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"PinterestFacebookI suggest you stop whatever it is you&amp;#39;re doing right now (besides reading this, obviously) and give this post your full attention. Because when Alllacqueredup.com&amp;#39;s Michelle talks about keeping your fingers and toes looking pretty, you really should focus&amp;#8212;take a few notes, even. You see, this girl knows about nails. And bonus: This interview contains what is easily the funniest Danny DeVito reference in the history of the world. Check it out!\nTGBD: Fess up: What colors are your fingers and toes right now?\nMichelle: Oh you caught me in the middle of testing a bunch of colors so my nails look like Skittles. It&amp;#39;s actually a look I rock most days because I fall asleep without taking the polish off and my perpetually late self is always rushing around in the morning. If my co-workers didn&amp;#39;t know about my blog, they&amp;#39;d probably think I&amp;#39;m crazy. You should see the looks I get at check out counters. It&amp;#39;s like they&amp;#39;re searching for a straight jacket under my coat. At the moment I have various shades from the Sally Hansen and Zoya spring collections on my hands and China Glaze Grape Juice, a glass flecked purple from their upcoming summer collection, on my toes.\nTGBD: Do your hands and feet usually match or do you like to mix it up?\nMichelle: I never match. I prefer to coordinate. Similar to how they say you should pair a nude lip with a smoky eye or a neutral eye with a bold lip, I adapt similar rules to my tips and toes. I like pairing light with dark or following color wheel harmonies by wearing complementary or analogous shades. It&amp;#39;s fun coming up with new color combinations. One of my faves is gold and chocolate brown. It&amp;#39;s so warm and rich looking.\n__\nTGBD: Look into your crystal ball: What colors do you think we&amp;#39;ll be seeing on the red carpet in the next few months? __\nMichelle: Hollywood tends to play it safe when it comes to red carpet nails. You see a lot of light, nude or sheer polish on both tips and toes. They&amp;#39;ll wear dramatic makeup or hair but very few celebrities go for it in terms of nails. When they do this season you&amp;#39;ll see metallics, especially warm golds, reds and dark vampy shades like gunmetal, black and plum. The only exception is the Grammys. The music world allows celebrities to get a little edgier with their look. That&amp;#39;s one place I look for spring and summer trends. Last year, Rihanna&amp;#39;s neon orange nails were a huge hit and she&amp;#39;s always ahead of the game.\nTGBD: What would you say has been the most genius nail product you&amp;#39;ve come across recently?\nMichelle: By far, Minx nail coverings are the coolest new product on the market. They&amp;#39;re similar to the nail polish stickers from other brands except Minx come in a wide range of patterns including the only true gold and silver chrome. They last much longer than polish and since there&amp;#39;s no drying time you can get a pedi in the winter and put your regular shoes back on. I ran out to try the gold chrome as soon as I found a Minx-trained nail tech in my area and I loved the look for the holidays. Even though they&amp;#39;re pricier than your average manicure, for a special occasion, I can&amp;#39;t recommend them enough.\nTGBD: Do you love quick-drying formulas?\nMichelle: I would lose my mind without them. Seriously, who has the time to sit around and wait for their polish to dry? Not to mention that slower drying formulas give the natural klutz in me more opportunities to wreck my manicure. The only downside is that they tend to thicken when the bottle gets half empty so I keep a bottle of polish thinner on hand to get use of every last drop.\nTGBD: Will the black nail polish trend ever really die down?\nMichelle: Every trend dies down eventually but they never truly go away. Nail fanatics like myself will continue to wear every shade of the rainbow because we love color, regardless of what&amp;#39;s trendy. Heck, as long as there are goths, punks and rock stars, black polish will always have a fan base.\nTGBD: How do you feel about French manis and pedis: Yay or nay?\nMichelle: Hate, hate, hate! Oh I&amp;#39;m sorry, was that not clear enough? Big fat NAY. I&amp;#39;m not going to pull any punches here, I can&amp;#39;t stand the look of stark white French manicures. Don&amp;#39;t even get me started on French pedicures. They are an abomination. I&amp;#39;m sorry but you&amp;#39;re not fooling anyone with that look. No one&amp;#39;s tips are that white. It&amp;#39;s just not natural. We&amp;#39;ve all seen those girls wearing French manicures where the white starts halfway down their nailbed. You know, the ones with the super squared off tips. It&amp;#39;s tacky. Now an American manicure that uses a natural, soft white tip is fine if you want to enhance your nail&amp;#39;s natural beauty but they&amp;#39;re still not my style.\nTGBD: What&amp;#39;s your own must-do to keep your nails in good shape?\nMichelle: You wouldn&amp;#39;t know this from looking at the images on my site but my nails are actually very weak. It&amp;#39;s a genetic thing, part of my own self diagnosed disease I call the Danny DeVito Syndrome. Much like Danny&amp;#39;s character in the movie Twins, I got all the crap physical traits from my parents. Seriously my bruises last a decade, I catch a cold from 10 miles away and where my nails are concerned, they split, peel, crack, break, etc. I work REALLY hard to keep them healthy. The most important part of my nail routine is using a nail strengthener and taking biotin supplements. When I&amp;#39;m not testing polish, I protect my nails with Nail Tek II. Without it, All Lacquered Up probably wouldn&amp;#39;t exist.\nTGBD: Name the three nail shades you wear most often.\nMichelle: That&amp;#39;s a really hard question. As a full-fledged nail fanatic with over 1,000 bottles of nail polish (don&amp;#39;t judge!) I rarely wear any color more than once. Though my friends and readers know that my number one polish love is for greens with blues and purples coming in a close second so if I have to choose three they&amp;#39;d be China Glaze Emerald Sparkle, Rescue Beauty Lounge Dead Calm and Zoya Yasmeen.\nTGBD: And finally, imagine it: You&amp;#39;ve smudge your just-painted manicure and you want to save it without having to take the polish off. I&amp;#39;ve heard a few methods people use for this. Take us through your personal steps.\nMichelle: Oh I don&amp;#39;t need to imagine it. I often biff a nail due to carelessness. More times than I&amp;#39;d care to admit. You would think I&amp;#39;d learn from my mistakes by now. What I have learned is how to rescue my nails from dents and smudges. Some mistakes are too bad to salvage but when it&amp;#39;s something small, I dab the pad of my finger in a bit of polish remover and gently buff the mistake away. Add a new layer of top coat and you&amp;#39;re good to go. If by chance you rub too much and hit the nail, add a tiny drop of polish to the spot and even it out with a new layer of color before adding top coat.\nThanks, Michelle!\nReaders, for more of her need-to-know nails advice, check her out over at Alllacqueredup.com! Then find out more about Minxing here. And go here to find out what nail color Petra is rocking these days."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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