Summer in the City

I've mentioned before that I go through nail polish phases. I've been trying to get a bit out of my comfort zone since I tend to buy colors I love in the bottle but realize later I don't actually want on my fingertips. For some reason bright pinks always make me feel too flashy and Barbie but I'm officially in love with this new color.



Ridiculous right? I hate neon colors and this is about as bright and almost neon as you can get without officially treading into dayglo territory and I can't get enough. I usually change my polish color every week but I have a feeling I'm going to be wearing this one all summer long. I've also gotten mad compliments on how pretty my nails are even when they were chipped to hell. The polish actually lasts forever though. I had gotten my nails done May 4th and didn't get them done again until the 20th and yeah, they were chipped, but they weren't terrible.

The color is Primrose Hill Picnic by Butter London. Which is actually made in Seattle. I give them points for image design though.

Nail color that doesn't chip?

So, I'm a little late to the shellac nail trend but early last week after one of the days Lana came to work with me we decided to get manicures and try it out. If you haven't heard of it before shellac is supposed to be a long lasting nail color that resists chips for up to two weeks.

Here are my impressions:

It definitely does what it says. We got our nails done Tuesday of last week and it's now only a few hours from being Friday of this week and I still have no chips.

While I don't have chips I do have some tiny bubbles at the base of my nails. If I were apt to pick at my nails I could definitely peel the color off. Which Lana has done on two of her nails.

I got a pale pink color but Lana got a more dark hot pink color. What we both got was a gel like nail. The colors don't seem to apply opaquely which is kind of a bummer.

This stuff dries immediately. I pretty much can't do my nails at home because I get so bored and anxious I always decide they're dry before they are and then mess them up. Even in the salon I get all leg bounce-y and have a hard time sitting still. With this as soon as they're done painting you're done. I'm a huge fan of that aspect of things.

Since this is a fairly new thing the colors salons carry are all sort of boring pink and red shades. I usually bring my own colors with a preference for Butter London colors, weird without being too out there, but buying a bottle of shellac polish runs about $20-$30 which is more than even Chanel charges for a bottle of polish and what I use as my limit.

So, here's the day after they were done...


and tonight...

Butter

Butter London is one of my most favorite nail polish brands. They make somewhat out there colors but if you're looking for something wild or happen to find something in their selection that will work for a day to day polish it's guaranteed to be gorgeous.

I've posted before about my new found appreciation for tan nail polish and when this weekend it hit 60 degrees I decided it was close enough to Fall to break out the neutral.



This color is called Yummy Mummy and has a teensy bit of a cool tone shimmer to it but doesn't look sparkly or metallic when on. Here is an admittedly bad photo of it on my nails. I have a chip on my left hand and taking a photo with your left hand while trying to adjust the lens with that same single hand is more difficult than it would even seem. So this is what you get.