Hi! I'm eleanorjane, aka Elle, and I recently discovered the world of nail polish. That is, all the lovely specialist polish out there, not the bland mainstream stuff sold in pharmacies. Someone got me hooked on Chanel Blue Satin (not my site/pics) and then I found OPI and it was all downhill from there. :)
I've not been bothering too much with makeup lately, as I've had some skin allergy and conjunctivitis issues in the past few years, but I'm finding that I really love nailpolish - it's a part of me that I can primp and preen and feel beautiful about, without all the other body image hangups getting in the way.
My big obstacle is that I don't live in the US, and Australian vendors of non-mainstream nail polish a) have very limited ranges, and b) charge an arm and a leg. For instance, although our dollar's pretty much at parity with the US dollar, a bottle that would be 6-8 dollars in the USA costs 12-20 here. I've been shopping at transdesign.com, but they don't stock Zoya, RBL, Seche, or various other popular brands.
Right now, I'm currently wearing OPI's Yodel Me On My Cell, which is a lovely dark teal shimmer. My current favourite polish is China Glaze's Sea Spray, which is a really interesting light blue-grey with a faint shimmer, and it wears like you wouldn't believe. I have a painful weakness for dark vampy berry/bronze/browns and I own waaaay too many of them. :)
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I've not been bothering too much with makeup lately, as I've had some skin allergy and conjunctivitis issues in the past few years, but I'm finding that I really love nailpolish - it's a part of me that I can primp and preen and feel beautiful about, without all the other body image hangups getting in the way.
My big obstacle is that I don't live in the US, and Australian vendors of non-mainstream nail polish a) have very limited ranges, and b) charge an arm and a leg. For instance, although our dollar's pretty much at parity with the US dollar, a bottle that would be 6-8 dollars in the USA costs 12-20 here. I've been shopping at transdesign.com, but they don't stock Zoya, RBL, Seche, or various other popular brands.
Right now, I'm currently wearing OPI's Yodel Me On My Cell, which is a lovely dark teal shimmer. My current favourite polish is China Glaze's Sea Spray, which is a really interesting light blue-grey with a faint shimmer, and it wears like you wouldn't believe. I have a painful weakness for dark vampy berry/bronze/browns and I own waaaay too many of them. :)