when i saw her and her nails on tv, i just had to run the the computer and do a google search to find out up close what color she is wearing.  i love this on her.  a bright, bold orange-red crème that coordinates well with the matching  undergarment of her tennis outfit and is perfect for the summer season down under.

i love that she wears these bold colors, i wonder if she is a nail polish addict in the making?

another manicure sighting i liked were these minty green nails sported by the russian maria kirilenko:

ana ivanovic was bounced out of the tournament early, but she stuck around to watch the action and decided to wear a pretty taupe-brown color:

aggie radwanska, from poland, with a flattering tyrian purple color on her nails.  but this picture just makes me LOL:

the face of her racket just broke clean off during a rally!  surely that’s a first!



and though it is a little hard to tell, i spy venus williams wearing purple nail polish as well!  she hardly ever wears nails polish on the courts:

so yea that’s my comeback post lol.  i know not everyone likes tennis like i do, but surely there are some tennis fans out in the interwebs who also happen to share my “obsession” with nail polish, right?  i’ve been ghost for the past week or so, but i’m trying to catch up with reading and commenting on other nail blogs as well as updating my own.  i just started spring semester and had a ton of work to do.  aaaaaand, i had to “nubbin-ize” my nails for clinical so that i wouldn’t cause problems by inadvertently scratching a patient or myself.  well, at least that’s what my clinical instructor told me. :rollseyes: so i will be keeping it low-key for a while and probably won’t change my nail polish as often.



thanks for reading!

the only downside is that the shades are a bit on the sheer side.  “great exectations” was 4 or maybe 5 coats– i lost count and just kept adding more coats until it was somewhat opaque.  but, once you get past that, the color is really pretty: a soft dove gray.  there is also a subtle silver shimmer that’s barely noticeable, so it’s not quite a crème finish.

“great expectations” with a bow ^.^  hmm, the polish is looking a little purple-y here which it tends to do sometimes if the lighting and the angles are right.  strange.



as always, thanks for looking!

“gold glitz” is still a nice color though.  it definitely makes up for the fingerpaints “holly good time” that i missed out on late last year.  it’s not exactly a “one coat glitter” as milani advertised.  this was opaque in two, still a whole lot better than some other glitters so no complaints here. 



thanks for looking!

 
then i painted glitter french tips with pure ice “spitfire.”   i just dabbed three coats to make it as dense as possible (in hindsight, i would have been better off using loose glitter.)



on the ring fingers, the french tip and half moons are done using 1 and 2 mm rhinestones.  and i also applied rhinestones at the base of the other nails.  the inspiration for the design came from a japanese nail art mag.  i love japanese nail art, even though some of the designs are a little too impractical for my lifestyle.

 
this might be my favorite nail design i’ve done in a while.  thanks for looking, and again HAPPY NEW YEAR!