I’m wearing Julep Rebel right now. It’s holographic, so I’m slightly mesmerized by it. I keep catching myself staring at my thumbs as I move my nails back and forth. Pretty, but distracting.
So let’s talk nail polish this weekend, babes. Any colors you’re obsessed with right now?
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Guys! The Pope is resigning.
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=49679&page=1
Yes! First time a Pope has resigned since the 13th century, apparently. I wonder what type of retirement package he’ll get…
I’m going to have a go at making my own gold-foil polish (I have no money. None. Nada.) since I love the idea of it on a deep blue base. Yum!
Also. I just applied for a job that I *really* want and need. So nervous.
Good luck on the job front!! I did a little post on cheating the gold foil topcoat some months ago- http://persephonemagazine.com/2012/10/19/tips-for-the-cheap-andor-lazy/ – using the little gold fleck vials and some tweezers. I am WAY too cheap for that gold foil top coat, and those vials are like $2 or $3 bucks.
I got a new dining room table! Was 40% off at a grand opening sale. Fuck yeah adulthood!
…..and one of the chairs is busted. Hope they don’t make me bring the whole thing back. Gah. Luckily the place is only three blocks away but if I have to take it all back… I had to borrow a truck to get it home…
RUGBY!!!! *shakes fist at the rugby gods*
(Ireland lost, and not in a good way).
But I think I’m now in total awe of Brian O’Driscoll’s wife’s cervix. She was at an awards ceremony last night, had the baby after 8am this morning, and he was back with the team by 11am. That’s dedication. Go Amy and Sadie!
I got up and responsibly did some laundry and made hard boiled eggs for the week before flopping down on the couch. I also cleaned up Mini’s room some, putting clothes from her floordrobe into her actual closet while thinking how mad @pileofmonkeys would be at her room.
MINI. *shaking my fist*
With all the fun nail posts, I’ve been inspired, so I painted mine gold. It turned fine except they remind me of Mombi from Return to Oz, so I’m probably just going to take it off. I also picked up a top coat today that has sparkles and little diamonds, stars and moons in it.
If your reaction to this is to giggle like a baby who is tearing paper, we should be best friends.
http://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/42671024515/maxistentialist-im-so-happy-to-be-alive-in
Well, that was a massive nerdgasm.
I KNOW. It made me so happy.
Baby Peach by Santee, Americano 44 by Kleancolor (its the shiniest most metallic gold I’ve ever seen) and Cafe au Lait by Kleancolor (never thought I could pull off nude what with my being dark-skinned but, l’amour!)
Boyfriend Freckle just brought me spicy cheese nuggets. What more do you need on a Saturday night.
Very little else, I’d say!
Me and my nudie nails will sit in the corner and play with the disco balls.
This sounds dirty. I like it.
Oooh, so excited to see the pics on that Valentine’s nail contest! Combines two of my favorite things – nail polish and Ventine’s day color scheme. W00t!
Oh dear. The roommate situation has escalated and exploded.
Lovely roommate and I went to the property manager to figure out what to do about our third roommate last week (we’re so very incompatible, and third roommate tends toward the shouty and confrontational, so we wanted to have a plan first). The next guy down talked to third roommate, she apparently assumed that we want her kicked out, and decided that shouting confrontation was appropriate.
I am waiting for the other shoe to drop and figuring out what I can wear to work Monday if I spend the weekend hiding out in my room, because I don’t want to have laundry going if she comes back and is in aggression mode. I don’t *think* she’s dumb enough to go for a physical attack or do anything that will get her arrested, but I also don’t want to be shouted at in my own damn home.
You know what, fuck it. I am doing my laundry because I need clean underpants more than I want to avoid the *possibility* that she’ll come home shouting.
I will tell her, if she comes home, that I am not talking to her without the other roommate and at least one person from the management office present (mostly so neither of us can misquote the other, deliberately or accidentally, as an ass-covering measure). I suspect that she’s not coming home today anyway.
Fuck yeah, it’s your place as well and you have every right to move round in it. Hope this cleans up quickly.
Me too. I want it over with. And I want a nicer roommate in that third room, one who acts like an adult and doesn’t scream at people.
I’m seriously questioning my lease renewal, though. We (Lovely roommate and I) had asked to be notified when the property managers contacted her so we could be prepared for the reaction. And we got exactly the reaction we expected, just on a Saturday morning.
AND the fluey shit I’ve been dealing with off-and-on for a month and a half has decided that it’s On time. Feh.
Calling Juniper!
Scotland are kicking Italy’s ass today. It’s like two different teams compared to last week.
Case in point:
And when Italy didn’t learn their lesson…
Their colours are preciously the same!
I know right?! This is Scotland’s away strip, usually they play in a navy blue… they should have stuck with it for this match I’d say!
I dropped in in after 20 minutes and really had to look again to see if this wasn’t training or something.
I am determined to watch this tomorrow! Determined, I say! Had to miss the original airing because, of all things, I was watching Juniper Junior at football! But tomorrow: long weekend, we’ll do our baking, and settle down to watch! Oh yes!
I haven’t done my nails since November, when I painted them emerald green (I was hoping to use that logic of “if you have to undo your nails for a job interview, you’re more likely to get called for that interview”). Actually, by that logic, I should paint them a bright color again. I’m supposed to hear back about an interview this week. Even if they’ll be destroyed at the temp job.
Now I have to pick a color and do my nails after lunch, whee.
So many nail posts lately! I love it.
Mine are a pretty metallic-y orange at the moment. OPI’s Deutsche You Want Me Baby? (I always select the dirtiest-sounding makeup shades. “Ooh, I love that lipstick! What shade is it?” “Uhh, ‘Sex Machine’?”)
I think I will add a flakie topcoat once I’m done moving furniture around today. I found an Essie ‘Shine of the Times’ dupe that is gorgeous and hypnotising.
That’s a nice colour.
I really adore this color. For reals.
The puns in the OPI’s German line are some of my favorites. I totally buy polish for the names too.
I’m convinced that i missed my calling as an OPI polish namer. I have entire collections of punny names.
Me too. When I can’t decide on a color I go with the one with the cleverest name.
I’m terrible at painting my nails, but I’m loving all of the polish right now. Hopefully that will somehow equate to better nail polishing skills. :)
The last couple of weeks have been…I don’t want to say awful, but pretty bad. Mr. Nonsense and I moved out of our apartment last week and all sorts of wrong happened. I think I lived on beer and gummi bears for a solid two days. Now we live with his parents and I had tried to convince myself that it was going to be okay, but now I know better. We need to find another place ASAP. The only two things holding my sanity together are my job and the plethora of king cake.
I don’t really paint my nails but I do have to say they are looking very lovely right now. For about six months after chemo they were strangely flat and damaged but now they’re back to their old crazy-strong selves. It’s a sight to see! I’m about to cut them off though because I can barely type. My friend was begging me not to and asking me to paint them but alas I can’t handle long nails.
Uhhh and now there’s a giant picture of my nails. Right there. Yeah. I’m just gonna… go… watch Project Runway. *runs away*
Lol, don’t be embarrassed! I’m quite jealous. I can’t grow my nails out because I always manage to break one and I can’t stand to have just one short one. :) I’d love to get mine that long one day.
I decided to try and embrace my long nails today instead of cutting them off so I gave them a buff and shine. They look pretty. But will still have to cut them off soon. Driving me bonkers. And I totally feel you about them being the same length. If one breaks they all go. Done.
Great natural nails!
Oh they good, and I’m about to join you in some Project Runway watching. I’m still uncertain about this whole teams thing.
The team thing is… questionable. But I’d like to see where it goes.
The only things I really dislike about the teams is that they cut in to my Tim Gunn time and I’m starting to feel bad for Dream Team, yes they’re stuff has super sucked, but no one should have to lose 3 times in a row and have super lopsided teams. I think if they switch the teams up in the next episode, I’d enjoy it a bit more.
You have ridiculously impressive nails! Also, does everyone have index-finger nails that are more rounded than the others? Mine are, but I always figured it was because I bite them sometimes, thus making them grow a little differently than their flatter neighbors.
I do! Like a lot. It makes getting a consistent nail shape really tough, which why I don’t let salons do my finger nails. They always square them of super awkwardly instead of going with the curve a bit to keep a flattering shape on nails.
I’m with you both. I don’t care if it doesn’t quite ‘match’ the squareness of the other nails but the index must be more rounded or it doesn’t feel right. I can’t handle either the oval or the square shape that manicure places use so I typically shape them myself.
I’ve learned to embrace short nails! Any time mine chip, I clip ‘em all, paint a really bold color on them and keep it pushin’! Once they’re long I paint a more subtle color. Yes, I’m a little obsessed.
Wait– there is holographic nail polish?! I… I want this in my life…
So much talk about awesome nail polish today! I am stuck in a snowstorm with the same polish I’ve had for many many months! Arg!
Unrelated but also happening in life right now: I was sick with a nasty cold + sore throat the first half of the week. Which means apparently no cleanliness happened at all. Which has made me realize just how much of the housework I do and how very very little Boyfriend does. This has been a regularly occurring point of tension between us. Part of me doesn’t feel like starting the same old fight again, but the other part of me feels like a bad feminist and like I’m generally falling into some frustrating traditional gender roles that I reeeeaaalllyy don’t want to be in (or even somehow set up the expectation that I could be in). I just… ugh. I’m tired of being the equal house-roles badguy.
I’ve been into this super dark green by china glaze lately. It makes me feel like maleficent is hanging out on my nails. I love it.
I am starting to amass so much sparkly nail polish. This Opi’s “make a comet-ment” over some grey loreal.
Nice!
Pretty! :) I like the grey/silver sparkliness of it all. :)
Its like a bunch of stars exploded on your nails
That is super pretty!
And now I am on my way out the door to acquire this. So, so pretty!