Hello all, a quick post to update on my nails. I did trim it soon after, like I said I would. The length was honestly making texting a chore.

While my nails are short I decided to try on the famous China Glaze shade, For Audrey. I can't believe I have never worn this even though I had purchased it from way back. Though its not that hard to believe, I still have a good amount of polishes still unswatched from before.

Initially I was afraid that the color wouldn't work against my skintone but it all turned out okay. It's a pretty color to wear if I'm thinking of having statement nails.

Also, for the fun of, I painted a little tip on my thumb with a blue Rainbow polish. Here's a group shot of the polishes responsible for the above.

China Glaze For Audrey - Rainbow Polish in 53 (tips)

In the first photo the polish photographs more 'vibrant' but the colors are true-er in the second (bottle shot) photo.

So its a little past mid-week now, hope everyone is coping with the week so far.
Just to share, what do you have on your nails right now? Maybe this might start instilling some google searches and lemmings...

Thanks for reading!

MAC Nail polish in Blue India (Liberty of London collection)

I absolutely love this shade of blue! I can't even describe the color of it, it's not a true deep blue but yet it's still a dark enough color to match every outfit with.
I have been looking for a polish in this shade and I honestly would not have been so attracted to this color if not for a little polish experimentation I had done a couple months ago. All in all, I do like the MAC one. This swatch was about 2 coats of it, I would have added a third but I was too lazy to wait for it to dry.

So here's the dupe part!
Back in end 09 I attended a cousin's wedding and I had a LOTD entry about that. In that entry I talked about this nail polish combo I tried out and I loved and this was how the color turned out:

I don't have a closer shot, so this would have to do. As you can see the nail colors are pretty similar, the MAC one appears to be a little darker. Through this experimentation, I've realized how gorgeous this shade of blue polish is. If you are interested, here is what you need to dupe the MAC color.

Any regular ole black nail polish would do, and Rainbow nail polish in 53.
I know Rainbow isn't a brand that is accessible everywhere, I don't think? I know it's available here in Singapore at a lot of random beauty stores, often going for maybe 2-4 dollars each. Though it could have increased in price, I'm really not sure.

But what I do is put a black base coat first and top it with 1 layer of the Rainbow nail polish, voila~
The tricky part is that the Rainbow polish is a bit 'watery' so you might have to be careful else you can get some streaking.

I hope the dupe helps some of you guys who have been eyeing that MAC color but don't want to fork out the 19 bucks for a polish.

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UPDATE!
I'm adding in a photo of the YSL Stormy Grey nail polish as well for reference and comparison, since that name had been brought up and they seem to belong in the same family of blues

Thanks for reading!