Sweet Baby Octopolish!

It's time for my favorite cultural event of the year - the annual Oscars schindig!  Life is pretty hectic lately, and a whole lot of this year's nominees are more than a little depressing, so I was going to go with a more generalized movie-themed look like last year... until a dear friend (and fellow movie nerd) told me things just aren't the same without movie nails.  Inspiration struck, and here we are! In order index to pinky: Tar Triangle of Sadness Everything Everywhere All At Once Elvis Thumbs L to R: Banshees of Inisherin Women Talking and again index to pinky: The Fabelmans All Quiet On the Western Front Top Gun Maverick Avatar Way of Water As per usual, there's a lot of plates and a lot of colors in here, too many to mention, plus a smidgen of freehand.  Hope you found a film that struck you as amazing this year! ~Michelle 

 For this month's book club, my group picked The Long Haul by Finn Murphy. indoor, bright CF lighting I've started with a base of sky blue crème and dusty gold for this story about a long-haul trucker driving across the US, then added the US map, mountains, truck, and highways that feature throughout the book. Happy reading! ~Michelle 

For my last polish for Femme Fatale February, I'd been growing out my nails a bit to show off a thermal polish to best effect... and then a major cleaning project at home resulted in several chips & breaks on my swatching hand, so for this post Cindy takes the spotlight. indoor, bright CF lighting Thermals are notorious for having a finite shelf life, typically guaranteed to be working well for 6 months.  Malachite, released as a color of the month in November 2021 is my oldest untried thermal from Femme Fatale, and it's still working perfectly fine 15 months later. indoor, bright CF lighting Between the awkwardness of shooting the camera with my left hand, and the notorious trickiness of accurate color capture of teals, I find the bottle look to not be completely accurate, though the color on my nails certainly is.  Malachite is a very well-named polish, a bright earthy green when warm (above) and a deep emerald forest when cold (below), packed with "ocean flakies...