Swatch: Essie Brooch The Subject

I won an Apothica giftcard in a giveaway a while ago, and was saving it for a rainy day.  When I saw that they had three of the Essie winter 2011 collection, I knew that day had come.  Here's the first of those three: Brooch the Subject!

Sorry about these dreary photos, my usual camera was MIA

As you can see, this is one of the nudiest nudes that ever... nuded.  Or something.  This is two coats, no base coat, no top coat.  You can definitely see my ridges here, so next time I'd be sure to use a ridge filler and maybe one more coat just to be safe.  Overall, I like this color.  It's very work appropriate, and I need more of these khaki cremes in my collection

Fall Leaves on Cheeky Chops

Since I felt kinda weird wearing around these yellow nails, and I'm too cheap to take it off immediately, I decided to go forth with some fall inspired stamping!

I used Butter London's Cheeky Chops as a base since I'd swatched it previously, and stamped on top with a Bundle Monster design in red, orange and brown.  I like it, but I thought it was missing something- so I topped it with my matte topcoat, and I like it.

Products used:

Butter London Cheeky Chops

Revlon Hot for Chocolate

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Sun Kissed

Gap nail polish in Admire

Essie Matte About You

Bundle Monster plate BM04

Looking Back

I went through my files and pulled out some of my favorite nail polishes/designs from the past year.

This "major award" inspired fishnet french was from January 2011. 

December 2010 I tried these Christmas lights (everyone say hi to my dog, Abby, in the background)

This purple zebra mani is from September 2010 when I got my first knonad plates!

In August 2010 I tried water marbling with the primary colors.

So there was a quickie run-through of some of the designs I've tried in the past.  I was going to do a plain old french mani tonight since I have and interview for internship this week (yikes!) and I want it to more professional than.. say... purple zebra stripes... But I've been battling a migraine for 9 hours today and I'm really not feeling the nail polish fumes right not.  So instead I'm going to slap on a clear coat and cross my fingers that I don't gnaw off what little "white bits" I've got left tomorrow.  If the french doesn't work out I'm just going to go with a pale pink or neutrally taupe.  I never ever do plain pink by itself so that will be.. interesting?  We'll see!