Update.. on ME.

I realize it's been a few too many days since I have posted anything. It's definitely been a whirlwind these past few days. My husband rescued an 8 week old puppy, after seeing him thrown out of a car window (while the car was in motion). This poor thing was covered in ticks, stuck everywhere (and I mean everywhere) with fox tails, swollen eyes, and completely malnourished. We are die hard animal lovers, like my biggest dream in life is to have a large property with all sorts for animals. So we took the puppy to the vet, got him treated, medicated and free of stickers and ticks. He has an eye infection in both eyes, which we hope will heal in the next week or so. Anyway, meet the newest member to our little family, Iggy.

Anyway, besides the chaos of taking care of a sick puppy, and preparing our house for him. I also had a job interview yesterday for a part time job that's perfect for me (fingers crossed I get it!), and my Great Uncle came into town. He's my Grandma's only sibling, she's 89 and he's 91, so it was really important to me to visit with them. My Grandma and I have always been extremely close, she lived next door to me from birth to when I moved out on my own at 18. She has had a tremendous impact on who I am today. 

I will be doing my nails tonight (unless my husband rescues another animal, haha!) and hopefully posting it tomorrow. I promise I'll be back to my same old routine soon.

Day 6 - Violet!

While I was deciding when to do this challenge, violet was (believe it or not) the one of the few challenges that I was kind of not looking forward to. It's just not my favorite color, and of course I didn't own any violet nail polishes. I went to CVS yesterday, found Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails Xtreme wear in Violet Voltage, bought it, and used it for Day 6! I don't know what I was worried about, I really like the color.

After putting two coats of Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Violet Voltage, I used my Konad Stamping Polish in White with Shany SH18 stamping plate and used Seche Vite Fast Dry Top Coat, for the top coat. Super happy with how they turned out! Tomorrow, Black & White, and I already know what I'm going to do. Stay tuned it's going to be really cute!

Refresh-Mint

As I'm starting to rebuild my nail polish collection, I have been choosing to purchase the more affordable brands, in order to buy more of them. Once I accrue enough polish, I will start buying the pricey better quality polishes. As I mentioned in my first post, I ordered the Konad stamping polish, to better my stamping ability. Until then I wanted to add some sort of stamp to my nails.

 I chose to use the SE22 plate, on my accent fingers with Jordana NP-139 White Pearl polish. Given the fact that it dries incredibly quickly, I think it turned out pretty well. For the base color I used Wet n Wild Megablast, I Need A Refresh-Mint. It comes with a "Mani-Curve Pro Brush" instead of the normal sized brushes nail polish come with. At first I was a little thrown off by the wide, different brush it actually worked out well. For the top coat I used, Sally Hansen's Diamond Strength No Chip Nail Color, in Diamond (Clear). I actually do not care for this polish, it doesn't leave the shine I would like it to, but this time it worked out.


I really do recommend the Wet n Wild Megablast, it's well worth it, and they have a lot of great colors!

Introduction.

Let me start out by introducing myself. My name is Jamie, born, raised and still reside in Northern California. I'm 29 years old, a wife and one of the many, many people whom lost employment due to this recession. I absolutely love photography, everything about it is extremely exciting to me. I also enjoy painting, crafting, and cooking. Pinterest is a dream come true for a gal like me! It has actually opened my eyes to all the possibilities my nails have! I had no idea how available products are to purchase to create beautiful nails at home, instead of spending 100's of dollars a month. I saw the Salon Express at Walmart a few weeks back, for $9.95, and figured it can't hurt to get it a shot. Well, I've been mildly successful a few times with it, but it advertises that it works with ANY nail polish. While that may be true if you lay down the polish, scrape the excess polish, stamp it onto the stamper and finally stamp it on your nail within, lets say, 10 seconds. Because if it's not rushed it dries and the effort is for nothing. So I went to the reviews, read what polishes work and am now anxiously awaiting the Konad stamping polishes I ordered from Amazon. I'm really excited to try nail stamping with the better stamping polish, especially since I also ordered the Shany 2012 nail art polish stamping too, so now I have so many options! I am a complete beginner to this, so follow me as I learn and discover new techniques and share my findings with you. Also follow me on Pinterest for my latest posts, and nail inspiration. Mind you, I just started the blog and the pinterest account, so please be patient. :)