Coral Reef by Sally Hansen and Vibrant Violet by Sally Hansen

Before I get into anything else I am just going to say that I love Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear nail polishes and seeing as I own 28 I better love them, they are so affordable and the product is definitely better than what you would expect for the price seeing as it is only $3-$5, I will admit I just Googled that because I'm unsure of the price at this moment. Because of the problems I will list in a minute with each polish they both get pushed into my hardly use pile. Without further ado I will lead into my reviews.
Coral Reef
So this colour is going to be the base for some nail art I'm doing tonight, which is a good thing given the fact that the brush totally sucks making it to where it looks like I have absolutely no clue as how to apply nail polish. It took three coats to make this polish look decent which had it been applied with a good brush it would have only taken two coats.

Just a few swatches to show the colour of this polish after I got everything applied.

Another Swatch to try and show the true colour, unfortunately I didn't put this colour on until after the sun had set so a day time photo of this was out of the question. 

The bottle of Sally Hansen's Coral Reef. I've worn this polish all of two times because of how difficult the brush is to work with and you can see how much has been used in it.

The brush, sadly I was not able to get a picture that shows just how deformed this brush is but if you click on the photo it will pop up bigger and you will be able to see a bit better how horrendous this brush is. I will try for a better shot but this was the best out of 10+.

Vibrant Violet by Sally Hansen
Now this colour I've worn probably a maximum of once! Why so few you ask? Well that would be because this polish separates like no other! I was just walking about my room and saw that it was separated again! I have to shake this polish up every few days if I want it to stay together and even then it's of hardly any use because this polish is going to separate regardless of what I do. Don't get me wrong I adore the colour that is is but with all that separation how am I supposed to use it? Now stupidly as I was writing this, you know how I said that I was walking around my room and saw how separated it was? Well I shook it up because that's what you do when the pigment separates from the suspension base. So I will post pictures of this polish in the bottle to show you how badly it separates and I will not shake it up at any point during the time I'm documenting it. I will post my first picture tonight of how it looks post shaking with pigment clumps floating around in it and then I will post another picture a month from now to show the separation.

As you can see it's still not the best in terms of being together but it is a LOT better than when I had initially picked it up.

If you look at the end of my stick really closely you can see where the pigment is clumped up some.

Conclusion
Not transitioning from the previous topic felt awkward so I had to add that header. As I said I am a loyal Sally Hansen Nail Polish Owner owning 28 polishes from the Xtreme Wear line and a total of 50 from any of their nail polish lines, I honestly think that is a quarter of my collection! I will probably be contacting Sally Hansen's PR so that they can know about the products they have on the market and check the batches to ensure that they are properly dealt with.

Much love beauts!
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Hey! Yeah! Sorry!

So as y'all have noticed I've really been forgetting to update here. I've got a ton of new polishes that I need to add on this and my wishlist. I promise that I will update once a week with my nails. That is my new years resolution (well my late new years resolution).

This is my current mani it is Grape Pop from ZombieDarlings y'all should defiantly go check her out and get some polish, it is so beautiful. For once my iPod freaking out because of the holo is a good thing because it shows the true colour and how holo it is. This was also a quick swatch before class so that is why it doesn't look the best.

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Nails from a long time!

As promised here are some of my favorite nails that I've done over the last several months, yet I still feel as though I am missing some.

I did these for Breast Cancer Awareness month back in October. I have a simple glitter placement awareness ribbon and pinky with glitter placement. My pointer finger has SGK, for Susan G. Koman, with "SH" and "JM" around it in honor of two fabulous ladies that fought and beat breast cancer. My middle finger says "hope" with little awareness ribbons around it. My ring is plain pink.

Much like my BCA nails this is an awareness manicure. This is for PCOS. PCOS, polycystic ovarian syndrome, is a condition that is all to often over looked. It's missed/irregular periods, body hair growing on the belly, chest, face, and around the nipples, decreased breast size, enlargement of the clitoris, thinning of the hair on the head, voice gets deeper, acne gets worse, dark or thick skin markings and creases around armpit, groin, neck and breasts. How many of those things would you overlook because it's not too scary? How about if I told you that PCOS can lead to diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, weight gain and obesity, endometrial cancer, infertility, and breast cancer. What sucks the most about PCOS is that you don't even have to have all the symptoms, like with everything else, you can just have one and over look it because you were uninformed about it. It's a scary thing but it can be helped with treatments. Want to learn more about it? Visit one of these sites to learn more.

NCBI

Women's Health

Mayo Clinic

PCOSupport

PCOS Foundation

PCOS Challenge

Now that I've had my spill about PCOS and why you should be informed, and trust me that was only a portion of the information that I normally give, I will tell about my nails, not that they aren't really self explanatory. 

Thumb-glitter placement awareness ribbon (teal

Pointer-PCOS (so that people will ask about it)

Middle-a turtle, the symbol for fertility (what many women with PCOS have trouble with)

Ring-Plain Teal

Pinky-glitter placement with teal glitters

DS Extravagance by OPI this colour is simply AMAZING! I am in love with it and I hope that in a hundred years when I die that my family will have this colour put on my nails for me to wear for all eternity.

I went to see Karmin for a concert this fall and these are the nails I did for them. 

Thumb-using their symbol

Pointer and Pinky-they tend to do polka dots a lot!

Middle-based off their song "broken hearted"

Ring-based off their song "Hello"

So I am in a relationship with this amazing guy and we are in a long distance relationship, LDR for short. He lives in England and I live in the United States and this was just a cute way for me to celebrate our anniversary. Totally simple but really cute. <3 :)

So that is it. I will update tomorrow with my mani of the day because I have to do a Christmas mani for my choir Christmas concert! I will talk to y'all tomorrow! xoxoxo

P.S. did you notice the name change? Well that's because I have a new tumblr that I post my nails to! Here is the link!
P.S.S. Did you notice the watermark thing in my pictures? Well I upload them onto Instagram so if you want to find me there my name is khowell93
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