China Glaze Midtown Magic + BundleMonster 315

Oooooo a pretty brown!

I always feel a nice brown is hard to find. There is a fine line between "sexy chocolate" and "poop". Sometimes the line is very hard to find, indeed. But not today! Today I have China Glaze Midtown Magic from their Metro Collection. Shimmery dark brown! Lit from within! Gold highlights! What's not to love?

Recently, I had gotten the BundleMonster 2012 plates, and oh boy are they fun! There are some really interesting designs (although I must point out the 'full nail' designs are lies. Damn lies! My thumb is too big. And they juuuust fit on my regular nails if they're not too long. Boo-urns!). So my adaption has been to do a "French tip" but with the design in the tip. I found a nice flowery one from #315. I'd like to think I pull it off...

It's amazing what you can do with French tip stickers. Did you know, I've never had an actual French manicure? I'm trying to think of what possible situation would exist (nominated for Oscar/Grammy/Emmy/Tony/Raspberry? Meeting the Queen? My wedding? Alien encounter? My murder trial?) and I simply cannot fathom when I would feel a French manicure would be appropriate...

A England Perceval and OPI Take The Stage

Today I was crazy, dangerous and reckless. I let my five year-old nephew pick my nail polish colours. I asked and he responded "RED AND ORANGE!". What does one do with red and orange I ask you?? A stylized French, of course!

The colours today used were A England's Perceval from their Mythicals collection and OPI Take the Stage from their Burlesque collection. I love love love both these colours. Perceval is such a gorgeous, vibrant red. It almost glows from within with a hint of gold. Take the Stage is a perfect shimmery orange, almost bronze. Put them together... and something happens. I'm not quite sure, but it's something!

No flash - you can sort of see the touch of gold in the Perceval bottle

Flash

Although I love the colours separately, but together I'm not feeling it. If I did a solid colour pattern on alternate nails, perhaps, but I am not loving this french tip combo. But my nephew seemed happy with it, so who am I to judge?