PAY DAY!

Yay!

The mall that I work in has maybe 39 salons, but one in particular stocks OPI for a price that's beyond low ($2.99!) That was a terrible thing for me to find out, as my bookshelf is just about EXPLODING with OPI polish now. Awesome! But seriously, it really is awesome. I picked up three colors from The Amazing Spiderman collection (no sign of Shatter The Scales though, boo!) and later splurged on some Hologram Effect nail polish.

I had read that the holographic nail polish was difficult to apply, and the display at Ulta had something about buffing your nails before using the polish. Well, I was a little impatient before going home and painted two coats on one nail (right over the polish I had on) just to see how it would look. Application was okay, and as it dried it pretty much exploded with rainbows. I seriously cannot stop looking at it! I had read in several places that using a top coat as a base coat makes application easier, so I'll give that a shot. 

Now, to decide which color I want to try first...

Don't know what you got 'til it's gone. Or you see it close up.

If one thing is evident, it's that I'm not GOOD at nails, if that makes sense. More often than not, I'm just slapping on a few coats of whatever new polish I bought, not really caring if I get some on my fingers or allover my cuticles. Oh yeah...cuticles are a whole other thing. However, recently I started to give a shit, and I'm thinking that posting these horrible things at the end of my fingers will make me give even more of a shit. I'll never have long nails (I've tried!), but that's no excuse not to keep them nice, right?

Anyway.

Sally Beauty is having a sale on nail polish (buy 2, get 1 free), and I decided to stop in to see if there was anything I liked. I almost left empty handed, but a display in a random spot caught my eye. I picked up three shades of Finger Paints, two from the Gumdrops & Lollipops collection (Blue Raspberry Taffy and Grape Gumball) and the third, Cerulean Seascape.

Purple is my favorite color, so the purple shade was the first to go on today. I also had a shade from China Glaze's Prismatic collection that I haven't gotten around to using yet. 

Prism!

Originally I wanted to use both colors on all fingers, but...nah. So here's the end result:

Damn. I tried to clean up as best as I could, but I did miss a few spots evidently. But enough being self-conscious! Grape Gumball is awesome. It went on great and I think I could have gotten away with using one coat. It's shimmery, it's pretty, there's potential of it becoming a favorite of mine. I used two coats of Prism as well, and I'm liking how it looks. The picture doesn't do justice, as a desk lamp doesn't make great lighting. I can't wait to see how these look in the sun!

Oh no... What is this? WHAT AM I DOING?

So after several months of checking out different nail polish blogs on a daily basis, as well as buying an absolute ton of nail polish for even longer, I decided to start up my own blog. Is it necessary? Probably not. Does the world really deserve to be subjected to my sloppy, bland manicures on my weird, misshapen nails? Absolutely not.

Sadly, I have a problem with self control.

So without further ado, here's to my stupid new blog! Hope whoever randomly comes across this enjoys what's here. :)