Cost/Amount: USD$7.00 for 14 ml / .5 fl oz (full retail price may vary up to $2.00 up or down, depending on the store's prices/policies)
Would you purchase again: yes
I’ve written up the various limited-edition and seasonal collections, but not the core of the line. Now’s probably a good time to do that…not only because Sally Hansen appears to be adding half a dozen shades to the regular lineup, but because I own about half of the regular shades. I started buying these in 2010. They had a smallish core line, and some limited-edition collections, but the formula was not the best. The brush was great…but the polish itself was often watery, would apply unevenly and need three coats for full even coverage, and wouldn’t last much longer than other nail polishes before it would begin to chip. (I still have several of those polishes.) In late 2012 the entire line was reformulated, and these applied much better and lasted longer. Many were two-coat full coverage.
I currently own about half of the regular collection, and while I may get a few of the darker shades at some point, I’ll probably leave the semisheer and other french-manicure shades alone. Same with the large-particle glitters. They’re pretty enough, but they’re just not my particular favorites.
For quite a while, the limited-edition polishes were released without numbers. Then in Fall 2013, the limited-edition polishes had numbers in the 800s. In May 2014 seven shades were released, and the display read "new shades" while the individual polish-numbers were in the 300s, 400s, and 500s...inside the range of the "regular" polishes.
This collection contained:
All Fired Up (460) — orange-red creme
Almost Almond (310) — sheer neutral cream pearl
Arm Candy (220) — semisheer beige-pink creme
Back to the Fuchsia (420) — medium-bright cool pink creme
Barracuda (360) — light blue creme
Black and Blue (580) — duochrome blackened purple-blue-green shimmer
Blue My Mind (550) — bright medium-deep blue frost
Clear'd for Takeoff (170) — clear
Commander In Chic (290) — medium ashy-rose brown creme
Copper Penny (100) — copper glitter sparkle
Debu-tint (180) — sheer gold shimmer effects coat
Earl Grey (320) — medium neutral grey creme
Firey Island (390) — medium deep orange creme
Hi Ho Silver (150) — roughened metallic silver shimmer
Get Juiced (400) — softened coral creme
Gilty Party (130) — roughened silver-gold with scattered red glitter
Golden Rule (120) — gold glitter
Gray-t Escape (330) — cool beige-rose creme
Greige (300> — cool medium-deep taupe-grey creme
I Lilac You (370) — soft lilac creme
Jaded (540) — medium-light cool green creme
Jungle Gem (520) — medium-deep teal creme
Kook A Mango (450) — red-orange creme
Mermaid's Tale (560) — blue with large-particle blue/silver/green glitter
Mudslide (250) —
Pat on the Black (510) — blackened dark red creme
Pink Pong (240) — rose-nude creme
Peach of Cake (380) — softened tangerine orange creme
Pink A Card (350) — rose-pink creme
Punch Drunk (440) — fuchsia-rose creme
Please Sea Me (530) — medium-deep caribbean blue creme
Plum's The Word (280) — medium raisin-plum creme
Raisin The Bar (270) — metallic medium browned-purple shimmer