NOTD: Treasure goes with anything.

July 24th, 2010

I’ve figured out that I have a fairly neutral skintone, but it leans just a smidge to the warm side.  I look okay in silver jewelry, but somehow I figured that gray nail polish just Would Not Do.  That doesn’t stop me from wanting to wear it, though–in fact, being the contrary creature that I am, I want to wear it even more!  I decided today that Hidden Treasure might warm it up just enough to make it work.

For the record, I was wrong.  At least this particular gray works on its own, no Hidden Treasure necessary.

This is Zoya Harley, described on their website as “Light concrete gray base with subtle flecks of silver, gold and copper shimmer.”  (It’s also described as being in warm-toned, so maybe that’s why it works.)  The formula on this was great.  I sometimes have trouble with Zoyas being too thin and sometimes pooling around the cuticle, but this one gave me no grief.  This is 2 coats, no top coat in this picture because I decided I wanted a coat of HT anyway.  Here’s what that did:

It’s still pretty lovely.  As a point of interest, this is probably the best job I’ve ever done on my fingernails with respect to coloring inside the lines.  (I still have to work on not dinging the drying nail polish, whether it’s on the desk or the brush when I’m working on my other hand.)  I haven’t had to scrape any polish off my skin yet!  I have a few bits on my skin, but they’re minor enough that they’ll take care of themselves the next couple of times I was my hands.  Write this day on the calendar, folks!