Showing posts with label Candy Lacquer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Candy Lacquer. Show all posts
Friday, March 8, 2013

Candy Lacquer Sugar Mama - Swatches + Matteified!

Hi! Sorry I've been gone for a few days. I went on a little holiday and forgot to set up posts, because I am the world's most disorganised person.

I have some Candy Lacquer swatches today. Candy Lacquer is, so far, the only indie brand I've tried. I guess I'm just not as into indie polishes as a lot of people! I love Candy Lacquer though.

This is Sugar Mama, which is a clear base packed with tiny pink, white and black matte glitter. I applied 2 coats over Barry M Dragon Fruit. I find with glitters like this that it's much better to apply over another similar coloured polish, because you don't need as many coats, which means you can spread the glitter more evenly over your nail!






Click the jump to see it matteified!



I added a coat of 17 Nail Extras matte top coat



What do you think? Do you prefer it matte or glossy?

You can buy Candy Lacquer from their online shop, which is currently closed until March 24th unfortunately! Just as well really or I'd be buying more!


Friday, February 1, 2013

Aqua Hearts Gradient

Since it's February today, I thought I'd start the month off with a Valentine (kind of) post...I'm really not one for soppy Valentine's day rubbish, but I love an excuse for a theme ;)

For this, I started with a base of Barry M Turquoise, and used Essie Blanc to sponge on a gradient. I topped it with Aqua Hearts by Candy Lacquer, which is shredded aqua foil and adorable little red hearts in a clear base.






How cute is Aqua Hearts!

Monday, January 7, 2013

Digit-al Dozen: Art, Day 1

This month's theme for the Digit-al Dozen is Art. This is a very hard challenge for me...I'm not into art AT ALL.. and I have no appreciation for art in any form whether its sculpture, paintings...or whatever other art forms there are...unless it's nail art...lol...the only pieces I'm familiar with are those of the Group of Seven (only because it was a school trip to the local McMichael Art Gallery)....and any extremely famous paintings such as The Mona Lisa...and even then, I'd be hard pressed to name the painter.....

Anyhoo, I'm going to apologize in advance for the next five posts as I don't think they are going to be very fantastic...and probably hard pressed to be a form of art...but here's the first one I came up with.

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Started with a base of two coats of Borghese Rapido Chroma, no topcoat (apparently, I didn't take a pix of this all by its self). Stamped using Konad white special polish using A30.

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For a little funky interest, added random glitter fished from Candy Lacquer Holiday Ornaments.

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Here's a bottle pix of Holiday Ornaments

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Topped with SV.

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A pix in natural daylight, but it was overcast.

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Those with any appreciation for art...does this pass at least?  Here's to hoping the rest of them resemble art of some variety.

Thanks for looking!

(I'm on my daughter's computer posting this and it is super slow...I'll be updating the post with a few links to the other ladies posts later.)

Edited to add links!

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Challenge Mani

This weeks FB Adventures in Stamping Challenge was to do a mani featuring the colours from your Christmas tree.  My tree pretty much has most colours under the rainbow, but has strong gold and red decorative accents, which is also the majority of the colour scheme for the rest of the house decorations, so those were the colours I chose to do for the mani....here's what I came up with.

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Started with a base of two coats of Layla Softouch Effect 02.  I received this polish as a RAOK from KarenD at Frazzle and Aniploish.  After seeing the Layla's in one of her blog posts and then looking for them at Ulta during my last cross border shopping trip but they weren't available, KarenD was good enough to offer to pick them up with a few other pretties....THEN before I have even had a chance to pay, she messaged that they were on their way to me!   Thanks so much again, Karen!

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Added a few holiday decorations using red Konad special polish and Sally Hansen Jumpin' Jupiter using D07 (present on pinky), Sugar Bubbles special 01 (wreath on thumb), and fauxnad D (tree on middle, candy cane on ring and mistletoe on index).

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I was going to do a few accent dots but then I remembered a newly arrived polish from Candy Lacquer called Rudolph's Treats that is circular (!!!) glitters in green, gold and red in a clear base.  So I fished them out and added red on the tree for ornaments and others to accent the wreath and the other images.  Then I fished out more of the circular dots and used to accent throughout as well as used a star shaped rhinestone for the tree topper.

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Bottle pix of Candy Lacquer Rudolph's Treats.

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Added SV.

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Just before taking it off, I topped the mani with Essie Matte About You (which is the first pix) and this is the version I like the most.

Hope you had a fantastic weekend....thanks for looking!

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Candy Lacquer Modern Love - Swatches

This is my first foray into the world of indie (home-made) polishes. I bought this from Sandra @ Candy Lacquer a little while ago and it arrived today. Go look at her shop, she has some lovely things for sale!

Candy Lacquer Modern Love

Click the jump to see :)



This is called Modern Love. Inside Modern Love there's a mix of black and white shapes (bars, hearts, squares and diamonds of varying sizes) all in a clear base. I applied some over Barry M Shocking Pink.

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The shapes were a little difficult to pick up, but as you can see I managed (fishing out the hearts was also a bit hard, but that actually became a fun game) and as, I'd imagine, with all polishes of this type, there's a bit of placement involved.

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Looks lovely when you've finished though! I applied two coats of top coat to smooth it out.

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I also tried it out over Models Own Lime Green - 

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I think I might love it with green more than with pink! 

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Bonus bottle pic - 

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Overall I'm quite happy with my first experience with indie polish. Now I just need to try and get myself the elusive Floam. I'm never on time. :(