Reader Request: Sally Hansen Snappy Sprinkles swatches

If you caught my Dollar Tree haul a few days ago, then you know I was quite overjoyed to find the Spring 2011 Limited Edition Sally Hansen Instra Dri polish Snappy Sprinkles at my local DT for $1. I had been wanting Snappy Sprinkles ever since it made its debut in drugstores over a year ago, but I never expected to find it so many months later, at Dollar Tree.

Reader Angel requested some swatches on bare nails and I'm always happy to take swatch requests! She said that all of the current swatches online were done over a base color, so I thought I'd show you Snappy Sprinkles four ways. Hopefully this will help you determine whether or not this one's worth the hunt!

One coat of Snappy Sprinkles over a pink creme, a green creme, on my bare nail and over a white creme. I also applied one layer of Seche Vite top coat to each nail:

Contrary to what my pictures indicate, the predominant two colors in this polish are pink and green. When this polish is on the nail (regardless of my base color or even just on my naked nail) all I see is pink and green bar glitter. Don't get me wrong--I LOVE that this contains pink and green bar glitter, but I don't want you to think that the rose gold and copper colors that are coming out in my photos actually translate to the nail, because they don't. *shakes fist at camera*

And that mysterious, cloudy base that you see in the bottle? Not so mysterious or cloudy when on the nail. The base of this polish is essential just clear, but it does have a TINY bit of tint to it (more on that in a moment).

The base of this polish is very watery, and the glitter is not dense when on the brush. This combination means that, just like with many chunky drugstore glitters, you'll need to do some serious coaxing with your brush to get the bar glitter exactly where you want it on your nail bed. I don't think I did too bad of a job with glitter placement in these photos, which means that, if I can do it, you can definitely do it. It just takes a little time and patience.

Now back to the slightly tinted base. I circled where you can see the color difference in the photo below:

If you look to my nail painted with a white base color, you can see the line where I didn't follow through with Snappy Sprinkles all the way to edge of the base color. Hopefully you can see that the tint of Snappy Sprinkles is a very faint yellow color. It's not dramatic, but I did notice that when I layered this polish over a blue-toned bubblegum pink (see my pinky finger), it made the pink shade look a bit warmer.

So, do you NEED Snappy Sprinkles? Well if you're a fan of bar glitter and you love pink and green, then YES, you might want to try and locate this at your nearest Dollar Tree. If you don't like bar glitter, or pink and green combos, then this one's not for you. Also, if you don't have the patience to coax glitter with your brush to get it where you want it, then definitely skip this one because you definitely need some patience during application. I personally am very happy I finally got my hands on Snappy Sprinkles because I don't have another polish in my collection that even comes close.

One quick tip: I recommend applying a quick-dry top coat immediately after applying Snappy Sprinkles. Otherwise, due to it being so watery, you'll have to wait forever for it to dry. A top coat like Seche Vite really cuts the dry time in half (or more).

I hope this post helped, Angel!