Deborah Lippmann Candy Shop Dupe from Rue 21!

Rue21 has a polish that I think is pretty close to Deborah Lippmann Candy Shop. It is color #050 Rue Beauté! Nail Deco and you can find it at their website here listed as Trans Chunky Glitter in purple. It is lovely in person and much much closer to a light pink than light purple. And Rue21 has them on sale 2 for $5 :) I don't have the Deborah Lippmann version of Candy Shop so I'll compare it to Claire's as a duplicate. Dupe of a dupe!.

The glitter pieces are practically identical and if anything, Claire's version is a bit more dense in the glitter department. The combination of orange, yellow, and light blue glitters I haven't seen in other rainbow glitter mixes are there in both yay! The pink base of Candy Shop is like HOT PINK IN YO FACE now to me and #050 is a milky, light pinkish purple. Wanna see some comparison swatches?

#050 showed up as a nice sheer pink and the formula was easy to work with and not gloppy at all. Thinner than the polish from Claire's but still had great glitter dispersion.

In the sunshine, Candy Shop looks so crazy bright! I've layered it over darker polishes like navy blue before and didn't notice it changing the other polish even with it's crazy brightness :)

Coral Sparkle French Manicure

Matching my manicure to my purse :) My Mom gave me a new Vera Bradley tote in Plum Crazy and I love the jewel tones in the fabric. I thought the coral in the pattern went pretty closely with my current favorite polish Rimmel London Sunset Orange. I recently bought Wet 'n Wild Megalast Heatwave on clearance and with an additional coupon for 66 cents! Woot! I thought it would be a good duplicate for Sunset Orange - it is pretty close in color, almost as sheer, but is definitely a darker coral orange with leaning more towards red.

This manicure is one coat of Heatwave, topped with one coat of Sunset Orange, and tipped with 9.0.2.1. Orange (also procured with same super sale at 66 cents). Now I have shimmery tips with gold and orange in it at the same time. The visible nail line helped me paint on the french tips without needing a nail guide.

I have a nail patch made of teabag on my right thumb, so I did a reverse manicure and covered up the bit of teabag you could still see with a ton of sparkle.

Kinda Sorta Stacked Stripes

I was trying to do a mardi gras themed version of Chalkboard Nails Springtime Stacked Stripes and it started to look like animal eyeballs on my nails. My nails....they are looking at youuuuuu. *waggles fingers*

It devolved into me doing some fishtail stripes here and there and then calling it done. I wore them for two days and have decided they are a Moderate Nail Fail. They are okay...but not anything I'm proud of. Basecoat is Wet 'n Wild The Wonder Yellows, green stripe is China Glaze Cha Cha Cha, and purple stripe is Wet 'n Wild Eggplant Frost. The green was too sheer to show up how I wanted it.

Sage & Gold Abstract Nails

This weekend, I painted my nails Wet 'n Wild Sage in the City and wore them around for a day just plain green. The next morning I took my gold nail art paint and just scrubbed it around on my nails randomly to make abstract swirly patterns. The right hand here is kinda blobbity.

The left hand here turned out much cooler. I love the symbol looking swirly on my thumb. Some of them look kinda ribbony too.

fishtail braid nails

Hey all! For this week's nails, I followed a tutorial at swatchandlearn.com. It looks really complicated, but was surprisingly easy!

Colors used: Sephora by OPI "Opening Night" (dark blue), OPI "Danke-shiny Red" and Revlon Top Speed "Golden" I do recommend letting each stripe of polish dry completely before moving to the next stripe... I didn't, and my nails took ALL DAY to dry.

This was very fun, and you could do so many color combinations that the possibilities are endless! Neons for summer, glitters mixed with flats as in the tutorial... just so many choices! I will definitely try this again.

Zapow!

This tape manicure was done on Jan. 5th this year. A lighting bolt french manicure from a tutorial at nailside.blogspot.com :) I used Wet n Wild Blue Moon for the base and China Glaze Ruby Pumps and China Glaze Glistening Snow for the tips. Oh Ruby Pumps, you are one of the best polishes ever!

Manicure link - tinyurl.com/aeekvdd

Shiny Manicure on a Sunny Day

China Glaze Unpredictable is the shimmery green base coat, then Wet n Wild Bijou Blue and Sinful Gold Nail Art for the...well nail art designs. And some NYC top coat to see if it doesn't peel like the Seche Vite had peeled badly recently.