Reverse Gradient With Sinful Colors Ice Dream

       Hi everyone!  I hope you all had a great Tuesday.  I only had to work a half day today because the weather was so crappy!  But I got a lot done today.  I went to Ace, bought some pegboard, spray paint, hooks, and organized my kitchen.  It looks so good!  I'm glad I didn't just sit on my butt all afternoon, like I usually do!

     Today I have one of the winter polishes that Sinful Colors released last month.  This color is called Ice Dream.  I researched Ice Dream a little bit before I wrote this post and I found out that it is a dupe for China Glaze Lorelei's Tiara, and Sally Hansen Gem Crush in Showgirl Chic.  I don't own either of these polishes so I can't show you, but you can click on the links to see the comparisons.  I didn't want to just wear Ice Dream by itself, so I decided to wear it over black.  Then I remembered this mani for a reverse gradient from A Polish Addict.  I love how this turned out!

Base coat: Sally Hansen Triple Strong Advanced Nail Gel Fortifier

Base coat: Black Creme from Wet N' Wild - 1 coat

Accent nail: Ice Dream from Sinful Colors - 2 coats

The gradient was done with one coat of Ice Dream

Top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

This was taken outside without the flash

This was taken inside without the flash

This was taken inside without the flash, just in different lighting

And here is a picture of my kitchen!

I hope you like my nails and my kitchen!!

Sinful Colors Kissy and Essence Choose Me! Swatches and Comparison

  I purchase Choose Me! by Essence a few weeks ago because of this review on Nails by Kayla Shevonne.  As you can see Choose Me! is a dupe for Opi's Catch Me In Your Net.  Opi is one of my favorite polishes but if I can save money, I'm all for that.  I picked it up and when I was sitting here going through all of my polishes I relized that I had a color very similar to this.  That happened to be Kissy by Sinful Colors.  My first dupe post was born!
  All I can say is that I am glad to be done with this post.  Lol.  I wore these colors for about four days straight, due to not having enough time to switch my maicures.  I worked a 65 hour week last week and that is why I didn't post very much last week.  These colors stained the skin around my nails when I removed it, but I was easily able to remove it with baking soda.  I also had a very difficult time photographing these.  These colors both shift from blue to green like no other!  It took me forever to get accurate pictures.

Base coat: Chip Skip from Opi and Smooth Beginnings from Avon

Color: Choose Me! from Essence - 2 coats

Top coat: Out the Door

Taken inside without flash

Taken outside without flash

Base coat: Chip Skip from Opi and Smooth Beginnings from Avon

Base color: Kissy from Sinful Colors - 2 coats

Top coat: Out the Door

Taken inside without flash

Close up taken inside without flash

Taken outside without fla

And now for the comparison:

This picture is not the greatest but like I said I was done with 

these colors and was ready to get them off of my nails.  So don't hate,

k?! :-)

Taken inside without flash

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Taken inside again without flash, but a much better picture

So, they aren't exact dupes but they are pretty dang close.  I wore two coats of Kissy and three coats of  Choose Me!  I thought if I wore more coats it would get as dark as Kissy, but it didn't.   I don't know if I will be wearing either of these any time soon.  For me, they are more of a going out color, not an every day color.  I epect I will wear one the next time I go out dancing.

  There are many other dupes out there for these colors.  If you would like to see them you can view Geeky Owls blog post here.

Do you guys know of any other dupes?