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

Hard Candy ~ Crush on Caribbean & Mermaid Magic

Hard Candy ~ Crush on Caribbean & Mermaid Magic  

Seagreen shimmer and Seagreen glitter with lilac glitter

Hard Candy is a cool name for a series of cosmetics, don’t you think? It makes me think of something sweet and nice. Something that you can enjoy. And the Hard Candy polishes I received in a swap are exactly like that.

Let me show you two of the four I received recently, Crush on Caribbean and Mermaid Magic. They both have the same base colour, sea green, which is a colour I seriously have a crush on!

I started out with the shimmer. The formula is good and the pigmentation even better. I couldn’t quite get away with just one coat, but almost! I applied two coats, and the polish dried pretty fast. I applied a layer of Poshé topcoat – I wouldn’t normally have done that before I was done, but right then I thought I was doing a tape mani. As it happens, I wasn’t – more about that in a moment :)

Here is two coats, and one layer of Poshé topcoat – the picture is taken in the sunshine:

Isn’t that just pretty? I love, love, love this colour!

Then it was my intention to tape half the nail and apply glitter on one half of the nail. But the two colours were too close to each other, so it just didn’t make sense to just paint half the nail. I applied a layer of Mermaid Magic over all of the nails. The glitter spread out evenly and I didn’t have to fish (haha) for the lilac glitter. The amount of glitter on each nail comes from just one dip in the bottle per nail. Very cool indeed!

I am still not done, so there’s no topcoat over the glitter:

The glitter went crazy sparkling in the sun, which made this very difficult to photograph! :D

Then I stamped on my ring finger and my thumb. I used my Apipila 02 stamping plate and stamped with Essie “Nothing Else Metals”. A last layer of Poshé topcoat completed my mani, and here’s the final result:

I had to take these last two pictures in the shadow in order to make the two stamps visible, because there’s so much bling in this mani that it’s almost incredible! :D

How’s this? I really like it, but how about you?
And have you got any Hard Candy polishes yourself?

Opacity: 8/10
Colour, prettiness: 9/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
Buy again: Yes