Nail-job craving: This mani is actually from a few months ago — but I couldn’t post it back then as the shades are from the winter 2013 collection from Essie. I love turquoise on my nails in the summer, though, so gravitated immediately to this shade in the collection.
How I satisfied that craving: With Essie in Where’s My Chauffeur? and one accent nail in a sparkly gold Beyond Cozy.
How this nail colour make me feel: Like I should be enjoying a glass of champagne on a chaise longue at a posh private beach.
Love it or hate it: Love both nail colours. Wish I knew where I stashed the bottles so I could redo this manicure right now! The sparkly nail is, however, making me think I should buy the Miu Miu glitter booties I tried on yesterday…
December 28, 2012
Nail-job craving: Everything’s sparkly during the holidays (the clothes, the shoes, the jewelry, the Christmas lights!), so after getting my Las Vegas Rock n Roll marathon mani removed last week, I was in the mood for something glittery, but not too rainbow bright.
How I satisfied that craving: With Stay the Night from the OPI Mariah Carey collection (in stores January 2013). It’s one of OPI’s new Liquid Sand textures, a matte texture with glints of glitter (Stay the Night is a matte black with red glints; the red is more apparent in real life than in these photos).
How this nail colour make me feel: Festive, but not too festive, which is exactly what I wanted.
Love it or hate it: Love.The matte texture is very cool (and much more subtle than a caviar mani), and my nails look a bit like a dark, sexy version of Dorothy’s ruby red slippers.
December 24, 2012
Nail-job craving: I was sad to say goodbye to my sexy, leathery Revlon nails…but I had to get a half-marathon manicure for running the Las Vegas Rock n Roll Half-Marathon this Sunday. I told Leeanne Colley at Tips Nail Bar three weeks ago about the race, and she started brainstorming.
How I satisfied that craving: To be honest, Leeanne and I struggled a bit. I mean, there are lots of things synonomous with Vegas…but not much I’d want to actually wear on my nails (Dice, for example? Corny.). I want stylish, not tacky, after all. We googled images and chatted and the main thing I think of when it comes to Vegas are all the lights on the Strip, and Leeanne came across a picture of a concert with the effects of a light show and we both thought it’d work well as a graphic nail, so here’s how she replicated it on my nails —
She applied Artistic Color Gloss in Wham, a blue, on tips of my nails and then Shellac in Black Pool on the bottom half. Then overtop of the Wham, she applied CND Addititives in Cerulean Blue and then sealed all of that in with a topcoat. Using China Glaze in In the Limelight, she carefully painted on the “lasers” using a thin brush.
How this nail colour makes me feel: Like I’ve got my own little light show on my fingertips. (Oh, btw, if you follow me on Twitter, Leeanne was semi-joking about applying battery-operated lights onto my hands and nails…but how cool would that be?! I totally got right onto google looking for tiny, adhesive LEDs that would work for this purpose…alas, no such lights exist, not that I could find anyhow).
Love it or hate it: Love. But I can’t get the J Lo song “Waiting for Tonight” outta my head (remember the light show in that video?). The nail totally works with the “Strip at Night” theme of the race.
November 30, 2012
