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

bling things

I'm starting on my internship next week, so this is really the last time that I can wear a really glittery, fancy-pantsy manicure. 

So, I decided to just glitz it up. 

I am the biggest ever fan of Marchesa. It is my favourite designer brand, ever. Hands down. No contest. One of the things that keeps me going in law school is knowing that I need to be able to afford to wear Marchesa exclusively at every single event that I will attend in the future (DIFFERENT DRESS EACH TIME!!!!!!). 

This is one of my favourite looks from Marchesa (Spring 2013): 

LOOK. AT. THAT. DETAIL. This was their Indian-princessy-inspired-ish collection, and the fabrics and the draping were so exquisite like omfg-I-can't-breathe.

In order to achieve my Marchesa (... Marchesa-inspired) mani, I put a glitter topper of OPI's polka.com over two coats of OPI's The One That Got Away (from the Katy Perry collection...... obviously). 

(Funny story; The One That Got Away actually WAS the one that got away because I'd JUST found it in my mother's nail polish stash after a year of it being missing from mine. Hi, momma.)

This is a single coat of The One That Got Away, which, as you can see, is a fuschia-pinkish-magenta-shimmery kind of shade. It's a little bit patchy, but I'm attributing that to my less-than-perfect nail-painting ability. It is a little thin, however, and you would need two coats to achieve full opacity. You can see a little of the shimmer as well, if you look closely. 

This is with the glitter topper in direct sunlight! I must say, I really like polka.com. It's a pretty interesting blend of round bluish-greenish, purplish, and pink glitters in a clear base, and it works with everything I've tried it with (mainly jelly sandwiches). I did have to do a bit of glitter placement, but it wasn't too frustrating. 

I love how the magenta base makes the bluish-green glitter pop!! 

More pictures.... because I got overexcited. That's the bunny ring that my young man gave me for Christmas. You can't really see the bunnies, but that's okay. I know they're there (pleased face).

This is my parting shot, against my maroon skirt. It's so pretty. :') I know that I say that about most of my manis, but this is honestly one of my favourites. I kept staring at it during lunch and my mother was like ok please eat please eat please eat are you eating I won't feed you cake after this if you aren't gonna finish your food. 

I was really desperate for cake. So like. I eventually finished eating. But my nails take the cake. Ok pun, sorry. 

Ok time to do other productive things, now. Ciao!!

x
Liz