Tag: neon
Nail-job craving: Bright. Been wearing more neutral clothing lately so I like the pop of colour on my nails.
How I satisfied that craving: China Glaze in Heat Index — the name just spoke to me given the recent heat wave in Toronto.
How this nail colour makes me feel: Awake. Which is good because the heat always makes me sooooo sluggish.
Love it or hate it: Love, although it goes on a bit sheer so it took a few coats to get the opacity I wanted. I’m curious to try it with a white polish as a base; it’d probably make this neon pink pop even more.
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July 24, 2013
Nail job craving: I have so many nail polishes in my stash to test out, but often have a gel polish on so no chance to. Now that I’m trying to do my own nails for awhile, I have a chance to test them all. First up, a neon.
How I satisfied that craving: With Orly in Mayhem Mentality. Cut me some slack on the mani work, I did it on three hours of sleep.
How this nail colour makes me feel: Warm and heat-wave ready…but also gives me a craving — the colour is remarkably like the cheese popcorn I picked up today from Garrett’s in Chicago!
Love it or hate it: Love. There’s a creaminess to this neon orange that makes it special.
June 25, 2013
Nail-job craving: With my knees still healing from my fall, I’ve been in a pretty deep funk so I was in the mood for something cheerful to lift my spirits.
How I satisfied that craving: I started with two coats of Essie Instant Hot — it’s a slightly sparkly pearl shade; this is so I’d have an opaque base to make the neon colour I was putting on top, Essie Lights, pop some more.
How this nail colour make me feel: Indifferent? It initially didn’t really sway me much in any way.
Love it or hate it: Like. Lights ended up being more bubblegummy than I expected, and I wasn’t too keen on it for the first day or two, but then I put on my neon orange bracelet and it grew on me a whole lot more, so “don’t turn out the lights, now” (Get the reference? No?!? It’s that NKOTBSB song!
August 1, 2012
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