Nubar Prize and My New Hair

Hey! 

Its been crazy for me this week.

 Please excuse my lack of posts.

I caught a cold and allergies kicked in at the same time.

I have been having a yucky feeling birthday week.

I received a bunch of birthday wishes that warmed my heart. 

I will post more about my week below.

On to the polish!

This is Nubar Prize. 

It is from the Nubar Prism Collection released in 2010.

I bought this beauty off of Amazon.com.

Nubar Prize is pink toned red with holographic glitters.

It took 3 coats for full coverage.

 It also dries gritty, so 2-3 coats of top coat is needed.

I put 2 coats in my picture. 

But, a 3rd coat would be needed to be completely smooth.

The wear time was great. 

I had some tip wear after a few days.

I wore Jade Vermelho Surreal on my toes.

 It is a red holo that reminds me of a blood tint.

In this picture it looks really bright red. 

In person, it looks a bit different.

My new hair! I trimmed it to frame my face better 

and did a bit of a dark red to light red ombre.

Here are some flowers a good friend of mine suprised me with!

She is so sweet :)

And here is my cake my hubby surprised me with :)

Isn't it adorable!?

He switched the digits for my age, lol.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hard Candy Little Bo Pink and Swatches

Hey again.

 Here is another Hard Candy shimmer polish. 

This one is called Little Bo Pink.

 Little Bo Pink is a shimmery coral pink that sort of glows on the nails. 

The formula is awesome.

 My mom saw me with this one and permanently borrowed it, lol. 

She only wears pink polish, 

so I usually lose pink polishes to her. 

I also added a few swatches below of other polishes

 I wore but never posted.

As you can see below, I broke my middle finger nail, so sad.

And below is Finger Paints Twisted, 2 coats, over black.

 Took me over a year and something to get a hold of Twisted. 

But, it is finally mine! Look at all those colors!

Below is Orly Miss Conduct, 3 coats.

Oh boy, is this a beauty or what?!

Love love love this polish.

And below is Orly Torrid (one of my very fav reds) 

with Ninja Polish First Snow on top.

First Snow has matte white glitters and

 these blue toned glitters that surprise the eye.

This picture was taken on an overcast day outside.

And here is the same combo below but with indirect natural lighting.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hard Candy Hip Hip Hooray

Hey! Here is another Hard Candy polish.

This one is called Hip Hip Hooray.

Tons of glitter in a light purple sheer base.

This one took about 2 coats and 2 coats of top coat.

I did have to dab a little to keep all the glitter from ending up at

the bottom of my nails.

At first, I really didn't like this polish look.

But, over the course of the day, it grew on me.

This was also a gift from candycoatednails.blogspot.com

Isn't she sweet? :)

Thanks from reading and have a great day!

Hard Candy Fun n' Festive

 

Hey! This is another new polish by Hard Candy. 

This was also given to me by the sweetie from candycoatednails.blogspot.com

Hard Candy Fun n' Festive is a dark green jelly based polish

 full of different sized glitter in green and orange tones.

It only took about 2 coats to reach full opacity.

I added top coat to make it shine, because it dried a bit dull.

Fun n' Festive reminds me of a swamp. lol

I know, not very festive, but camouflage type colors don't make me think of fun.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

China Glaze Blue Hawaiian

Hey! 

So, I wore accents of Blue Hawaiian yesterday 

and I wanted to see what the polish would look like alone.

 And here it is! I like it a lot alone.
 China Glaze Blue Hawaiian is a sheer aqua blue jelly

 based polish with tons of iridescent glitters. 

It is from the 2009 Specialty Collection and is no longer available. 

I found it at a nail supply store.

This polish took about 5 thin layers to reach full opacity. 

I let each layer dry slightly before adding the next to prevent dragging.

 The glitter pay off is great and helps build the polish layers better.

After the last layer was slightly dry I added 2 coats of top coat.

 Blue Hawaiian reminds me of a sparkly ocean bay in a tropical place,

 like Hawaii! lol.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hard Candy Bity Blue

 

Hello! Here is one of the newer polishes from Hard Candy.

Hard Candy Bity Blue is such a pretty polish.

I was happy to be given this by a sweet lady

 at http://candycoatedtips.blogspot.com/

I am sure I have this color already. 

But, what makes this polish wonderful is the formula.

It goes on so well and stays!

These pictures show 2 coats.

I wore it on both hands.

 

I wanted to try a couple of polishes 

that I haven't showed any love to.

Below on my right hand on the 2 center fingers I put 1 coat of

China Glaze Blue Hawaiian over Bity Blue.

 

Below on my left hand on the 2 center fingers I put 1 coat of

                             Milani Diamond Dazzle over Bity Blue.

They both gave about the same effect.

 

You can see in the picture above that 

Hard Candy Bity Blue seems like it is duo chrome.

It does not show up on the nail as such. 

Not for my short nails anyway.

Thanks for stopping by!

OPI Save Me

Save me (8 thin coats)

Hey!

Here is a glitter polish from the Spring 2012 OPI Nicki Minaj collection.

This polish looks so fun in the bottle.

Save Me is a clear base polish with small silver glitters

and blue and holographic bar glitters mixed in.

I used 8 thin coats.

But, it wasn't so bad, because they dried pretty quick.

Because it is a glitter polish,

letting each layer dry somewhat keeps the glitter from dragging down.

I did not use a top coat since it dried smooth and pretty quickly.

I did not try to layer this polish.

But, I am pretty sure it would look great over a dark color.

The bar glitter did not stick up at all.

Overall I think I like this polish.

Not my favorite, but not low on this list either.

Below is a picture of OPI Not Like the Movies

 from the Katy Perry Collection.

I used 3 coats.

You can see I had tip wear after a day.

Not my favorite polish.

Thanks for stopping by!