ABC Challenge: Letter N - Nfu-Oh number 51

Howdy!

Today's star is Nfu-Oh 51 revisited BUT I must warn you: those pictures do not do it justice at all! See the fuchsia flakies? They shine louder and prouder on the nail at all times. Hopefully you'll get the idea of how it really is with those pictures ;)

For this I used one coat of Illamasqua Faux Pas and one coat of Nfu-Oh 51. I wasn't able to remove it on Sunday so... I am wearing it to work! And guess what? I had forgot I'd see the maximum boss of my whole department today, coming specially from Madrid to meet us. Eish, hopefully he'll be open-minded and like such a brilliant combo!

By the way, the winner of the 100 posts giveaway is Netti, who has been successfully contacted! :) Thanks to all of you who participated!

Sur ce, je vous laisse! As always, I am in a rush..! 

Take care,

M.

Bluetiful 51.

Mid-week post! :)

Today I am showing you the combo I rocked this weekend, for it was quite a social weekend and I felt the urge to show off. I'm kidding; but I have a reputation to mantain :p

As you can see I used Essence I'm Bluetiful as a base and topped it off with Nfu-Oh 51, courtesy of my dearest Jin (to my knowledge this Nfu-Oh 51 is the revisited version; Jin will correct me if I am wrong). As you can see, the contrast was pretty obvious, and so were the gorgeous flakies of Nfu-Oh 51! I saw mostly pink, but it shifted to green and blue in some angles :) Amazing! Sadly, I wasn't able to capture those colors in my pictures...

I am still a fan of symmetry (I had the same design on both hands) but I've come to love the mix'n'match manis like this one, where each finger sports a different design. How do you like it?

And BTW, I noticed this mani accidentallty matched EXACTLY the blue dress I was wearing on Saturday night! Check it out:

Yay! ^^ I enjoyed this one a lot! 

M.

OPI DS Mystery

Buenos días!

How’s this week going? It’s Wednesday already *dance* I just can’t believe it…

For this week I’ve decided to sport the second OPI Designer Series Jenni swapped me, DS Mystery. It’s perfect for fall/winter, it’s vampy and sexy (hello, complimenting myself here!) and quite changing depending on the lightning.

It’s given me a hard time capturing its beauty. It happens to be less dark in some lights, leaning a tad more to a darkened burgundy. The base is (surprisingly) a nearly-black blue, filled with burgundy-brown and copper flakies that totally cover up the base. They have no problem shining; they’re proud but not loud. They are visible enough to evidence it’s not a dull black polish, and that’s what makes this polish on the edge of work-safe and super flattering for a suited up woman, IMO.

I spent a couple of seconds doubting about having this on my nails for a full week at work, considering it might be too dark to please some conservative pupils of this office I work in… And then remembered Chanel featured nothing less than black polish in some of its advertisements (take a look at http://fabricmag.com/fabric-magazine-models/malgosia-bela-for-chanel-beauty/) and went for it. I haven’t had second thoughts since then; it felt only classy to me.

So I am thinking maybe we nail polish lovers end up losing the sight of what is edgy and what isn’t, just because there’s nothing (or almost nothing) we wouldn’t wear. And more so when even the more “conservative” bloggers color-wise can’t help but be astonished by some totally unconventional and non work-safe colors. So I have decided to worry less about what’s on my nails, starting on January 2013, and enjoy every color by making it classy. Boss displeased? No wonder he’ll let me know. And problem solved.

Would you dare this at work? Are you allowed to wear anything you like?

M.