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Another Viva La nails review and some thoughts about life

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Category : , , , , , , , 6

Hi Darlings!

Today is going to be a very long post so sit down and grab some popcorn =)..or nuts..or whatever you like to munch on..I like gummy bears.


I’m going to start out with something light:


I stuck them on with tweezers and then applied a top coat.  I went to sleep and when I woke up I found that about 3 of the tiny jewels had come off.  There is also color bleeding. The red glitter in the previous post bled and now the stickers are bleeding.Well, only one of the stickers bled, the pink sticker on the index finger/ pointer finger




Disclaimer - The product was sent to me for review with no payment. My opinion is an honest one

Second item of business:

I was talking to a friend of mine and he said this:  The way I think of it is: Your life and mine is insignificant. The entire human race is just half a blink in the eye of the universe. Why not make the most out of it as yourself, as an individual. F*ck the world - make your life your own.”

After thinking about what he said, I pulled out my list…you know, the list we all have, literally or mentally of all the things we wanted to do and of all the places we wanted to go. 

Here’s a bit of my list:
  1. Go dog sledding
  2.  Learn to snowboard
  3. See the Taj Mahal
  4. Gain courage to hold a reptile: snake, lizard, turtle
  5. Gain courage to hold a spider
  6. See the Northern lights
  7. Go Bungee jumping
  8. Go to Russia
  9. See a volcano: extinct/ dormant/ alive
  10. See narwhals
  11. Eat a molecular gastronomy meal
  12. etc..

Although I have had this list for many years, I have only completed 2 out of the 100s of things listed. I am going to slowly work on chipping away at this list. Sure it will take money and time, but to make my life my own I want to do things I want or at least work towards doing things I want to do. 

So this is what I’ve done:

Bungee Jumping on Whistler Mountain:

Crocodile named Lucy


I know a lot of bloggers are having a lot of difficulties in their life and well, after talking to my friend I realized we only have the one chance to make it the life we want, so why don’t we?-->Money and time.  I think that as long as we have a goal in life/ have a desire to do something and we work towards it, we make our life much more worthwhile when we actually do reach one of our goals.


Third item of business:

A small favor request:

My sister entered a contest on Cathay Pacific Canada's facebook page and I would love it if you could vote for her entry.  The only catch is that the contest requires you to have a facebook account.  It is the Art of dessert contest, what happens is you make a dessert that if chosen will be served on International Cathay Pacific flights.

Her dessert is under Amy Choh, B.C.: Coconut Panna Cotta with Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Sauce and Banana Chips

Here’s a picture of it:

It’s pretty much coconut pudding + dark chocolate hazelnut sauce + a side of banana chips.  I had a taste of it just now and the Coconut Panna Cotta is Awesome! (I’m not just saying this because she’s my sister, it really is awesome)

 
If you guys have the time it would be great if you could vote for her. 
Voting instructions:
1. Just follow the link http://www.facebook.com/cathaypacificCA
2. Click on the "Like" button page to like the Cathay Pacific Canada page

3. Click on the“Art of Dessert” Tab
3. The contestants should be listed a little below
4. Scroll for “Amy Choh,B.C: Coconut Panna Cotta with Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Sauce and Banana Chips” and click “Like” to vote   <---currently I believe she's on page 10

I’m going to tweet it too and if you guys could help spread the word I would really appreciate it. A few clicks is all it takes to make my sister very happy =) 

Konad M73 + Review for viva la nails

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Category : , , , , , , 19

Hi Everyone!

I've decided to give my nails a break from nail polish so they are naked...well as naked as they will ever be....meaning I have a french tip manicure.
I need something on the tips of my nails to protect from chipping; thus, a french manicure. 

I used:
Sally Hansen Pacific Blue: for the tips
Sally Hansen white out: konaded with M73
 Super Glitter Dust - Red from Viva la nails
Seche Vite top coat

***I only have top coat on the tips of my nails, everything else is naked.

  • Freehand the pacific blue tips
  • stamp tips with konad plate M73
  • use brush and dip into acetone to clean up  smile line.  
  • Place glitter on smile line
  • apply top coat

So...the red glitter was provided for review by viva la nails. It was very generous of them but I wasn't very happy with the red glitter at all.  The red glitter BLEEDS!!!!  You can see this on my pinky. After sticking on the glitter I covered the tips of my nails with clear nail polish...well the red glitter started bleeding and smearing..ahh!!!!

This indicated that you cannot cover the red glitter with top coat unless you want silver glitter and smeared red
This also indicated that the red glitter will not do well with frankening because it will turn your frankens red and the glitter will be silver.

I guess the only use of the glitter is for acrylic nails.

Disclaimer - The red glitter rhinestone was sent to me for review with no payment. My opinion is an honest one.


Side note:
1. I plan to have a giveaway soon...almost 300 readers! yay! 
Are people okay with used nail polish being part of the giveaway? I'm thinking of tossing in some htf that I don't use anymore

2.  Is anyone interested in OPI Escadorable Coral, Orange you from New York, Apricatcha Cheating? I believe that I may be able to obtain them for a reasonable price (less than $10 with shipping and all that) and I've been looking for them so if anyone else is interested let me know


@Thifa : why don't you have a nail blog? Think about having one okay? I do love your recipe cooking blog though =)


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I found this image on http://twitter.com/opinails 






I like teenage dream but I was hoping it was a pink holo + glitter..but I will probably purchase it.
I don't want to get into the mad as a hatter problem where I am currently looking for it everywhere and I can't find it anywhere and wish I had purchased it when it first came out. argh!!

eminem told me to do it.

Sunday, September 19, 2010 Category : , , , , , 8

And I just can't keep living this way
So starting today, I'm breaking out of this cage
I'm standing up, I'ma face my demons
I'm manning up, I'ma hold my ground
I've had enough, now I'm so fed up
Time to put my life back together right now!
                  -"not afraid" eminem

So I'll be unemployed in 2 weeks...and I'll be okay =)


I wanted to thank everyone for their kind comments.  I really appreciate all the advice that was given.  I went through each comment and really thought about what was said and then came to my decision.

This is just a simple blog but with all the people I've talked to and "met" it just seems much more than that.  Thank you for being my readers/ commenters/ followers. 




Back to the nail polish world....

sooooooooooooo...I received a wonderful package from Ms. Delaynee on Thursday.  It was....China glaze For Audrey...one of my long time lemmings =)
She is such a sweet heart for sending it over to me....plus she used express post.  o_o
Thank you Ms D!


By the way, I am using a different camera so my photos are not as nice as before.  The original camera I used was a canon rebel but it was my brother in law's and he needed it back so I returned it. My photos are now taken with a pentax camera, which is terrible for taking macro shots, the colors are a bit off and somewhat blurry. I also had to use flash for my photos or else the designs would not show up...please bare with me for a few weeks until I get the camera back.


Ms. Delaynee didn't just send me for audrey, she also sent me the double ended konad stamper....ekk!

Of course I had to apply For audrey right away and nail stamp it

On top of stamping I had to bling my nails up with viva la nails hexagonal nail glitter.  I need to get more of these because I think their glitter would be perfect for frankens, especially for making dupes of deborah lipmanns hexagonal glitter polishes.  Just take a look at their neon glitter..the glitter comes in all sizes !!!!


Please note the glitter used was received from the viva la nails sample pack, go sign up for one right now!!


So..here are my nails..which you sort of already saw in the very first picture:

Items used:
  • China glaze for Audrey
  • Sally Hansen xtreme White on
  • Konad image plate M78
  • teal dazzling glitter from viva la nails



** ChaosButterfly and *~ JuLiAnnE ~* tagged me for blog awards so i'll be putting them up in my next blog post =) 

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