
OPI Nail Lacquer in “Bastille My Heart.” Dark purply-red, appropriate for holiday time and winter and the end of the year.
This is the last of this year’s Fancy-Ass Pedicures! I enjoyed this goal – it gave me something to look forward to every month. I got some nail polishes as gifts over the course of the year, so I didn’t even have to buy anything new. Granted, I can’t do anything as pro as what they do in the nail salon, but I’m not a high-maintenance nail art type of girl anyway. (Which is why I don’t bother with manicures – playing piano and typing all day tends to mess up a manicure pretty fast, and I think even the smallest chip in polish makes a girl look cheap.)
Done!
Dec 01, 02:18AM PST | 5 cheers | 1 comment
OPI Nail Lacquer in “A Dozen Rosas.” Enjoying it for a week before I have to paint my toenails silver for my sister’s wedding (micromanage much?).
Nov 04, 04:16PM PST | 7 cheers | 0 comments
A pearlescent pink that Sally Hansen calls “Flamingo.” Very subtle, and doesn’t photograph terribly well.
Oct 10, 08:49PM PDT | 5 cheers | 0 comments
A bit late (had to redo it, the original was not a good color). Sinful Colors in “Let’s Talk.”
Sep 22, 12:43AM PDT | 4 cheers | 0 comments
This polish is from Sephora, and smells like pineapple. Suddenly I feel like I’m in fifth grade again!
Aug 01, 2012, 02:15PM PDT | 7 cheers | 0 comments
Going for a patriotic look (both US and France celebrate their independence in July)! Yes, I’ve already used two of these colors for this project – but not like this.
Red = Orly “Monroe’s Red”
White = Sally Hansen “Nearly Nude Naturel White”
Blue = Sally Hansen “Calypso”

Jul 04, 2012, 12:10AM PDT | 3 cheers | 0 comments
Going a bit nostalgic on this one. Wet N Wild polish in “Ebony Hates Chris,” overlaid with Sinful Colors silver glitter polish in “Queen of Beauty.” (What marketing idiot is coming up with these names?) Both are super-cheap drugstore finds, and were staples of my high school goff days.

Jun 03, 2012, 01:24AM PDT | 7 cheers | 0 comments
Sally Hansen Nail Color in Calypso. It’s so hard to find a good strong blue (not navy, not teal, not sheer, not pastel) that I’ve kept this one for years. It’s been discontinued and I still haven’t found another polish that’s the right shade.

May 05, 2012, 10:26PM PDT | 4 cheers | 0 comments
Not a very good picture of it, but it’s Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in Hot Magenta.

Apr 15, 2012, 04:50PM PDT | 3 cheers | 0 comments
Sally Hansen XtremeWear in Celeb City (yes, I am 30 years old and still painting my toenails silver)

Mar 17, 2012, 11:48PM PDT | 8 cheers | 3 comments