t&h Signature nail polish Autumn/Winter 2011

t&h Signature nail polish Autumn/Winter 2011

colors 020, 018, 019

t&h Disagreen swatchy notd

 Disagreen is one of the first colors i planned for t&h. 

The name is a Ravelry reference since i have a few colors named for the amusement of my polish hoars on LSG Gets Nailed. it's the color i attempted to mix up right after the spontaneously created 001. i went through a few batches, some too light, some too blue, some too thin... i kept mixing but didn't feel like it was quite what i was going for. somehow unfinished. <- like that sentence.

that was just from looking at it in the bottle and swiping it on paper. i disagreed with the color, not feeling i was getting the color i envisioned. it was a bit frustrating actually. i left the batch aside and moved on to other colors feeling this one was just not there yet.

last night while trying to organize the rest of the t&h colors 

i decided to pour this into a t&h bottle give it a proper swatching.this color that was so disagreeable and giving me so much trouble. i had pulled out Kleancolor Chunky Holo Clover to top this with. thinking it would add that pop that i felt was missing from this green.

most accurate color representation so far.

i couldn't cover it up! to my amazement, it's even better that i had mentally pictured! just what i was going for. which proves (as if it had never been proven to me before time & time again) not to judge something based on looks alone. especially polishes. they look so different once they are on.

the moment i stroked the wet brush onto my nail i had to disagreen with my own self. "how could you think this color was blah? it's a magnificent green!" 

so i present to you, my sleeper favorite (shhh! don't tel the others!) 

 Disagreen, a disagreeably agreeable dark jelly green.

are there colors in your polish stash you are avoiding using because you disagree with them? have you had a color that you finally tried and were pleasantly surprised to love? do you agree or disagree with Disagreen?

AND WE'RE LIVE!!! plus vintage Hard Candy notd

woot! shop listings are live! it's a very exciting time! i'll keep working on getting better photos & enhancing the descriptions but in the meantime, i'm running with what i've got. 

here are some photos:

group shot

this grey cremey was an accident and i love it. 

 glitter in the air-like franken

 008

 010

 012

 001

 009

 006

 fairy farts

glittertits

incognito 

and now, NOTD: vintage Hard Candy in Serendipity 

thanks for looking! 

productivity

here's what i've been doing today...

 

Incognito

 Fariy Farts 

 agreen

 008

 006

 011

011 & 010 

sorry for the frazzled nails y'all. my hands have been in paint an acetone all day. i snapped these quick before tidying up. better pics, color descriptions & swatches to come.

t&h signature handblended nail polish color 001

the first color blended for t&h's Signature line

holo sparks floating in deep blue jelly

 hard to capture the rainbows in focus

the first batch

tweeandhoney.bigcartel.com

t&h color 006

this month has been absolutely bonkers. bridesmaiding for a dear friend’s wedding on top of getting everything together to launch t&h handblends has eaten the month of May 2011 never to be seen again! lol

now that the wedding weekend and memorial day comes to a close i managed to sneak enough time to myself to whip up a new color, yet unnamed, it’s the sixth color i’ve come up with for t&h:

you are looking at a sheer, subtle grey jelly with soft silver sparkle. whaddaya think? i am going to give it a try asap. i’ll put up pics when i do. now i am off to get ready for the last big bridesmaiding hoopla- dinner and a movie to close out the weekend. i predict June is going to be a whirlwind

franken NOTD Glitter in The Air

inspired by Deborah Lippman’s Glitter in the Air and Rebecca Likes Nails a buncha LSG Get’s Nailed hoars started frankening away. i followed suit, but was in the mood for a minty green. this is what i came up with:

it’s settles like crazy but most glittery frankens settle like crazy don’t they? the color is most accurate in the first photo.

i kept it kinda sheer so it’s needs 3 coats. i really love the way it layers so the glitters are at different levels. i also did a blue but i haven’t tried it yet.

what do yo think? have you frankened anything lately? are you running out to buy Party of Five Glitters right now?

001

  take a sneak peek at the first color created for t&h signature. i am so excited!

blurred for mysteriousness & to highlight the sparkle