I love green nail polishes – deep hunter green, bright emeralds, pale mints, dirtied olives – I would even consider wearing a neon fluorescent (sadly I do not own one as of now). In fact, I honestly can’t think of a colour of nail polish that I dislike because I think it’s too “strange”. Though obviously I have once disliked a colour because it made my fingers look funky. One such colour was Manila by American Apparel – made my cuticles look bright red!
I digress. For those of you who aren’t that inclined towards crazy colours though, perhaps you should get your feet wet with this gorgeous number:
(Picture taken indoors under incandescent lamp – click to enlarge)
Ah, Essie. It’s a love it or hate it brand for most people, and I subscribe to the former group. They never stray too far away from what they’re good at (classic and trendy neutrals), but why change a good thing? Formula us usually top-notch. My only gripe with the brand is that their brush isn’t stellar. I’ll save all my comments on that for a future post on brush comparisons!
Sew Psyched hails from Essie’s Fall 2010 collection and is a winner in my book. It’s a dusty greyed-green with a very subtle white/silver shimmer – super hard to detect. It’s a great colour for the colour-wary – subtle, not too in-your-face, but yet still noticeably green. No complaints with the formula – looked great with two coats and applied very evenly.
It’s successfully quelling my lemming for Chanel’s Khaki Vert (it’s not a dupe, though Sew Psyched does happen to be an near-identical dupe for Rescue Beauty Lounge’s Diddy Mow). It’s also an extremely wearable colour that doesn’t get me weird looks from strangers, like the time I wore a highlighter yellow nail polish (for the record, I didn’t like how it looked on me, but I had no time to take it off D:).
It suddenly occurred to me that you probably want to know where I bought this – again, I will likely write a blog in the future detailing where I buy nail polish in the Greater Vancouver area. Stay tuned! :)
How the hell are your nails so perfect? Can you explain this to me?
Practice makes perfect! I’ve done it enough times to get it right by now, haha.
Oh okay I also cheat and use some cool tricks :)
I hope you’ll share these tips and tricks with us. =)
I will, in a more detailed post coming up soon, hopefully! :)
oh man. I can’t wait for the post about brush comparisons. They totally make or break a polish for me.
Uggh I love this colour!! You should be a nail model.
I can’t wait to read about your posts on where to buy polishes! I live in the Vancouver/Burnaby area and I just started buying polishes after I removed my gel nails and have nooo idea where to start! Not to mention, I seriously need a manicure, especially after seeing your perfectly manicured nails/cuticles!!! eep! LOVES you blog btw! =)
I will definitely work on that post as soon as I finish up my exams! Although…nail polish is SUPER addictive, don’t say I didn’t warn you ;) Thanks!