Another collectable vintage brand is Hard Candy, first produced in 1995. I have a couple of first edition Hard Candy polishes and one from the second edition when they changed the bottle shape to be rectangular.
Hard Candy were all about unusual colours (for the time), the free rubber ring with every bottle and provocative advertising. Again Pretty Random has a great reference guide if you want to see more.
The very secret shimmer
I *think* this is Violet. As you can see my bottle is pretty worn and has no labels left at all so I am guessing the name based on peering at some old shade pics on the internet!
I do have the ring that goes with this, or to be more accurate, I have a selection of rings that might match this! Somehow I have 4 rings but only 2 polishes!
And unfortunately this polish is not a win from me. Pastel cremes are notorious for being tricky and this one certainly lives up to that. You can see in the swatch photos that it really didn't self level and looks very uneven. I even added top coat but it didn't help much.
Swatches are 2 coats with top coat.
The bottle close up in the sun shows a pretty secret shimmer but I couldn't spot a hint of it on the nail.
So this will always have a place in my stash for its originality and rarity but not a lot of love....
The secret shimmer is really pretty!
ReplyDeleteI wish secret shimmers would translate to the nail... I have 3 rings but only one polish... It's like some kind of conspiracy!
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