Making The World More Attractive: A winter friendly pedicure

Happy Friday Beautiful People!

I absolutley love fun, painted toes! I am one of those people that paints their toes every week. But in the winter time, my feet get so cold and I don't want to walk around barefoot on the cold wood floors.... So I came up with a "remedy" for a more winter friendly polish change.

I always seem to get holes in the toes of my socks, and one night it dawned on me.... I could just cut the toe off, and use them to keep my feet warm when doing my toes! I though it was pretty brilliant myself. :) SO, if you get cold feet, but want to do your toes, give it a try... really, too easy not to try it :)

I get asked all the time about how I get polish to stay on my toes so long and not chip off. I can usually get polish to stay for about 3 weeks +. There a couple of products that I really like, that I think make a difference. Well, this is what I do....

1-Apply a base coat first. This is important, because some nail polishes can stain your toe nails. I.E. Red polish can stain a toenail a yellow color, and no one wants toes like that. I use OPI's NAIL ENVY, which can act as a base coat, but is also a nail strengthener. (If you have "fake" nails that have just been taken off, this works really well to help build back the brittle nail beds)

2- I apply OPI's CHIP SKIP. It appears to just be a watery liquid, but dry's instantly. I brush that on each toe twice, applying mostly to the edges.

3- Apply 2 coats of nail polish. 2 coats to ensure you get the desired color you want.

4- Let the polish dry completely, and then apply a top coat. I like Essie, OPI and Creative nail's top coats. OPI makes a RAPID DRY top coat, that really dry's fast. 1 coat is sufficient, and 2 will give it more shine.

In the picture I posted, I picked out some of my favorite colors that are in right now. Mostly the current trend is "metal" colors like gray, silver, bronze, etc. And also dark gem tones, like forest green, deep navy blue, indigo, etc.