Mad Beauty: Nail Polish Finger Bands from Butter London's Nonie Creme at Vena Cava

You know me well enough at this stage to understand that I'm more than happy to jump on whatever trends bandwagon happens to be passing at any given moment in time. Pink lips? Skin finishing? Liqourice Allsorts manicures? Oh, I'm there with bells on.

I'm having rather a more difficult time getting on board with the paint jobs showcased at Vena Cava during New York Fashion Week. Butter London's Nonie Creme painted on rings of nail polish in the brand's Royal Navy, Union Jack Black, Scoundrel, and Tramp Stamp colours together with a custom mixed fluorescent orange for the shows. When I clicked through to the pictures of the backstage action posted on Twitter to have a nose at this stripey-sounding mani, I noticed that the colours weren't actually going on models' nails.

They were going on their skin instead.

Encircling fingers right below the cuticles or around the joint, these 'finger bands', as they've been dubbed, remind me of the rubber friendship bracelets and rings that did the rounds when I was in school and our habit of scrawling on each other's hands with pens and markers and Tippex. I kind of like that nostalgia aspect - and the fact that you'd always be able to paint on a few rings to go with whatever you happened to be wearing.

However, I didn't like the way Tippex felt on my skin and always worried about how safe it was to (mis)use it in that manner, and I'm fairly sure I'd have the same concerns about nail polish.

Would you wear your nail polish like this, or does it just look a bit stupeh?

All pix via Nonie Creme's Ow.ly twit/pic page