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All White Everything

June 21, 2011

Happy first day of summer! To celebrate, we’re attending our first Diddy-style (aka Puffy aka Diddy Dirty Money) White Party this weekend. When our friends mentioned they wanted to throw a two-house party down the shore, we, along with most of the women in our group, started calling it the White Party (in honor of [...]

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A New Neutral

March 23, 2011

A great neutral nail polish is tough to find. As much as I love the Essie pink classics – Mademoiselle, Ballet Slippers, Sugar Daddy – they can be a bit boring and sometimes too bridal. Every once in a while, a girl needs something a little more interesting than the same old blah colors to [...]

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Brighten Up

July 23, 2010

HCG cherishes our summer manicure/pedicure sessions, and these recently released Chanel nail polish colors will surely be added to our stable of favorites.  Nouvelle Vague, a shimmery soft turquoise, reminds us of Chanel Jade – the fall 2009 limited edition green we obsessed over last year.  We can easily envision ourselves wearing this sea [...]

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Minks in March

March 1, 2010

Admission: I’m a little late to the party with my love for this polish.  I’m also a little late to the whole Twilight saga, which I just started reading a month ago after a few years of resistance.
I’ve admired Essie’s Mink Muffs polish on friends and strangers countless times and finally got around to getting [...]

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Vampin’ Around the Christmas Tree

December 23, 2009

Only two days until Christmas and so much left to do – wrapping, baking, cleaning, catching up on MTV’s new series “Teen Mom” (a spinoff of the addictive “16 and Pregnant”) – the pressure is almost too much to handle.  Getting a manicure tops HCG’s pre-holiday to do list.  Today I was able to sneak [...]

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Hop To It

October 27, 2009

I got this color on a whim while getting a manicure the other day, and I’m loving it.  Even though the name, “Island Hopping”, is markedly not fall-like, the color is perfect for cooler weather.  For some unknown reason, I put a lot of stock in the names of a nail polish colors (I just [...]

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