Brown with
Metallic Tips
Hi
Goddesses
Sometimes a
polish comes as a REAL surprise. Step
forward “Brown” by Fearne. (Those Naming Lessons from Barry M really worked, didn't they.)
For the
non-UKers out there, Fearne Cotton is a love-her-or-loathe-her TV presenter and
radio DJ with a unique fashion sense who launched her own clothing line and has
now branched out into nail polish, just in time for Crimbo! If you bribed me, I wouldn’t have bought this
set. Yet when I ran into it, accidentally,
I was unprepared to be blown away by the colours in the box.
To lower
your expectations even more, it was the teals and greens in the box that drew
my eye, and I didn’t really pay this one a 2nd glance, but when I
got it out of the box tonight, a strange urge gripped me, and what do you know,
on the nail this is BEAUTIFUL!
Brown is a
chocolate milkshake colour, in the taupe zone. There is no grey here, no
darkness, just creamy camel fudge goodness.
The first coat was a bit streaky, but after 2 coats this was smooooooth. The bumps you can see are the silk wrap I
should have taken off, and a bubble from my Poshe, which needs thinning down
again.
I always
find it really precious when a polish surprises me in a good way – it’s like
double the pleasure: you get the instant
gratification of buying it, and then the joy of knowing you’ll be keeping it.
This is
also really ladylike – and therefore very unlike me lol. It’s a colour I can
imagine the wives of the VP of Operations wearing. There’s just something so beautiful and
tranquil about the tone of this polish.
Lovely, absolutely lovely.
Have I told
you about my new pledge? My new pledge
is not to swatch my way through life (because I will never be the best
swatcher) but to play with my polish more.
So, 3 times a week, the polish stays on for 2 days, and on the 2nd
day, it must be layered, stamped or arted.
I dabbed
this with a teeny bottle of Max Factor Max Effect in silver, even though it’s
not silver at all. This is almost like a
gossamer mink, and I thought it would really compliment Fearne.
And it
did! Double yay! There’s some lovely
subtle mint green shimmer mixing in with the beige shimmer, giving this a
slightly fairy-jungle overtone.
As for the
splodging, well I didn’t sponge.
Personally I find sponging a glitter wastes too much of it, so I applied
it normally to the tips, waited a few seconds, and then as the brush was drying
out, started smearing it and almost stabbing at with the brush. On some of the nails this worked really
well.
On the
others …. Well, I’ll let you decide J
Enjoy xx J
J
Top Tip – if you’re
ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give
you plenty of contrasts and compares.