Rouge Fatal

Red is my color. It has always attracted me. And since this week is dedicated apples, nothing fits better than also apple red nails.

After a manicure that was a little too much for me a couple of weeks ago, I decided to do something with another of the colors in the Passport to Color collection. I decided to combine OPI's Cajun Shrimp with Chanel's Rouge Fatal.

I use the Trind Nail Repair as base coat. I don't know if it is really meant to
be used as a base coat, but I think it is awesome! My nails don't break
and my nail polish doesn't start to flake off that easily. 

I still can't really make a straight line with a nail polish brush (or any other kind of brush with nail polish on it for that matter), but I'm almost starting to get a hold on making dots with a sewing pin stuck on a pencil.

The dotted line was supposed to be straight, but who cares? 

I like the contrast between the Cajun Shrimp and the Rouge Fatal. I might even do this same combination again at some other time.

Passport to color

One thing I love about travelling, is to look at all make-up, perfumes and nail polish in the duty free store. I often fall in love with collections of miniature perfume bottles, or - as in this case, collection of small nail polish bottles from OPI.

It contained a collection of 6 different shades of reddish nail polish.

The Charged Up Cherry (hot pink) and Cajun Shrimp (almost neon coral) are not colors I would ever buy myself, which makes collections like this so awesome - it forces me to get something a little bit out of my comfort zone. 

So I took my new nail polishes and gave myself a polka dot manicure with Malaga Wine as the base color and polka dots in Charged Up Cherry and Lincoln Park After Dark. 

Next time I will not take a photo with all the bottles in my hand. 

Honestly, having polka dots on all my nails drives me crazy - it is far too busy. But I like them, so next time I will just do it on a couple of the nails.

What is your favorite red nail polish?

Mezmerised

It was just recently (about a year ago) that I started getting a hang on how to polish my nails. I consider myself a late bloomer when it comes to nail polish, but finally I stopped biting my nails on a regular basis, and I realized that investing in good base and top coats is worth the investment. That being said, I still consider myself very much a rookie when it comes to nail design, I can barely do a decent French manicure on myself, and most days I settle with Essie Mademoiselle or OPI Barre My Soul.

But there is something with the start of the summer that always makes me feel bold and urges me to do small changes. This year I fell for Essie Mezmerised.

It is a nice and almost warm blue that I see myself also being compelled to wear this coming cold, dark, Norwegian winter.