Shades of grey

I did something a little bit different this week, while managing to use one of  my alltime favourite designs. I nearly always go for simplicity - if I can't draw/paint it with my left hand (and I'm not left-handed) then I really don't want to do it. Ok, my right hand looks awful regardless, but at least not *as* bad as it could.

The basic colour scheme this week evolved over breakfast on Saturday. As anybody who knows me well knows, I am always on the look out for colours and patterns that I like. And if I see a friend wearing a colour that I like, I am always going to figure out a way to use it.

So on Saturday morning I was sitting in my neighbours' flat, and looking at my friend Heather's grey nail polish. And I liked it. I have a few silvers at home, but I don't have a nice flat grey. And looking at it, I realised it was the perfect thing to go with my purple. But first, I had to figure out a design.

In the end, I plumped for the classic French polish - a design that would never interest me the 'normal' way, especially as my bare nails look better than that anyway - and hovered between grey with purple tips, or purple with grey. Such a hard decision - it took me ages to ask Heather to borrow the polish, just because I couldn't decide.


In the end, I went with grey with purple tips, I can't even remember why. I just thought it would look stunning. And it did.

I also, however, loved it with just the grey and was seriously tempted to leave it like that.

It's actually really good nail polish - that was the covering with one coat. But I ended up with two, just for the extra staying power. I also painted my right hand with green tips, instead of purple, as I realised the green would also look good with the grey. Though, writing that out just reminded me forcibly of my school uniform, which is not so cool.

And of course, with my left hand, I have awful nail painting skills...

I don't think the green looked *quite* as good as the grey, but in real life, it is still pretty nice. The purple however, was just perfect. Unfortunately, without my chip skip, basecoat or top coat, it started chipping on Monday. But on Sunday, just for a while, they were perfect.