of normal top coat for smoothness and shine; but for the other two I used at least 3 coats of Sech Vite and they still looked uneven :(.

If you don't enjoy hungry glitters I recommend using 1 coat of the glitter over a base - I think they would 'pop' over black, like the OPI Muppets glitters do!

I'm really happy with the 3  picked up from this range, they are absolutely unique in my collection as I don't have access to the Wet n Wild dupes either.

xxx
NPA

4 comments:

  1. I have Big money and it is sooooo pretty. But yes very gritty and it chiped off so easily. I tried every combo of base coats etc that I had but they were all all gone in a few days. So it might have to be a fancy occasion nail varnish.

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    1. Very true, thank god i change my nail polish so often!!!

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  2. This collection is my favourite glitter collection. I tend to just wear them without a top coat as i found a whole nail would peal off at once with a top coat on :(

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    1. Yeah the same thing happened to me! Lady Luck with all that top coat started to lift very very early. I'm going to try to get it down to 2 coats and see how the wear is then :)

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