Black Cherry Nails by Essie

Big news in Southern California today: it rained. You'd think some kind of natural disaster was happening because every local news channel was in storm watch 2014 mode. Dallas Raines, the perfect weatherman for LA, was super stoked obviously.

I love the rain, probably because I was raised here and never got to experience extreme weather when I was growing up. I stared out my window today for about 10 minutes straight, wellies on, grinning like a goof.

Me: HOLY CRAP GREG. Our cars are going to wash away. 
Greg: Our cars aren't going to wash away, Shay. 
Me: But what if they DO!? 
Greg: Then our insurance will cover it and we can get new cars. 
Me: I hope they wash into the front yard of the neighbor with the dog that shits on everyone's lawn.
Greg: That's uphill. 
Me: Good point.

These nail polish bottles almost washed away while taking this picture though. (I'm livin' on the eeedge!)

One of my best friends gave me the Essie's Winter 2013 Cube for Christmas, and I finally got around to trying "Shearling Darling" and "Toggle To The Top" today, the final day of my Red February challenge. I saved these sparkley babies for last because I'm rainy-day-drinking with friends tomorrow in celebration of Greg finishing The Rattler, a graphic novel he's been illustrating for 3 years.

Oh what? What's that you say? It looks like black cherry?

BLACK CHERRIED.

I assume that these two colors were meant to be worn together, one stacked atop the other, because they look too delicious to do otherwise. Shearling Darling looks a lot lighter in the bottle (it goes on as a dark, vampy blood red), while Toggle To The Top is a light red glitter in a transparent cherry slush. 

I give Toggle To The Top one more star than Shearling Darling, because Toggle is red glitter, and red glitter is the best kind of glitter.

Shearling Darling

Toggle to the Top

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