You can say things like “gray is the new black” or, “orange is the new black”, but the fact remains, black still dominates. When you’re the color all other colors are trying to replace – you are boss. Think about it, does, “gray is the new yellow” work? No. It doesn’t.
I thought black nails would be a fitting mani color for the first week of fall. But I didn’t want to stop there. I wanted to liven it up with a mattifier and give it that cool flat black edge – not that black needs more edge, but you get my drift.
The mattifier I use is Essie’s Matte About You. OPI makes a version as well. The trick is to wait until your mani is completely dry because sometimes the mattifier can make it malleable. Ha. Then you end up with a malleable matte mani Monday.
….aaaand I’m out of “M” words to add to that.
Try this with one of your favorite nail colors. It gives it a whole new look and really adds dimension…or I guess in this case, takes it away!
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I have the Daria color from Julep and it is all I am wearing these days (as you can see in all my instagram pictures from the last 6 weeks ;) ) http://instagram.com/oakandoats
“mania”. Perhaps that m-word could find a place in your lovely alliteration. “malleable matte mani Monday mania”. Which leads me to this truth: “mani” is one tiny letter away from “manic”, which rather capably describes the next paragraph.
I’m a self-described nail polish ho (sorry) with over 1400 bottles (about 1/2 are indies) to my name. And I just found you – don’t ask me how – and am enjoying reading your polish posts. Your positively persuasively passionate, prepossessing polish promulgations! (pant-pant)
Oh, I know how I got here. I was googling a particular polish color range and in the image results, found a photo of the “pantone color of the year”, which was a gorgeous purply thing that I now have to have. So I popped over to the page it was connected to (yours) to find out what the name of that OPI is. WHAT IS IT? HALP! I’ll keep looking, but in the meantime, I had to comment here because…. well, I’m impulsive and the M-alliteration tapped into my OCDness. Cheers!
-Sandi