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Posted on | November 29, 2009 | 1 Comment

To be honest, I’m not much of a product girl when it comes to cosmetics. And I hate cosmetics advertising, moronic with all that pseudo-science. F**k, I feel my blood pressure rising when just thinking of it. Sorry, guys… …but this is such an issue to me that I try to select brands that do not advertise at all for skin and hair care — both product types guilty for worst sci-fi-ence babble and empty promises as an essence of their marketing strategy.

My daily makeup is really light, a quick whiff of mineral makeup base, some mineral bronzer and/or blush, mascara, brow color and lip balm, probably dabbed lightly with lipstick. Perhaps some gel liner, if I rather procrastinate than leave home…

But I like painted, short nails. Usually bright or dark. For nude look I opt for bare nails instead of painted — duh, what’s the point of painting them if you barely see the result. Bright or dark nails act as an accessory, methinks.

manglaze

ManGlaze makes some awesome but very affordable, matte but shimmering nail polish; good enough for Gareth Pugh show! Love the package design with Joe Simko graphics — and their swift customer service kicks ass.

They have only two colors currently, black and gray. But isn’t that all a man… …er… girl needs? Got them on the last summer and they have been my favorite since. Recently they added bit pricier matte topcoats to their selection, a plain and shimmery one. Haven’t tested them yet, but they promise to take the crappy gloss away from any polish… …well that’s the kind of marketing promise I’m able to swallow.

colorclub

This is my happy neon Color Club family. CC is my second favorite brand, cheap, awesome quality and great color palette from classic to unconventional.

essie

Essie is better known for very ladylike colors, but they also have great brights. In their holiday colors they have a promising mint green, too…

nivea

Nivea is available here in every supermarket. They don’t have a wide color selection but I love the jellylike finish of these brights. Rimmel is another great supermarket brand for polishes, they have one awesomely tacky eighties teal green with tons of shimmer.

green

Green… …I love it! OPI has a great and very affordable alternative to Chanel Jade (color name Hey Get in Lime, how lame, this even isn’t lime) — well not that affordable in Finland but I suggest ordering online. Misa does great and cheap polishes, this darker, tealish green is Dirty Sexy Money.

red

For my classic moments (mwahahaha!) I opt for Chanel Rouge Noir or Rescue Beauty Lounge Glamourpuss.

fuggenugly

My manglazed nails, ain’t they fuggen ugly?

Discussion

Jalouse
November 29th, 2009 @ 4:08 pm

Lovely and inclusive collection! I find it hard to find polish that lasts longer than a day while working, but am on with the testing.

I think I could try those man glased ones, there seems to be just the colors I need

And I´m with you with that neutral color– thing. Without any polish is just so simple, and hey, it´s fast if something!!

What do you think?

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