Manicures & Movies!

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This weekend I got together with some girlfriends for manicures and movies! Yes, I admit, I looked like a total nerd showing up to the house with a bucket full of nail polish.  But who know what color or tool we might have needed?!

Thankfully, I brought it all!

I didn't paint all the ladies' nails, but I did a couple!  One of which was Gloss' "Painstaking Pyramids"......which was not easy, but turned out really nice!

We used Essie's Very structured for the base color and Essie's Bobbing for Baubles for the pyramid color.  Both of these are part of Essie's fall line and they are a great color combination!

(With a moscato in hand)

All I have to say is, "watch out for that tape!"  Sometimes, not sure why, it just pulls the color right off your nails....even when we waited two hours for the base color to dry!

Nice tutorial, Gloss!

Muah- V

P.S. We watched "Love Actually" and "While you were sleeping."  Oldies, but goodies. 

Essie — Very Structured

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I just love Essie!  Probably one of my favorite nail color brands.

The newest color to my Essie collection is Very Structured. 

This is a part of their fall collection and, while I really love all of their collection, the one thing I have to say about this color is it is not as it appears from the bottle.  The same is true of Bobbing for Baubles, another one of Essie's fall colors.

Both Very Structured and Bobbing for Baubles are much darker on your nails, than their pics online, as well as what appears to be inside the bottle.

Nonetheless, I love both of these colors!

I thought Very Structured would turn out as a burnt orange color, but in fact it is a true brown....kind of a milk chocolate.

Actually, I was at a retreat for work on Monday and we had some markers at out table for part of the demonstration.  I happened to pick the brown marker and as I was holding it I noticed that the brown marker cap matched my nails perfectly!

Actually, this color matches lots of things and goes very nicely with brown leather. Perfect for fall!

(In the sun)

(under an incandescent light)