Showing posts with label Hard Candy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hard Candy. Show all posts

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Hard Candy Black Tie Optional over a Pink to Orange Gradient!

Hey everybody! Check out the light box I made all by myself!

Homemade Light Box

I can take pictures at night and have consistent and even light!!!!!!!!!

I took these pictures last night! I'm so happy and excited if you can't tell! Today I have swatches of China Glaze Dance Baby and a pink to orange gradient topped with black and white glitter for you! The lighting doesn't look amazing in the swatch pictures, but I think that's because Dance Baby is a bad colour on me and it makes my skin look weird and kind of tan. However, I am so happy with the gradient with glitter pictures because I think the lighting looks awesome!

Onto the photos!

China Glaze Dance Baby

This is two coats of China Glaze Dance Baby and no top coat! The formula of this polish was awesome and it was almost a one-coater! This polish was super easy to work with.

China Glaze Dance Baby

Hard Candy Black Tie Optional

The orange used in this gradient was Essie Tart Deco and the black and white glitter is the famous Hard Candy Black Tie Optional!

Hard Candy Black Tie Optional

Hard Candy Black Tie Optional

Hard Candy Black Tie Optional

Thanks for having a look! Please let me know in the comments if you think the new lighting looks good and if you prefer it and the background over what I used to use! :)

Monday, 22 July 2013

Black and White Glitter Topper Comparison and Julep Adriana!

Hey all! Today I have a swatch of Julep Adriana and a black and white glitter polish comparison to show you featuring two indie polishes!

I bought a bunch of black and white glitter polishes recently and I've hardly/never used them! I kind of fell in love with all the glitter toppers featured in this post and I'm thinking of doing a gradient topped with one of them and posting that tomorrow!

I've made myself a light box but I still need some white light lightbulbs and a few lamps, so bear with the inconsistent lighting! Maybe I'll post my gradient topped with black and white glitter tonight if I get my light box in working order by then!

Anyways, onto the pictures!

Julep Adriana

I took a few pictures in the Sun of Adriana after I took these shade pictures, and I noticed it had bubbled pretty badly. What you see here is two coats and no top coat! I didn't wait very long between coats, but I waited as long as I do swatching Black Sheep Lacquer polishes and they have never bubbled on me!

Julep Adriana

Black and White Glitter Polish Comparison

Thumb and ring finger: Hard Candy Black Tie Optional
Index finger: Dollish Polish Putting on the Ritzzz!
Middle finger: Black Sheep Lacquer A Letter to the New York Post
Pinkie finger: Sally Hansen Tweedy

They were all super easy to work with and had lovely formulas!

Black and White Glitter Polish Comparison

Black and White Glitter Polish Comparison

Let me know if you have a favourite or any questions in the comments! Thanks for reading my lovely people! :)

Monday, 1 July 2013

American Nail Polish Haul! =)

So I've been going a little shopping crazy here in Washington, but good news, I'm back in Canada so the spending has stopped! All of the nail polish is at least a few dollars cheaper here and the tax is a smaller percentage so I couldn't help buying twenty-two new polishes! Let's not even talk about the clothes, sunglasses and shoes I bought! Eek! My incredibly lovely boyfriend gave me some money to spend on myself for this trip, and I was talked into accepting it by him and his silly mother! I still feel like a jerk for doing so, but I have some seriously awesome new babies making it hard for me to feel too bad! :P I apologize for the quality of these photos, the fancy camera I usually use is my sister's so I just took these with my phone! Can you believe I bought every colour of polish but blue? Blue is my most worn nail polish colour, which is also strange because green is my favourite colour.

Anyways, onto the polishes!


I've been lemming so many of these polishes since they came out and just seeing all of them makes me excited to use them all!



American Apparel


Left to right: Moon and Angeline

I feel like you could layer Moon over any light colour without changing it drastically, and bam, your nails glow greenish yellow in the dark! I've realized lately that I actually don't have many pinks in my collection, or even most shades of pink! Angeline is definitely a pink unique to my stash!


Zoya

Left to right: Destiny and Miranda

I'm wearing Destiny right now and it's freaking awesome! I'll be posting pictures taken from my phone (not my sister's nice camera unfortunately) of Destiny in a day or two! As you can probably tell (seeing that nine of these twenty-two polishes are matte textured polishes) I love matte textured polishes! I wish I could have found some of the fall Pixie Dust polishes because I'd love to buy almost that whole collection!


OPI

Left to right: Honey Ryder, You're Such a Budapest, My Vampire is Buff, Care to Danse?, Pirouette My Whistle, Gold Shatter, and Black Shatter

Apart from the shatters, these are all huge lemmings of mine (squee!) and I feel like you could do a cool matte and shiny look with a shatter polish. I had convinced myself that I had a colour similar to You're Such a Budapest and I'm not sure why because I don't. I'm so happy I let myself finally buy it, it's one of the most gorgeous polishes that exist in the world in my mind! Also, both of the shatter polishes were $1.80. OPI for less than two dollars? Sign me up!


I think everything I'm writing under each picture is to try and justify buying so much polish. Especially when my two polish racks are so full that they could only fit one or two more polishes! There's always the tops of the racks for two more polish I guess, though I was trying to avoid putting them up there!



Essie

Left to right: Naughty Nautical and DJ Play That Song

Green is my favourite colour and Naughty Nautical is a super awesome greenish teal with silver shimmer! Usually I'm not one for shimmer, but there isn't a lot in this polish and it really makes it unique. DJ Play That Song is just a lovely neon purple jelly that I've been eyeing since it came out and I think it goes really well with my skin tone! I can't wait to use it in a jelly sandwich!


Singles: Essence, China Glaze and Hard Candy

Left to right: Essence Mrs and Mr Glitter, China Glaze Bump & Grind and Hard Candy Black Tie Optional

I can't wait to try all of these! I didn't love Black Tie Optional at first, but all the lovely people on Reddit Laqueristas convinced me it was awesome with their swatches!


Sally Hansen

Left to right: Lick-O-Rich, Sour Apple, Cherry Drop, Sugar Fix, Sweetie and Tweedy

I kind of fell in love with the Sugar Coat collection right before I found them in store and I think I'll be swatching them this week! Tweedy is the coolest polish of the Fuzzy Coat collection in my opinion because it looks like TV static, and since it's black and white it can be layered over any polish! Neither of these collections are available in Canada as far as I know and I don't know that they ever will be, so who in their right mind wouldn't buy their favourites? ;)


I'm way too excited about this last item here, my first ever Rhinestone Pickerr Uperr! Whitney from Dressed Up Nails had awesome things to say about it! You should check out her blog if you never have, she's so talented and lovely! I can't wait to try picking up studs and rhinestones and placing them with more precision and ease. I'm also curious to see if this baby plays well with small glitters, because the dipping an orange stick in top coat method is a bit of a pain!

Thank you so much for reading as always, I hope you're all having a lovely day! :)

Sunday, 28 April 2013

Eight Polish Haul Featuring Hard Candy's Sugar Rush!

I've decided I'm going to start using my sister's awesome camera to take pictures of my nails and other people's nails that I do! The quality must be better than my Samsung S3's camera and I hope you can all see the difference in these pictures! My polishing job isn't perfect, but these are pre-cleanup and I thought they looked pretty good!


I got five polishes from my boyfriend's mom last night (left) and three from my boyfriend (right)... they're so generous and awesome! :)


From left to right: China Glaze's Platinum Pieces, Nicole by OPI's Fanatical Fuchsia, Nicole by OPI's Stolen Kisses, Nicole by OPI's Silver Texture, and China Glaze's Oxidized Aqua :).


From left to right: Revlon's Whimsical, Hard Candy's Sugar Rush, and Essie's Good to Go Topcoat! Now onto the nails :).





Polishes used: Nicole by OPI's Stolen Kisses, Nicole by OPI's Fanatical Fuchsia, and Hard Candy's Sugar Rush! :)


EDIT: Here's some shots I took with my new macro lens for my phone!