I spent yesterday morning drooling over Karen Walker’s Spring 2012 collection from NYFW. Here it is the first day below 50 degrees and I’m dreaming of spring already, I mean OMFG *look* at this color palette! dreamy.

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But what has me especially tickled is the hair, make up, and nails. If this isn’t the prefect look for spring, I just don’t know what is. Beside the pixie-esque make up and hair, check out the finishing detail–those mustardy yellow nails. I never in a million years thought that a fair skin tone such as I could rock such a color, but these pictures put me on a mission to try it. This is the kind of color guaranteed to make my mother say “That’s interesting”

A little more research led me to read that for the show they mixed yellow and black polishes to create the perfect shade. A bit more research confirmed my suspicions–no one actually makes this color. After some serious trial and error, I realized without even asking my mother that she was right all along–I just ended up with some muddy baby poop nails. yummy.

I was discouraged, but this is my first post dammit and I wanted to do some new nails! I scratched the yellow idea and did some nails that were inspired by the collection’s color pallet instead. I used “rise and shine” Sinful nail polish (the color is pretty much a *perfect* match to the KW color) I did a little something I saw in pictures from NYFW where I painted my nails as if they had “grown out” a little bit. First I laid down a coat of clear polish, did the green, and then did a matte clear coat on top. I think they turned out pretty fresh, next I’ll have to figure out where to get my hands on that lip color!

(left) Karen Walker hair and nails, Refinery 29 (right) Mah new nails