Birthdays are about beginnings, so they say. It's relevant, I promise.
This year has been one of big changes for me. Some good, some bad, but
the major realization happened the other day, as my husband stood in
the living room and I was upset and frustrated. He said the truest
thing I had ever heard, but never realized. "You are a non-traditional
person," he said. In my 30 years on this Earth, not once had I ever
stopped to realize it. Since then, that phrase remains a daily reminder
for me. It means different things...that I need to stop and accept
myself for who I am, that I need to be positive in my life instead of
negative, and to stop giving in to what I think I should be doing and
instead doing things that I want to do. I'm living my life for me now,
so I'm going to pursue things that I want to do.
This weekend we celebrated my wise husband's birthday, even though it
isn't until next week. We visited his family in Chicago and had a
low-key party on Saturday night. As we ventured home I shut my eyes and
just started thinking. I want to be positive and creative in my life
and one thing that I've truly missed is writing. I laid in the car and thought about what my
new niche could be. And then I remembered....I'm non-traditional, so
I'm going to write about what I want.
So here's to new beginnings, new interests, and a new positive outlook.
Things won't always be perfect (see Happy Birthbay above), but that's
what makes it interesting.
Wow. A year and a half later. Things are very different in my life, which is to be expected. However, I miss my nails, I miss writing, and I miss my online friends. I can't say that I know exactly what this blog will become, but I just know that I miss it.
So to come back, I'd like to show what my current nails look like. I have a different job now and it is really rough on my nails. I do have acrylics on, but eventually I would like to transition back to natural nails....it's just impossible right now with the amount of breakage and peeling that occurs at work. Even with the acrylics, I still paint my nails every few days. Here's what I'm sporting right now-
Right now I'm wearing a very spring-y combo of OPI Do You Lilac It? with ring and thumb accent nails with Nicole by OPI Be Awesome. Lilac It is a very cool-toned lilac purple. Normally I don't care for purples on my nails but this polish feels fresh, soft, and pretty. It applies in two easy coats. I used two coats of glitter which I really like. Be Awesome is a pastel combination of diamond shaped glitters, and it's one of my favorite glitters to add to many different polish colors.
Here is Lilac It on it's own.
Clearly I'll need to get back on the cuticle oil bandwagon. Let's just see where this little blog goes. I might talk about different things that I'm loving right now, planners, crafting, etc. It feels good to be back.
Wow! Hello there. Clearly I haven't written anything in awhile and I haven't meant to but tonight I was just feeling it. Maybe it was because I had a terrible day at work and I was feeling chatty perhaps? Either way, I wanted to share my polish with you and I really like the idea of sharing untried polishes. Maybe it will only be every once and a while, we'll see. Let's get to it!
Today's very first untried is Essie Sexy Divide. I have definitely not been into Summer polishes this year...it's pretty much just been nudes, metallics, and pastels for me. We had a nice week of 70's this week and I just went for the vampy polishes. I reached for Essie's Sexy Divide, which originally comes from the Winter 2008 collection. It's a dark, cool-toned shimmery purple, which is almost black and sometimes a bit blue looking.
The formula was really great on this polish, I had zero formula problems. I used two easy coats with one coat of Seche Vite topcoat for my swatches, which are also taken after a full days wear of this polish.
Overall I'm quite pleased with this vampy little number, although I know I'll have to keep the vampy nails to a minimum next week because we're going to be in the 90's...yikes! Do you own this polish? What do you think of it?
Hi polish friends. I hope everyone is doing well. Long time no write here but I've pretty much been doing daily videos on my YouTube channel here. A few days ago I was contacted by Royal Caribbean cruise lines because they wanted to use a swatch photo of mine. Well, I wanted to show it off and I thought the concept was really cool. They wrote an entire article about matching your manicures to your type of cruise. I've been on many of cruise, including a cruise to Alaska for my honeymoon. So I just wanted to share the article with you guys because I'm proud of it :D
Here's my picture below which was a swatch of Ciate Pool Party chosen for a cruise to Aruba. I have been to Aruba and I do love snorkeling, although scuba diving would be amazing as well!
If you'd like to check out the full article, just click here.
Hi there everyone! Boy am I glad it's starting to look like Spring. Come check out my thoughts on the Spring 2015 Zoya Delight collection down below.
