Prim Pairing: Taupe and Cherry Red

There is something so decadent about going for ice cream when the sidewalks are still snowy, like wearing white to a wedding (not that I ever would) or smoking a cigarette in bed (ditto).


It's just a tiny defiance, but walking home yesterday, after enjoying a bowl of coffee ice cream from the newly opened Van Leeuwen shop in Brooklyn, I felt I had made spring come to me. The only thing I would have added: a few a pretty red cherries.


With months of cold to go I wanted to make the feeling last, so I painted my nails in Opi's Nomad's Dream, a rich, soft, coffee ice cream-like taupe.

And painted my lips in Lancome's creamy L'Absolu Rouge.
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