I guess it's fitting

As I began painting my nails today, I happened to read this headline:

Today is World Alzheimer's Day - Wear Purple Nail Polish!

Oops. I'm wearing silver. I guess I forgot about Alzheimer's Day.

Music

Do you ever find yourself thinking, "Man, I could really go for some cheesy pop music sung by a guy with tooly hair wearing a tooly vest and a tooly hat who sings at least half in falsetto with extra reverb and is impossible to understand because he doesn't enunciate"?

Yeah, me either.

So why the hell do I love OneRepublic so much?

Aghast

Well, folks, I can end my search for the worst nail polish name ever. Yes, I found awesome names like Starter Wife, Bruised, Phallic, Lemonade-Stand By Your Man, and many more lovely examples of why our world is fucked up. But there's no way to top this one.

Given, this is a lip gloss, not a nail polish. And it's from a company that brought us such gems as Phallic and Load, so I'm not sure what I was expecting. However, that doesn't detract from the WTF-ness. Behold Illamasqua Violate:

Yes, this is a lip gloss called Violate. I shit you not. Someone thought it would be funny or cute or some other appallingly misguided emotion to name a lip gloss Violate, and apparently nobody in the company had a problem with that.

Here's the product description for Violate:

"Super glossy, with a sensual, sheer color designed to enhance your lips. Use Illamasqua Sheer Lipgloss on its own or with Illamasqua Lipstick for added pout. Add a little more sexiness to your smile."

Because nothing says sexy quite like being violated.

Slightly Forgiven

A while back I bitched about the nail polish called Bruised and how much I dislike this name. What a horrible name. Seriously. Not cool.

However, the company that makes this nail polish, Rescue Beauty Lounge, just released their newest collection, called Firebird. Based on the Igor Stravinsky's Firebird suite. Yes, they based a line of nail polish on an Igor Stravinsky piece. Also, they have other nail polishes named Iconoclast, Insouciant, and Decorous.

I guess maybe the awesome names outweigh the stupid name. Or at least enough that I totally want to buy some of their nail polish now. Damn it.

Still not my favorite nail polish name, though. That honor goes to Cult Nails' Unicorn Puke. Because Stravinsky is cool and all, but seriously, it's called Unicorn Puke. Yeah.

Made With Bits of Real Panther?

This is my newest nail polish. Pretty, right?

I have never smelled anything so horrible in my entire life. It smells like someone gave a skunk a breath mint. I'm seriously nauseous right now from the god-awful smell. WTF, China Glaze?

My Nails Are Awesome

Perhaps I'm the only one who cares about nail polish stuff. But seriously, this turned out pretty awesome. My nails are horribly peely and weak, so I have the problem that whenever I paint them, the polish looks awful on the tips, and it chips within a day or so. So I got this brilliant idea that I was going to cover up the tips with some other color. It's pretty much my first attempt at doing something interesting with my nails. It's kind of like the whole gradient idea thing, except that my nails were copper and I wanted to add silver, which doesn't really lend itself to a gradient very well. But who cares. It looks awesome. Check it out:

The ones above are my right hand, which is (in case you're interested in brands) Zoya Penny on my middle and pinky fingers and Julep Zoe on the other two (yes, they're two different coppers that look identical). The silver is Zoya Ginessa.

These ones are Julep Zoe on the middle and pinky fingers and Zoya Penny on the other two with Zoya Laney on the tips.

Seriously, try to tell me that's not awesome. Because you're wrong. Plus, I don't care. I think it's awesome.

Well, It's Official

I just used the words "acupuncturist" and "energy healer" in a sentence, and it wasn't a joke. I'm fairly certain this means I have lost my mind.

Kickass.