MATTE NAIL POLISH

Last week I was reading the wonderful blog known as Nixxy's Nails - and she was proclaiming her dislike for the new nail trend of matte nail polish. I am sure most of you have heard about Zoya's new collection that will be matte, as well as those KO polishes. I myself stand with Nixxy on this one, matte polish just does not do it for me. While I admit that KO's Liberty nail polish had me intrigued - I still thought it needed a thick, shiny top coat of Seche :)


Anyway, Nixxy got me thinking about matte nail polish and I had a great idea. I do have about three bottles of Maybelline Matte nail polish that I got from the Dollar Tree, so I figured they would be perfect in trying my idea out on.


I got the idea from an episode of Trading Spaces that came on a looooong time ago, like when the show first came out and it was all the rage. Anyway - I saw one of the designers (I think it was Hildy, who normally I don't like her style) paint a wall in a flat or matte paint and then taped off stripes and painted shiny stripes of the same color. I just loved that idea and I have always wanted to do that to a room. So mix one part Nixxy, one part Trading Spaces and one part nail polish and this is what I came up with:

Left blurry in an attempt to really highlight the difference between the matte and shiny areas.