This is Maybelline Forever Strong Super Stay 7 Days gel nail colour in Carbon Grey #815. So far it’s been on for 3-4 days and showing no signs of wear – impressed. It’s a really nice dark gunmetal grey with just the right amount of shimmer to it, and the finish has stayed really shiny. I applied two coats to get the opacity I like.
Along the tips of my nails I put some little diamond stickers just for fun. The purple nail is a Sephora colour.
High five!
This blog is about makeup, and this photo is of a man wearing quite a bit of makeup. So the relevance is tenuous, yes, and I’m happy to admit I just wanted to post a photo of me with the lovely Olli Herman, of Finnish glam rock outfit Reckless Love.
That’s us out the front of the Cathouse in Glasgow, after their gig in October 2012. A lot of people, upon seeing this photo, don’t realise at first that he’s a bloke, but he’s all man in real life, oh yes. Even with all the fake tan, eyeliner, long blond hair extensions, lip gloss, coconut-scented hairspray, bronzer, false eyelashes, skin-tight velvet trousers etc etc etc.
A few things you can take away from today’s post:
1. Men in makeup are hot. There were a lot of screaming women at that gig. Men in makeup are also manly. There were also a lot of rough, tough, tattoo’d, bearded, leather-wearing metal men there who were taking it seriously.
2. Anyone can pull anything off, so you should just wear whatever you want all the time, and don’t worry about what anyone thinks, because it actually doesn’t matter. Regardless of what you look like, there are always going to be people who think you look good and people who don’t think you look good, but if you like how you look, who gives a shit what anyone else thinks anyway. Go see Reckless Love just quickly for a crash course in confidence; they’re amazing and very, very entertaining.
3. If you want makeup to show up in photos, you really do have to trowel it on. I thought I’d gone a bit wild on my own eyeliner that night, but next to Olli I look relatively bare-faced! Haha
Also, you have a right to know that I was wearing a pair of fingerless pleather studded gloves when that photo was taken. Details are important.
“My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort.” – Isabella Blow
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