Sally Hansen Insta- Dri Matte Nail Polishes Review

Hello everyone! Today we will be going over some kind of newer polishes that Sally Hansen released a few months ago as a part of their Insta Dri line. Not to long ago I did a review on their Jelly Belly Polishes that where also a part of their Insta Dri line, I also purchased these around the same time and I wanted to also give them a try. Unlike the Jelly Belly polishes I think the Insta- Dri Matte's are a permanent part of their line. 

  

Sally Hansen Insta Dri Matte Polishes 

The Sally Hansen Insta- Dri Matte's are made up of eight polishes, as you can see from the photo above I only purchased two of the eight polishes, I will rarely buy a whole collection of polishes because most of the time I am only interested in a few of the polishes.

This collection is of course is all matte polishes, here is a list of all of the polishes names:

Gold Rush, a gold colored polish

Rose Flush, a rosy peach color

Molten Mauve, a mauve red  

Burnished Wine, a purple magenta

Violet Velvet, a purple

Blue Steel, a royal blue

Smoldering Teal, a teal 

Smokey Silver, a silver

Let's take a closer look at the two polishes that I purchased.

 

 

 Sally Hansen Insta Dri Matte Polish, Smoldering Teal with a glossy top coat

First off you may look at the photo's above and say those polishes do not look matte? That is because I did apply a glossy topcoat to all of my nails, I personal like the look of glossy over matte. I do have a photo of the polishes on a swatch wheel that show them both matte and glossy, that I will put into this post as well.

Anyways first we have Smoldering Teal, just like the name says (like all of the polishes in this collection it says the color right in the name.) this is a teal polish that also has some aqua in it as well. This polish also remind me of the ocean or a mermaid color. This polish had a pretty good formula, it did take me three coats to be opaque.

Sally Hansen Insta Dri Matte Polish, Violet Velvet with a glossy top coat

Lastly we have Violet Velvet, this is purple/ violet polish that does have some blue in it. This also had a good formula as well, it was opaque for me in three coats as well. 

 

Sally Hansen Insta Dri Matte Polish, Shown Matte and Glossy

Above is a photo of the polishes both matte and glossy, I personal like them better glossy but they still looked nice matte.  

     Sally Hansen Insta Dri Matte Polish

These polishes also have the wider brushes just like the Jelly Belly polishes, but I found the formula to be better and easier to apply, it also may be the colors that I picked from this collection, these colors are much easier for me to polish, then the lighter colors I picked from the Jelly Belly Collection.

As for the matte formula, these polishes where very easy to apply. I have found that some matte polishes dry/ become matte to fast, like you polish one part and go to the next part of the nail and that is all ready matte, you then go to do your next stroke and because of that already being dry it just does not look right. Even thought these polishes are Insta Dri I did not find that to happen you could polish the whole nail and it would not become matte to fast. 

As for drying very fast, I am never to sure on that I also wait forever for my polish to dry just to make sure I don't mess them up. 

 

Sally Hansen Insta Dri Matte Polish, Smoldering Teal and Violet Velvet

In conclusion I would recommend these polishes even though I only tried two, the formula seems good and they look good both matte and glossy.

   

I purchased these at Walmart for $3.96

Here are some other places where you can purchase this collection as well. 

 Target $4.09

 Ulta$4.99

Walmart  $3.96


Hope all of you enjoyed this small review of the Sally Hansen Insta Dri Matte Polish! 

See you next time for more nail fun!           

I Choose You Pikachu- Pikachu Nail Design

Hello everyone! Today we will be doing something just a little bit different, in celebration of the new movie, Detective Pikachu that came out today, May 10. I will be showing you a recreation of the Pikachu design that I did back in 2015, this will not be a step by step tutorial because this design is very similar to the one I created in 2015, but  I will still add a link to that design if any of you would like to create it. 

 

 Pikachu Nail Design 2015 and 2019

As all of you may have guessed I am a big Pokemon/ Pikachu fan and I super excited to see the new Detective Pikachu Movie! I have been a fan ever since Pokemon came to the USA in the 90's and Pikachu has always been my favorite. So I thought I would give the Pikachu design another try jut in time for the movie. 

As you can see from the photo above I did make a little bit of a change, on the thumb nail I add a teal background, I put Pikachu near the cuticle, and I painted Pikcahu with acrylic paint instead of polish like I did on the first design.
  

Pokémon Pikachu Nail Design 2015 and 2019

Then on the ring finger nail I made the Poke Ball/ a circle that did not covering up the whole nail on the same teal background. As for the other nails I decided to keep them the same, with the Poke Ball on the entire nail.   


 

 Pokémon Pikachu Nail Design 2015

With anything I feel that with time you can improve, looking back at the design I did back in 2015, I feel like I did better this time around, I mean the design I did back in 2015 when I first started this blog was still good, but I can tell that I have improved. The main thing I noticed is the cuticle area looks better now. 

 

Pokémon Pikachu Nail Design 2019

Even the redo design that I did, I would still not mind recreating/ changing up this design again just to see if I can do better. On the design I created now, I did make the center parts of the Poke Balls a little big. Also what you can't see in the photo is I actually had to redo Pikachu on thumb because I messed up, but after waiting a while and trying again he came out really good.  

 

Pikachu Design on thumb nail 

For this design I really wanted to recreate this design for the movie and just to see how I could improve on the design that I did back in 2015. Also along with the design it's self I feel like I have also improve on the photo as well. I do use a pro camera, well starter camera the Canon EOS Rebel T3 (this is a older camera, but still good), at first back in 2015 I took my photos next to a window, which is not always reliable, now I used a day time photography like bulb. I take my photos both then and now, in front of a box that I have covered with white paper or now sometimes a black piece of fabric. My set up is not fancy at all it is very basic, but I try to make my photos look like they are not just taken with a cellphone camera.    

Pokémon Pikachu Nail Design 

 

 

Pokémon Pikachu Nail Design  

If you would like to create this design as well, here is the link to my first design called

 Pika- Pika and you can have you nails ready to see Detective Pikachu too.

Hope all of you enjoined this post even if it was not a step by step tutorial, but just a then and now.

See you next time for more nail fun!    

Cherry Fest- Cherry Nail Design

Hello everyone! Happy first day of May! I can't believe it's already May, time is going by way to fast! Anyways today we will be create a fun and cute cherry design that I thought would be cute for spring and summer time. When it comes to cherries I don't actually like the fruit is self, but I do like cherry flavored candy and cherry scented things, my favorite fruit is strawberries and pineapples. What is your favorite fruit?

  

 

Cherry Nail Design  

Here are the polishes and nail art tools to create this cute cherry nail design:  

 

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Nail polishes- Finger paints- Tiffany imposter, and Finger paints- Cubism Crimson.

(Just two polishes that is all you need, the rest is done with paint.) 

Acrylic paint- black, white, red, and green.

Nail art tools- thin liner brush, thin stripper brush, and a very small thin detail brush.

A cup of water to clean off your nail art brushes.

 

 Cherry Nail Design 

Start off with clean nails, with no polish on them, then on your dry nails apply a thin layer of base coat to help your design to last and to protect them as well.

Let that dry. 

Then polish your thumb, middle and ring finger nail with a light blue, these are the nails that we will be doing the nail art on. Then on your index and pinky nail polish those two nails with a shimmer red polish, those two nails will just stay red.

Let that dry as well.

Cherry Nail Design 

Once your base polishes has dried, we will create the cherry nail art on our thumb, middle and ring finger nails, you also can always do this design on all the nails or even just one, it is up to you.   

For the cherries I did use two different colors of red, the red paint that I already had, and then I added a very small amount of black to the red a well, to make the red a little bit darker, although when I used the two colors on the nail it was a little hard to see the different in color. 

For the cherry shapes, take a liner brush with red paint on it and make random circles on the nail, making sure to leave a good amount of blue/ background around the nail. As stated above I did use two different reds, so make sure some of the cherries are a lighter/ brighter red and some are a darker red.

 

Cherry Nail Design

Also for the cherries you can make some of them overlap like I did more so on the thumb, and some that are just one cherry. 

Then on to the steams of the cherries, take a thin stripper brush with green paint on it and from the red circles/ cherries we just made make a green line. On the cherries that are overlapping make the green lines connect, also on some of the steams make some smaller lines for leaves. 

For a small added touch I added a few very small leaves in the area around the cherries, most of the nail I just put three leaves. 

For are very last small detail we will add a very small white line on the cherries for the refection. Take your very small detail brush with white paint on it and on the corner of your cherries make a very small curved line. 

 

 Cherry Nail Design 

Once you have your cherry design the way you like and ready for spring/ summer, apply a top coat to seal in your design and to help it last. 

Hope all of you enjoyed this cute and simple cherry nail design, that is really good for beginners.  

See you next time for more nail fun!  

Chill-in with My Peeps- Easter Nail Desig

Hello everyone! Happy Easter! Well soon to be Easter, I am posting this a few days earlier just before Easter Day. Today we will be creating a design based on the Easter candy, Peeps. When it comes to Peeps they are not really my favorite Easter candy, but I thought it would be cute to make into a nail design, my favorite Easter candy is the Cadbury eggs, the original and the caramel ones. What is your favorite Easter candy? Peeps, Cadbury eggs, jelly beans, chocolate bunnies?   

 

Peeps Easter Nail Design

Here are the polishes and nail art tools used for this Easter treat nail design: 

 

Base and top coat- CND Stickey Base Coat and Revlon Extra Life No Chip top coat.

Nail polishes- Picture Polish- Salt Water- Nailstorming, OPI- Hello Kitty- My Pal Joey, Sinful Colors-Let's Meet, Zoya Mini- Leslie, Zoya Mini- Eden, and Zoya Mini- Daisy.

Acrylic paint- black and white.

Nail at tools- small and medium dotting tools and a thin detail brush.

Other- small glass jar with a little bit of acetone to clean of your nail art brushes, and a cup of water. 

 

 Peeps Easter Nail Design

Start off by applying a thin layer of base coat to your clean nails.

Let that dry.

Once your base coat has dried polish your thumb, middle and ring finger nail with a light blue polish (I used Picture Polish- Salt Water), then polish your index and pinky finger nail with a light yellow polish (I used Zoya- Daisy.)

Let that dry as well.

 

 Peeps Easter Nail Design

Now we will be creating the cute marshmallow bunny Peeps on our thumb, middle, and ring finger nails. For this design I did first make a outline with white paint for the bunnies then went over that with polish. 

First we will create the one blue bunny on the middle finger nail. Take a detail brush with white paint on it, this step is optional if you first want to make an outline, or you can always go straight in with polish. 

First make a small circle for it's head and then a little bit bigger one for it's body, then make two thick lines on the top of the small circle (it's head) that are rounded at the top for the two ears. Then let that dry and then you can go over that with polish, I used a blue polish ( OPI- My Pal Joey) for the bunny, you will need to go over this at least two times. Once again let that dry. 

Then we will make their little eyes and nose. With a small dotting tool with black paint on it make two dots on it's head for it's eyes and then another dot under that for it's nose. Peeps don't have a mouth, so that is all for their faces.

Next we will make the to smaller Peeps bunnies on the ring finger, for this nail just follow the same steps as we just did for the blue bunny, just make them smaller and two different colors, yellow and pink, and don't forget to make their eyes and nose too. 

    Peeps Easter Nail Design, on the thumb nail

Lastly to finish off our Peeps design we will create half of the bunny on our thumb nail. Once again we will create an outline with white paint. With a detail brush with white paint on it make a circle near the cuticle and then make to long bunny ears from that circle, let that dry. Then go over that with a light purple polish three times (I used Zoya Mini- Leslie.)

Once that is dry we need to make his eyes and nose. With a medium size dotting tool with black paint on it make two eyes and a nose right under those two circles.   

For a final touch I made a few colored dots around the Peeps Bunnies that where the same color as the Peeps; light purple, yellow, pink, and blue.

 

Peeps Easter Nail Design

Once you have your Peeps Bunnies design the way you like (almost ready to eat), apply a top coat to help your yummy design to last thought Easter.

 

  Peeps Easter Nail Design

Hope all of you enjoyed this Peeps Easter nail design!

Happy Easter!  

See you next time for more nail fun!