Good morning, Dear Reader!
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I've been up and around early swatching for you
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! I got the the BB Couture nail polishes that my friend L8B finally made me crack on, and I have a few of them here for you this morning. I have more colors to show you, but these are the sparkly ones and I was feeling sparkly
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this morning.
First up is Balboa Beach Bunny
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. It's an glittery purple nail polish that's opaque in two coats, and my only criticism is that the stringy bits of glitter stayed in the bottle rather than on my nails.
I forgot to take the first picture of this one...
Next up is Frosty Meadow, a green creme with lots of fine gold and green glitter
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. This one took three coats to be opaque.
Here's my NOTD, Midnight Malibu, a blurple creme nail polish with lots of fine green and gold glitter
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Moon over Manhattan is a blue creme base with very fine silver glitter
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. This was another three coater.
The last one for today is Sea of Cortez, which is a lighter and brighter blue base color with very fine but more pronounced gold and blue glitter
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, and it took two coats to be opaque.
On the bottles, it states that it's a "4-in-1 Formula," defined as a base coat, strengthener, color, and top coat. However, since my nails have stopped staining for the first time in 25 years and are now bulletproof
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, I still used Nubar Nu-Nails under my NOTD - I'm not taking any chances
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! Also, since I don't have the patience for nail polish to dry
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, I also used Nubar Diamont over my NOTD. Since BB Couture makes a seperate base coat, strengthener, and top coat, and the site that sells them (
Overall Beauty) recommends using a b/c and t/c for a mani, I don't know if it's the best idea to use the polish alone
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. If you've done it with success, let me know
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- I'm just not willing to jeopardize my stronger and stain-free nails by being the test subject for it
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On the topic of Nu-Nails, I've had some questions about where to get it in the UK
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, and I got an answer to that this morning
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. You can find it at
Beauty Shed, and it's well worth getting. My new nail shape is a result of it - normally, when my nails are this square, the corners break off right away, but they've been just fine
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. My typing's even worse than normal now, but my nails are finally a different shape
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That's what I have for you for now, Dear Reader. There are more BB Coutures, as well as the rest of my
sparkling*nails haul, to come soon
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. How does the creepy Burger King apply to that sentence, you might ask yourself? He doesn't. I just had to work him in somewhere. Him, Mr. T
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, and Freddie Mercury
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.Obviously, I'm not over this smiley phase yet...
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Have that that I will be soon - it takes forever to get all these smileys!
Just a reminder, it looks like today or tomorrow will be the that the hit counter on the bottom right hits 3,000,000
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. If you're the one who sees it, send me a screen shot and I'll send you a cool trinket to thank you for sticking with me for three million page views and just as many phases
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