The Bluestocking - Invoking Split Pea Annexe B

[Magpiecomplex]

Welcome all, pull up a gerbil and make yourself comfortable!

Sooooo... Mysterons isn't on the Rainbow Connection w/s, so where did you find it, Magpie? Asking for a friend & not me, who dropped into the store this week for medicinal things & came out with 3 polishes as well.😬

I did get it from Rainbow Connection, maybe they've sold out?! Might be worth emailing to ask if they're going to restock.

What did you get, Android?

Well, it was only Superdrug, but I found a gorgeous Essie:

https://www.essie.co.uk/nail-polish/enamel/metallics-and-glitters/fiercest-of-them-all

which I've sampled over a glossy dark purple & it works fabulously with that, going purple & bronze mmmmmm.

I also got the WD to replace one which is going sticky (so Boily may be right about it not being an up-to-date word), & another Barry M... hang on... Fortune Teller, kind of sheer with iridescent flakies.

Ooh, love the Essie! I'll have to look out for the others.

Suddenly you are all speaking in tongues....

Whimsy is having a bit of a moment, isn't it. My children say "He/she has no whimsy" with a sad little head shake.

I solved my inadvertently deep purple toenail dilemma with some pearlescent deep blue I must have had about 10 years but surprisingly still ok. (I couldn’t find a navy I liked in the the Boots I looked in and CBA to order online…choice is too overwhelming!)

Ah, Marie, I see you too have skipped back from the Allison Bailey thread. I have been joyfully singing 'The wheels on the bus are falling off, falling off, falling off' since I became aware of the judgement.

I'm still wearing chipped red varnish on my toenails. I am going out somewhere right posh tomorrow so need to redo it sharpish. I think its an elderly bottle of Essie - next trip to a big chemist's might involve some new nail varnish.

I've never imagined you with red toenails, Edith (the problem is in the name, I guess). Hope you have a lovely posh time.

I have a couple of other Essie shimmers, an orange & a blue.

https://www.essie.co.uk/nail-polish/nail-art-studio/fiercely-faceted-special-effects

&

https://www.essie.co.uk/nail-polish/nail-art-studio/ethereal-escape-special-effects

Fun to experiment with over other polishes.

I really should get back to making proper art.

But what does it mean? With young people one never knows (feels about 102).

Glittery, colour-shifting tongues.😍

I can see I'm going to have to find an Essie stockist soon! You're a bad influence Android 😉

How do you inadvertently paint your back claws toenails purple? These days with a dodgy knee, I can't even intentionally paint my toenails.

Oh good.

Yes, I imagine nail polish probably wasn't a thing in the 16th and 17th centuries!

1920s, having just looked it up.

Time Marie bought some, then. Imagine 400 years without nail polish.😱

It's only fair, after I introduced you to Rainbow Connection.

I think it might mean "a bit boring" but I'm not certain.
There is also the subculture of whimsygoth

Shoot me now.

The purple nail was courtesy of a bad stub.

Oops. I looked up whimsygoth and I have a feeling that's how I dress most of the time! I'm going to quietly ignore that and continue telling myself I'm expressing my inner magpie.

Thank god! I thought it was just me!!!

TBF, 8 months of the year I mostly seem to wear wellies.

Poshness being much looked forward to.

And me.
The youth are a foreign country