Nubbins week: Crows Toes Tequila Sunrise

I like medium long nails - well, for me this means long nails. I wlaked this planet for many years with nubs. Most of the time I feel pretty good with this medium lenght, i.e. looking at them or painting them. But that constant clack clack clack when typing - and I type a lot as an Admin Assistant - gives me THE CREEPS!!! Last Friday I could not stand it any longer and chopped them off merciless. Polish-wise this means noticeable less space to paint my nails. It means chunky glitters and studs stand out disproportionally large against the size of my nails. Or Effect Top Coats just loose their amp when not enough space on the nail. So this means for my nubbies I need to change my usualy polish pattern a bit. This week will show all my nubbins-favorites.

And I want to start with a real stunner: I indulged in buying many of Crows Toes polishes of the springTHIS Collection - just look at the gorgeous Tequila Sunrise:

the above picture is taken indoors in daylight, the below photo outside in the sun

and another sunshine photo showing more of the green golden shimmer

outside in the shade

 in artificial light

I applied three coats of Tequila Sunrise over Zoya Anchor Base Coat. Isn't the greenish shimmer just mesmerizing??? I applied those three coats with a featherlight hand to avoid brush strokes. The formula is great - the first coat goes on sheer and can look patchy. A second medium thick coat levels everything out. I find the consistency hard to describe - who would want to read "perfect", "applied in a breeze" etc on and on? Well, the consistency is sheer though not runny. The soft and narrow brush holds a perfect amount of polish that is acting nearly like a cream though we don't talk glue or glop here.

I like Tequila Sunrise best at three coats - max shimmer, max saturated base color ;-)!!! For those who wonder how Tequilla Sunrise looks at two coats I added a photo showing it at two coats - while the shimmer is pretty strong the pink is less saturated and intense than at three coats:

Final thoughts: I am not into pinks but Tequila Sunrise most certainly is one big exception!!! It's green shimmer makes it über-cool (yep, one of those weird, in dictionaries not really existing words, but I swear, I repeatedly read it in American VOGUE!!!). Crows Toes is in my eyes one of the coolest - or hottest - Indie Brands out there and I am so ready to see the new shades!!!!

I ordered Crows Toes Tequila Sunrise with Llarowe.

I look forward to reading your comments - thanks for visiting!!!
Christine