Hare Polish Teen Queen

Happy Sunday everyone! Hope you've all had a lovely weekend, it just goes too fast doesn't it?!

Well, today I have a polish I've been meaning to show you for a couple of weeks, it's from the new Hare collection and it's called Teen Queen. As you may know, I love Hare Polish and I knew there were a few from the newest collection I needed, I did debate this one as I'm trying to stay away from clear based glitters but I had a baby shower coming up and thought it would be perfect!

Hare Teen Queen is a neon blue glitter and satin baby pink hex and square glitter in several sizes. It's also got a generous amount of blue shimmer and a clear base.

My friend Sarah's baby is due on the 25th May and she doesn't know if she's having a boy or a girl so I decided to do skittles with Barry M Baby Pink and Blue Moon topped with a generous coat of Hare Teen Queen, one coat of Gelous and a coat of HK Girl. The formula was great, as always with Hare.

I really liked this mani, it was perfect for the occasion!

Look at this cute huge cupcake, we were all on a sugar high!

All the girls:

Good luck Sarah!
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Hare Supernova Springs

Wow, thank you all for the views on yesterday's post and hello to my new readers!

Hope you are all having a nice weekend and your weather is not as bad as mine, we have snow! I thought it was supposed to be spring.... oh well.

Today I have one of my favourite indies to show you, Hare Polish. I got into Hare quite late in the day when I got this one in a grab bag from Llarowe, I've since bought quite a few Hare's and this one sat in the drawer unloved so I thought it's time it had it's day.

Hare Supernova Springs is from the Planet Springtime and is described as emerald glitters in a dark jelly base. I think the base is actually almost a very dark dusty purple colour but it is quite difficult to see in the photo's here. The glitters in this really sparkle to make a really quite pretty polish.

For this swatch I used 3 coats of Supernova Springs on it's own. The formula was great and it wasn't overly gritty, in fact one coat of HK Girl topcoat smoothed everything out.

If you want to check out Hare polish you can find them at Llarowe here and Hare Polish's own Etsy store here. They also have a blog where you can see the collection and restock information here.

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Hare Swanky Soiree

Happy Sunday everyone! I have been having such a nice and lazy day today. I finally got a table for my lights and light box and set up my new Helmer. It's going to have all my OPI's in it so I just have to sort through them all. I'll be posting pictures of my set up when I get it all organised.

So, over the last week I've been doing the Pure Nail and Cuticle Oil challenge so have only had my nails painted since Friday, I'll be showing you what I chose for the weekend later this week.....

Today I have Hare Swanky Soiree. I wore this a few weeks ago and absolutely loved it. I picked this up in a duo with Holiday Hoopla ages ago from a Hare Polish Etsy restock and it's taken me a while to get around to wearing it.

Swanky Soiree is medium grey jelly with a mixture of red hexes and squares in several sizes, gunmetal squares and hexes and silver shimmer. I never know if these colours of polish will suit me but I'm always surprised when they do!

For this mani I used 3 coats of Swanky Soiree and a coat of HK Girl topcoat. It has a really pretty secret shimmer. The formula was slightly thick, as would be expected with a jelly glitter but it was pretty easy to work with.

This polish is currently solf out on Llarowe but I think she's restocking Hare soon so keep your eyes peeled.

I'll be getting up at 4am tonight for the Enchanted Polish restock...... wish me luck!

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Hare Medusa Luminosa Snow Flakes

Happy weekend! Don't you just love the weekend?!

It's very cold here today and we are expecting snow tomorrow so I thought I'd post a mani which has been sitting in the file since before Christmas. It's not my favourite but it's good enough to get a mention I think....

When Hare's Illuminated Life collection came out I absolutely adored it. I knew I wanted them all and the only one I managed to pick up at first was Medusa Luminosa. As per Hare's description this polish was 'named for the Pelagia noctiluca jelly fish, aka "the sea's light in the night," aka the Mauve Stinger... aka Medusa Luminosa (in Italian). Bioluminescent light is given off by the Medusa Luminosa in flashes as it is stimulated by turbulence in the water." What a beautiful description and how enchanting!

Medusa Luminosa is described as a bright purple jelly with gold glass flecks, pink microglitter and glowing blue hexes. In short it is beautiful and it really glows.

For this mani I wore it alone and attempted to use 3 thin coats and there is when we ran into trouble...... I couldn't do thin coats because this stuff is thick. I mean really thick. By the 2nd coat I had already added about 10 drops of thinner. I don't say this often but I hated working with this polish so much I ended up hating the result and I promptly took the other 3 off my wishlist.

Now, I hear you ask was it a defective bottle? Possibly yes, however I have heard others say a similar thing. I didn't chase it up with Hare and maybe I should have as it is such a beautiful polish. When I look at these photo's I am reminded of that sticky, glue like formula because I can see that I couldn't get as close to the cuticles as normal. I also hate my nubs in this photo too, and it was before my light box, I remember I literally ran outside in my lunchbreak and stood in the freezing cold to take these pictures with people looking at me like I was a total weirdo. Oh, how I'm glad those days are over!

Anyway, if you are happy to work with a very tricky formula in order to get beauty then this may be the polish for you, it really is beautiful.

After a day of this mani I decided to practise my stamping and I was willing it to snow so I had to use BM plate 323. I am still in the very early learning curve with stamping and to get better at it is one of my main mani goals of the year. I used Barry M Silver foil for this stamping and I think it came out ok.

 

 

 

 

 I used the BM 323 plate for the snowflakes: 

 

I chose to post this mani today for another reason too. I have been practising my stamping on an old mani today and I had a revelation, this is my XL stamper:

 

I bought it because my nails are very curvy which seems to make me have to press extra hard when stamping the images, hence I usually end up with blurred images. This XL stamper is supposed to be more squishy and soft to counteract that problem. When I received it it looked like it does above and I've been using it but not found it much help because it is so far deep into the plastic casing. Well, I can't believe I'm so dumb! I saw a post yesterday on Adventures in Stamping about this very subject and apparently you can pull the rubber stamping bit out and fit a washer under it to prevent it from being pushed inside. Who knew it wasn't supposed to be like that! Here it what it is supposed to look like:

 

 



I haven't fitted the washer yet but it worked so much better just being pulled out, of course!!!! Duhhhh. My other revelation of the day is to use lint free wipes to clean the stamper and mistakes on my nails, I usually end up with bits of cotton wool stuck to my fingers and in my polish. How lovely! Well, baby steps it is for me with stamping, but I think those 2 things will help me so much more.  There'll be no stopping me now!

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Hare Polish Bisbee

I know I am late with this...... I was lucky enough to score it from Llarowe what seems like ages ago, I'm sure it was before my wedding in October. But alas it sat in my untried waiting to be used. I thought it was quite Christmassy so out it came!

For this mani I used 2 coats of Hare Bisbee and a coat of HK Girl Topcoat. The formula on this was great, very smooth and easy to apply. I did find within a day I got 2 chips which never normally happens, I'm not quite sure why but I think at least one of them was akward placement of a larger glitter.

Interestingly although this is a jelly I didn't get any shrinkage like I did with the Emily De Molly yesterday. I guess maybe Emily isn't HK Girl's favourire polish.

I've started thinking about my favourire polishes of the year so I may do a post on that, I've been really enjoying seeing what everyone else has picked. I'm also working on my NY Resolutions, not long to go now.........

Until tomorrow, enjoy!

Look at all that glitter goodness!

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Hare Dead Man's Bones - Movember Mani

I know Movember is now officially over.... Yay!!! but I have a Movember mani to show you in support of my lovely husband who grew a tashe for the cause.

 

For this mani I used Hare's Dead Man's Bones which I was lucky enough to grab about a month ago when Nikole opened a small sale on Etsy. To be honest I wasn't sure I was going to like it, I just bought it because I thought I should, when it arrived I thought I'd put it up for sale, I'm so glad I didn't. Sometimes grey and other light coloured polish just doesn't suit me as I'm pale but this one is gorgeous, underwhelming in the bottle but great on the nail.

 

For the moustashes I used a tutorial from cute polish which you can find here. The grey glitter even reminds me of stubble!

 

I hope you like them!

 



 

Here's my 2 boys (lazy cat!), look at that moustashe!! What a good effort!

 

Hare Dog Day Dream

Let me just tell you, I have one absolutely stunning polish for you today. I wore this over the weekend and had so many compliments and just couldn't stop staring at my nails!

This is Hare Polish 'Dog Day Dream'. I bought this kind of on a whim, it's the first Hare I've chosen (I got one in a grab bag) and I was curious about it. I'm SO glad I picked this one up. Hare Dog Day Dream is a cranberry red jelly base loaded with lots of different red and purple glitters. For some unknown reason I was expecting it to be more matte but it is super sparkly without being a glitterbomb overload!

I wanted to wear it on it's own to get a feeling of the true polish, this was 3 coats but I could have got away with 2. Despite there being so much glitter the polish dried really smooth and I only used one layer of topcoat.  I wore this for 3 days and there was not a hint of wear.

I've already ordered 'The Sky Was Pink', 'Monster' and 'Bisbee' and I can't wait to get them. I think I may have found a new favourite polish brand........

These were taken on a sunny day in the shade - it almost looks even more pretty doesn't it?!

In the shade:

Look at the bunny, how did I miss this brand for so long??!!