Sinful colors

Today I would like to feature my favorite drugstore brand, Sinful. They are B1G1F through tomorrow at Walgreens, but even at full price they are only two dollars. I love them because they have a wide variety of colors and effects. Some are a little sheer, but except for the duo-chromes there aren't any that I absolutely don't like! I photographed my whole collection, and I'll list any comments and dupes under the photos. I have swatched all these on nail wheels, but I haven't worn them all as manicures yet.

These are the new glitter shades - well, I don't know how new they are, but they are new to me! I had to go to a different Walgreens this week to find these. My Walgreens is rather picked over. I love these because they contain different sized glitter particles. The first three are also pretty opaque - I would still use them over a base, but 2 coats is nearly full coverage. UFO gives a nice coverage and isn't actually very orange, and All About you is glorious applied over a dark brown - it has both gold and copper glitters. Below are some nail wheel swatches, all 1 coat of glitter over dark shades.

Call You later over OPI "Here Today, aragon tomorrow

L: Hottie over midnight blue R: All About You over Mercury Rising

L to R: All About you over orange, I miss you over purple, Queen of Beauty over black, Nail Junkie over black

Hottie and Pink 4 ever are both Flakie style glitters - not super dense, but not sparse. Gorgeous over many other colors. The other 3 are more traditional style glitters. Pearl Harbor is a clear glittery with a blue flash. None are so sheer as to be useless. I can't help myself - I love my glitters!


"What's Your Name" is black with tiny teal glitters - imagine China Glaze Lubu Heels with different glitter. It's fabulous. HD Nails is my least favorite here - it's rather sheer and frosty, but it is a great St. Patrick's day color! See You soon is amazing - a blackened teal shimmer, it looks different in various lights. I know no dupes. "Show me the way" is similar to Zoya Irene, but more awesome - it is rather sheer, but totally worth the 3-4 coats. I love olive greens. I will say this about Sinful's sheer colors - they are all jelly textured and not streaky, and since I love jellies I actually prefer them this way, especially as it allows the pretty shimmer and glitter particles to show through. "Midnight blue" is a pretty standard pearly blue. It's shown above under "Hottie" glitter. San Francisco is a great jelly-textured green. Similar to NYX Las Vegas, but lighter, so you need both!


"Cloud 9" has faint shimmer, and is a nice tangerine shade. The 2nd shade is something like "Serena and Chloe," but my label is gone. It's an orange glass fleck jelly. Really pretty. "Dancing nails" is a mauve frost, and I actually don't care for it. "Secret Admirer" is black with silver shimmer - similar to Orly Goth, but with smaller shimmer. I love it. "Dream on" is dupey to Essie Perky Purple - it's a neon purple that is one of my favorites.


"Bali Mist" is a purple with a weak duo-chrome. It's very sheer, and I don't care for it. "Glass Pink" is amazing - an almost exact dupe for OPI's Princess' Rule, but slightly warmer and not as sheer. I actually like it better. "Easy Going" is very like OPI Mod about You, but again slightly warmer. Great shade with a vintage feel, and not too streaky for a pale cream. "Forget now" is a sheer pink with shimmer - similar to a Milani shade I have, but I like it better. "Cream Pink" is a nearly neon pink - I think of this as 80s pink.


"Purple Diamond" is frosty and too sheer. Fiji is also sheer, but it's worth it because the shade is unique! "Daddy's girl" is one of the popular sinfuls - a purple jelly with glitter. I love it also, but it's nice for layering also. "I love you" I believe is a newer shade - it's like a warmer version of Daddy's girl with more glitter. Worn over a plum creme it dupes Milani's "Totally cool." "Let's Talk" is my favorite of the group - it's a frost intense bluish purple, unique in my collection.


Finally the reds. I'm amused to note that Sinful doesn't actually seem to have many of this sort of color - they have more of the more unusual shades. "Sugar sugar" is a blue based red with glitter. It's very pretty. Under 18 is a shimmery orangey red - unusual. "Rich in Heart" is a dark wine, while "Mercury Rising" is a dark brown shimmer, similar in the bottle to Zoya Kalista, though on the nail the Zoya is lighter. "Vacation Time" is a nice natural creme - somewhere between a mauve and a brown.

I hope all these bottle pics help you out - someday I'll actually get through all these as manicures!