Metaphors aside, I stamped a golden konad design over China Glaze Pink-Rox-E, a wonderful color, chock-full of gold shimmer. The thing is, I really like konad plate # m57, a fishnet design in particular; but I was too chicken to use it ("fishnets are vulgar yada-yada" - mommy issues all over again). Something subtle seemed like my best bet.
Finger Paints Gift of Gold for the fishnets. Viola! (don't forget to click on the pic to enlarge it)
It's a bit Legally Blond-ysh, but I like it and plan to wear it till it chips for good:
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Don’t get me wrong: I have not joined a nudist colony. I just got 3 unexpected days on a beach; and forgot to pack my base and top coat. My nails are naked, that’s it. And to think that I have planned a deliciously garish mani/pedi combination: Finger Paints Gift of Gold and Misa Six Pack Summer!
Random beach observations:
- Sand exfoliates rough cuticles effortlessly.
- Beach or no beach, I dislike a look of a French pedicure. Sorry, nothing personal.
- Ocean water makes one’s nail stronger and whiter.
- People who bury cigarette butts in the sand are morons.
Being as a devoted picture spammer as I am, I will post at least a pseudo-NOTD:
Surprisingly good picture of Misa's Six Pack Summer. Traffic cone neon!
Finger Paints Gift of Gold - red-based, hence, very warm gold (duh!)
Please excuse my rather yellow tips. No base coat to cover ugly stains.
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I've been on a very strict budget lately; but I caved yesterday - no willpower here - and bought two Finger Paints polishes.
First one is Lilac Lagoon, from a recent Finger Paints Summer collection.
Pale, yet warm lavender, loaded with teeny golden scales - very similar to ones in Elizabeth Arden Vincenza Raspberry.
I'm not a big fan of pales, let alone lilacs - usually I cannot pull such colors off; they make me look like a corpse. Not this one, apparently.
This polish is really sheer.I'm a habitual 3-coater, so I did three coats. Bad decision - I left two coats on my pinky, just for a comparison sake, and I like it much better than 3 coats.
If you are a nail polish fanatic, you sure know that Finger Paints is a great alternative to the expensive "salon" polishes. They are reasonably priced ($4.59, as I recall); before they went good-chemical-free, they had one of the best formulas available. Now Finger Paints polishes are Big-3 free (too bad!) and formula is a bit inconsistent, fluctuating from great to drippy-crappy. I've got a good bottle, thou.
Magenta Mood is a recent addition to their core collection. It's a bright, sparkle-loaded red, a bit on a cool side (magenta is supposed to be cool, right?). I do not have a mani pic of this one, just the bottle pics:
Small orange-amber-god particles offset the coolliness of magenta really nicely, so even the Warmy Warmerson like myself can wear this color.
It's my current pedicure, and I love it. I think it's too loud for a summer manicure, so to the back burner it goes, till Fall is here. For some reason, Magenta Mood reminds me of a cranberry pie - hello, my future Thanksgiving mani!
Another pic, blurry and not very accurate color wise, but showing the sparkles:
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Another pink. I've been trying really hard, working my way to the summer-appropriate colors.
Actually, it's not even pink - it's more of a bright purple with a pink undertone and a hint of neon. Of course, being purplish-neonish, All That Ruzzberry is not fond of the camera, so I had to tweak my pictures a bit to show you a somewhat accurate color. In real life OTR is a bit deeper and darker. Would make an awesome pedi.
I stamped it with a totally clashing Konad polish the next day:
Looks crazy, but I like this combo.
PS: All That Razzberry is a retired color. Of course.
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I was so, so over Rescue Beauty Lounge polishes, so obnoxiously priced and obnoxiously named ("Frugalista" for $18? oh, pweease). Totally over, I swear. Typical case of sour grapes. Rescue Beauty Lounge is kinda Robert Pattinson of the nail polish world: unequivocally gooooood and unequivocally out of my league - I cannot get my hands on either of them. Pattinson is not for sale, as far as I'm concerned; and I do not have money for Baek's concontions - at the moment.
And then I reached for my box of untried polishes. And found RBL Recycle - it was a very sweet and absolutely unexpected Christmas gift from a fellow polish fan, KathyWA.
/direct sun/
Yep, I'm that big of a chicken - I've waited since Christmas to wear this green. I'm an idiot; because it's a perfect polish. Perfect. I'm in love with this brand - again.
Unbelievably glossy. Dark, yet never black or dreadfully "almost black".
I try to be as objective and honest as possible while reviewing polishes, but I couldn't find anything to be improved upon. Butter-smooth application, perfect coverage with 2 thin coats.
Kathy - again - thank you, thank you, thank you!
Ji - I don't like you. Your polishes are just...mean.
Dixi.
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Old news, really old: Essie Guilty Pleasures. I think it's a part of Spring-08 collection. Anyway, here is my attempt in a cheerful spring mani:
Nice color, guys.
First, it has a jelly finish - kinda see-through. Pain in the neck to apply, but if you enjoy a "morning toast with marmalade" look, I'd say go for it. I did 3 sloppy coats; it's still a bit uneven.
Second, it's not a typical pinkey-pink. Rather, Guilty Pleasures is a mix between a subtle coral and a vivid neon pink. Here is another pic, hopefully showing neon side a bit better:
I'm itching to take this mani off, but it's just my aversion to pink.
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Well, this semester is behind me. I'm an A student. Yes, I'm smug, smug enough to brag about my grades on a nail polish blog. You have no idea how smug I am. My straight As took very serious elbow grease, brain kind; and total mani negligence. For about 2 weeks I had been sporting the same manicure - Misa Honeybunch.
Not my cup of tea. At all. I do not like sheers; I do not like sparkly sheers. But boy, this polish wears like iron. Two weeks, no kidding. Of course, I had some chipping by the end on a first week. I had no time to care about chipping, thou.
Aside from sheer practicality, Honeybunch is pretty. It looks white-silverish on my pictures, but in reality it consists of multicolored microsparkles. Think blond sister of OPI Princesses Rule. I bet it will work wonderful for layering over dark polishes.
Mmm... too bad it's not my cup of tea.
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It's a bit Legally Blond-ysh, but I like it and plan to wear it till it chips for good:
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