Sweet Baby Octopolish!

After totally loving my  first go with Ruby White Tips , I immediately grabbed the next one of theirs in my stash when it was time to change colors.  Here's An Ocean Full of It, from their Breaking Bad collection. Ocean is an appropriately oceanic aqua color, that in low or indirect lighting looks like it has a glowy pearl finish.  In sunlight or direct lighting, there's a bright finely shimmery gold that totally changes the look. In a lot of ways, this is Jane's Lemming's flipped sister: where that one was a warm-toned color with cool flash, this one is cool-toned with an almost warm golden flash.  The blue fire of Lemming looked like a sky reflection even when the sky wasn't that nice, and Ocean's gold fire looks like a summery sun reflection, even in the tail end of our winter. Depending on the light, it'll lean a bit more blue or green (bluer in brighter light), but it never really looks like one or the other, it's totally aqua. ...

After Suzy raved about  her picks from Ruby White Tips , I checked out the store just in time for a cyber Monday 2 for 1 sale, and ended up with a pair that I like a whole lot.  First up is Jane's Lemming. Jane's Lemming is described as brown with blue hues, but I'd call it a warm mushroom taupe.  It's a rich neutral that occasionally looks like a subtly red-leaning lavender, especially in low or indirect lighting. But just a little bit of sunlight or the office fluorescents overhead, and POW!! Wow, check out that electric blue fire!  And yes, it totally translates to the nail: While driving around, the blue often looked like the polish was just so glossy that the clear winter sky was reflecting off of it.  Except that the sky-blue flash was there even when the sky was nowhere near that prettily blue itself. You can see in this pic that i had a couple of patches where the color wasn't 100% even (much more evident in the pics than in real...

Today, I bring you the best nude I've ever worn.    The color is glorious, the application was easy, and it wore amazingly well. It's called Kim, and it's from Ruby White Tips (which is easily one of my top two favorite indie polish brands). I've been looking for some good nudes, and I saw this one online hoping it would work.  Oh look, it did. Indoors, incandescent Indoors, flourescent Indoors flourescent, again Indoors, mixed light Indoors, again, and abusing the poor dog (hey, if she lays on me, she gets to be a prop) I love the color, I love the subtle sparkle, I loved the application.   This one also wore like a beast, only without the help of any snazzy topcoats.   Other RWT polishes I've tried have worn just as well.  So far, this is one of my very favorite polishes, definitely the best nude ever, and the shop is awesome (they give money to bats!!!!), so go buy their stuff . -S.