Bisous mes chéris!
Year: 2011
Holiday Nails
Today I decided to konad up my manicure. There is something about red and white that just screams Christmas to me…it’s probably the candy canes. Anyhow, here are the details:
1) Base Coats – I have used a lot of different top coats and I really love China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat. Using a base coat helps your polish last longer and it also prevents staining. Who likes stained nails? Not me!
2) Base Color – For this manicure, I used China Glaze Ruby Pumps. It’s a gorgeous red with red glitter.
3) Stamping Polish – When I first starting using Konad, I thought I could get away with using regular nail polishes. Opaque metallic colors work well for stamping but if you want crisp and opaque designs, you have to get Konad Special Polishes. I only have the white and black versions and don’t really feel the need to get anymore colors just yet.
4) Top Coat – Seche Vite. I use Seche Vite always unless I’m doing a matte manicure. Seche Vite dries your nails in just a few minutes and leaves them glassy and beautiful. I just wish it didn’t smell like death.
5) Konad – I used plate M60 for this konadicure. You will need the stamper and a scraper.
6) Clean Up Supplies : Acetone and cotton balls to clean up your stamper and plate in between stamping each nail; tweezers to handle the cotton balls soaked with acetone (trust me…use the tweezers because you will ruin your nail polish while you’re stamping and cleaning up the plate/stamp); brush to clean up the edges and cuticles after you’re done stamping
If you’re curious how all this Konad stuff works, you can watch the following video on youtube:
I chose this video for comedic purposes. They do a good job of explaining how to use Konad but that creepy robot lady and that music…who thought this video was a good idea?
Anyway, here is the final result:
And I’m ready for Christmas!
Bisous mes chéris!
Orly – Fowl Play
Who am I kidding? Of course my first real post was going to be about something nail related! First I have to tell you that I have shinny ball syndrome. When I saw this polish, it was like a special ray of light came in through the window and made this polish stand out. It looked glittery, flecky, shiny and purple. Of course it had to be mine.
This polish comes from the 2011 Fall Collection named Birds of a Feather and should be fairly easy to find.
Bisous mes chéris!
Why?
Why start a blog, you ask? Well, as a kid, I thought I was going to become a writer. I remember borrowing Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing from my 4th grade teacher Miss Skipper and devouring it. Who is this Judy Blume person, and why does she entertain me more than all the cartoons in the world put together? This was saying a lot because at that point I was thoroughly convinced that JEM was the greatest thing EVER! Of course my thirst for reading didn’t stop there, and I continued to discover more and more books. I was the kid who secretly loved every single assigned reading book while the rest of the class whined about how boring the books were.
Island of the Blue Dolphins in 5th grade. Hello loneliness and isolation.
A Wrinkle In Time in 6th grade. It had me at tesseract.
The Witch Of Blackbird Pond in 7th grade. Who am I?
Romeo and Juliet in 8th grade. Bardolatry ensues.
Catcher In the Rye in 9th grade. Yes, you’re all phonies.
Macbeth in 10th grade. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow…
Le Petit Prince in 11th grade. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Hamlet in 12th grade. To this day I can recite Hamlet’s soliloquy by heart.
College opened a whole new world for me and that is when I discovered Gabriel García Márquez, Ralph Ellison, T.S. Eliot, John Donne…the list could go on forever. Then, one day I lost my passion for literature. I can’t exactly pinpoint when and why this happened. So why am I rambling about literature? Although the name of this blog may be misleading, I plan to write about more than just nail polish. I don’t exactly have a plan for this blog, but I hope that it will help me to get back into writing. Besides, putting my thoughts down on paper…errr…a blog…has got to be therapeutic. God knows after the year I’ve had I should be in therapy!
So if you’re reading this, I hope that you will continue to read.
