I wasn't wearing it, if that makes me seem less.... exhibitiony.
I bought some blue paint for my bathroom, because it was dookie green, and while the color would be pleasant in nature, it's most unpleasant when you're looking in a mirror and trying to apply makeup. In a nutshell: sallow! Time for a change.
Blue paint, I love frosty light blues, steely dark blues, stuff like that. Got the two gallons of blue paint home, it's a gorgeous color chip, and slap it up on the wall. Um. Huh. *head tilt* Realize that paint isn't right until it's dry, keep biting my nails, and do one whole wall. And hate it. HAAAAATE it. Have you ever used that blue tape for painting? THAT'S what it looked like, dry. Oh my GOD. It's just begging for stencils of little geese in bonnets, and a strutting rooster. It's country-cozy-kitchen, is what I'm trying to say. AUGH.
The bra. I have a beautiful bra in a frosty, icy blue (that I THOUGHT the original paint would be) and I take it in to the Home Depot. They color match that, and the guy will NOT make eye contact with me. Look, I don't have Dolly Parton-esque bewbage here, it's not like this is ridiculous, right? :D The paint was finished and dry by bedtime last night, and today I'm putting all the fixtures back up. I LOOOOVE it. Thank you, Soma bras!
When I get everything cleaned up I'll put up pictures of the GOOD color are now up! In the meantime, under the cut is a picture of the blue of AUUUGH!
Here's the original color, and this isn't really showing the true color (think more Army green.) In the PICTURE it looks like a nice taupe, but it is not. It is the sallowest of greens. Instant jaundice! (I do have a darker version of this in my powder bath, and THAT is nice. I'm wanting a brighter, lighter color in my bathroom now, though.)
Here's the first attempt at blue, and this is a NO. Again, can't you just picture some happy little clouds flitting along that? Or some duckies? Ack. It was the EXACT color of blue painter's tape once it dried. Blech.
HERE is the right blue. You can see how the light changes the tone, too, lighter to a bit darker, and I quite like it.
(that's my vanilla orchid on the left. <3)
That same wall shot from before, see the difference? And I love my robe, too. Super plush. \o/
This shot is almost Tiffany blue. No bad there!
Now I need to see if I can take the unused paint back to Home Depot and make it darker to paint my son's room. 2 flippin' gallons of paint I don't want. *head thunk* Has anyone successfully done that? (And hahaha, yeah. I'm not going to post a picture of me in the bra, so don't bother asking. *G*)
I bought some blue paint for my bathroom, because it was dookie green, and while the color would be pleasant in nature, it's most unpleasant when you're looking in a mirror and trying to apply makeup. In a nutshell: sallow! Time for a change.
Blue paint, I love frosty light blues, steely dark blues, stuff like that. Got the two gallons of blue paint home, it's a gorgeous color chip, and slap it up on the wall. Um. Huh. *head tilt* Realize that paint isn't right until it's dry, keep biting my nails, and do one whole wall. And hate it. HAAAAATE it. Have you ever used that blue tape for painting? THAT'S what it looked like, dry. Oh my GOD. It's just begging for stencils of little geese in bonnets, and a strutting rooster. It's country-cozy-kitchen, is what I'm trying to say. AUGH.
The bra. I have a beautiful bra in a frosty, icy blue (that I THOUGHT the original paint would be) and I take it in to the Home Depot. They color match that, and the guy will NOT make eye contact with me. Look, I don't have Dolly Parton-esque bewbage here, it's not like this is ridiculous, right? :D The paint was finished and dry by bedtime last night, and today I'm putting all the fixtures back up. I LOOOOVE it. Thank you, Soma bras!
Here's the original color, and this isn't really showing the true color (think more Army green.) In the PICTURE it looks like a nice taupe, but it is not. It is the sallowest of greens. Instant jaundice! (I do have a darker version of this in my powder bath, and THAT is nice. I'm wanting a brighter, lighter color in my bathroom now, though.)
Here's the first attempt at blue, and this is a NO. Again, can't you just picture some happy little clouds flitting along that? Or some duckies? Ack. It was the EXACT color of blue painter's tape once it dried. Blech.
HERE is the right blue. You can see how the light changes the tone, too, lighter to a bit darker, and I quite like it.
(that's my vanilla orchid on the left. <3)
That same wall shot from before, see the difference? And I love my robe, too. Super plush. \o/
This shot is almost Tiffany blue. No bad there!
Now I need to see if I can take the unused paint back to Home Depot and make it darker to paint my son's room. 2 flippin' gallons of paint I don't want. *head thunk* Has anyone successfully done that? (And hahaha, yeah. I'm not going to post a picture of me in the bra, so don't bother asking. *G*)
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And yeah... That is BLUE paint. Eek.
(Hahahaha, I'll take a picture OF the bra to show the awesome color match job, I'm just not that much of an exhibitionist. *G*)
We painted our entire living room with a yellow that had just a hint too much blue undertone. We hated it as soon as it started going up, but persevered, hoping it would miraculously get warmer once it dried...It was on our walls for more than ten years before we finally painted over it last summer. Idiots. Good on you for immediately repainting.
Oh, I cannot DEAL with bad paint, I have to fix it. (I'm a really fast painter, though, courtesy of working for my uncle's paint crew one summer.) I like - for yellow - a color Martha Stewart has in her line, Muslin. It's soft, but is a great neutral. My old house was painted that. Now I'm into taupes and true greys - my bedroom is dove grey and I LOVE it. Everything is its actual color, it doesn't pick up any tones from the wall color. \o/
Bras, ftw!
:)
You could probably take it back and just say 'it's way too saturated blue, can you darken it to this?' and they most likely will. I mean - why not? YOu paid for it, you're just asking for more tint, and you'd pay for that, too, i'm sure....
Good luck!
See how many items it takes before the clerk starts blushing so hard it glows.
Therefore one room in my dollhouse is painted that color blue. Because there were leftovers, of course. Another room in my dollhouse is painted the sunshiny butter yellow they used in our playroom.
I rent. Not so much with the painting. Also my bedroom is paneled halfway up two walls and all of one wall (can't remember what wall #4 is, it's mostly covered by an armoire). I take my color from the furniture.
Oh, I longed for a dollhouse. I didn't like dolls, I just wanted the house to make my fingers go up and down the stairs. :D
Paneled walls? That could be cool! Too bad your landlord won't let you paint (unless you hate painting and then YAY, no reason to do something you hate!)
Julia, wanting above all to repaint everything but getting no cooperation on moving the furniture.
If someone would move everything for me, I would paint any room, any time. I just don't like shoving things all over the place, personally.
Oooh, my oldest girl once went with that kind of Pepto pink, too. UGH. It takes a primer to cover it before you paint, I learned. (I had to put about four coats of paint up to cover the pink!
She saw my bathroom last night and asked for her bedroom to be painted that color. THAT ONE I can do. No more pinks and greens, please!;)
*dies laughing* You are my hero. But seriously, what do they expect? They have those commercials with people bringing in random things to color match. Why not a bra?
My old apartment, I was allowed to paint the bedroom as long as I was theoretically willing to paint it back if the next person moving in hated it. When I moved in, it had one wall LIME GREEN, one wall BRIGHT YELLOW, and two walls ELECTRIC BLUE. It also had the back of the door painted in some oranger yellow with white vines painted on it - and the white would come off on my towels if I hung them over the door. It took me a YEAR to get around to repainting it, and then it went to a nice mossy green with cream trim and an off-white ceiling. I am clearly much more boring than it's previous occupent, but you know what? I CAN LIVE WITH THAT.
In conclusion: Get down with your mad painting self. Nothing is quite as fulfilling as suddenly having space you LIKE.
Also, can I import you to paint all my walls, since clearly you don't mind doing it? I tend to find I do it at 2 in the morning and then realize I can't sleep in the middle of fumes.
Love the bra story.
Oh my goodness, that apartment would have kept me up all night, those bright colors!! I love mossy greens (that's what the other bathrooms in my house are. Pretty, and calming.)
Ahahaha. Um, if I'm every in your neck of the woods, I promise I'll come over and paint. :D