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product_junkiesIf you like painting bits of yourself but don't really do femme, it can be a problem finding appealing products. And I do like matte nail varnish. Thus, my ears perked up when I heard about this stuff, though my eyebrows went up too.
ManGlaze, the manliest nail polish known to man. Stupid? Ironic? (They sponsor an all-women snowboarding film crew). Hipster stupid? Subverting conceptions of masculinity? The product of people who admit they were "pretty trashed" at the time they came up with the idea?
I cycled through these various thoughts, and settled on Oh damn, I want that matte grey.
It looks very sparkly in the bottle, but dries to an interesting grainy texture, pretty much like brushed metal, with a fairly dull sheen. On me, it came out as dark grey with blue undertones.
I really like it, and will be enjoying it until my next climbing day when I will mangle the shit out of it as per usual.
For the record, my fingers don't normally look that weirdly-shaped.
Here's what it looks like on someone who has nails that are more than a millimetre long and who can actually apply nail varnish.
ManGlaze, the manliest nail polish known to man. Stupid? Ironic? (They sponsor an all-women snowboarding film crew). Hipster stupid? Subverting conceptions of masculinity? The product of people who admit they were "pretty trashed" at the time they came up with the idea?
I cycled through these various thoughts, and settled on Oh damn, I want that matte grey.
It looks very sparkly in the bottle, but dries to an interesting grainy texture, pretty much like brushed metal, with a fairly dull sheen. On me, it came out as dark grey with blue undertones.
I really like it, and will be enjoying it until my next climbing day when I will mangle the shit out of it as per usual.
For the record, my fingers don't normally look that weirdly-shaped.
Here's what it looks like on someone who has nails that are more than a millimetre long and who can actually apply nail varnish.
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Date: 2011-05-29 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-29 09:21 pm (UTC)"That motivation finally came one weekend when my friend Cory came to town to see the band GWAR. We were out drinking and he was stuck on the word ‘man-glaze’ for some reason. He was just goofing on it constantly and wouldn’t stop. It became the theme for the night. GWAR does this thing where they shoot various bodily fluids all over the audience. So the show reinforced the whole ‘man-glaze’ theme. Finally, at some point, either that night or the next morning (it’s still a bit hazy) one of us was like ‘dude, Manglaze would be an awesome name for that nail polish idea’. It made sense even once I sobered up the next day and we just thought the name was so damn funny, we had to do it."
And I'm still really liking the polish. The matte-with-sparkles effect is something I haven't seen before.
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Date: 2011-05-29 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-29 05:03 pm (UTC)It might be a good option if you want to play around with it, or have colours you already love and would like to experiment with mattifying.
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Date: 2011-05-29 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-02 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-02 09:18 pm (UTC)