Childish Feud

I decided to wear the Mycroft polish. It's called Childish Feud.

It's a dark brown shimmer. I originally didn't have any idea what to do for Mycroft; I had tons of names though. The color came to me when I was re-watching the Great Game. Mycroft's whole office is just wood. Nothing but wood and books. Wood for days. Wood. Wood. Wood. Must resist urge to make boner joke.

I originally wanted it to be darker, but I swatched it and decided that I liked it as is. It is a bit of an odd color for my skin tone, though. Maybe it's my own delusions, but I can carry most browns better than I can carry this. I think maybe it's the shimmer that's throwing it off. But I still like it and will still wear it. I don't give a fuck. They're my nails. That's something I've never understood about other nail oriented ladies who are like "I like this color, but it looks bad with my skin tone." GURL WHO CARES. WEAR IT. THEY BE YOUR NAILS, HONEY. GIVE ZERO FUCKS. 

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For the mani I did a black water marble. It looks like wood! You could eat cake off of those nails! Sherlock references! This is my first successful attempt at a water marble. I think it helps a ton that it is all dark colors and a dark base. Any little mistakes, which there are a few, are relatively undetectable.

What disappoints me about this picture is that the pointer finger on my left hand missed out on the full marble experience. It is marbley, but the color is really light and only on one side. So the right side of the nail is cool, but you can't see it. But trust me, it's there, and it looks cool. 

Next post is Lestrade, and after that it's the ladies.

You are beautiful and wonderful. I love you. Thanks for reading!

No You Won't

Today I'll be showing you all the Moriarty polish. It's called No You Won't.

I am not entirely sure how to describe the color. I guess I would call it a subtle black glitter. It has appears black in most lights but move your hand around and glitter pops up. The most noticeable glitter is the big hexagonal peices but there actually is a lot more smaller glitter throughout.

At first I was upset because the glitter doesn't show up that much and I thought about adding more. However, after wearing it for a bit it grew on me. Moriarty is flashy and quirky (is that the right word for it?) but he is more of a mystery in the first series, so having a more subdued glitter makes sense, or at least it does to me.

I originally was going to name the polish "Burn the Heart Out of You" but the label was so big you couldn't see the polish from the front at all. I also don't think the name would have went with the polish all that well. Moriarty can be very dark but also can be very fun, and this polish just seemed more fun to me. I might pick something all together darker for next series but I'm unsure. I don't have very much planned out for the next series.

I added Metallic 4 Life  by OPI over the polish and then topped it off with Color Club's Diamond Drops. I adore Diamond Drops so much. I would put it over all dark colors forever. I think it gives manis this dark edge to them because it looks so much like broken glass. I just don't like it with light springy colors. Every time I see the collection it comes in I go "but whhhhhhhy?" but to each their own.

The major hang up I have with Diamond Drops is that it's gooey. It's so thick it's unbelievable. I have tons of glitters that come in the same thick jelly base but not ever seem to be so awful as Diamond Drops. I can never wear Diamond Drops out anywhere because since it's so thick that it never seems to fully dry so even with a quick dry topcoat I still snag my nail somewhere and it rips the polish off all gooey like. Gross, right?

I must admit, even though all the polishes from the line are from series one of Sherlock, I was thinking of series two Moriarty when I did this mani. I won't get too much into the inspiration but there was some broken glass in the Reichenbach Fall and Moriarty was flashy and spectacular as he always is.

I am at a loss of which one to do for tomorrow. I am caught between Mycroft and Lestrade, I wish I could say that sentence more often.

The Sitting Down Type

Good news, I finished the BBC Sherlock series one frankens. There are a total of ten. I will do a series two collection as well, which I'm pretty sure will have eleven which will include the main cast, the three episodes, and Irene Adler. I will hold off doing the series two franken until after it is done airing in the States. It's not because I'm afraid of spoilers or anything like that but because my spring break is coming very soon and I won't have all my polishes with me. I also need to re-watch Series two, and I need time to mentally prepare to re-watch The Reinchenbach Fall.

Moving on, I've been wearing the Watson polish. It's called the Sitting Down Type.

It's probably my favorite polish out of the bunch, if I were to be honest. This polish is actually why I started the line. I was re-watching Series 1 for the 800th time and I noticed that I always associated John with this sort of dark camo green. The name came pretty quickly as well.

The only way to describe the color is a dark camo green. I'm truly in love with the color. I'm always fan of dark colors and, especially greens. Unlike A Study in Pink and Consulting Detective, I haven't worn this color yet. It's actually because I was too in love with it and I didn't want to waste it.

For each of these colors I am trying to do a more complex mani to go with the blog post. I think it would be terribly boring to see just the plain manis. So this time I did a black, gold, and the Sitting Down Type chevron. I thought it had a sort of military feel about it.

I actually was going to do a double chevron sort of thing, similar to that of the Corporal symbol, but I decided against it since I've never done a tape mani and doing a chevron seemed hard enough.

It turned out okay for a first try. For some reason I find tape manis incredibly hard. I've done all sorts of crazy nail stuff but never touched tape manis. Also please excuse the tip shrinkage on the pointer and middle finger. I did wrap my tips but I literally used so much Seche that it still shrunk the polish right off the tip.

That's it for Watson, well until the Series Two collection. Next post I will do Moriarty. I'm actually already wearing the polish but I'm holding pictures off until tomorrow because I'm exhausted!

Thanks for reading. You are beautiful and wonderful, I love you.

Consulting Detective

So very recently I've gotten very into BBC's Sherlock.

I'm not very good at fan arting or things of that nature so I decided the best way to show my complete and utter adoration of the show that I would make a franken collection. I have made six polishes so far. I still need to make polishes for Lestrade, Mycroft, Mrs. Hudson, and the Great Game. I have ideas for everything except the Great Game. It's so hard to get a color from that episode!

Anyway I thought I would start the blog off with a bang and show the swatches of the collection. I'll do one for each post, mostly to buy some time to make the polishes I haven't made yet.

The first polish is based off of Sherlock. It's called Consulting Detective.

It's an odd shade of blue. It looks pretty light in these pictures. It looks like an ocean blue but it's actually the same color as a dark wash blue jean.

I've actually been wearing this on and off for the past week or so. I alternate between it and A Study In Pink, which I will swatch in a few days, and when I do I'll edit this post to include a link.

It actually has this lovely shimmer about it that I didn't notice when making it. I only noticed when I went outside the one day where it wasn't disgusting and overcast.

The only compliant I've had with the polish I've had so far is that it cracks really quickly. I'll put it on in the morning and by the time I get home from classes I will notice that my pointer and thumb nails have big huge cracks. It doesn't chip, it cracks under the topcoat. I'm trying to figure out what exactly is causing the problem

I thought this color would look lovely in matte, and it does, but there is a problem.

"What are those gross white dots?" You might ask. Those gross white dots are a sign that I need to buy a better quality matte topcoat. Currently I have Hard Candy's Matte-ly in Love which is actually pretty durable but has this weird glitter in it, which doesn't translate at all. It ends up like looking like I got dust on my nails and didn't clean them before putting the top coat on.

I've actually only used Matte-ly in Love once before. It did have those yucky white dots the first time but it wasn't as notciable. I used it on this mani, but it was busy enough that you can't see them in the photo.

I am going to purchase either Essie's Matte About You (so many matte puns) or Man-e-cure when I reorder some China Glazes. A lot of good China Glazes have been sacrificed for this franken line, but their sacrifice shall not be in vain.

Tomorrow I will post swatches for my Watson based polish. Boy am I excited!

Getting "first post" weirdness out of the way

Hello!

I have an actual post all ready to go but I felt odd just shoving it up on my blog without an introduction first. So to get the ball rolling I will tell you real quickly who I am and what I am about and some of my plans for this blog.

I am a 21 year old girl from the Midwest. Currently I live on the East Coast. I'm a Creative Writing Major and I wish to be a stand up comedian. There are three things in my life that I would call passions and those are comedy, gaming, and nail polish.

I used to be a terribly put together young lady in Jr. High and High School. I had no interest in makeup or nail polish. I'm not entirely sure what happened in College but I felt this need and desire to paint my nails and put makeup on. My nail polish collection started with a couple bottles, which quickly grew to 30 some bottles due to a Sinful Colors sale, which eventually grew to the 318 bottles I own currently. I have a ton of makeup as well just not as much.

My plans for my blog is to share my passion for nail polish and make up with the world! I want to show off my nail art and my frankens. I have thought about doing reviews of things, which I might do but it's not in the cards currently, but I'm a little slow at buying products. I am entertaining the prospect of completing the 30 day challange and the 52 week challange, except doing it as 52 days because I cannot keep a mani for a week, but I'm unsure. I love doing my nails, I do them roughly everyday, but the idea of having my mani's planned out for me a month in advance doesn't seem that fun. I also will blog about things that catch my attention, like comedy and gaming related things, but don't worry, this won't be the "I had a sandwich today" type blog.

So, thank you for reading and I hope you keep reading!
-Bev