The formula is perfection and required no clean-up! I did three coats here. However, I will warn you: Apparently, this STAINS. I've worn Planks A Lot before without a basecoat and never had any problems, but this time around, I was painting my nails at a friend's house and had forgotten to bring my basecoat with me. Since I'd never had any problems with Planks A Lot in the past, I just went right ahead painting without a basecoat, only to be punished a few days later with one of the worst cases of smurf fingers I've ever had. Not fun.
Today, I thought I'd leave you with a little story. I have a good friend who is a fellow polishaholic. Her BF has volunteered to do a detailed re-organization of my stash for me, despite my repeated warnings that he's biting off more than he can chew. He was insistent that he wanted to do it, so originally I was just going to have him organize by brand, then by color, then sort each color by "sparkly," "non-sparkly" and "glitter." But last weekend, he told us he wants to learn ALL the different finishes so he can organize my stash "the right way." My friend and I had a blast teaching and quizzing him and he's gotten really good at identifying finishes now.
Afterwards, he asked me to paint his nails. He originally wanted a manicure with China Glaze Love Marilyn but we warned him that'd be hard to get off. (His response: "Oh, so I'd have to foil it?" Can you tell he has to suffer through waaayyy too many conversations about nail polish?) My friend gave herself a Love Marilyn manicure instead and we had him pick out ten colors for a skittles mani. Then he wanted to do crackle skittles on top too. So here is the end result: the "MANicure." I think he actually has a good eye for color combos, don't you?
LOL..that's adorable. What a good sport! :) I love that, you'd have to foil it.. he seems to know his polishes ;)
ReplyDeleteMy friend told me he gave himself a stripe mani yesterday and he texted me a picture of it this morning. A monster has been created hahaha. But yes, he knows his polishes! He is often enlisted to help my friend when she's got foiled or wet nails; you know how it is. :)
DeleteAww, that is awesome! I beg Hubs every now and then to let me paint his, but he is dead set against it. Maybe Daddy will let me do it....
ReplyDeleteI bet he would! You are his little girl, after all. :)
DeleteI didn't bought "planks a lot" but "Sparrow me the drama", "Mermaid's tears", "Silver shatter" and my favourite grey "Gloss & skullbones". And I did have the light green one but I sold it on Ebay because it didn't look good on me. Please excuse my bad English but I'm sure you know what I mean :)
ReplyDeleteYour English is great! I never have a problem understanding your comments, so no worries. :) The grey from that collection is sooo pretty, it's one of my favs too! The only one I'm not 100% sure about on me is Steady As She Rose, but I still like it. :)
DeleteLove that purple!!! Fun skittles too!
ReplyDeleteThanks Meredith! :)
Deletei love that purple! one of my faves :)
ReplyDeleteIt's one of mine too! :)
DeleteThis looks beautiful on you!!! I love the "grimey" description lol. And whatta guy to re-organize your stashes! Loving the "man-icure" too lol.
ReplyDeleteThank you! And yes, he is actually excited about it too, for whatever reason. Not that I'm complaining though! I'm looking forward to having everything newly organized! :)
DeleteLove this polish!
ReplyDeleteThanks Nory!
DeleteWhat we do to guys...
ReplyDeleteBut this purple is beautiful! Such a shame about the staining. I absolutely hate that....even more than glitter removal!
I only have Mermaid's Tears from that collection and it stains soooooo bad. My nails look like there is no circulation to them because they are so blue! But, I love the color, so I just use a really good basecoat and pray. lol
ReplyDeleteLove the MANicure too...great story!