Hard Candy Sky

So my troubles in pale blue paradise has me on an epic hunt for a pale blue with a good formula.  So after doing some blog research I decided I needed Essie Borrowed and Blue and Hard Candy Sky.  Right off the bat, I was SUPER excited about Sky, which has this awesome shimmer to it.  It like a bright blue flash.  Now while it is pronounced in the bottle, it's not so obvious on the nail.  I could see it in direct light, if I looked really really hard.

Hard Candy Sky is actually my very first Hard Candy nail polish, that I remember at least.  Now I know why everyone loves this so much!  It's just a gorgeous light blue, so pale and pretty.  I did need 3 coats, so while pigmentation isn't an all-star here, I really liked the formula.  it was smooth and easy to apply.  I probably could have done 2 if I had been more careful, but I've had so much on my plate lately I've been doing rush manis.  This polish totally makes me feel like sitting in a wildflower meadow and staring up at the sky to look at cloud shapes.  It's definitely a happy polish.

So I've got 3 pics for you.  The first is more true to color, but I looked like I had lobster hands! So I took another in the "dark box".  This got rid of the redness, but made the polish look more white.  The third one is just to show you the shimmer, which you can see in the bottle.

Hard Candy Sky

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Hard Candy Sky

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Shimmery Hard Candy Sky

I bought this puppy in a blog sale, but you can easily find Hard Candy polishes at your local Walmart for about $4. Not a bad deal at all for such a fun polish!  And apparently if you get it brand new, it comes with a fun plastic heart ring :).  I'm not a sucker for cheaper 80's style plastic jewelry at all....

Plastic pink sunglasses necklace, teal gel ring, turquoise plastic sunglasses!