Bella Heathcote in Gucci

Posted on Oct 26, 2012 in Fashion

Hypothesis: Once we plant “Lee Press-On Nails” in your head, you won’t be able to see anything else.

Experiment:

Bella Heathcote attends the 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards Gala Presented by the Los Angeles Times in Gucci.

Results: ?

Conclusion: We’re sorry to do that, because it’s a pretty dress, but once you think of it as the fingernail dress, it’s all over.

[Photo Credit: Andrew Evans, Emiley Schweich/PR Photos]

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Gosh, you’re not kidding. Or fish scales.
- http://twitter.com/XTREMELYSERIOUS Deathcold Survivor
  
  Totally agree with fish scales
  - MoHub
    
    Fish scales for me as well. Just wondering what kind of fish they come from.
    - MilaXX
      
      something from Finding Nemo or The Little Mermaid.
      - j_anson
        
        Definitely the Little Mermaid.
    - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1208138556 Sara Munoz Munoz
      
      Rainbow Fish’s friend Rosie. But I don’t expect anyone to get that unless they have young children.
      - MoHub
        
        Sorry. My “kid” is 35 and hasn’t provided any grandchildren yet, so I’m totally out of touch with kid culture.
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1241487378 Lauren Lynch Fox
    
    Yep, scales! Gross!
- decormaven
  
  Not fish, snake scale.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Julie-Chase/731391326 Julie Chase

DAMN IT.

It’s very Ariel having tea with King Triton.
TieDye64

You guys nailed it (sorry) and you’re right, I can’t unsee it.
HomeOfficeGirl

Bet it sounds fun with she walks tho… swoosh, swoosh, swoosh………
- http://kahoxworth.daportfolio.com/ FishInThePercolator
  
  I imagine it sounding like Dolly Parton playing “9 to 5″ on her nails…
karena10

I had tried Lee Press-on Nails in the past and they always fell off. Now I have a picture in my head of this dress shedding and looking half bald.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Jessica-TallGirl-Freeman/1043623567 Jessica TallGirl Freeman
  
  Full of lint, hair, crumbs and whatever other crap got stuck to that sticky shit that did not work. So gross.
Lattis

‘Your Jedi mind tricks will not work on me boy
http://twitter.com/CeeJay37 CJ Michalak

actually, i was thinking: Chloe Dao Garden Party Challenge Dress
mjude

damn you!
StellaZafella

I get Lavender Budgerigar (Parakeet)
Janet B

Thanks, a lot.
SewingSiren

The dress was made from the hide of a princess fairy dragon. And you know it!
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3JSTXMWWVZN2QNP2UEKJMTWD7U Isabel
  
  TLo & Everyone else – I appreciate your clever twists of words.
- mjude
  
  even better
- j_anson
  
  Yes, this.
http://twitter.com/jennsaysmeow Fifi LaRoux

I was thinking flower petals, or scale mail (that’s for all your history/ D&D nerds out there).
- MoHub
  
  Pink Samurai armor?
Clueless_Jock

Yes but I like the dress anyway.
ringthing

you guys are on a roll today, every post has cracked me up including this one…helps that it’s finally Friday
mellbell

Despite your best efforts, to me the petals (or whatever the dressmaker would call them) most resemble madeleine cakes. That plus the very soft color makes me think of something rather sweet and delicate.
http://www.kittenmasks.com kittenmasks

I hate her shoes. SO MUCH.
snarkykitten

gaahhhh
MilaXX

I don’t like any of this. Hate the dress, hate the hair, hair the makeup and hate the shoes.
…….and now that you mention it, it does look like fake nails.
- http://www.djplaw.com/ Tadiana
  
  Yes to this, and also: HATE the illusion netting.
http://phantomminuet.blogspot.com/ MinAgain

How many purple dragonflies gave their lives for that dress?
http://profile.yahoo.com/47S737MGWCAZEZ73QOAFKDFEKQ Jill

Dang, looks like everyone’s sporting those fay bangs.
http://profile.yahoo.com/DNWEFT2SVBX5T3NPMROQCT4U2U jennyv

It also reminds me of those lamps on Pinterest made by gluing plastic spoons to a lantern. I still like the dress though.
BrooklynBomber

Damn. It worked.
http://twitter.com/MajorBedhead MajorBedhead

I was getting more of an Esther-William’s-bathing-cap vibe from it, but I can see the fake nails thing, too.
Bill Curtis

Hahahhahaha
NCDFan

dyed snakeskin
bookish

God now it’s giving me the heebie-jeebies just looking at it. At least her hair and makeup look really pretty.
Tatiana Luján

What I think of when I see this dress is “fish scales”. And I like it.
http://profile.yahoo.com/GLERYB7G4QX7Z5ED54AWP2JIMA Mary

Set the fingernail dress free so it can go strangle Taylor Swift. It’s twee enough for her.
http://gabyrippling.tumblr.com/ Gabriella M

Aw. And this was looking like a WERQ to me too.
Imasewsure

That’s the prettiest I’ve seen her look though… weird dress but I like it on her
another_laura

BWAH!! Thanks, guys.
Monabel

I still like it…
Trisha26

Beautiful dress and she’s so fresh & pretty. Hate those shoes though.
nannypoo

Hate the scales and hate the color.
http://kingderella.tumblr.com/ kingderella

LOL. still like the dress. but her hair has looked better in the past (or is this another starlet im thinking of?) and i dont love the shoes.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ENBX3563Q4ZNCVRGSJVFIB7OAA Thom
  
  Agreed! Her bedhead/Cocker Spaniel hair is really distracting me from how nice the dress could look on her, and the shoes seem a little too dark: if there was some bling or lighter colors interspersed with the grey beads, I would’ve liked it much more.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_N75LLUHGJEGCGJ3HZAXEB3MBJI Deen

I’m thinking Big Bird’s cousing “Petite Parakeet”
kmk05

Cannot… unsee…. press-on nails… THE HORROR.
formerlyAnon

Yes, but Sewing Siren’s princess fairy dragon trumps the nails & the fish scales.

It’s almost a pretty dress, but I don’t like either the illusion netting or the shoes, and they somehow reinforce the miasma of tawdry plasticity raised by the Lee press on nails reference.
margaret meyers

Sugared petals?
http://twitter.com/PhDKnitter marlie

I see fish scales or petrified feathers more than press-on-fingernails. But I love this – I think it’s adorable on her! And the shoes are just right, though the clutch is a tad too matchy.
quiltrx

I kind of love it. And I also kind of hope it makes a “tsh, tsh” sound when she walks and all those paillettes (is that the right word, I think?) knock together.

And I definitely go with the “Esther Williams Bathing Cap” allusion.
http://twitter.com/jalae Janey

I was thinking moulting bird but fingernails does the trick
MissAnnieRN

This would totally win the unconventional materials challenge, Duane Reade edition! I can’t wait for someone to make a Lee Press on Nail dress.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=603005248 Jeff Warhurst

It reminds me of molded soaps you see in old lady’s houses, usually on some sort of pedestal dish on top of a lace doily on top of a toilet-tank carpet on top of butterfly wallpaper on top of pink tile on top of chintz drapes.
Patricia Gillett

Big Bird/Disney Princess mashup.
Roxanne Pedro

I was thinking it looks more like she skinned Falcor from the NeverEnding Story. He was the best luck dragon around, he didn’t deserve that.
miagain

Wonder if it makes a clickity clack sound when she moves??
Dhammadina

Lavendar elf skin flakes.
ellabob

thank you – made laugh out loud…press on nails indeed
ccm800

I dig it just the same
guest2visits

This dress should be prettier – but it kind of looks like a cheap plastic toy, something from years and years ago but I can’t quite
place, was it a pool toy… something from the bubblegum machine.. I can’t recall.
Both the color and the striations on the ‘scales’ look very cheapy. It reminds me of a girl’s swim-cap from the 50s-60s, too.
Not liking the shoes with it either, sorry.
http://www.facebook.com/renate.yerkes Renate Yerkes

I was thinking Atrayu the dragon from neverending story
briecee

No, hypothesis disproven. This is clearly that Pinterest thing, with the layers of plastic cutlery.
GorgeousThings

Oh, you are evil!
RzYoung

Ewe! Nails!
Aside from that though I consistently love her eye make up. Plus she looks so good with a fringe, great dollface
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=720742723 Sarah Winningham

Nah, she still looks like an adorable flower fairy.
lizajane1776

Nope. Feathers! And I love the shoes.
Bwin51

Swim away. Lol

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