butter LONDON: lady muck

I just started on my internship today, so I needed a really office-friendly, professional (IE NON-GLITTERY) nail polish to cover my (badly) stained nails. 

OPI's The One That Got Away stains, by the way. Just so you know. In case you didn't. 

I went to Sephora over the weekend to buy some internship-appropriate nail polish, and discovered this gorgeous, mucky little lady. 

I've been trying unsuccessfully to come up with a really witty sentence that associates the phrase 'lady muck' with Cinderella for like ten minutes, so this is the part where I just give up and tell you that this shade evokes very strong impressions of Disney's Cinderella. 

I assume that Lady Muck was what her stepsisters were calling her back when she was still a poor but excellent housekeeper. 

I did a google search of 'lady muck', and apparently, it's slang for a woman who puts on airs and graces, but usually badly. 

There is nothing bad about this nail polish.

Anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE butter: LONDON. I love their formula and their brushes and their shades and how they come in cute little boxy bottles that fit so beautifully and efficiently into the corners of my nail polish box. 

Lady Muck does not disappoint. Described as a "A powdery, periwinkle-blue nail lacquer that’s slightly on the grey side... infused with pearl pigment for a soft, sexy sheen", it is reminiscent of this moment: 

Isn't it like the beautiful bluish-silver of Cinderella's dress? ISN'T IT? I know it's a little pink in this gif, but I trust that you recall that her dress was distinctly bluish-silver. If you don't know what Cinderella's dress looks like, you did NOT have a complete childhood experience and I suggest that you do some soul searching (by soul-searching I mean 'searching for Disney's Cinderella and watching it') right now.

I put on two coats for full opacity, giving each coat a couple of minutes to dry before putting on the next coat + topcoat. (Excuse the stubby nails; one of them broke, so all of them had to go.)

This is them in the sunlight. BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL LIKE OMG MY IPHONE 4S'S CAMERA CANNOT DO THEM JUSTICE.

I'm really pleased with this colour, and I hope that it'll wear well. Nothing is more depressing than having beautifully coloured nails...... with a massive chip in a finger. 

Ok I'm being pretty melodramatic, but I HATE chipped polish. Thankfully, I get pretty good wear out of butter: LONDON!

x 
Liz