golden agro

so, long story but a coworker's exboyfriend used to tease her every time she wore green that she was a lesbian. (i guess in asshole logic, lesbians like green?) anywho, the joke is now that whenever i wear green, i'm totally gay for her. which is true at all times to be honest. 

so she's been away from work for three weeks and in her honor, i decided to do my tips in Agro from the China Glaze Hunger Games Collection. (okay, we may have also read the Hunger Games together) 

this is one - yes, one!!!! - coat of Agro with two layers of essie as gold as it gets on the tips. this was a dream to apply, even more so than my other China Glaze polishes. i love how subtle the essie is, but i think it adds something to the manicure. Agro has a nice golden glow to it on it's own and it isn't nearly as dark as i thought it would be...i'm kind of in love with it in all fairness. 

lamplight

the cold harsh light of a soulless cubicle

Work Safe Wednesday - Kimber

in the spirit of trying my untrieds, i let a girlfriend pick my polish for today. she chose Zoya's Kimber. i know i bought it, and it is so pretty in the bottle...but i got an overwhelming sense of "meh" when i put it on. i topped it with zoya armor and a swipe of china glaze over top.so it is ridiculously shiny and i have gotten a couple compliments on it... still, i am vastly underwhelmed.

it went on smoothly, covered really well even in one super thick coat. i did two, just to see if it would add more dimension or depth. no luck. i think this might be more of a statement on someone with fairer skin (more contrast perhaps). there are flecks of gold micro glimmer, but not enough to give it the same hint of a duo that kimmy has. this may boil down to my disinterest in berry polishes, but i will totally pass this on to a fairer complected girlfriend and post pictures soon :)

Out of Character Nail Day (Zoya Dea)

i was painting nails last night with a girlfriend and she pointed out the many untried bottles of polish i have sitting in my polish box, so i let her choose my color for today. She chose Zoya Dea. i believe my exact response was, "poop brown? awwwwwwwwwwwwwww." which is a little silly of me, because i bought it and lets face it i have excellent taste. 

so dea, uh-mazing application. a lot of my Zoya creams are on the thick side and tend to apply a little like my high school white out manicures (come on, you know you did it too) if i'm not super careful. *i'm looking at you Snow White* however, Dea was an absolute dream.

Zoya Dea - Lamplight 

i finished my manicure and kept glancing down, a little disappointed at the lack of sparkle on my out of character mani so i reached for my newest bottle of American Apparel polish. Meteor Shower is soooo pretty! it is a gorgeous gold foil flakie that applies relatively easily considering how randomly sized and shaped the flakies are. as it dried i used a toothpick to pat down any stray corners and then put like 5 coats of topcoat (china glaze and then sally hansen) to get a smooth and shiny finish. 

turned out kind of cute if you ask me ;) 

and in the end, not at all poop brown-ish.

Zoya Dea & American Apparel Meteor Shower

pixie dust comin' out of my finger tips

not a very exciting story here... i read and have seen the tinkerbell movies a few too many times and got it in my head to do a tinkerbell/pixie dust manicure. i used OPI Who the Shrek are You? as a base, did two layers of essie's as gold as it gets (one covering half of the nail, the second covering a third) and then a kind of pressed on the Milani Jewel FX Gold on the tips of the nails. it isn't perfect and it sure doesn't photograph easily, but it is sparkly and to me, entirely tinkerbell-tastic.