I’ve been dealing with a serious case of weather denial. In my head it’s warm and sunny outside. In reality it’s cold and overcast. This manicure was definitely a manifestation of the weather in my head!
Teal the Night is from Maybelline’s Spring 2011 Runway collection and has clearly been collecting dust in my Melmer for quite a while. In the process of reorganizing my stash and making a new nail polish spreadsheet I came across this polish and couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Teal the Night is a green leaning blue (or, you know, teal) packed with a ton of microglitter. This polish has a glow kind of like Pixi Amazing Amethyst and SinfulColors Let’s Talk. It’s really not frosty.
The formula is quite thin so I used three coats in my swatches, but not difficult to work with.
This manicure definitely added some sunshine to my gloomy winter day. It looked cute with what I call my Florence ring. Plus, when I was wearing it, I matched my eyeliner (I used the teal shadow from the wet n wild Sparkle ‘Til Morning palette) to my nails which brightened my day even more. Even though I was probably the only one that noticed that….
As always, there are more swatches below the jump! And on a sort of related note, as I was reorganizing my nail polish stash I realized the Maybelline Express Finish bottles have gone through quite the makeover through the years. If you’re curious in the bottle evolution click here.
Alli
Katie
I love your nail polish spread sheet. You actually inspired me to make one several months ago and it has been so useful! I made mine a little different. It has a color section and a finish section. The finish section is where I put if it is glittery, matte, shimmer and etc. So if I am ever and to lazy to dig through my melmer and I can pick my color from my spreadsheet! Amazing.
thanks for all the great ideas!
I’m so glad I inspired you to make a spreadsheet! The original version of my spreadsheet had a section for color and finish but since I’ve blogged about the vast majority of my collection I decided those categories were no longer necessary.
Hopefully I’ll finish this new spreadsheet soon. It makes me feel so organized!
This look really pretty against your snow white skin
That was such a nice way of saying pale. Thank you. Haha