Mr. Wrong....is oh so right!

This is a polish, that I feel needs more love. This is Hard Candy Mr. Wrong. The only place I can get mine is at Wal-mart, boo, I wish it was in every drugstore. This is going to be a short post guys, I'm so tired and need a good night sleep. Jack and I have been doing tons of little home improvements for the past week, and I'm crashing early.

Then since I feel like its been forever since I have done a funky french, I added some gold tips :) I used Petites Empress.

Night guys, and hope you enjoy this in the morning!!

XOXO, Erika

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Good From Far, But Far From Good...Like most men

You all know exactly what I'm talking about. You're out with the girls, maybe had a few drinks, see a hot guy across the room, you make eye contact, they make their way towards you, and BAM, you're instantly wishing they would have stayed on other side of the room. Well, this is how I feel about this mani, lol. Since I loved my other feather mani so much, I discovered a site that had small super fun feathers for sale. I got a few packs, and even some colored dried leaves that I shall try soon. Well this is how the mani started. I used 3 coats of Hard Candy Sky. I wish the bright blue shimmer, that you can see in the bottle in the 2nd pic, was more visible on the nail :(

Here is 1 of the packs I got. I ordered them from www.vivalanails.co.uk. Each pack I got had a different amount of feathers in there. This one had 3, and my pink one had like 6.

and just so you can get an idea of the size

This was after I cut the feather down to my nail size

This time, I applied the feather in the opposite direction, just to see. I wanted the light blue to poke out through my tips. I first brushed on a layer of Elmers Glue, then pressed the feather on top.

This was after it had mostly dried, and I trimmed the tips with clippers. The hard thing about feathers, is all the individual feathers are attached to the center stem, and once you cut them across, they are of course no longer attached :( so as I began placing, and trying to center the feather, it does split some, and the glue makes them stick in clumps, but it makes for a pretty cool effect on my tips.

Here is the final mani, with 2 coats of SV over top, to make it super shiny

Now from afar

See...I told you!!! lol.

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Good News, Bad News, & Blue Mani

hiiii~

thanks for sending my computer & i lots of love in my last post. thank goodness my computer was fixed so quickly - - - thats the good news :)

on to the bad news..my nails are - for real - nubbins! T_________T i had a rip going on my middle finger..and so i had to chop my nails down. this is, seriously, the shortest i've had my nails in years!! my usual "nubbins" are not ever this short..so this length is totallllly new to me!

ok, now we're moving on to the blue mani...



just something boring & simple. 2 coats of OPI's Ogre The Top Blue & 3 coats of Hard Candy's Sky. let me tell you...Sky is a BEAUTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my pictures honestly suck & complete washes out the beauty that Sky is. Sky is more of a baby blue color and has the slightest, most beautiful blue shimmer. i really fell in love with Sky :P

ok, im done here for today. i should have another post up some time on Sunday; i have a review coming your way!...so i'll be back then!~

have a great weekend!,
<3KATRINA

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Hard Candy Sky.....Is finally MINE!

Since about a month ago, I've wanted Hard Candy Sky. I saw it posted on MUA, and knew I had to have it. Well, I rarely get to Wal-mart, but when I recently went, I saw it, and snatched it up. It is such a gorg baby blue, with hidden blue shimmer, that I had a HORRIBLE time capturing in pics. The application was a tad tricky, but worth it. When using this, I had to do quick, light strokes, and this was 2 coats. For the tips I used China Glaze Millenium.

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Random Swatches

I have been noticing just how many polishes I have that don't get used. It's kind of sad. So lately I have been just grabbing a few at a time, and swatching them.

This is a polish I got from Forever 21, and it's just called Magenta/Black. This is 3 coats, and it's amazing!

I am in love with this polish, and the pics of it. It's so glossy. This is Finger Paints Tough Art to Follow.

Here we have a Hard Candy called Sweet P

I picked this up on clearance, I'm a sucker for sales.

Camouflage

Twinkle, I am loving the gold shimmer in this.

Iced Merlot, over black. Do you see the amazing shimmer in this?!?!?!

Another Hard Candy, Lava

and here it is, of course, layered over black

Okay, off to get more together ;P

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A Bunch of drugstore brand polishes along with some Claire's, CHI, OPI, Icing

TGIF is all I can say.

I was digging at my untried stash and I had a lot of polishes there that I've bought back in March and still haven't tried it so I decided one day to just swatch it all. At a glance, you can all see it's mostly mint greens or greens in general lol


Wet n Wild's Wild Orchid - a purple base with multicolored glitters.


Sinful Colors Mint Apple - minty green with glass flecks. Absolutely gorgeous color. It was my first time trying Sinful Colors, and for their price, their application is pretty damn good!


Sinful Colors Let Me Go - sheer pearl with green/pink/purple flashes. I didn't expect this to be sheer, I thought it was going to have this cool metallic duochrome look like it did on the bottle. But it didn't. Oh well.


OPI DS Mystery - blackened purple with gold flecks. I obviously swatched this a LONG time ago, but just found the picture hidden in a folder lol


Nicole by OPI Peas and Q's - a mint green creme. I love mint greens and can't get enough of them!


Nicole by OPI Hint of Mint - sheer-ish mint green shimmer. It was a little sheer for me, 3 coats and still visible nail line.


Milani's Tailor Made - blue with an iridescent finish. Nice color but doesn't really float my boat.


Milani's Dress Maker - mint green shimmer. Chanel's Jade dupe. I will do a full post comparing these two along with Claire's Dream Catcher!


Icing Mint 2 Be - another mint green creme


Hard Candy's Sweet P - olive green glitter. I like the interesting green here!


Claire's Marine Blue - neon aqua blue creme. I say neon because this one dried matte.


Claire's Mean Green - more turquoise than green. Also dried with a matte finish


Claire's Dream Catcher - mint green shimmer. Another Chanel's Jade dupe.


CHI Picnic in Central Park - pastel lime green creme. Love the name being I live in NY haha Although I never had a picnic in Central Park before. Maybe I should try!

So that is all I have for today. I hope everyone enjoys their Labor Day weekend!

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