I used to think light blue polishes were too crazy for me to wear - so stark, so bright, so blue! I even gave my bottle of Barielle Swizzle Stix away because I just wasn't ready for it in 2009. I also wasn't ready for the ugly-pretty camouflage colors that were starting to show up. For its name alone, I bought Dry Martini from the MAC Fall 2009 by Jin Soon collection. After two years of taupe, mushroom, and greige, I've slowly grown to enjoy these types of shades and I'm finally ready to love this polish!
Dry Martini is a dark, brown-leaning olive green creme. On me, this polish looks green indoors and brown outdoors. My bottle had been untouched for so long that it needed some really good mixing. I don't think I mixed it enough, so it took me three coats to get this polish on opaque and even.
I was so happy with the look of Dirty Martini that I tried to put on an ombre mani with some of my other drab green cremes (I know the OPI has a faint shimmer, but it's only visible 2% of the time so it barely counts as shimmer!).
Rescue Beauty Lounge No More War (index), Zoya Shawn (middle),
Dry Martini (ring), and OPI Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow (pinkie)
Dry Martini (ring), and OPI Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow (pinkie)
Shawn is a bit dingy looking in the bottle, but it looks so vibrant when it's in the middle of all these brown-tinged greens. I don't have Zoya Dree (still on a low-buy), but I think that green would've fit in much better with the other olive shades. I used two coats on No More War and Shawn and three coats on Dry Martini and Here Today Aragon Tomorrow.
Since the greens looked so different on the hand than they did in their bottles, this mani turned out just to be a comparison swatch. It's still a useful look at these popular polishes, even if it isn't a real ombre mani!
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