FingerPaints Pastel Rain for Spring 2014 – Swatches & Review
At the beginning of the year, the Sally Beauty-owned FingerPaints brand changed things up with a new logo, a new core collection of colors and a string of new limited edition collections. One of them, Pastel Rain is a set of three creamy bases with three matching glitter toppers, perfect for the spring.
Formula & Application
FingerPaints nail polish is 5-Free (Formaldehyde, Toluene, DBP, Formaldehyde Resin, Camphor) and produced exclusively for Sally Beauty. The FingerPaints bottle is unique in that it’s kind of an oblong shape (remember The Oblongs) with a long, slender, slightly taped cap.
FingerPaints recently revamped their polish line, including the brush. The bottle now contains a long, flat, wide brush with flexible bristles that easily fans out without putting too much pressure on the nail.
The three cremes in this collection are kind of thick with pigment but they self level. The only issue I had is that I felt like I had to apply it thicker than usual to avoid streaks. That being said, I got full coverage with two coats. All three dried with a satin finish. The three glitters are all best used as top coats.
FingerPaints Dream I Can Fly is an aqua creme. It’s a bit lighter but similar in hue as China Glaze Aquadelic.
FingerPaints Dream I Can Fly
FingerPaints Crystal Springs is a golden, pale blue glitter topper that contains light blue and gold round micro-glitter mixed with holographic shards.
FingerPaints Crystal Springs
FingerPaints Misful Thinking is a bright chartreuse green creme. It’s not quite as yellow as OPI Did It On ‘Em and lighter than Essie The More The Merrier but is in the same color family.
FingerPaints Misful Thinking
FingerPaints Shower with Flowers is a lime green glitter topper filled with various sizes of green hex glitter and bar glitter with small holographic round glitter pieces.
FingerPaints Shower with Flowers
FingerPaints Springtime Bloom is a cool pink. It’s not what I would consider a “bright” but it doesn’t have that chalky pastel look either. It’s somewhere in between.
FingerPaints Springtime Bloom
FingerPaints A Pink of Pixie is similar to Shower with Flowers except the hex and bar glitters are a whisper pink shade.
FingerPaints A Pink of Pixie
Bottom Line: The creme bases are well made and pretty but not overly unique. My favorite part are the glitter toppers. While these type of mixed media glitters originated in the indie world, I like that they’ve become so affordable and accessible thanks to brands like FingerPaints. I love the shards in Crystal Springs and even though I’m not a pink girl, I’m thinking A Pink of Pixie will look really fresh over a bright blue or navy.
FingerPaints Pastel Rain is available now at Sally Beauty stores nationwide and online at SallyBeauty.com. FingerPaints polishes normally retail for $5.99/ea but right now this collection is on sale at SallyBeauty.com for $3.99/ea and all six colors are in stock.
What do you think of the Pastel Rain collection? Which base/glitter combo is your favorite? What colors do you plan to pick up?
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I think A Pink of Pixie would look great over black too!
Such a nice collection! I like the mix of cremes and glitters too.
Love that it’s 5-free!
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I like the glitters too! Thanks for the swatches!
The blue sparkly one is a texture, btw. I have it on now. Is the pink one textured, too?
I’m not sure what you mean by textured. I mean, most glitters have some sort of “feel” to them but I wouldn’t consider any of these glitters to be true textured polish. They don’t have a sandy feel.
Thanks for swatching these. I am in Sally’s often enough and have been curios about FingerPaints but wanted to see more reviews first. The toppers are the best part!
Thanks for the review. I’m building up my nail polish collection so this will be an affordable way to get some pastels.
I bought all three cremes and I love them. Prior to that I bought several Miliani glitter top coats for this spring and it seems they are quite similar to FP glitters so I passed on them. Now that I see your swatches I see the holo which makes them more unique. Thanks for the great review.
I’m gonna pass on these. Nothing calling to me.
I picked up all three glitters during my most recent trip to Sally’s and passed on the cremes, but these swatches make me think I should pop in again and grab ‘em!
I love the green one best, but for the price, I can get them all. I’m never one to turn away a pretty polish or a sparking glitter especially when the word sale is involved.
Nice collection my favorite is the Shower with Flowers and at that price it will be easy to try them out in the ‘real world’.
These are so very pretty nail polishes that I would love to try out. I super like the green one. I have never tried any green shade so this is my first.
i think i’m going to get the shower with flowers set and put it on my toes! love!
i’m ordering them now. only the glitter one is discounted tho.
Sorry, they were all discounted at the time I posted.
I bought the pink with the matching glitter and it’s lovely. I have a hard time getting a good finish with thick creme polishes like that. Can you share your method?
I just try to lightly drag the brush across the nail and wipe the brush well so it’s not too thick. If you apply it too thick, it might not level out.
Thanks so much. I’ll try it for this weekend.