Street Wear!

Oh, the 90s were a different time. I was a teenager, grunge was fashionable, and crazy nail polish colors were much harder to find. You whippersnappers don't know how good you have it. In my day, we had pinks, reds, and nudes and we LIKED IT. Not really. They were boring even then.

Sure, there was Hard Candy, but Montgomery, Alabama (where I grew up) wasn't the shopping mecca it is now. Laugh if you will, but Montgomery's come a long way since the 90s, at least as far as shopping goes. And there was no internet... at least not as we know it today. The 90s were like a primitive wasteland. FOR REAL.

But then, at some point in the mid-to-late 90s, Revlon introduced Street Wear nail polish. I LOVED this stuff. I don't even recall what colors I had, and I bit my nails like a madwoman back then, but I loved this stuff anyway. Odd colors! You could buy it at the drugstore! SCORE!

This is all stuff that Claudia from Chromatic Misadventures sent.
From left to right: Taxi, Mmoody (which I'm PRETTY SURE I had as a teenager), Burnt, and Burnt (what?! AGAIN?!)


First up is Taxi, which is a bright (but not anywhere near neon) yellow with shimmer in it. This is, I believe, three coats. This was actually pretty good for a yellow.


This is Mmoody. VERY sheer. I believe this is four or five coats. This would probably look awesome layered over something else, but I was way too lazy for that shiz.


TWO Burnts? What is this fuckery?


SEE? Even the same number on the label!


Burnt the first, a mustard yellow.


And the OTHER Burnt... my favorite of these four! This is like.. olive green? grey? silver? beige? It's very neutral and very duo-chromey. I could never decide what color it was, but I LIKED IT enough to take four pictures.

Looking rather olive-y green.


More green-y.


What is this?! Grey? Slate blue?


Silver and gold? WHAAAA?

Nail of the day... with flakies

Man. I thought about swatching all the polishes I won from Chromatic Misadventures' blog giveaway today. But I overdid it last night and me and my hangover didn't feel like painting my nails over and over.

I DID grab the Street Wear "Tar" she sent and the Colorama flaky topcoat in "Ruby Rays" and came up with something even JJ thinks is awesome.

MAN, I remember seeing those Colorama polishes and never bought them when they were actually being sold. I didn't know about the joy of flakies back then! DAMMIT! If only I'd known!!

Here is what I used:


Look at the flaky goodness in the bottle:


And when you put the two together you get this! It's awesome! The flakies switch from red to orange to yellow to green, depending on the angle and the lighting. It's like having nails OF FIRE.