Best of 2012 - Green Polishes

Hi Goddesses

Given my love / hate relationship with green, it won't surprise you to know that this is a fairly short post ha ha.  I think I've actually worn quite a lot of green this year, but not much of it has looked good on me.

This post then has the greens I have liked and kept, and excludes the greens I liked but which hated me - Cult Nails Deal With It, I'm looking at you !  As before, just click on the polish name to be taken to the original post and swatches.

OPI - Don't Talk Bach To Me

The perfect fugly colour, this is a yellowy baby poop green, laced with shimmer from the OPI Germany Collex.  I loved it, and I've just about convinced myself I can keep it.

OPI - Thanks A Windmillion

Another OPI winner, this time from their Holland Collection.  This is dusty and cool-toned and therefore perfect for my skin tone.  Beautiful sage shade.

Dollish Polish - Zombie Flesh

I don't actually know if this is technically a 2012 polish, but it's one I wanted for most of the year.  Amazing green tones and glitters, lifted into the extraordinary by those pesky black glitters.

Sonoma Nail Art - Here Lies Robert

Sonoma is one of the great indie success stories of the year, and this graveside glitter is a winner through and through.  Black, silver and green blades of grass.

Butter London - Bossy Boots

Creamy and dreamy, this is a beautiful green, slightly yellow in tone.  Celery soup in a bottle.  And nooooo, of course I didn't buy it for the name ......

Crows Toes - Frog's Breath

A magical green and gold glitter, this has enough magic to take your breath away.  A cut above your standard glitterbomb.

So which was your favourite greenie?  I know there are LOADS I've left out ... which one did it for you ?

Enjoy xx :)

Halloweenie - Dollish Polish - Zombie Flesh

Hi Goddesses

Wow, there's a lot of GREEN on this blog at the moment.  Ironic, huh?   As if I didn't struggle enough wearing green, and then they have to make it the colour for Depression Awareness too?  Well, I guess I should feel lucky they didn't pick yellow :/

Now today is a special day.  It's a green.  I like it.  AND it likes me.  Wahooooo!

As you know, me and green polishes .... nah.  It's never happy.  For this reason, I always resisted Dollish Polish's Zombie Flesh, beautiful though it is .... until I saw it a few months ago on Chloe's Nails and yes, my first green lemming was born!

So why did this one squeeze through my defenses?   Well, the complexity.  There's a LOT going on, and I love it for that - but not so much that any one component overpowers the rest.

Firstly, the base is a dirty khaki / crocodile green, with smudges of swamp and grey.   I am sat here convincing myself that this is *precisely* the shade of green that's perfect for my skin tone :)

Then it's loaded with tiny black glitter.  Pustules?  Scabs ?  Hair follicles ?  Who knows, I'm not good with zombie folklore.

Then we have microscopic electric green-yellow glitter.  Subtle dazzle.  Great juxtaposition with the black, and the dead tone of the green.

Usually at the end of a green glitter polish post I end it feeling "appreciative" of the art that went into it, but slightly sick, cos, you know, it's GREEN.  But not with this one.  I genuinely like this, so it's going to live in my very small "green box" with a very few select friends!


Enjoy xx :)