Smelly grapes

Long time no write. I'm so deep into this Swedish fall shit that inspiration is almost gone. I'd rather just watch Battlestar Galactica and eat chocolate than struggle with an impossible lighting situation and trying to edit crappy photos, but here's a manicure I'm actually wearing right now, that I'm sooo in love with. Check out Revlon Grape Fizz!

This last photo is weirdly lit, but I decided to publish it anyway. It has a mixture of daylight and tungsten lightbulb lightning that for some reason brings out the duochrome depth in a desirable, yet crappy, way. All these photos were shot with my DSLR, because trying with the compact is no use when polishes contain that magenta element. (Conversion from RAW format to JPG causes loss of magenta too, but less than straight shooting directly to a JPG file.)

This is two coats of the rather sheer but glassfleck packed Grape Fizz, over equally many coats of Essence Rock It, Baby!, which turned out to have duochrome properties as well (but I took no photos of it alone because it was late at night). Grape Fizz is one or two years old, but ebay is your friend, and I was lucky to find it very cheap there. Oh, and it's scented. Not that I favorize polishes that are, but it's worth mentioning, if you're prone to feelings of nausea.

Sometimes I forget how much I love purple nail polish, but then I wear it and I fall in love all over again. I can't take this off because it's just too pretty and the wear has been fantastic - I'll give OPI Bond Aid and my new topcoat the credit for this. This particular topcoat is called Hong Kong Girl, but I want to test drive it a little more thoroughly before I can fully recommend it. But the surface is still flawless after almost 48 hours, which is good for someone who does more household work than she'd like.

Grape Fizz was purchased with own funds.
Rock It, Baby! was a personal gift.

Swedish word of the day:
vindruva -noun grape
Actually used to grow in Sweden too, about 1000 years ago...