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I have been asked quite a few times what color nail polish do I wear with a black dress? What color nail polish with a brown dress? Black-tie event? First date even? So I went to talk to one of my favorite nail techs over at Ella Blue here in Elk Grove to ask her opinion on colors of nail polish to that goes with what color dress.

Susan said that with a black dress or black tie event where you are wearing a black dress, red nail polish will always do well. Colors such as

Hot Candy Apple by BB Couture

Hot Candy Apple by BB Couture or Hot Salsa are good choices of reds. What you don’t want to be wearing are colors such as blues or greens. They take away from your overall look. Or you could always have a French Manicure done, that look is great for all colors of dresses.

Now if you are wearing a brown dress to a event that’s a little harder to choose. You will want a nail polish color that’s more of a orange look to it. Colors such as Pale Poppy by BB Couture is a good choice or  Great Balls of Fire from the Flashback to the 50’s Collection by BB Couture is also a great choice. And again a French Manicure with your basic white tips is always a good choice as well. You also try a red that is like a blue red not a true red as your choice of nail polish. I wasn’t sure what she meant by a blue red so I can’t show you a color nail polish that would work for that.

First date was a interesting question. What color nail polish works on a first date? That is a highly personal question because it depends more on what type of person you want to show yourself as. Fun loving? Dragon’s Breath by BB Couture which happens to be our best selling nail polish to date is a great color for a first date. Specially this time of year. You can’t go wrong with a deep rich purple nail polish that any skin-tone could wear.

More of a quiet person? Again a French Manicure is a good idea. If you enjoy wearing pink nail polish then wear it on your first date! Pink shows you are a caring person with a love for life and not hard core. The better choices are not to go wild and wear nail polish colors that don’t

A~ go with your outfit or

B~ are chipped and need to be redone.

Remove your nail polish if your polish happens to be chipped because it shows you don’t care enough about how your hands look not to have your nails done. It’s better to go without nail polish than it is to have chipped nail polish specially dark colors. If you want your nail polish to stay chip-free longer you need to wear Top Rock by BB Couture! It really rocks because I have tested it out on Dragon’s Breath and my nails remained chip-free for about a week! Can your top coat do the same?

All these nail polishes would be great gift ideas as well. Nail polish gifts are great because they work all year around and why give a gift that they won’t use? Who doesn’t love nail polish?

I hope this helps answer your questions about what color nail polish do you wear with what color dress.

There are now 14 brand new BB Nail Polish colors just added!

1. Candy Mousse
2. Pixie Dust
3. Candy Lace
4. Tangerine Scream
5. Tropical Sunset
6. Love Drunk
7. Chili Pepper
8. Passion Plum
9. Purple Haze
10. Mocha Pudding
11. In The Buff
12. Vampire Bite
13. Icy Plum
14. Naughty Rose

Posted: October 24th, 2008 under Home base.
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When it comes time to wear a dress, it usually means we are off to some formal occasion, got our selfs a hot date or whatever. You have this amazing dress, but your nails are bare looking. Do you match your lipstick and your nail polish on your fingernails and toes or what? Years ago when woman wore dresses all the time, the thing to do was match your eye shadow, lipstick and nail polish if they wore any. Nail polish once thought of as someone “those other women wore” nothing a good upstanding woman would ever think of wearing. Thank goodness that has changed! Today there are so many colors of nail polish that it can be a bit unnerving trying to decide what goes with what or if you should wear one color for everything.

Do you plan what you are going to wear? Most of us with a hot date start planning what to wear from the minute he asked me out. Depending on the guy depends on what I am going to be wearing. First dates are always the hardest to plan what to wear. If you are going to be wearing jeans then any color of nail polish will work. Now if you are going to be wearing a dress for him on your first date then you really need to plan the whole look you want him to see you as.

If you are wearing a black dress, with your eyes done up smoky, then you will probably want to wear a dark color nail polish. If you did your eyes smoky in colors other than black and brown, say plum instead then you might want to wear a color such as deep burgundy or burnt brown to off set the colors you are wearing.

Now for all you pink nail polish wearers, when it comes to dressing up, you should wear a darker pink polish. It will make you look a littler classer and thats one of the reasons we wear a dress to something now. With most of us not even getting out of our jeans for dates, wearing a dress is like playing grown up, and who wants to do that?

What ever you do , don’t do the whole matching thing, if you are wearing deep rich red polish on your nails, do wear it on your toes because you look more put together but don’t match your lipstick to it! Besides if you are wearing smoky eyes you know that your lips much be almost bare in color to make sure that your eyes is all he sees.

If your nails are not looking all that great, do check out the amazing nail care kits Overall Beauty now offers. Take care of your nails because nothing looks worst than you got this amazing dress on, brand new pair of open toe shoes you been just dying to wear and your nail polish on your fingernails and toes is chipped. OH NO redo your nail polish on your fingernails and toes because you do not have a finished look, and look like someone he wants to know. Besides ladies who do we really dress up for, him or other women? LOL

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Posted: September 14th, 2007 under Home base.
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