Saturday, November 9, 2013

Hard Candy ~ Bity Blue & Fireworks



Hard Candy ~ Bity Blue & Fireworks  
Sky blue shimmer with a slight purple duochromatic effect &
red glitter, barglitter, and hexagons with an accent on blue

I’ve got four Hard Candy polishes in my stash. I showed the first two of them here, and this post contains the last two. I think it’s cool that they go together two and two.

I started out with Bity Blue, which is a sky blue packed with so much shimmer that it appears like a foil. It applies easily, and the pigmentation is good, so it took two easy coats to reach full opacity. Drying time was average, which I can’t complain about. When I look at the bottle I can see that the polish has a very slight duochromatic purple effect, but that hasn’t really transferred onto my nails. I couldn’t see it at all once it was on, and hence I couldn’t catch it on camera.

But anyway: Two coats, no topcoat:


My camera freaked out over all the shiny polish! It’s seriously pretty in real life, I can assure you that. These pictures simply don’t do the polish justice at all!


I wouldn’t normally pair a red glitter up with a blue polish (unless I was supposed to make a US themed design of some sort). But Fireworks actually contains blue hexagons, so I thought, why the heck not! Goshdarn and dagnabbit!

I taped my nails halfway down the middle and applied the glitter. I waited for it to dry, and then made a red stripe down the middle, to separate the two colours. One layer of Poshé topcoat finished the mani off and here’s what it ended up looking like.


And another shot:


I think this would have looked cooler with some white in it too, but I just didn’t think of it when I made this.

Here are the two polishes: 


Would you have paired these two polishes? If yes, what would you have done with them?


Opacity: 8/10
Colour, prettiness: 8/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 8.5/10
Buy again: Yes

10 comments:

  1. Oh, that blue really is gorgeous - and the combo is great too :)

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    1. Thank you so much :) I like them, but I'm not sure they're staying much longer ;)

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  2. This pretty blue looks extremely cool on you!! but I think this base color kills the blue glitters in top coat, so the glitter became only red.

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    1. That's a really good point! What colour would you layer it over? Suggestions are very welcome, thanks! :)

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  3. That blue is seriously AMAZING! *wipes off drool* :D

    ~ Yun

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  4. A very pretty blue, but I think I'm more in love with the glitter. That looks very awesome :)

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    1. I always love glitter, and this is no exception :)

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  5. "...baby, you're a firework..." (c)
    I'd pair these polishes too, why not ;P

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