Ombré Vert

a/k/a  Money Tips.  haha.  Needed green in my life.  I've been thinking to attempt this for a while.

OmbréFrench derivation. meaning shaded. It is used in relation to textiles (a) as an adjective to describe fabrics with a dyed, printed, or woven design in which the colour is graduated from light to dark;

shaded or graduated in tone: said of a color
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Do you realize how difficult it is to find five shades of the same color family that GRADUALLY moves from light to dark??!?!?! Try it. -__-  Still easier than creating the shades yourself though.

I have three other color families to attempt. 

OPI “Gargantuan Green Grape”OPI “Green-wich Village”China Glaze “Four Leaf Clover” (showing up more blue in the photo than in real life)China Glaze “Starboard”OPI “Jade Is the New Black”

Sinful Colors– “Mint Apple”

Mint? maybe.  Apple? not to me.

More like "Mint Moss".  lol.  But that name is not nearly as pleasant as Mint Apple,  I suppose.

It’s still a nice color though.  I need to come up with a better name and send it to the Sinful Colors Marketing Department….

Sinful Colors "Mint Apple"
w/ orange nail art striper

    

Nail Porn

I planned on breaking out my China Glaze Electropop Lights Spring 2012 collection ….. that I wasn’t aware (when I purchased last week), was to be released to the public in FEBRUARY 2012??  *checks calendar*…. LOL… 
  

it’s still winter anyway.
At any rate, my wonderful sister brought me a Zoya nail polish delivery….
and. I. Lusted.

Zoya “Veruschka”

 

I don’t know what the name means, but it must be something sexy because when I tell you I swooned... SMH.   If I didn’t like matte polish before……
……..it was because I hadn’t met Zoya.
this must be the most beautiful forest green I have ever experienced.  No, not seen…. experienced.  There is nothing I don’t love about this polish.  The brush is beautiful.  The formulation is smooth…. and has the prettiest shimmer, which gives the matte depth.  It’s beautiful.
There. are. no. more. words.
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