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Happy Hands Metal Heart over Sinful Colors Scandal
Recently I've fallen in love with jellies and I'm certain it's because of Metal Heart. It's a beautiful raspberry jelly with black, satin pink and lavender, tiny holographic fuchsia/red, and purple iridescent glitters in varying shapes and sizes. Being a jelly, it is sheer, but easily build-able. I used two coats over Sinful Colors Scandal, a hot pink jelly, and was very happy with the result. It's perfect on its own or could also be layered over a solid color if you prefer a more opaque look. The formula was excellent and easy to work with, and smoothed out very nicely.
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Something that first drew me to Happy Hands' nail polish is that her polish colors and/or their names bear significance to something awesome. The first collection of hers I stumbled upon referenced the TV show "Arrested Development". Not only were the colors beautiful but they were about a hilarious and delightful tv show that I love, with names like "Banana Stand" and "Mayonegg" (her?). "Metal Heart" is a song by Cat Powers which I hadn't heard before seeing this collection, but it's very lovely. Even though I was unfamiliar with the song, I really enjoyed the imagery it conjured. Except, there is nothing cold or lifeless about this polish, it's truly vibrant and alive with color! So I imagined it being a kind of burning-hot metal heart; an incandescent love.
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Image courtesy of Wikipedia
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I'd also like to mention how impressed I was with the longevity of this polish! A day after I applied it my husband and I spent that weekend washing, polishing, scrubbing, vacuuming, and fully-detailing a buddy's car (in exchange for a nearly-new lawnmower, woohoo!). I wore dish gloves and cleaned for hooouurs! Metal Heart came through like a champ with only minimal tip wear and one tiny chip where a piece of glitter came loose. Amazing! I've never had a polish survive so well under that much stress. I can't say whether this is typical of all of her polishes but I'm very eager to try more of them.
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Happy Hands nail polishes can be found for sale in her Etsy store, on the Happy Hands website, and also through Harlow & Co.
I've wanted Banana Stand since she came out with it! What a great name! I'm biased ;)
ReplyDeleteAnother great post from Princess Miss Royal Doulton :D
There's always money in the banana stand! You *would* love the banana polish, huh? XD (I love it, too!)
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