Happy International Women’s Day!
Just for a little background, International Women’s Day was originally observed as International Working Women’s Day in New York City, 1909. In 1917, women textile workers in Petrograd demonstrated on the day, marking the start of the Russian Revolution. Upon the revolution’s end, the new government granted Russian women the right to vote.
The United Nations officially adopted the observance in 1975. This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030”.
Now, I feel a bit funny celebrating the day with something as relatively trifling as a nail polish swatch, but this is a nail polish blog, after all!
Collection: Colors by Llarowe 2016 Summer
I’ve been trying to pick up more indie brands lately (though I’ve been somewhat foiled by beginning to avoid ecommerce platform Shopify) and Colors by Llarowe is one of the latest brands I’ve tried.
Shiny Happy People (named for a great R.E.M. song) is a periwinkle with an explosion of holo shimmer.

R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People (1991)