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Saturday, February 16, 2013

If Nails Make You Happy ORIGINAL Nail Polish Swatches!

It's finally here! The very first collection of If Nails Make You Happy nail polish, created and hand-mixed by yours truly!

The "A Plus!" collection is, as you in all your brilliant cleverness may be able to deduce, high school-themed! It includes three jelly-based polishes (Midnight Cram Session, "Study Date", The Pride) and one glitter topcoat (Multiple-Choice Question).  Check out my swatches of each below!





First up is Midnight Cram Session, a black jelly polish with large coppery-gold hexes and holographic silver micro-glitter (check out the third picture for the best holo effect). Midnight Cram Session is opaque in three coats (as shown on the index, middle, and pinky fingers) and also looks great layered as one coat over black (ring finger)!






This is "Study Date", a shimmery pink jelly with two sizes of white hex glitter, small red squares, and large pink hearts. "Study Date" is almost opaque at two coats, but if you're OCD and absolutely hate having a visible nail line, three coats will do the trick. Because the hearts are so big, they might need a little fishing out if you want to get more than one or two on each nail.




Here's The Pride, a blue jelly with two sizes of white hex glitter, navy bar glitter, and holographic silver micro-glitter. The color scheme actually comes from my high school, but don't worry - it looks great even if you're not a Wildcat! Shown here are three thick coats on the index and middle fingers, and three thinner coats on the ring and pinky fingers.





Lastly, I have Multiple-Choice Question, a black and white glitter topper. Here I have one coat of Multiple-Choice Question layered over a light blue creme. Personally, I like Multiple-Choice Question best over bolder colors, but it looks great on lighter or more whited-out colors, too!

The nail polish base I use is 3-free, meaning it has NO toluene, formaldehyde, or DBP. Use all If Nails Make You Happy polishes without fear of toxins!

All four polishes will be available in full-sized bottles (0.5 fl oz, $7.50) and mini bottles (0.125 fl oz, $4.00) on my Etsy shop starting on February 18th.

Stay happy!

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