If the colors themselves weren't captivating enough it would be hard to resist their descriptions...because Jane Schub, Rhode Island School of Design grad and the designer behind the nail polish brand STRANGEBEAUTIFUL, doesn't believe in names. Instead she relies upon words, and the images they inspire...so you can paint your nails "the dull red color of a lobster shell immediately after it has been removed from boiling water"..."the saturated rusty iron color of an Irish bog caused by the reaction between tannin, wood and iron"...or "the dreadfully wonderful dirty almond color used on kitchen appliances".

The colors come in three volumes...each containing eight of the heavily saturated shades. My problem is that I want a good portion of both volumes two and three. If only they were available to pick 'n mix (like a bag of cheap sweets from Woolworths)...I'd have "belly of a pigeon" nestling next to "Violette (Pansy Violet) ink from the venerable French ink company J. Herbin founded in 1670" before you could say "veins of green mold running through Roquefort"...