NOTW: Nails Of The Week - Julep's Lucy & Lippmann's Devil In A Blue Dress

Starting something new! NOTW! Nails Of The Week. I've been doing my own manicures since #1 I'm a ballah on a budget and #2 I stopped getting acrylics done. I do miss having the perfect, fake nails, but they wreck your real nails. DIY manis can be nerve wracking and relaxing at the same time, but I do enjoy spending my Sunday nights doing my nails. I've been doing the "odd one out" nail for a month now. The left ring finger nail. Why? Because it is on that damn finger that's why. Visual reminder of that. *smirk*
I recently just had Pumpkin Glycolic Pedicure at Julep and was given a bottle of the vernis of the color used to paint my toes. The deepest red Lucy from their Fall colors. Great time to have matchy matchy tips and toes, along with the odd one out. I used Lippmann's Devil In A Blue Dress from the Party Like A Rock Star set that was featured in last week's Matte Nails+1 Shiney post.

The odd one out is subtle & I like that! While I did like the run with Sephora for OPI's What's A Tire Jack, matte polishes wear more quickly. I know that my manicure will last this week with maybe a few small chips, but nothing bothersome like last week's manicure.

Tip for cleaning up the edges: dip your orange wood stick into nail polish remover and swipe along the cuticles & sides for a cleaner edge. The vernisseurs at Julep use this method and I found it works better than those "pens" with nail polish remover in them to clean up the edges. Those can be too big for smaller nail beds and you risk smearing!

Matte Nails + 1 Shiney - OPI & Lippmann Polishes

Back to darks! I love Fall/Winter dark nailpolishes. While they can be messy to apply, they make my tips look HAWT! This season, matte is back! Make up & nail polish included. I wanted to give it a try & see what it would be like to have some murdered out nails. Bring it!

I picked up the Lippmann Party Like A Rockstar gift set last Christmas and just bought Sephora for O.P.I.'s What's A Tire Jack, a black matte nail laquer.

Sephora for O.P.I. What's A Tire Jack?

Lippmann Collection - Party Like A Rockstar. L-R Good Girl Gone Bad, Devil In A Blue Dress &Addicted To Speed Topcoat.

I used Good Girl Gone Bad for my left ring fingernail. Odd one out...always.

And here's the result. I saw that Kim K. had done her nails in a matte black and had the tips painted with a topcoat, french manicure style.

Good Girl Gone Bad with Addicted To Speed Topcoat wears very well! I applied Zoya's Anchor Basecoat as well & so far no chips! Now for the downfall of What's A Tire Jack? It chips EASILY. Even with topcoat on my tips. :\ One day of wear and a couple of fingertips are already chipped. I'm going to have to make sure to wrap the topcoat under my nails better which might help with the wear. Other than that...I LOVE THE MATTE LOOK! It really looks like rubber on my fingertips. Hotness! Like I said before, no more acrylic nails for me. The raggedness is still growing out! From now on, its all me!