Shorties: a nail and beauty blog

I was entering a contest and one of the questions that we were asked to answer was:

”What adds a little bit opulence/decadence/luxury or simply what make you feel so RICH when you’re so not?”
My take on it was: when you feel done what makes you feel better?

My answer is 65 red roses --> http://65redroses.livejournal.com
She is a girl who suffered from cystic fibrosis and I remembered reading a post from her mother asking her what she missed the post in her life. She replied that she missed feeling the pressure change when you enter a supermarket, a hotel, any place with vacuum doors; she missed being able to sit at different heights in different chairs.Eva, the author, lived a majority of her life in a hospital bed at the same height.She inspired me to hang on and that my situation is not truly that bad because she appreciates the little things in life that we take forgranted. I never considered being able to sit in different types of chairs a luxury…but it is...for Eva.I have the privilege to sit in a chair or sit on the floor. One month before Eva passed away she recorded a message on youtube addressing the fact that she would pass away soon.People refer to it as her last message, her message on death.I think it takes a lot of courage to face death and to acknowledge it.Thinking about her and her courage makes me realize that I’ll be okay..it will pass…it’s nothing. So when I feel hopeless…I think of Eva,she didn’t give up, her hope never faltered, even when given notice that the end was near, Eva was hopeful she would get a lung transplant.My troubles are nothing compared to what Eva went through and her willpower and strengthEva and 65 red roses

Some nail art I did for the blooming of cherry blossoms. click on the picture to zoom in.

I'm not too pleased with:

• the execution, I got tired and it's rather sloppy
• the nail shape. I was planning to try fake nails since I have never worn any but i'm not sure if I could get used to the feeling...anyways I don't think I like my natural nails to be shaped ovalish. My hands are rather fat and these rounded nails may make my fat hands fatter..hmm
  

I spend every sunday here:

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

So many!! they are all really cute...but loud.. and probably smelly
so here are the pictures of my really bad nail break. I couldn't even save it with the tea bag method, it was a clean break =(

it's like....seriously..what kind of break is this? arghhhhhhhhhh




Just my naked trimmed nails. slightly slight yellow but not bad.

it's the end of the world!!!!!!!!!

well not really but I broke a nail. It's a big deal to me as I have never had my nails this long ever and I Was taking really good care of it. sigh.

It's my fault I was running after the bus and tossed my bag over my shoulder and it was a blur and I broke the nail.

I'll post a picture later. It's all jagged. =( btw not a gross picture

Look at all these snow geese in the field...hehe.

I wanted to check on my nails...whether they had yellowed or not so I took off my nail polish. They looked okay and I couldn't decide what color to paint them so I decided to do a quite purple french tip.
this is the longest I have ever had my nails ever. it's crazy long for me. The problem is my nail beds are crazy that is why my french tip isn't super even. oh wells

i'm going insane

blogger is not being very nice today. some of my comments show........some don't show.......some are erased...........what? how does that even happen.

blargh

minor rant:

woke up early, took the bus to class. it takes me about 2 hours to get to school. 30 mins into the journey I get a text message from my partner telling me she is in bed sick.........argh..................she knows it takes me a long time to go to school.....our report is due thursday..........come on. If I was sick I would still force myself to get to school as the assignment needs to be done....well unless I had h1n1 or SARS or stomuch flu. it isnt that bad..I understand you are sick...except that she is also the partner who didn't finish her part of the assignment so we got a crap mark on it...and also changed the presentation slides after we had already rehearsed so that when I presented I looked like an idiot as many of my slides were missing...and is late for every meeting we have ever had.

no job..crappy school partner..gained weight..argh

end rant

i'm going to do my nails to make me feel better

Once again here I am using loose glitter. I tried to do a purple glitter gradient. It is alright but I think there is room for improvement. I have had this mani for a few days so you can see some tip where..then I decided why don't I konad the ring finger and the thumb. So this is what it looks like now

I think the thumb might be too much......i'm not sure..hmm.

I sprinkled the glitter on my nails...covered it with a top coat then did the french tip..
in retrospect I should have done the french tips first I think............it's just that doing the french tip after the glitter was hard as the glitter was still rather lumpy even with a top coat. I guess I could have put on another top coat before doing the french tip but I don't like thick thick layers of nail polish built up.

sequence:
*base
*clear nail polish/ top coat
*glitter
*top coat
*french tip
*top coat
*top coat

hmm..need to think about this


well...removing this was a nightmare.......I'm not sure how I feel about loose glitter now. Glitter is notorious for being hard ti remove..but this was probably one of the worst ever.

super busy with school right night so not much time for nails..........but color club revvvolution is gorgeous. although I can't seem to capture it well on my nails...see the bottle picture much more true to color. but since it's a holo color at some angles it's charcoal gray at other angles its a rainbow so it really all depends. very much worth eh $7.40

I got my first color club + holo today!!!

revvvolution!!

$7.40

expensive for a color club but what do you expect when one lives in canada.

Just a quick post after all the contest posts..phew
I trimmed my nails due to peeling. I wanted to have bare nails to let my nails recover..but I couldn't stand it and had to put something on my nails.

sally hansen black out + avon shimmer nail polish in glisten.

=)

LA colors art deco pen
avon sheer pink
rhinestones