Honest Babes

I called my usual polish place and was told that they can't sell the Katy Perry and Serena Williams polishes until the first week in February.  Whaaat?! I may drop by in person because I didn't catch the exact date- it was maybe the 2nd or 3rd?  If Ulta sets these polishes out nationwide this Sunday, I'd imagine a lot of people are just going to get their polish then.

I wore RBL Locavore for New Year's Eve.  Whenever I need something that sparkles for a holiday, it seems to be the first polish I turn to.  I think I did this manicure the day before NYE, and then wore it for over a week.  I can't believe the mani lasted that long!  Glitter definitely did help- it was like glue!  So understandably the removal process was not joyful.  And strangely, while I received a lot of compliments on it, I really was not feelin' this manicure at all.  Yet I left it on until it chipped...

I used multiple coats of Locavore on my left hand thumb.  I then used two coats of Icing's Bad Apple (three would have been better/more opaque) as a base on every other nail, topping it with one coat of Locavore.  I then used two coats of INM's Out the Door gold holographic topcoat, with a coat of topcoat between them, but the holo never showed up.  It was just too delicate for RBL's glittahfest.

Bottle picture:

Manicure pictures:

The reason I went with sparkles and green is (NSFW!) here.  A coworker of mine told us about how the color of your underwear on NYE shaped how your next year was going to be, which I thought was fun.  Green means luck, but since the name of the polish was Bad Apple, I decided that it meant that 2010 was a bad apple, so I was covering it with green, blue (good health) and kind of pink (luck in love) glitter.   Sadly we did not do Bleigiessen this year, so at least I had one tradition happening.