You guys must KNOW how excited I am for these babies! Last year when the first set of Julie G Frosted Gumdrops polishes came out, I RAVED about them. To this day they are my favorite textured polishes, and believe me, I've tried just about every one out there! So this year there are 6 new colors just in time for the holidays. This year's lineup is more holiday-ish I guess you could say? There's a silver, gold, and green included and to me that just screams holidays. Last year's colors were gorgeous but more fun.

I don't think that these are necessarily a "holiday" collection because I heard about them a while ago, but I was just now able to find them. The Crystal Crushes are a line of textured polishes from Sinful Colors. I picked up 2 pretty unique ones to share with you guys!

When I finally found the limited edition Sugar Coats, this was the one that really caught my eye: Royal Icing. I was excited for these because while I liked the original batch of Sugar Coats that came out, they were just very flat to me. These limited editions have sparkle to them, which makes them more like my favorite textured polishes, the Julie G Gumdrops. And this one is just super cool because it's a baby blue base, but has purple/pink sparkles to it.

I tried to capture the color the best I could in different lights - there's just no justice until you see it in person! Now, I don't know about the other limited edition colors but this one needs about 3 coats by itself to look good. The original ones were much more opaque than these. But in the same respect, you can use a cream baby blue color and one or two coats of this over it to make it just as awesome as the original Sugar Coats, opacity-wise.

Here I have 3 coats of it on my nails by itself - still a super pretty color, but I don't like that you can still see my nail through it. Like I said, using a solid color as a base totally fixes this problem. 

Another reason I have been loving the Sugar Coats lately? THEY DRY IN NO TIME!! Literally by the time I start painting the nail on my right hand, my left hand is already dry. These are a Mom's best friend! To top off the speed factor, you don't use a topcoat with these, which makes manicure time even faster. And when you get chips, you can just dot on some more and voila - completely fixed! Because they are textured, it makes it hard to detect any imperfections. So I definitely recommend these both for tectured polish-lovers, and for anyone who likes a super-quick, fun looking mani!!

I talk more about the polish in this video:
 

The first color is Tangerine Dream. It's a gorgeous bright orange that is going to make a great spring color for a manicure. You'll notice in the swatch pictures that all of these colors have sparkle to them, but some more than others.

                 Sugar Rush is a dark reddish orange. This one has hints of orange sparkle to it!

                                Hot Cinnamon is a bright red with orange/gold sparkles in it.

 Crushed Candy is a mauvey-pink with different sized silver glitters in it. Unlike the sparkles in the last 3 shades, these are more noticeable because for one they're silver, and secondly there's bigger chunkier glitter.

Blueberry Fizz is an awesome cornflower blue that also has different sized silver sparkle, just like Crushed Candy.

Lastly, we have Rock Candy. This is probably my favorite out of the collection. It is a seafoam green with the different sized silver glitters in it.

All of these polishes are opaque with 2 coats. I really love the formula - they're easy to apply and dry pretty quickly. As I mentioned in the beginning, for best textured results, you're not going to want to use a topcoat with these, but do use a good basecoat to ensure longer wear!

You can check out the video I did for these here: