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Good morning, everyone. Today I want to talk about brown nail varnish. I’m not entirely sure when my obsession with all things brown took over but perhaps it was a natural progression from black. I used to wear a lot of black.
When I first started collecting nail varnish, for quite a while, I had more purples than any other shades. And don’t get me wrong, I still love my purples, but for some reason I don’t reach for them as frequently as I do for other shades in my collection.
So. I’m not entirely certain when The Great Brown Takeover happened, but there we have it. You’ve been seeing a lot of these shades on here recently and I think that’s because i have been drawn to them during the course of the winter. Maybe it’s the everyday nail varnish equivalent of a little black (brown) dress to me.
Here we have a particularly glorious specimen.
Cheryl is from Zoya’s Wicked collection of summer 2010. If you recall, I managed to win myself a Twitter competition by correctly predicting the winners of the World Cup tournament (well done me, especially as I know naff all about sport), and the Zoya Wicked & Wonderful collections were my prize.
Cheryl is a gorgeous foily brown. I like these types of finish as they are a little bit more interesting than the average polish. Also, I am very happy about the fact that these shades tend to be ridiculously pigmented and therefore it is a very speedy manicure. This is two coats (just for luck), and it is finished with a later of Nails Inc Kensington Caviar, (which I am still trying to use up – I don’t like it).
This made me very happy on an Autumnal day (yes, it has taken me a while to get round to posting this). In fact, I wore it on my husband’s birthday 
when we went to the Marco Pierre White gastropub near us, and basked in the warmth of a real log fire, whilst enjoying some rather tasty grub.
So, what do you think? Are you a fan of brown shades? What’s your favourite? Do you like this one?
Helen
This post originated at Just Nice Things. To find out more, click here.
I would definitely wear this. I love browns. Nubar did that chocolate collection. I love those even though Raspberry Truffle didn’t work on me!
I like this one but Zoya Kalista is probably my favourite brown (it looks a little mahogany in people’s photos online, but my bottle is more brown).
Like the above poster, Zoya Kalista is a fave of mine. My other favorite brown color is China Glaze Side Saddle. SO pretty!
Erin is right, Side Saddle is stunning, how did I forget! And would be count OPI Hollywood Glow as a brown? I love that one too.
Love brown shades. Don’t think I’ll be reaching for them right now. I love the whole collection. Every time I go to Zoya to just buy a few polishes I end up buying the whole collection. Lately I’ve been adoring the polishes they’ve put out.
I love browns, this is one of my absolute faves alongside ChG Unplugged.