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Review: Pretty & Polished Hearts & Daggers & Ampersands

I hope there are some of you out there that understand the torture of ordering polishes off the internet and then "having" to go on vacation before they get there.  Pretty and Polished released a few new polishes before I left for Australia and of course I had to order them, mostly because of the number of them that had matte glitter.  Oh how I love matte glitter.  Let's take a look at the stand out for the bunch, Hearts & Daggers.

Hearts & Daggers is a clear polish packed with black and white hexes, diamonds and bar glitter and large red hearts.  I had the hardest time choosing what this should go over.  I'd normally choose a blue or yellow but nothing seemed to go quite right with the red hearts.  So of course I settled on fuchsia.  That goes well with red, right?  So to start with, two coats of American Apparel Neon Purple.  Then two coats of Hearts & Daggers.  As is often the problem with these thick glitters, it took everything in my arsenal to get it to dry.  For the record, a combination of Seche Vite, drying drops and not reaching into drawers helps.  







The Verdict:  Love the huge glitter choices in this polish, like the addition of the red hearts to mix it up.  Keep it up!

Also, hang in there index finger, thumb will be better soon :(
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