Go Forth and July

 

Dress; F21, Jacket; Vintage, Wedges; Crappy

My nail habits are currently spiraling out of control.  Fourth of July weekend was four swell days.  Now that I have a job again, I’m turning into Noel and going  to bed at a reasonable hour and waking up at an unreasonable one.  The good thing about working for an aesthetician is free skin care products and plenty of time for minesweeper during hour and a half long facial appointments.  The bad thing is comments like, “Oh dear, you’ve been picking at that blemish haven’t you?”

Also wrote my first post worth some bow chica buuuucks. Should be writing regularly for them. Very excited.

Monster Vintage Blog

nails

black beads on nails


crackle finish

faux-minx

I've been obsessing over nails again. The ultimate in being useless. I do my nails and watch back to back netflix crap, two useless activites killed with one stone. I've been way into this China Glaze halloween series, specifically the "Ick-A-Body," pictured on the far left above. (picture snagged from here.) It's a copper flat glitter in a sheer black and goes over dark blue teal like awesome sauce.

I'm also becoming enamored of the idea of gluing useless shit onto my nails, in order to prove my delicate feminine nature to the world. Yeah, the last part of that sentence is bull shit, but something in me always feels kind of guilty about spending so much time painting my nails. I should give it up, as there are way more important things to feel guilty about, like not cleaning my cat's litter box, or how there are so many starving children.

Anyway, back to nails. I'm also stoked about that crackle finish that OPI is coming out with, and kind of interested in these heat activated metallic things. Oh, the time I waste.

a heavy hand

Some looks on heavy rotation in my inspiration folder:

jagged brow : nylon jan 2009

matte pink lip : zink march 2005

smear tactics : Pat McGrath for Balenciaga



galaxy nails : pop rocks


orange : Nars in Allure Dec '09


old school: ronnie

heavy eyebrows : Numero magazine



Prada look : jjacks48



Arabic look : MissChievous

What Noel Says Matte-ers

Omgoodnesssss, I'm so clever and funny huh? Get it? "matte-ers," because I'm about to talk about matte nail polish! Hilaaaaaaaaaarious. Ok. First things first. Here is my new favorite nail polish color.


It looks lamer in this picture than in real life and usually I hate polish with glitter or sparkles, but I'm possessed by it. It's got this kind of weird periwinkle thing going on and it's semi-translucent, which I usually dislike, but it all works out somehow. PLUS, it's called Rainstorm, right? And I did my nails last night, and no joke, 2 hours later it started pouring and didn't stop ALL day. GET OUT, I know!

On a related note. Over Christmas I came across some matte top coat polish in the clearance bin. Since Noel mentioned it earlier, I figured I'd give it a try. Long story short, it's cooler than I imagined. It gives my nails such a clean and sharp look. Very modern. Here are some colors I can't wait to try it over.


Never would have thought to use it over a glitter polish, but it looks awesome here.

Long story short, I should listen to Noel more. Except when it comes to Prince of Persia. Ok. Time to go watch the Bachelor. I know, I know. Gag me with a chainsaw right?

Scratchy Scratchy

I totally get off on a really nice matte finish. Matte print photos look like money. Mac's matte lipsticks look like money. Have you seen that black Starbucks card? Black matte with gold embossed print. I even dig cars in primer, even though that don't look like money. And once upon a time I had 2 matte nail polishes. A dirty pewter-grey and a blue toned pink shell. I actually emptied those bottles with use, something I never do now days because... uh... Anyway, I've been seeing an exciting amount of matte nail polishes once again, which I've been wanting so bad it's retarded. I don't know why I've been holding out; it's not like it's going to break the bank. I wants some. Above is the dragon queen primping it up for Knock Out Cosmetics. They've got lots of colors, but a new "concrete" gray and "pool," a totally hot blue color, are really catching my eye. $19 a bottle. Oh wait. Maybe that's why I haven't bought any yet.



But then OPI has to come out with an entire line as well, including a sick ass green that goes by the name "Gargantuan Green." Shown above is their "Lincoln Park After Blah Blah, We Know, at Least it's Matte Now." I'm much more excited about the green, if you can't tell. They're cheap,($5 - $9) but I can't really find them anywhere except on ebay, and I just don't feel like making the effort to bid and then having to pay some stupid s&h on one measly bottle. Yes, I'm lazy AND cheap.

But what is REALLY freaking me out now is this shit. Essie "matte about you" claims to put a matte clear finish on top of any polish you have. For $10 I can have any matte color I want. OOOOOOooOOOOOO. Save meeeee. I think I'm finally caving.

itchy and scratchy

Ok. So I've been really excited about this for the past couple days and no one around me seems to think it's as amazing as i do. The polish you see in the blurry and pretty crappy picture above has now been on my nails for almost 72 hours! Yes. yes. yes. i kno. it's incredible. not even chipped! fanfuckingtasic! I'm hooked. I'm never buying any kind of other polish. It's China Glaze and i initially found it at the sally beaty supply next to chucky cheezes in good ol' colorado springs. They actually have tons of cool colors and i apply three coats and it lasts forever. maybe i'm just naive and didn't know nail polish that actually worked existed but i'm still stoked. YEA!