Oh heyyy!! Long time no see!

So so so sorry that it's been so long. School has been crazy, my nails are splitting and peeling all over the place, and my personal life is in a shambles. My nails are finally at a semi respectable length, and green is my favorite color, so I decided some St. Patty's Day nails to cheer myself up! I used:
- Revlon Posh (my new favorite green, great 2 coat coverage, really easy to work with.)
- LA Glitter Addict in Purge
- China Glaze Fast Forward Top Coat
- Bundle Monster Plate BM03
- Konad Special Polish in White

 It's so festive!! I have a big party to go to this weekend, I need to find some green clothes to match my mani!

Rough. Reallyyy Rough.

Sooo I've been MIA. I have alot of personal stuff going on right now, and my nails have suffered. Horribly. So, I will be posting pictures of their sad state. And keeping myself accountable for growing them out. I was gifted a couple mini bottles of OPI's Nail Envy, so I'll be trying that out in the interim.


In other news, I won Amandalandish's New Year's giveaway!! 6 Jordana polishes, and I couldn't be more excited! I cannot wait to swatch them for you! I am really excited about the colors because they are bright, and I would probably not purchase them by myself. I am still rather shy!




So anyway, here are the pics of the ugliness. 

Ross Store Find!

I found this FANTASTIC set in Ross. For $9. I cannot wait to swatch this. I want to wear all the colors all the time. My nails and cuticles are in hideous condition. However, one of the purposes for this blog is to hold me accountable for the fact that I have fugly hands, so I will be posting anyway. Until then, I hope you drool over this, as I did.

Winter Blues!

I found this lovely blue polish at Sally's, and I have to be honest, I was a little skeptical. Blues are not usually my thing, but this is AMAZING. I think it will be the base for my NYE manicure. Perhapppssssss.   

Three coats of China Glaze Dorothy Who?. Gorgeous blue jelly base with dark blue and silver glitter. In LOVE. Great formula.

My First Wall Rack!

As I look back on 2011, my nail polish collection is the biggest change in my habits that I can see. I went from having 3 polishes, all the same color (sheer pink), to having enough to almost fill the polish rack my sister got me for Christmas!

I have discovered that I LOVE glitter. Lots and lots of glitter. All over. But especially on my nails. I can't wait to see how my collection grows in 2012! I have decided that I will reward myself for weight loss with a polish that I love!!

CVS Clearance!!

Soooo Christmas was great!! I have some Christmas and Hanukkah presents to review in my next post, but first I wanted to segue into an accidental haul. I say accidental, because I stopped at CVS to get some cold medicine and ended up walking away with a ton of stuff. 

In no particular order:
-  Maybelline  Mineral Power Concealer in cream (I have no idea if this is my color or not) @ 50% off = $4.64
- Maybelline FIT powder in 230 Natural Buff (Also no idea if this is my color) @ Full price $8.39
- Sally Hansen Nail Nutrition Green Tea and Soy Cuticle Oil. 2 @ 75% off = $2.19 each
-Maybelline Line Stiletto Liquid Liner in Black. 50% off = $3.99
- Sally Hansen Complete Manicure in Thinking of Blue. 75% off = 2.07
- Sally Hansen Insta Dri in Quick Sand and Whirlwind White. 75% off = $1.37 each
- Sally Hansen Extreme Wear in Wet Cement. 75% off = $0.79






AMAZING. I will now spend all my free time driving far and wide to search for CVS's.

Christmas Spammmmmm!!

My nails are still beyond embarassing, so I have a pretty snowflake mani that I did before I ate my fingers to show you. 

This is actually my shellac manicure that I stamped over with my bundle monster plate.... that has a snowflake on it. 


In other news, I haven't picked up my new elliptical because of the stupid freaking rain. And I haven't packed to go home for the weekend yet. I really haven't accomplished much. Have a great holiday!!

Welllll That Didn't Last Long...

So last week was final exam week. It killed my brain, my skin, and my nails. Sleep and water have gotten my brain and skin almost back to normal.... but my nails are TRASHED. It's awful. Some of them I have picked and bitten so short that they hurt. It's embarrassing. So, today I have a picture of  a fall mani that I did when I got my first crackle polish. 


China Glaze Ginger (my favorite polish EVER, obvs) and my fourth or fifth attempt at crackle polish using China Glaze Black Crackle. My first few trys were so ugly I had to remove them immediately. 


In other news, I bought an elliptical machine. More on that later. But it is Awesome. AWESOME. Notice the enthusiasm I am expressing through capital letters : )

Bobbing for Baubles and Snow Globe

Please excuse my absolutely terrible cuticles, I'm working on them!! I also need to figure out how to do effective cuticle cleanup. But until then, ugliness ensues. Oh Well!! These are two polishes I got in my ebay haul the other day, they shipped lightning fast.


Essie's Bobbing for Baubles is a gorgeous navy creme from the winter collection. I mistakenly called it the cocktail bling collection the other day, I must have been over excited. Essie's website says its a deep sapphire. I disagree. Girlfriend is NAVY, straight up. Or I have color identification issues. Either way, its gorgeous and I'm just glad it doesn't look black like all of my other beautiful dark navys. Two coats, but it could maybe have been only a one coater if I was more careful. Seriously one of the best formulas I've used. I can guarantee this will be a favorite of mine. It's beautiful on it's own, but it's begging me for some stamping.


China Glaze Snow Globe was so pretty in the bottle. I just realized I didn't take pictures of the bottles. I will do so after my exam tonight. Snow Globe was.... weird. Don't get me wrong, I really like it, it's like a disco ball. Clear-ish base with extra small light blue, royal blue, orange, purple, green and silver glitter, and the occasional slightly larger hexagonal glitter. It's SUPER colorful on my nails, but in the bottle it definitely looks more one noted. I was really expecting a more snowflake sparkly finish, so it ended up not quite as winter-y looking as I hoped for. But I still really like it. Snow Globe is in the running for being part of my new year's eve manicure.

Whoops I Did It Again...

So my Shellac manicure lasted me exactly 4 days. FAIL. I decided that the bathroom needed a very serious scrubbing last night, and the chemicals I used just dissolved the polish. I will never be able to explain why I didn't just put on a pair of gloves. They're right next to all the cleaning stuff, it would have been so simple! On the plus side, my nails are already WAY harder. The ends arent bending like they usually do. I'm halfway through a Christmas themed mani right now, pics will be up later. Also, I just scored an AWESOME haul on ebay. 2 Essie Luxeffects (Shine of the Times and whatever the pearlescent (sp) one is), Bobbing for Baubles from the Cocktail Bling collection, and China Glaze Snow Globe. All for the price of 2 Essie polishes. ebay, sometimes you are my friend. I will post the haul and swatches when they arrive! What's the best beauty deal you've scored lately?

Essie sew-psyched

One of my first konad, done sometime in October. Essie sew - psyched stamped with sally Hansen celeb city.

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First order of business: Grow out my stumpy nails!

I keep trying to grow my nails out, and failing miserably. They are definitely in the best shape they've ever been in, but that's really not saying much. Whenever they're finally reaching my fingertips, they split or peel and end up right back where they started. Wahhhhh :( So, to try and help the process, I went and got a shellac manicure. This is a pic from day 3. On my other hand, I already chipped one (my own fault, I was picking at it). More about shellac manicures later! I'll also be posting some pics of other nail art attempts I made myself, before shellac. Long work day, then soccer tonight! Yay!

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