Pink Ombre Manicure & What to Do When You Fall Out of Love With a Brand?

Hey guys,

So first I want to talk about something thats been bugging me for a while and I want to talk about. I considered putting this in it's own post but decided in the end to stick it with random manicure instead. Feel free to just skip the part and head on down to the pictures below.

Anyways so something I've been thinking a lot about lately is "What do you do when you've fallen out of love with a brand or company?" This doesn't have to apply strictly to nail polish although in my case it does.
In my case this is Cult Nails. Now I really do like the polish itself (I almost feel like I'm in a "Don't bring the kids into this" position, the kids being the nail polish) It usually has a great formula and there are some really fun colours (Yes, Flushed & Charming I'm looking at you two). However I feel like I really just can't support the actual company. A couple months back when Cult Nails reached a milestone on Facebook they had a sale, right in the middle of my no buy. So of course me and a friend took to Twitter to whine about being in the middle of our no buy. We were totally both on board to break our no buy and splurge and hoard some more Cult Nails. When we actually got a reply out of Maria. All it said was "Sorry?" Now the adult in me is saying "Stop being a baby, suck it up"
Bottomline is I felt a little bit unappreciated as a customer. Whether or not it is justified.
Now I find myself looking at my polishes I have with a bit of resentment, then I feel guilty (polishes have feelings right?)
I wish this had happened after I had grabbed a few more polishes I (still) want, I wish I could be less immature about this.
So really what happens next? Guess only time will tell.

 

On a lighter less whiney note: I love a good ombre mani even though I tend to really suck at them (for some reason I aways pick a colour that just throws everything off) Anyways I thought this one was decent enough to share with you guys. I was rockin some pretty serious nubs when I did this too. blech I hate when my nails are that short however it has to be done sometimes. Then I topped all the pinks off with a coat of Zoya Chloe and then some Matte About You.

For this I used

Essie - Foot Loose

 Zoya - Whitney
OPI - If You Moust You Moust

OPI - Sparrow Me The Drama

OPI - Pink Friday

Zoya - Chloe

Blue Pearl Ombre

So before we start I need to tell you about the dream I had last night. So apparently I had some latent anxiety about coming to work today. Probably because the rest of the the girls in my posse are still on vacation and there was supposed to be a new girl starting. So anyways in my dream, new girl turned out to be a total putz. I had to take down 3 huge christmas trees (seriously, I needed a ladder and almost killed myself in my dream). However as a random turn of events both Mark & Donnie Wahlberg both had gotten jobs as Project Managers, and needless to say I was at my desk yelling DONNIE D! I NEEEED YOU! I NEED BACK UP! (this is where I start reciting "Good Vibrations" lyrics in my head) and THEEEENNN my alarm went off and I woke up thinking "whhhattt the f**k is THAT!?" even though my alarm has been the same for like a million months.

Okay anyways that was my crazy cracked out dream.

Needless to say when I arrived at work neither of the Walhbergs had taken a job.

On with the SHOW.

Super subtle blue ombre nails.

The photos don't really do it justice. I wasn't 100% sure I was going to like it but I'm actually loving it.

So I started with 2 coats of OPI Alpine Snow (I won't post the bottle pic because I've posted it before)

Then grabbed SpaRitual She's A River

I don't think I've actually ever used this polish before and I've had it for .... too many years.

It's a opalescent pearly blue colour.

I layered it four times starting about 3/4 the way down my nail with the sections getting smaller.

Then slapped on some SV.

Heres how it turned out.

Looks better in person. I wish I could take a picture with my eyeballs

I got in a fight with the christmas tree at work which is why my hands are all beat up. Just in case you were wondering. You probably weren't.