Excerpt originally published on The Gloss.
I’ve taken home a lot of lasting lessons from the cinematic masterpiece Showgirls: that a heavy eye paired with a heavy lip can be just right in certain situations, that it’s best not to bounce down a set of metal stairs wearing stilettos if your bewigged mortal enemy is right on your heels, and that no matter how much I bump up my exercise routine, I will never, ever be able to pull off whatever that was that Elizabeth Berkley was doing in that pool scene with Kyle MacLachlan. Ain’t happening; my back doesn’t bend that way.
But the most important lesson I learned? That sequined nails are really quite awesome-looking, and should be permitted a comeback. My nails are incapable of growing more than a nanometer beyond the tips of my fingers without cracking (yes, big sigh), but if they were? I’d be ringing up Liz to trot on over to my place later; the Cristal is on me if she’ll handle the manis. I want gold glitter, and I want Swarovskis, and I want them yesterday.
For everyday wear this summer, however, I want this:
And this:
And – yes! – this:
A fun idea I just saw in Cosmo for those of you not into full-on glitter: try painting all your nails a bright shade (such as the OPI ElePhantastic pictured at top), and then adding a layer of sparkle to your thumbnails only (perhaps the Rescue Beauty Look Rich, Be Cheap pictured at bottom).
What think you?
