Swatches: Sinful Colors Halloween 2016 Collection Nail Colors in Got A Bat Attitude and Nice Guise

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Since Sinful Colors polishes are on sale this week (2/$3 at Walgreens now through 10/22), I wanted to get some swatches up of the two shades I recently purchased from the Halloween 2016 collection!

PLEASE NOTE: I have dropped the ball on my Sinful Colors coverage over the last month or so. I meant to post pics of the Halloween displays a few weeks ago, but the sales and deals lately have been absolutely relentless. Since I'm just one person, I can't always get everything up that I want to post in a given day/week/month. So I apologize for not posting pics of the full collection, but I'm betting that ALL of you have seen the Sinful Halloween displays at your local drugstores at this point, so you know what the display looks like! Come January, after the holiday madness, my goal is to focus more of my attention on sightings and new drugstore collections and bring more balance to the blog in that area. So thanks in advance for your patience and understanding as we get through the holiday crazy season!

Sinful Colors 2124 Got A Bat Attitude and 2122 Nice Guise
(retail: $1.99 each, 0.5 oz.)

The two shades that caught my eye in the Sinful Colors Halloween 2016 collection were Got A Bat Attitude and Nice Guise. So let's start with the topper.

 2124 Got A Bat Attitude

This is a glow-in-the-dark topper that contains black bat glitter. Fun, right? In the bottle, the base looks like a light gray shade. But on the nail, one coat looks completely clear. So if you're using it as a topper over another color, this polish shouldn't interfere with your base color. BUT, after two coats, this polish does look a bit milky on the nail (as you're about to see), due to the glow-in-the-dark particles. 

Two coats, no base or top coat

This polish was a bit thick and goopy, but it didn't interfere with dry time. Also, there are lots of bats here, so it's not difficult to fish them out and get them on your brush. I didn't really experience much bumpiness with the glitter in this polish, except for the piece on my pinky nail which was applied on the curve of my nail, so it stuck out. The other pieces laid evenly on my nails and of course a good , thick top coat will make things smoother as well. 

Overall, this is a fun one and I think it would look really cute over an orange shade for Halloween. Oh, and the glow-in-the-dark effect works fine with this one (sorry no pics, but my camera wasn't cooperating). It gives off the usual green glow in the dark and, as with all glow-in-the-dark polishes, you get a stronger glow if you hold your nails up to a light source for a few seconds before you turn off the lights. 

2122 Nice Guise

Nice Guise is one of the "Chameleon Colors" polishes in the Halloween collection. I didn't really experience any color-changing with this one, other than, in different light sources and levels, some of the glitter particles seemed to shift color a bit. Looking at the bottle, you can see that there are gold and teal glitter flakes in this polish, and sometimes the flakes look more gold, while other times more teal. 

The base color is a navy blue creme (no shimmer). It's a thin formula (sort of runny), but I was surprised at how opaque it was after just one coat. If you used a thick application you could totally get away with one coat with this one. But as always, I used two for my swatch pics. Also, dry-time was quite good with this polish.

Two coats, no base or top coat

This first pic above was taken in regular lighting, while the pic below was taken in lower lighting (you can see the glitter flakes a bit better below if you're on desktop--on mobile these two pics don't really look all that different from each other).

Two coats, no base or top coat

This shade reminds me of China Glaze Blue-Ya from their Fall 2016 Rebel collection. The only problem I have with Nice Guise is that, as with just about every dark blue polish I own, removal is messy. It's like the minute that polish remover hits this polish, the blue spreads and wants to go everywhere. So just be careful during removal and use quick swipes. Also, I had this polish on my nails for two days without a base coat and I experienced slight staining. It wasn't too bad, but of course I should have used base coat to protect myself (living on the edge, I tell you)! If you leave this polish on your nails for a week and you don't use a base coat first, I'm guessing you're going to see some significant staining. I would definitely use one or even two coats of base coat before application, just to be safe.

Do you own any of the polishes in the Sinful Colors Halloween 2016 collection? If so, which shades do you have and how are they working for you? Are you planning to pick some up this week while they're on sale at Walgreens?

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