More Rainbow Nails!

Yep, as the wonderful Katie told you yesterday, I am another year older. Here is something she didn't tell you: I really like my birthday. A lot. I usually start counting down to my next birthday around, oh, the day after my most recent one (for example: there are currently 364 days until my birthday). So I am always looking for fun ways to celebrate the day. When I started painting my nails, birthday manis seemed like a foregone conclusion!

Since I like bright colors, rainbows are always involved in my birthday manicures somehow (last year it was each nail a different color with, of course, Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday on top). This year, I decided to do something a bit more adventurous. Read on for my first experience with sponge gradients!

Rainbow Birthday Nails posing with my current top coat of choice, Butter London Hardwear!

Happy birthday, Becca!

Today is the lovely Becca's birthday, which means: rainbow nail day!

L'Oreal Jet Set Activate creme, Milani Neon Awesome Orange, China Glaze Happy Go Lucky,
China Glaze Four Leaf Clover, Orly Blue Collar, Orly Charged Up

Margo Roth Spiegelman

I broke my camera right after taking this photo, so I hope you enjoy it.

Recently I've been thinking about the nail polish colors mentioned in John Green books. There are a lot of them (well, if four counts as a lot...), but today I'm focusing on Margo's. Margo's nail polish is arguably the most interesting of any John Green character's because it's actually somewhat relevant to the story. We first see the polish when Margo paints her nails.

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Hey, so, Becca here with a holiday post! Apologies in advance for the shoddy quality of the photos. I'm away from home this week and don't have my proper camera, but my shamrock manicure came out pretty well and I wanted to share!

I put this together using OPI Goldeneye (from this winter's James Bond collection), Zoya Holly (Holiday 2011), and a variety of different sized dotting tools. I am pretty damn proud of that shamrock, Nailfighters. (Although, I understand from my Irish pal that a proper shamrock has three leaves not four, whoops.)

Shamrockin', right? (Don't pretend you don't love a bad pun.)

China Glaze: Smoke and Ashes

So, I realize that I am literally a year late to the Hunger Games nail polish party, but the collection came out during the 16 months that I was avoiding nail polish due to allergy concerns. The silver lining is that since I waited so long, I ended up only buying one of the polishes instead of, like, the whole collection, which I probably would've done when the polishes were new and exciting.

Nonetheless, I am excited about Smoke and Ashes! It came highly recommended by Becca. It's blacker than I expected (somehow? I don't... know what I expected), so I'm glad I cut my nails shorter before painting them. I don't really go for the shimmer look these days, but I really like the glass flecks in Smoke and Ashes -- they make the polish a lot more interesting! I also love how in some lights it looks like a dark blue or green instead of a pure black. I just can't stop looking at my nails.