Broken Heart Valentine's Nails

China Glaze - Fuscia Fanatic

OPI - Panda-Monium Pink

White Konad Polish

Black Nail Art Pen

So, I'd say it's pretty obvious I'm not in a relationship...  if I was I would hope that I wouldn't have nearly this much time to do my nails! LOL  So instead of doing a Valentine's Day mani like everyone else is doing right now, I decided to do an anti-Valentine's mani.

I started by painting all my nails with Fuscia Fanatic, except the ring fingers where I used Panda-Monium Pink.  Then I did the polka dots with the opposite colors.  Then I stamped the heart with Red Angel plate RA120 and Konad white polish, then used the nail art pen to outline and "break" it.

I love these colors together.  And even though it's a broken heart, it's still using a V-Day color scheme, and I do love having pink on my nails. 

I'm still holding out hope for true love, though.  I'm not ready to give up on finding it just yet.  And when I find it, I know my nails will look GORGEOUS!  :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Things That are Easier with Nubbins

OPI - Ink (the dark color)

FingerPaints - Flecked Topcoat

1. Typing
2. Playing piano
3. Texting
4. Putting in contacts
5. Dialing the phone
6. Blending eye makeup
7. Wearing gloves
8. Using the remote control
9. Changing the radio station in my car
10. Buttoning jeans/shirts/coats

Other than these things, I am not of fan of having my nails this short.

But I can type like the wind, and I've been playing piano more in the last week than I have in the last few months.  When my nails are super long I don't like to play, because they get in the way of me playing the right notes, and I've had a nail get caught in between the keys before.  It's just a lot easier to play when my nails are this short.

Besides, I've been asked to play at my friend's wedding in a few months and I need the practice time anyway.  So maybe cutting my nails short was a good thing.  Still, I'd rather have cut them short of my own choice and not becuase one broke.  And even then I would never have cut them this short.

Oh well.  I guess if this nail drama is the worst thing I have to worry about, my life isn't that bad.   Moving on, I promise.  :)





Nail-Tastrophie

Tragedy
When the feeling's gone and you can't go on
It's tragedy

 -- Bee Gees

Waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!  I don't even know how it happened.  I'm so annoyed!!  Last week when I was wearing the jagged tips mani, I came out of the restroom at work, went back to my desk, and saw that my right index nail was barely hanging on by a tiny little piece.  I don't recall hitting or snagging it on anything, and I didn't even feel it happen.

Of course I didn't have any nail glue so I put two bandaids on it and glued it when I got home.  Then I repainted my nails with two coats of China Glaze Gothic Lolita.  Later that night, I completely forgot about it and opened a soda with that nail.  STUPID MOVE!  It broke again and I was forced to re-glue it.  I just didn't even think about it and my nails are usually really strong and I wouldn't worry about opening a soda.  I'm so mad at myself!

Anyway, the next morning, it ripped off at the tip when I got to work and took the top layer of my nail halfway down.  OUCH!! 

I couldn't stand to look at it all day so I put another bandaid on it and then hacked the rest of them off the minute I got home.  If it had been a thumb or a pinky, I might have left the rest of the nails long, but it just felt so weird to have my index finger SO short and the rest of my nails so long.  I was having trouble typing! 

So, I'm down to nubbins. I absolutely hate my nails this short and I can't wait till they grow out some.  The broken one is going to take a while to regrow because the top layer of the tip is completely ripped off and is now super flimsy and flexible.  Here's hoping it will grow fast! 

China Glaze - Electro Pop

China Glaze - Fuscia Fanatic

China Glaze - Gothic Lolita

China Glaze - Gaga for Green

I finally found this collection at Sally, an ended up buying four colors from it.  I couldn't decide which color I liked best so I used three of them on this mani.  The other one I got was called Make Some Noise which is a nice coral color.

Alas, this is the last pic of my gorgeous, long, strong nails. 

Jagged Tips - Inspired by The Princess of Polish

This jagged tips manicure was posted back in November by The Princess of Polish.  As soon as I saw it I immediately wanted to try it (another reason I took the green/polka dots mani off without wearing it out).  It reminds me of a comic book and I love the bright colors contrasting with the white base and the black zig zags.  I did those zigs zags freehand with a nail art pen - need more practice at that.  But I still love this manicure... behold the jagged tips.  Love it!!!

At the end of this post, I'd just like to take a moment to complain about how little the workers at my local beauty stores know about the world of nail polish. They never know when stuff is coming out and it seriously annoys me!

Dot Explosion

Here is another manicure that never left the house.  Although the pizza delivery chick did compliment me on it this afternoon when I had a pizza delivered.  LOL  This polka dot manicure was originally intended to be a recreation of another tutorial, but halfway through it became clear that it was going to be too difficult for me, so it became something totally different.  I'm going to try the original one again sometime though.  I didn't keep this on becuase I just wasn't happy with it. Too much going on and not all the dots are round, which annoys me. 

 





Misc. Manis

I've been sick so I haven't blogged much and I left a couple manis on for 3 or 4 days each which I NEVER do... but I got pics of all my recent manicures so here they are.

First up... this is one of my new Red Angel stamping plates. I love this design!!

This next one was a fail.  The first couple fingers looked good the others are a hot mess.  I was trying to place individual glitters picked out of a glitter polish in a clear jelly.  It looked a lot better in my head but here's how it turned out:



The next manicure was inspired by this post by Kayla Shevonne.  I loved the colors she used, and I  just recently bought some new Wet N Wild colors that were quite similar, so I took them out for a spin and I really liked them.  Plus they were cheap - only $1.99 each at W@lgreen's. I got a lot of compliments on this manicure:



The following manicure was never worn outside my house because I wasn't ultimately happy with how it turned out.  I was happy with the sponging, but the stamping was a total fail.  I just need more practice.  It just sucks because if you mess it up, you have to take it off which takes off the base polish, which you then have to reapply, and it just takes forever.  But regardless, here it is: