Mary Jane Russell by Clifford Coffin, 1950.
Fashionable nails + nail art.
Nail polish fanatic: here you'll find only photos/colors I like. Posts are queued to appear every two hours.
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Viva la lacquer!
Posts tagged vintage
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A vintage oval shape.
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Revlon’s Ultraviolet:visit me at joytotheblog.blogspot.com.
From a vintage case on eBay.
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She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.
With her little lacquer brush, while the phone was ringing, she went over the nail of her little finger, accentuating the line of the moon. She then replaced the cap on the bottle of lacquer and, standing up, passed her left - the wet - hand back and forth through the air …
J.D. Salinger, ‘A Perfect Day for Bananafish’
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Revlon “Cherries In The Snow”, a 1950s classic that’s still around.
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Matching lips and fingertips!
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From a 1945 Vogue.
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Joan Blondell. Back when it was indecent to paint the entire nail.
