Candy Corn Nails - revisited

The last time I wore a candy corn manicure was in 2010 and I can't tell you how many random strangers commented on my nails. So, this year, I decided to re-create it. Now, it's an easy manicure to create, you just need a little patience and some scotch tape....yeah. I have no patience. So, this is my 2nd attempt. The 1st time I didn't let the orange base dry enough and the tape pulled the color up with it. I tell you, me and nail art just don't get along.

For this mani, I used a base of Sally Hansen Insti Dry in Orange Impuse (see yesterday's mani). I waited about and hour and then added scotch tape down the middle and used Sally Hansen Insti Dry Quick Canary (could have used a 2nd coat) and Wet n Wild White.

Even though the yellow is a bit sheer, I really love the results, what a fun mani!

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Sally Hansen Insta Dry: Orange Impulse

As much as I love this time of year, it does get a bit dreary getting used to the short amount of daylight. So even though it might be a little late in the year for wearing bright colors on the nail, I still loved wearing Orange Impulse. Perfect remedy. Orange Impulse is a nice and bright orange color, I suppose it'd be considered a neon, but I don't know if I'd call it that. Check out the pick:

Don't you hate it when you finish a nice and neat looking manicure and you end up smudging one finger? So annoying, but I was too lazy to fix it. ha ha.

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Opposites

So, when I posted Bridal Veil earlier in the week, Polish Loving suggested layering it over red, and what a great idea. I had to try it, and it turned out great. This is overtop Wet n Wild red cream:



Since WnW's Tonight's Going to be a Good Night is the pretty much the black glitter version of Bridal Veil, I also had to try it over red:



and just cuz, here is WnW red solo:




I like both colors over red, but I think Bridal Veil looks better. What a great color combo.

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My new obsession: Sally Hansen Bridal Veil

I am so in love with this polish right now! I'm obsessed with white and black glitters in polish, so it's no wonder I can't get enough of this color. Bridal Veil is a combo of small white hex glitter mixed with a touch of larger gold hexes in a clear base. Here it is over Essie Mink Muffs:



And this is overtop Wet n Wild Heels of Steel, which is from the Fergie line. Boy, there are some nice polishes in that collection, I'll be swatching some later this week:



and a closeup:


Do you love this as much as I do??? I need a backup!!

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Shel

Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure over a mystery red

Yikes, I'm so bad! I took these picks last week, and I totally cannot remember what color of red polish I used! Because of that, I wasn't sure if I should post this, but it's so pretty, I just had to. The flakies are Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure, which I'm sure you can tell by the bottle 8-) I adore the look of HT overtop a red color, the shift of orange, gold and green...ugh. ♥♥♥







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Playing with tape

I'm not great with the tape manis. I know they're easy, but I just don't have the knack. I decided to play around a bit with my current RCM gel mani, so a taped off a couple stripes and added Sally Hansen Vivid overtop. I figured if I messed up too badly, I could just remove it and still have a perfect mani underneath. Of course I did ruin it, the stripes aren't even close to the same width. Sigh. Oh well, I tried ☺ ha ha.





Next time, much thinner stripes and I'll have to pre-cut them. I guess I just don't have the patience for nail art!
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500 Follower Mini Giveaway

Since I'm only 7 people away from 500 followers, that's close enough right? I thought I'd start this a bit early. I just wanted to say that I appreciate everyone who follows and comments, thank you so much.

The winner will receive five polishes from the Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Halloween collection.

All five polishes are new and never used, the bottles in the photo are from my collection. The colors include Skeleton - a white base with iridescent glitter, Trick or Treat - a black base with the same iridescent glitter as Skeleton, Witches Brew - a black base with orange micro glitter, Jack-O-Lantern - an orange base with orange glitter and lastly, Slime - a green base with green glitter.

The rules are nice and simple. The only mandatory one is that you must be a follower of this blog with GFC. You can earn extra entries by liking Crystal Visions on Facebook or adding Crystal Visions to your blogroll.

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails; Fly Away

This is another one of those brilliant accidentally awesome polishes I got in a Dollar Tree 2 pack. In the bottle this looks like a peachy-pink sheer color, but over black, it's a subtle, but pretty purple-green duochrome.





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Super Clearance!

I love a good deal, especially on polish. I found this color just sitting on an end cap at Meijer and picked it up. When I read the name, Snowed-In, I knew it was from the Christmas collection....so I took it over to the bar code scanner and it rang up for..... 29 cents! Woo! Sold! I also got Orna-mint for the same price. Not bad!




What a cool color, huh? I decided to try and layer Revlon Whimsical over top a darker blue (since I don't have any light ones) and I did not love the look. I also layered Sally Hansen Glass Slipper over the other nails and I do like that combo. Too bad I ruined the ring finger with Whimsical, cuz I would have worn the heck out of the Glass Slipper combo.



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Sally Hansen: Glass Slipper + Orly: Androgynie

I really love Sally Hansen Glass Slipper. Its like snow in a bottle; clear base with white flecks. Here it is over Orly Androgynie, which is a black base with sliver glitter and multi colored hex glitter. Sounds good on paper, but I couldn't really see the glitter that well once it was on the nail. Check out the picks:





Here's the Orly by itself:


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Sally Hansen Gem Crush: Big Money

Happy New Year! Tonight's mani has to sparkle, so I choose Big Money from the Gem Crush line. Big Money is a champagne colored glitter with little round lilac purple glitter mixed in. It's so shiny!! I really like that the purple glitter is round shaped and not hex shaped like most glitters seem to be now (although I still love me some hex glitter).



Make sure to click the pick for a closeup.


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Wet n Wild Fastdry: Tangled in My Web

I SOOOOO love today's mani! The base color is Sally Hansen's Skeleton and it's topped with.....Tangled in My Web. I finally got a hold of it after a wonderful gal from the nail bord swapped with me ♥♥♥

Skeleton is an amazing color itself, it's a milky white base with opalescent glitter. It actually looks like an opal. I added one layer of TIMW overtop and perfection. I love the black and white combo and I'm so into black glitter right now. A perfect Halloween mani.







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Sally Hansen Hard as Nails: Jack-O-Lantern

You just gotta love an orange jelly glitter named Jack-O-Lantern, don't you? This is one coat of JOL over Loreal Femme Noir. FN is a beautiful vampy red and it is perfect for layering. I like what the slight orange base of JOL does to it.






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Sally Hansen Hard as Nails: Trick or Treat

So, earlier this year, I found an entire line of Halloween colors from Sally Hansen at the Dollar Tree. Here's a link to my previous post. This color is from that collection and is called Trick or Treat.

Trick or Treat is a black base with iridescent glitter:


This is an awesome color, but wait till you see what I layered over it tomorrow 8-)



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Sally Hansen Hard as Nails: Ice Queen

I bought Ice Queen about a month or so ago and it's been sitting untried ever since then. How wrong is that! LOL. So I decided to at least swatch it for now. Ice Queen is a clear base with silver micro glitter and larger pink and blue hex glitter mixed in. This is one coat over black:





Mega closeup:


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Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear: Pumpkin Spice

Ah, my 1st Halloween polish purchase of the year....this is Sally Hansen's Pumpkin Spice. PS is a sheer black base with square orange glitter....sooo Halloween....which means I love it! LOL. I haven't really seen any other Halloween themed polishes yet, I hope more come out this year. I know China Glaze is supposed to have a few, but I haven't really seen the swatches...I'd love to get my hands on some more of those jack-o-lantern polishes.....I'll have to keep my eyes out cuz they usually go quick.





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Sally Hansen Crackle: Antiqued Gold

What a great crackle color!! I only picked up this one from the SH crackle line and wow, I'm impressed. I started with yesterday's mani. I wore it for a couple of days and was just starting to get some tipwear.


and I added one heavy coat of Antiqued Gold overtop:


AG is a gold foil finish, pretty unique for a crackle polish. I really love the combo of gold / deep red. So pretty!!


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Sally Hansen HD Nail Color: DVD

DVD is a great color. It's a sheer blue glass fleck that flashes purple. This is over Revlon TS Royal as a base. Royal is a wonderful base for layering colors, and this combo rocks!



You can see a hint of purple on the sides here in the shade:


This is under my Ikea lamp:


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Sally Hansen Salon Effects #230 Skinny Jeans

I've worn these SH Salon Effects nail strips before, and I decided to give Skinny Jeans a try. The 1st ones I tried were easy as pie to apply and lasted about 5 days or so before I took them off. These were not as good as the previous box. You can see around the cuticle, I had a bit of a hard time getting them to look perfect, and these had tip wear in a day.

Enlarge pick to see details, especially around cuticle:




Now with my 1st pair, I used both foil packs and with this one I cut them in half so I could get 2 mani's out of it. I'm still willing to give them a try, I have the cute pink camo and leopard ones that I haven't tried yet.

Anyone else have good/bad experiences with them?

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Night Lights layered mani

I love layered mani's, and this one might be one of my favorites. I started off with Loreal Star Magnet in Grey, but since I didn't like how the star pattern turned out, I decided to layer Sally Hansen Night Lights overtop. NL is a sheer grey jelly base packed full of multi colored holo glitter. Both colors looked great together, but of course, I wasn't done yet. Really, I just never know when to stop and most of the time I ruin a great mani because of it, but this time, I lucked out. I added a layer of my BF Shmoopy's flakie franken overtop and it was perfection!



The flakies in the franken are multi colored, and with the colored holo glitter, they go so well togehter! You gotta enlarge these picks!


Unfortunately, I do not have the recipe, the bottle was Colorama's Shimmer Girl. The base is now a light blue jelly.


Check out the closeup ♥♥♥ Glitters and flakies go so well together.


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