Archives: October 2009

Happy Friday afternoon folks!

I am super excited to show you the COMEBACK of a cosmetics line from years past. It’s Hard Candy. Yep, they have returned only this time, they are selling at Walmart and everything is between $5-6 bucks! Amazingly inexpensive.

Now I will admit, I don’t think I ever owned any of the original Hard Candy nail polish. I did own some eye makeup, but don’t remember having the polish. I remember it being mostly light pinks, blues and pastels, and I was never really into those colors much. But now they do have some darker super cool ones which I bought so I could show you.

The formula on these is pretty good. Some of them were a bit thick so be careful to apply lightly and wait in-between coats. Other than that, I had zero application issues.

Frenzy

Frenzy is a bright sky blue creme. Totally vivid and gorgeous. This was one of the ones that was a little thick so be forewarned. You can see it kinda globbed on my middle finger because I was rushed. You could get away with one coat with this one, but I used two here.

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Friday is here finally!

I can’t even believe I am showing you HOLIDAY stuff already seeing as it just turned to fall and it’s still hot here in the Bay Area. But I have quite a backlog gathering up of holiday collections now I so thought I better start swatching them before spring 2010 sneaks up on me

This limited edition collection from Jessica is called Social Lights. The bottles are so freakin cute, shaped like little colorful light bulbs.

The formula on these is decent, if not a little thick. You will definitely want to wait a couple minutes between coats on these (especially Starlet) or they tend to get clumpy and weird at the tip.

Cute light bulb bottles!

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This is a giant “flower ball” hanging from the ceiling of the entry way to the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. There were tons of them, all various colors. So beautiful!

Good morning! It’s officially Halloween month yahooooooo!

Per a couple people’s requests after my CND Colour Effects series last week, I have swatched all the effects I have by themselves over my bare nail so you can see how they look on their own. Some you will be able to really see and unfortunately some are so sheer that you can’t tell much of a difference between them. But as you can tell from my swatches last week, they are definitely all different when put  over a color. These are all just one coat, using more than one coat didn’t make much of a difference. Check them out!

Ice Blue Shimmer

Ice Blue Shimmer is one of the ones you can see really well over a bare nail. It’s an opalescent pale blue shimmer.

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