Playing Catch Up!

Catching Up Well, with my short nails I haven’t been very inspired. That’s why there haven’t been any updates recently. Not that I didn’t do anything with my nails, I did, but nothing I was overly excited to show off. So this post will be catching you up on the few things I did.   First let me tell you about the Acrylic Nail I put on my Pinky on June 5th. It stayed on really well for 2 weeks and was still going strong, but I decided to remove it. It was tough to get off, so I guess I did a really good job! Not bad for a 15.00 kit. My natural nail was still growing so I still had that, but the acrylics left a ridge on my natural nail near the cuticle area. It was very minor. In the picture you can see how much the nail had grown since I'd applied the acrylics. I could have added more to fill in the space, but I really just wanted to take it off so I did. Next I wanted to get some polish on my nails. I bought a few more colors just to round out my collection. I found a seller on Ebay who was selling lots in different sizes of Kleancolor Nail Polishes and you got to pick your own colors from the 250+ selection. I believe I paid 13.99 and Free Shipping. You pick your 10 colors and then choose 3 back up colors in case any you chose are out of stock. Well one of the colors I received was a backup called “2.2 Tango” and decided to see how that looked. The pictures below don’t do any justice to the actual color and look. Very pretty! My next manicure was kind of fun! I was born and raised 3 miles from Boston, and since the Bruins made it to the Stanley Cup Playoffs, I just had to do something! So I made up some waterslides of the Bruins logos and painted my nails Black and Gold. Sadly… the Bruins lost last night and I would hate to think it was because I took the manicure off.  But at least I showed my team pride!   I also bought myself some Practice Fingers to play around with. I thought it would be a good idea to have some nice long nails to play with. I could test colors and designs without  having to do it on my own nails and use a lot of polish remover. The first thing I did was apply an acrylic nail so I had some length to work with. Then some polish and some stamping and added some rhinestones. It was fun to play with. This last one (for this post) is this beautiful glitter called “Rockstar” by Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear. I had it on all of my nails. In the bottle it is so sparkly and pretty and definitely looks purple. I didn’t use any base coat and I applied 3 layers of the polish. I could have gotten away with 2, but I wanted it really thick. Well in the sun, I swear it looks red, white and blue. Very Patriotic! I REALLY liked it a lot… but what a pain to get off… and that’s with using the pure acetone. Ugh!  So I am caught up…. But I have 1 more post coming after this one. I tried the Glue base for glitter polishes and will write a separate post about that. Hammer away at those Nails!