Brave & Abiquiu

Not much in the way of life updates, so...We'll get down to movies and polish!

Saw Brave yesterday. In ways of Pixar films, it's not their strongest film. I really enjoyed the Cars movies, but they are the least popular of Pixar films. When looking at the ratings, Brave ranks just above the Cars movies (from my recollection), but below all the rest. Is this a fair assessment? Perhaps. At any rate, it's not the strongest Pixar film. It's highly predictable, not exactly original, and it's a really "short" movie (1:40 hours - when did 1:40 hours become "short"?!). The characters are a little flat too. On the upside, I enjoyed the soundtrack, I thought the accent of Merida was charming (voiced by Kelly Macdonald), it had a nice mother-daughter story, and the animation was (as usual) top notch. It just doesn't have the same draw or charm as the others, though. The characters are less developed or something. It's particularly obvious when you compare Brave to movies like UP, Wall-E, Finding Nemo, etc. The movie is dedicated to Steve Jobs too. I enjoyed the short film in front of it and I also enjoyed seeing the Monster University trailer. Would I recommend seeing it in theaters? Probably not. If there's nothing else you want to see in theaters, I'd recommend seeing it. Grade: B

Hoping to nab The Artist this week to rent to see what all the fuss was about this past Oscars. Might get the Eddie Murphy one too about him talking too much and the tree has leaves and if the leaves all fall off, the tree dies, and Murphy's character does too? Something like that. I'm curious about it.

In the world of polish, I managed to almost go a week with the same mani! I haven't done that in a while, but when you get a polish that wears well and you like it, they tend to stick around longer. However, I did have some "issues" with this mani so I pretty much made up for all the days of not changing. Not to mention I did some quick swatching of 15 polishes. So...yeah. I guess I just delayed the inevitable smell of polish and polish remover on my dry hands! :)

Moving on...Here's Rescue Beauty Lounge's Abiquiu! This polish is part of the Georgia On My Mind Collection (Georgia O'Keefe that is) that I received last week from my pre-order. I love this polish. RBL is one of my all-time favorite brands. This polish is not super bright. It really is more of a light cactus green color (or a slightly darker green apple) with a silver shimmer in it. I really like it. The stamp is from BundleMonster (BM) plate 214 stamped in Konad special polish (SP). The stamp is what I was having issues with. It's been almost 2 months since I stamped and I am realllllly rusty on single stamps. I kept stamping it on super crooked, severely off-centered, etc. This attempt, at least, is just a little crooked. The others were a disaster!

 

The picture on the right is more accurate of the color than the left. The left is a little brighter, but showed the great silver shimmer. I tried stamping a full nail design and was going to do it on each nail, but the polish was too pretty to cover up! Not only that, but I trimmed my nails even shorter than my last mani, so I didn't really feel like all the design on shorter nails. These are the shortest nails I've had in at least half a year, if not longer. At least I got rid of the break, though!