July-August Mani Round-Up

Purchased By Shelby Lou 
Press Samples

I have come to the harsh realization I just don't have the time to really blog about nails and stay sane. Some of my supportive bloggy friends suggested I try still sharing manis (because I love sharing manis!) on instagram though and rounding them up in a monthly blog post. So here are my instagram manis from the end of July and August!

Pahlish Duo for June 2015: Through Tugley Wood

Very Good Advice topped with Mome Raths

Hare Polish - Dreams Under A Microscope 

 Baroness X - Maracaibo

"Girly Stuff"

Zoya Genesis, Nana, & Serenity

MoYou London Tropical 05

KBShimmer Dust In The Bottle

Darling Diva Polish Choking On Swan Gas

Daily Charme Bow Charm

Pahlish Duo for July 2015: Mirror Images

Such Great Heights topped with Freckles In Our Eyes

Check out a macro here!

Pahlish Quite Ribbiting

Check out a macro here!

Quite Ribbing topped with I Love Nail Polish Neon Rosebud

Check out a macro here!

Hare Polish Sea Bunny

Check out a macro here!

I hope you enjoyed this round-up! I have more fun with my polish when I actually get to wear it and don't have to be brilliant with words, too. This will be a monthly feature for a little while. I started blogging almost two years ago and I've had to rethink it a little, but I like the idea of having a permanent place to have my manis. I  Have you loved your cuticles today?

Hump Day HARE: Escape to Palm Springs

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

Super-fast post today--because I am tired and want to go to bed! Today's Hare Polish was an exclusive offered last summer. Escape to Palm Springs is a bright "periwinkle/cornflower" crelly with hot pink and orange glitters along with pale gold flakes and shimmer. I did three coats with no glitter issues and added some neon pink studs for good measure. I think it looks more indigo or blurple in real life. I tried color-correcting a couple photos so ignore my strangely-hued skintone!

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Hump Day HARE
Escape to Palm Springs
(lightbox)

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Hump Day HARE
Escape to Palm Springs
(with flash)

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Hump Day HARE
Escape to Palm Springs
(with flash)

EtPS is just an absolutely stunning color! On my computer screen the last picture looks the most color-accurate to me. Anyone need to put out an ISo now?

Have you loved your cuticles today?

Hump Day HARE: I'm Your National Anthem

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

Since Independence Day is fast approaching--it always seems to sneak up on me!--today's Hump Day Hare Polish is I'm Your National Anthem. IYNA is one of the LE Lana Del Ray polishes (see Pretty When I Cry here) and most recent release from my beloved indie.

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Hump Day Hare
Hare Polish - I'm Your National Anthem
(No flash)

IYNA is a red jelly with gold and blue flakes in metallic and satin finishes. There is a soft holographic shimmer, but I couldn't really see the holo aspect of it most of the time. I used three coats of this jelly, I was debating on a fourth but I didn't really have any VNL so I left it. I added some blue accent studs to bring out the blue flakes since they started to feel look purple to me.

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Hump Day Hare
Hare Polish - I'm Your National Anthem
(With flash)

I don't wear much red and I feel like I have a tough time photographing red polish. I wouldn't say this is a patriotic polish or even my favorite Hare, but it is a lovely red flakie jelly! Any Lana Del Ray fans have this on their lemming list?

Have you loved your cuticles today?

**Edited to Add on 7/4/15**

I decided to pop the studs off and stamp this mani with Vivid Lacquer 015 and Sinful Colors Gold Medal. I love this look more! I also shared this in my July 4th Stamping Saturday post.

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Hump Day Hare & Stamping Saturday

Hare Polish - I'm Your National Anthem
Vivid Lacquer 015 & Sinful Colors Gold Medal

(No flash)

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Hump Day Hare & Stamping Saturday

Hare Polish - I'm Your National Anthem
Vivid Lacquer 015 & Sinful Colors Gold Medal

(with flash)

HPB Presents: A Beachin' Hump Day HARE

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

Today's post is pulling double duty as both my link-up with the Hobby Polish Bloggers and my Hump Day HARE post! I feel like all I'm doing are beachy nails lately. Seriously, I have another post coming up which will prove it later this week. On to today's the nails!

Today's mani was to be beach-themed for the Hobby Polish Bloggers. I can't get enough teal and gold lately either, so I went with Hare Polish Cabin Fever Fenzy, a teal jeally filled with all kinds of metallic flakies and shimmer. I stamped it with MoYou London Sailor 05 and Essie Good As Gold. I love the Essie Mirror Metallics for stamping, I highly recommend grabbing them if you love to stamp.

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Hobby Polish Bloggers Presents: A Beachin' Hump Day HARE
Hare Polish Cabin Fever Fenzy
MoYou London Sailor 05 & Essie Good As Gold
without flash

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Hobby Polish Bloggers Presents: A Beachin' Hump Day HARE
Hare Polish Cabin Fever Fenzy
MoYou London Sailor 05 & Essie Good As Gold
with flash

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Hobby Polish Bloggers Presents: A Beachin' Hump Day HARE
Hare Polish Cabin Fever Fenzy
MoYou London Sailor 05 & Essie Good As Gold
with flash

Gah, Cabin Fever Frenzy is so squishy! I used three coats and resisted adding a fourth since I was stamping it anyway. Make sure you check out the other manis from the Hobby Polish Bloggers for our monthly link-up party!

Have you loved your cuticles today?

An InLinkz Link-up

Hump Day HARE: Pretty When I Cry

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

I am feeling so lazy about blogging lately! I have a vacation starting this Friday, hopefully I'll get some things done to share then. I've still got three spring Zoyas and twelve summer ones staring me down....

Today's Hump Day HARE is one of the newest ones called Pretty When I Cry, inspired by Lana Del Rey. This is part of a limited edition release and while they are sold out in the Etsy shop, I do believe some stockists will be receiving some.

Pretty When I Cry is described as "a sandy beige jelly with metallic silver flakes (that come off sort of golden) and iridescent blue mini flakes and shimmer." The shimmer is a bit hidden in most lights (and my swatches) but it is easy to catch the blue flash in the sun!

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Hump Day HARE
Hare Polish - Pretty When I Cry
without flash

Loving this gorgeous nude, might be one of my go-tos. I used four thin coats for full opacity, it does not feel thick on my nails at all. If you don't mind VNL two or three would be just fine. The flakes are magical and spread perfectly.

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Hump Day HARE
Hare Polish - Pretty When I Cry
with flash

I am so feeling nudes in the last year or so. Make sure you check out my instagram for a macro of this lovely, too! Will any of you be stalking this shade?

Have you loved your cuticles today?

Hump Day HARE: Mermaid Sighting in the GBR

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

I have such an awesome #HumpDayHARE to share today! This is Mermaid Sighting in the GBR. It's a mermaid jelly full of win! I'm short on time. Just drool at the pictures. I also have a macro of this polish on my instagram, if you are so inclined!

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Hump Day HARE
Hare Polish
Mermaid Sighting in the GBR
Without Flash

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Hump Day HARE
Hare Polish
Mermaid Sighting in the GBR
With Flash

Of course I had to add a few embellishments! Mermaid is from Daily Charme, I have no idea where all the other studs are from at this point. Probably Born Pretty Store. I think I should have studded half of my index and pinky--next time!

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Hump Day HARE
Hare Polish
Mermaid Sighting in the GBR
With Flash

I have legit been getting so many compliments at work on this polish this week. When muggles comment on your polish, you know it's awesome! Mermaid Sighting in the GBR is an exclusive to Femme Fatale. It cost me just under $38 (US) for the two Hare exclusives. I was also limited to only one each per customer (boo, I was going to mule some to friends!). I don't pretend that this is rational in any way. It was a total splurge for a brand I love to death. And also: exclusive. Haha!

Tell me your deepest, darkest splurge secrets! We all know you got 'em.

Products:
Hare Polish at Femme Fatale Cosmetics 

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Hump Day HARE: For the Love of Lisa

Purchased By Shelby Lou

Work is kicking my butt this week (but to be fair I have been working since Sunday) and my intern's last day at work is today--which makes me super sad because he is awesome. So I'm short on words today. I'm literally going to just say, look at the pretty polish! Today's HDH is Hare Polish For the Love of Lisa. This is part of the Jackalope series Nikole, the Hare brains, came up with for the lovely pretties she mixes but do not belong in any specific collection.

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Hare Polish
For the Love of Lisa

 

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Hare Polish 
For the Love of Lisa

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Hare Polish 
For the Love of Lisa

Can you tell I'm ready for summer? I wish I could capture more of the shimmery iridescent glitters, they really make this neon pink jelly fantastical! I still wish I had added a stud of some kind... I just can't stand a "plain" mani anymore hehe.

Have you loved your cuticles today?

Hump Day HARE: The Sky Was Pink

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

I kind of failed at nails last week. Oh I wore polish, but I was so busy with Spring cleaning and rearranging my house. I love a good Spring refresh! If you check out my facebook page you can see the new shelves I assembled for my dining room that I am absolutely in love with. My poor husband--I'm always rearranging everything on him which must be so disorienting. I also enjoy recycling years of magazines he didn't even look at when they initially came without telling him. I love him. Anyway, nails!

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Hare Polish
The Sky Was Pink

I am wearing an oldie but goodie: Hare Polish The Sky Was Pink. This is such a bold polish! This was from a 2012 called Where's Summer, B? It is a bright pink jelly with tons of cobalt and periwinkle glitters along with fuchsia microglitter.

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Hare Polish
The Sky Was Pink

Despite being 3 years old and sinking glitter, just shake it up and the glitters spread effortlessly. I used three thin coats in my swatch. And since I can't not add things to my manis, I added some bright blue striping tape that matched the glitters.

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Hare Polish
The Sky Was Pink

I used to wear this kind of polish--bright and glittery--all the time. While I have become more sophisticated in my tastes and had to tone it down for work, I still cherish my first crush. Afterglow and Heat Plague are other classics from this collection that still have my heart! 

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Hare Polish
The Sky Was Pink

What are some of your first polish loves? I am slightly concerned about wearing this to work on Wednesday, I think I need to take off the striping tape at least, boo. I swear though the old ladies I end up talking to love the colors I wear on my nails, they always have to tell me haha!

Have you loved your cuticles today?

Hump Day HARE: Name Unavailable: Trademarked

Purchased By Shelby Lou

It's that time again, my friends, to celebrate the glory of Hare Polish. This is one of the newest Jackalopes called Name Unavailable: Trademarked. It is a perfectly dusty periwinkle blue crelly with metallic silver flakes. My photos are not picking up the dustiness and are making it brighter than it is in real life. But it is all kinds of amazing. So simple but I can't stop staring at my nails! I couldn't not add some studs though...

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Hare Polish--Name Unavailable: Trademarked

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Hare Polish--Name Unavailable: Trademarked

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Hare Polish--Name Unavailable: Trademarked

A new Spring collection was just released by Hare, too! I keep telling myself I need to stop buying ALL of them but I end up grabbing them all at the last second... maybe I'll end up destahing eventually. Or, you know, some future polish addict will hit the mother-load when they see the melmers at my estate sale.

Have you loved your cuticles today?

Hump Day HARE: Ghostwood National Forest

Purchased By Shelby Lou

I am annoyed by many things this week. I just found out that I need to renew my social worker license before the end of this month--almost a year sooner than I should have to--due to some new changes made by the licensing board. I am beyond annoyed. Not only am I basically get cheated out of money by having to renew sooner (I hate the government), I also have to shell out for a continuing education class. All unplanned expenses this month. Guess I can't buy the new Super Chic Lacquers after all, boo.

And then I got a papercut right by my cuticle on my middle finger swatch-hand. Really?! I covered it up though, I wouldn't subject you guys to that haha.

Today's Hump Day HARE is Ghostwood National Forest, one of the newest additions to the Welcome To Twin Peaks series. I was pretty sure I would dislike this, but it was the only green I had untried of my Hares. Ghostwood is a very dark olive green jelly with gunmetal glitters in dots, hexes, and squares, gold and gunmetal flakes, and purple shimmer.

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HARE polish Ghostwood National Forest
Accent of Essie Nothing Else Metals
Without Flash

My swatch shows three thin coats. In some lights this polish looks black, in brighter lights it is definitely dark green. The gunmetal dots took on a super-pale lavender hue to me, so I did some edgy triangles with Essie Nothing Else Metals. I used regular old scotch tape for those--much easier than striping tape! I must have been inhaling too many fumes though because I forgot how smooth of a surface one-coat metallics need--oops. It still looks better than those China Glaze Crinkled Chromes though haha!

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HARE polish Ghostwood National Forest
Accent of Essie Nothing Else Metals
With Flash

You can check out the macro I posted on my instagram to get a better look at all the goodies inside this polish. I like this much more than I thought I would, but it is much darker than anything I've worn in awhile. I'm not pumped about this mani, it leaves me feeling a little meh.

Would you rock this super-dark polish? Do the Crinkled Chromes still give you nightmares? I'm sorry if I retraumatized you.

Products:
Hare Polish

Have you loved your cuticles today?

Hump Day HARE: Cotton Candy Crush

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

Today is an extra crummy hump day for me. Not only was work a really tough day on Tuesday (left late and completely drained me of all emotional energy, ugh), when I got home technology wasn't working AND our water was broken. I pretty much decided to quit life and had a glass of wine last night (I rarely drink alcohol, so that ish was serious). I wasn't even motivated to retake some washed out mani photos for today. Blah. Okay, I'm done whining.

Today's Hare is an exclusive polish called Cotton Candy Crush. It is a dusty lilac jelly with pale pink satin and bright blue matte glitters along with some gold flakies and shimmer. This is so deliciously sweet! I did three thin coats, glorious formula as always. I used two thick coats of KBShimmer Clearly On Top for a glassy finish. Usually I show a photo without flash... but I didn't like any of them so here's two.

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Hare Polish Cotton Candy Crush

For my accent nail I kind of just didn't know when to stop adding polishes. I started with a powder blue base (Sinful Colors Sugar Rush). Then I added a Nail Nation 3000 blue-tinted holo topcoat. Not quite happy with that, I decided to stamp some purple clouds using Nailz Craze 03 and SquareHue Groovy Love. I felt like it didn't "go" enough with Cotton Candy Crush though, so I added a coat of OPI Be Magentable With Me, a pink tint which made it the perfect shade. Then I cut myself off haha! Hope everyone else's week is going better than mine.

Have you loved your cuticles today?

Hump Day HARE: My Log Has Something To Tell You

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

I believe that Hell hath frozen over in my neck of the woods. Yesterday I woke up to a temperature of -6. Fahrenheit. I am not amused. The worst part is slogging through so much snow whenever I leave the house. I can't even imagine how our homeless population is handling it, we've had a few frostbite cases come in over the extra-cold weekend. Ok, I'll stop whining now. But seriously I am so over winter.

Today's Hump Day HARE is My Log Has Something To Tell You from Part 2 of the Welcome To Twin Peaks Collection released for Winter 2014. Not gonna lie, I wasn't super excited with this one when I first saw it, but the metallic flakes in that gray jelly just got to me. The flakes are gold, silver, blue, and reddish-copper. I quite like the primary colors and it feels like such a cozy color, does that make sense?

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Hump Day HARE
Hare Polish My Log Has Something To Tell You
MoYou London Fashionista 04
Rica Blackout

I couldn't leave well enough alone, so I stamped this graphic arrow pattern from MoYou London Fashionista 04 with Rica Blackout. I think this will definitely make a reappearance, I love this pattern! I am addicted to that whole MoYou Fashionista line and of course Rica makes me fav stamping polishes.

How's the winter treating your town? No bragging if your average temp is above 10 degrees! :-P
What do you think of this week's edition of HDH?

Products:
Hare Polish
MoYou London
Rica on Etsy

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Hump Day HARE: Hare Polish King of Carat Flowers

Purchased By Shelby Lou

Hey guys! I had such good intentions to get some swatching done this weekend but all I did was go to a Fleetwood Mac concert Saturday night--say what! I grew up listening to Fleetwood Mac since my parents were fans and have always loved them, especially my Stevie. My husband got me and his mom tickets for Christmas, which totally blew us away. I think this is essentially their last tour--they are pushing 70 now but they still rock it out like nobody's business. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience I will never forget. Thank you, hubby <3

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Hare Polish King Of Carat Flowers
Valentine-Spring Skittle

Okay, enough fan-girling, on to Hump Day HARE! I have been wanting to wear King of Carat Flowers ever since @swatchbucket, one of my nail buddies, posted this swatch on her instagram. I decided I needed something a little Spring-y since winter is really getting to me at this point. So a heart makes it Valentine's-y, too, right?

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Hare Polish
King of Carat Flowers Skittle (without flash)

Hare Polish King of Carat Flowers is a gray crelly with yellow, gold, and light purple glitters along with some magical blue shimmer Hare is famous for. I quite like how this skittle turned out! Usually I stay away from purple and gold since they were my grade-school's colors, but those usually ended up a weird royal purple and mustard... clearly these shades are much more lovely together.

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Hare Polish King of Carat Flowers (without flash)

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Hare Polish King of Carat Flowers (with flash)

Thumb, index, middle: Two coats Hare Polish King of Carat Flowers, two coats of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.
Ring: Two coats SquareHue Groovy Love (04/13), heart free-handed using Revlon Brilliant Strength Hypnotize and a teeny detail brush, all sealed with KBShimmer Clearly On Top.
Pinky: Three thin coats of Nicole by OPI Carried Away (texture)

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Hare Polish
King of Carat Flowers Skittle (with flash)

It is entirely possible I smashed too many themes into this mani. I still consider my nails to be in rehab at this point, but they are passable. This Hare is one that is periodically restocked, make sure you follow Hare for restock updates!

Products:
Hare Polish
SquareHue
KBShimmer

Have you loved your cuticles today?

Hump Day HARE: A Surreal New Year

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

So tonight I am taking my pistol course with my husband, woo! My grandfather and my aunt used to be professional target shooters (they used to walk their guns across the bridge to Canada for competitions, can you imagine?!) so this is something I've always wanted to do. My husband has to have his permit for work now, so it's time. I am going to need a latte the size of my head to get through the evening class though--just like old times for night classes in college haha!

I am super-excited for today's edition of Hump Day HARE because they have metallic flakies! I know a ton of indies have been coming out with them, but these are in beautiful shades of delicate jellies (wipes drool from mouth). This year Hare released a trio for New Year's entitled A Surreal New Year. All of these beauties are based on famous works of Salvador Dali and they come with a limited edition gold bunny label!

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Hare Polish Rosa Meditativa
New Year's 2015: A Surreal New Year
Charm from Hex Nail Jewelry

Rosa Meditativa is a mauve jelly with assorted ultra chrome flakies. On Hare Polish's website it looks more rosy, but mine definitely looks more purple in my photos and it did so in real life. I haven't thought to contact Nikole about it before now--oops. Either way, I like it! Imagine all the beautiful metallic flashes with every hand motion in person.

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Hare Polish When the Melting Clock Strikes Midnight
New Year's 2015: A Surreal New Year
Charm from Hex Nail Jewelry

When the Melting Clock Strikes Midnight is a white jelly with ultra chrome flakies, gold flakes, and iridescent gold glitter as well as purple shimmer. Ahmahgahd! I can't even. Image this making you pant, it's that much more beautiful in person. I think this is going to be my new go-to neutral!

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Hare Polish Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening on New Years
New Year's 2015: A Surreal New Year
Charm from Hex Nail Jewelry

Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second before Awakening on New Years. Yup, that is indeed the name of the polish and the famous work! Dream, as we shall call it, is a smokey blue-toned purple jelly filled with all colors of ultra chrome flakies. I was especially delighted to see this polish because not only does it make my heart race, it is based on one of my favorite Dali pieces. I wanna stamp it...

The jelly formula on all three of these polishes is perfect. I did three to four thin coats in all of my swatches, no pooling or uneven application. All of the charms are from Hex Nail Jewelry, I thought they fit the collection well. So tell me what you think of the metallic flakies in jelly!

Products:
Hare Polish
Hex Nail Jewelry

Have you loved your cuticles today?

Hump Day HARE: Reverie In Rubellite

Purchased By Shelby Lou

Thanksgiving is tomorrow, that time for Americans to reflect on what they have and are grateful for while they gather and feast with family and friends. Unfortunately there is this horrifying trend of stores now being open AT DINNERTIME for Thanksgiving. My husband has to be at work at 5pm. So now I am officially doing nothing for Thanksgiving, except for maybe my nails, and celebrating Saturday instead. I don't even have words to describe how disgusted I am. I'm as good an American consumer as the next, but really? There is now officially nothing sacred. One day. One day a year for people to count on to be able to be with their families. I understand some types of people must be available (I've worked many a holiday as an essential mental health service provider and am volunteering that morning) but that is a voluntary sacrifice. Retail is just not that important. I beg everyone to please stay home on Thanksgiving and made it an unprofitable day for big business! Okay, #endrant.

Here is my HARE mani of the week and what will also be my Thanksgiving mani: Hare Polish Reverie In Rubellite. The base is a pink-leaning violet-ish red jelly with orange metallic glitters and shimmer. I wanted this color to be really deep and intense so I layered it over OPI Kiss Me--Or Elf! (Yeah, I kept saying I wasn't going to buy any of the OPI Gwen Holiday shades but then Ulta had a 2 for $16 sale... and I bought 6).

Hump Day HARE
Hare Polish - Reverie In Rubellite
Shown over OPI Kiss Me--Or Elf!

I have the newer formulation of RIR and it is a glorious jelly. I didn't do any dabbing for this glitter, just slapped it right on. I added a lil gold rectangle stud and two coats of KBShimmer Clearly On Top. I could get lost in this polish! The orange glitter just does it for me, I haven't seen anything else quite like it.

To all the Americans out there, have a wonderful holiday and please celebrate it at home with family and friends if you can. Happy Thanksgiving!

Products:
HARE polish

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Hump Day HARE: 11th Dimension Interloper

Purchased By Shelby Lou

So today is going to be a quick post! Literally 10 miles from my house is a raging lake-effect snowstorm that has buried the towns south of Buffalo in 3, 4, even 6 feet of snow! My parents are officially snowed into their home 30 miles from me. Check out this picture I shared on instagram of the storm system from the 12th floor of my workplace looking right towards downtown Buffalo on Lake Erie, A State of Emergency has officially been declared by the state and counties in my area. I have no idea what I am going to wake up to!

I have been wearing today's Hump Day Hare all week. 11th Dimension Interloper is "a neon magenta jelly with a mix of beautiful golden iridescent hexes, blue iridescent squares, gold+blue+charcoal flakies and bright blue shimmer!" I used four coats--I know, but flakies!--and two thick coats of topcoat. The squares are from Daily Charme.

Hare Polish
11th Dimension Interloper

What is it with me a purples lately? 11th Dimension Interloper is part of this year's Fall/Winter Interstellar Invasion collection. I'm wondering there will be a special holiday duo or some such excitingness?!

Products:
Daily Charme
Hare Polish

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Hump Day HARE: Dead Man's Bones

Purchased By Shelby Lou

Today is an exciting day for me! I start my training for the Red Cross disaster response team. It's like going back to school haha! In my area this means mostly responding to house fires, but also other traumas or events which affect the community. I've wanted to do this forever but a recent tradgedy in my community gave me the push I needed. My father was at the small local airport he is a part of the day Young Eagles were going on flights. There was a terrible accident and one of the pilots and his 15 year old passenger were killed. This has only ever happened twice in the history of the program. It was absolutely devastating and my dad said it was horrible to see all the kids and families learning about the accident when the plane had not returned. The Red Cross responded with support for the community and with my license I can provide that "psychological first aid." I love this type of work and can't wait to get out there!

Okay on to the lighter content (sorry, guys!). Today I have Hare Polish Dead Man's Bones, a gray jelly with black matte microglitters and white satin glitters. The jelly is really sheer so I layered two thin coats over KBShimmer My Life's Porpoise. I needed it more opaque to go with my accent nail inspired by the color palette--a water marble decal!

Hare Polish - Dead Man's Bones
shown over KBShimmer My Life's Porpoise

Is it watermarble or water  marble? I don't know. I also can't remember who suggested this first, please tell me in your comments who it might have been! Now there are so many and google is just giving me nonsense now. I like to take nail art slow so I spent a few days just playing with polish and making the marbles. It was ridiculous amounts of fun. I tested the polishes I wanted to use first and then just laid the dry circles on a paper towel to air dry. For this marble I used China Glaze Liquid Leather and Maybelline Bare Escape. I streaked my decal a little while top-coating but all in all I am pleased! Water marbling is now attainable for the masses. Also: WATER MARBLE ALL THE THINGS. Who is with me?!

Make sure you enter my giveaway still happening until November 1st. Send a friend over to check it out! You can enter via rafflecopter here.

Oh, and today is the launch of a new Hare Polish collection! Holy carp, too much excitement for one day. You know I'm buying them all.

Products:
Hare Polish
KBShimmer

Have you loved your cuticles today?