AW14 Nail Colour Palette
The other week, I started
pondering my colour palettes for the coming season. Just so I’m prepared for
when it happens.
I always find autumn creeps
up on me, and BAM, I’m in full cold weather regalia, wiggling numb
toes in the vain hope they might come back to life before I go back inside. (They
never do). Therefore preparations have begun, though mostly in my head, and nail
colours are the easiest for me to decide. (I’m also on a mission to find the
perfect dark red/plum coloured lip product, but more on that later…)
So far, I have settled
on an almost-black navy blue by Umberto Giannini, as well as a dark grey (very
akin to ‘rainy-sky’ and ‘wet pavement’) and a dark red from Barry M.
The blue was a specific
one, I wanted a colour so dark that it could be black, but isn’t quite. And
frankly, after I saw the blue eye make-up on this season’s catwalks, it had to
be a blue. This shade by Umberto Giannini is perfect, but unfortunately I haven’t
seen it anywhere in a while. It was part of a gift set a couple of Christmases back
and though I wasn’t sure at the time, but I recently rediscovered the colour
and I love it! So if you see it…get it, and if not, a very black-blue is about
right!
The Barry M colours are
much more accessible: I bought them in Superdrug the other week. They are ‘Red
Black’ and ‘Grey’ in the Classic line. In the bottle, the red looks almost
brown and because it is so dark, it is slightly brown. However, the colour is rich
and reminds me of fallen leaves (while that is a bit cheesy, that was the kind
of shade I had in mind, so this is It!)
The grey is pretty much
a normal mid-dark one, but that’s good: I can go one coat for a lighter shade
and build it up if I want it darker. Buying this, I wanted a neutral option to
replace summer’s defining white, which I could wear as a full nail colour. As black
is a little severe, I went for the halfway house and bought a grey called grey.
For this post, I wanted
to be able to show each colour without repainting all of my nails three times,
or wearing alternating fingers รก la my 12 year old self, so I went a little
arty. Actually I quite like the result and intend to repeat it, so all good!
(In case you wanted to
know, I applied a base and then used nail painting guides to help get the
curves even and where I wanted them. Finally, I applied a gloss top coat. Easy!)
PS/ I’m also in the market for the perfect
bronze/brown, so any suggestions, please let me know!
SHOPPING
LIST
‘Red
Black’ and ‘Grey’ by Barry M
Umberto
Giannini ‘Love letter Blue’
(Or a black-blue, if you
can’t get it) ((If you can, let me know where!))
