Sinful Colors Zeus

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I finally got around to trying my first Sinful Colors polish. I bought 4 of them a few weeks ago when they were on sale for $1 at Walgreens. I have to say that I absolutely love this color. It’s just what I was in the mood for. The formula left a lot to be desired: it was goopy and runny at the same time and I found it very difficult to apply it evenly. For the second coat, I added a few drops of Seche Restore to the polish and it was perfectly smooth and manageable.

How beautiful is that shimmer?

Today I saw Dr. H for the last time, apparently. He told me that he was going to be working at a new place starting in July. Ugh. I really liked him. He was the one who treated me during my last hospitalization, and I feel really comfortable with him. He’s not my therapist, just my psychiatrist so we mainly focus on my meds and how I’m feeling. We talked about him doing the freaking dog letter again but I guess all those things have to go through the director so Dr. H is supposed to call me back once he talks to her. It really sounded like they’re going to do it now. I won’t hold my breath.

I also didn’t go to the gym today. I was totally not feeling like it today so I’ll  be sure to work extra hard tomorrow. Working out daily has made me feel so much better. I feel like I’ve accomplished something! I need to go buy my mom a gift for mother’s day. She is a perfume lover like me so I was thinking of buying her a nice set. I might hit up Sephora tomorrow to check stuff out.

OH NO THEY DIDN’T!!! I was just finishing up this post as I watched Grey’s Anatomy and all of a sudden there is a plane crash. Ok, I nearly shit myself. I can’t wait till next week.

OPI Designer Series Opulence + Coronation

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Do you think that the OPI Designer Series polishes are worth the extra cash? I think some of them are like these two. Others are just fancy glitterbombs that I’d rather pass up. I couldn’t really tell how pretty this is until I put it on my nails and went out in the sun. Sooooooo pretty. I used Opulence and only needed 2 coats. It applied effortlessly.

 

I then used Coronation for the diagonal tips.

 

And lastly I used my new dotting tools for the black dots along the tip line.

What do you think of this? I’m already getting bored by it. I wasn’t feeling very inspired today so I just threw this on my nails. I started checking google for nail art ideas and I came across some really weird shit.

I think this is going to give me nightmares tonight. (Source)

 

This is tacky and cool at the same time. (Source)

 

Is this for real? lol I loooove this. I loved playing Super Mario 3 so much when I was a kid. How bad did Super Mario 2 suck??! (Source)

 

And these because our country isn’t quite fat enough yet. (Source)

Ugh…I guess I need to get my lazy butt to the gym now.

Orly Skinny Dip

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I don’t tend to purchase many Orly polishes and I don’t know why. They are just as easily accessible to me, but it seems that I don’t pay much attention to their collections. Even when I am aware of their upcoming collections, I am not as excited to get my hands on them. Their Summer 2012 Feel The Vibe Collection is full of neons which are super popular right now. However, I wasn’t really feeling the colors. The only one that I was interested in is Skinny Dip: of course it’s a blue that I love, and it had this super pretty light purple microshimmer flash in the bottle. As I have come to expect, the purple pretty much disappears once the nails. It dries satiny so you need a top coat if you want a shiny finish. I applied 3 coats and I felt that it needed all three. It is a sheer polish, but it’s easily buildable.

 

I’ve never really done sponging which I think looks amazing. I wanted to use some glitter (gasp!) to sponge on my tips so I looked through all my glitter polishes. I chose Wet N Wild Believe Me It’s Real which came out for the holidays in 2011. I had such a hard time finding this collection because it was a Walgreens exclusive and it seemed that no one had even heard of it. Since I don’t have Gelous, I had to apply like a million coats of Poshé to smooth out the glitter. This glitter is rough and eats up top coat like a mofo.

I can’t believe I still haven’t cut my nails yet. O_o I think this is the longest they have EVER been even when I wore acrylics. It’s been so weird getting used to the length, but I think I’m finally getting the hang of it.

I think the people I see regularly at the gym are going to start calling me the crazy nail girl. What do you think of this combo? Not too flashy?

Zoya Breezi

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I guess there comes a point in every nail polish hoarder collector’s life where you realize that you kind of have all the colors out there.  There will always be slight finish variations, but the base colors will all start to resemble each other. Today I was looking at Zoya Breezi wondering what do do with it. Once I painted my nails with it, I immediately saw OPI Suzi Says Feng Shui. Do I really want the same colors a million times just by different brands? YES!

Ok, maybe not but I am starting to rethink my nail polish purchases. Once the excitement of buying new stuff wears off, I am not that happy that I am so easily duped. Since I haven’t been purchasing nail polish this month, I realize that it’s not really a big deal. I’m not saying I don’t love nail polish anymore. I guess I am saying that I need to be much more practical with my nail polish purchases.

Breezi is such a pretty color. I am just so into these blues. The formula was perfect and I only needed two coats. It dries very glossy, but I still topped it with Poshé.

 

I did some konading on top of this, but I just did such a crappy job with it that I didn’t even take pictures. It’s just kind of sloppy and crooked.

To quote one of the funniest teen movies ever:

Tai: Do you think she’s pretty?
Cher: No, she’s a full-on Monet.
Tai: What’s a monet?
Cher: It’s like a painting, see? From far away, it’s OK, but up close, it’s a big old mess.

So that’s what my nails are like: from a distance they look fine, but up close they look like a mess.

How was your Monday? I still have to drag myself to the gym. I feel gross today. I’m getting cramps. 🙁 Blaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Zoya Charisma

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Now that I took off yesterday’s ick job, I wanted to try out something super bright. Zoya Charisma to the rescue! I was really surprised that this dried matte; I should have paid more attention to the description on Zoya’s page.

I love how saturated this color is: it’s glowing. I didn’t notice that there is slight vnl, but it doesn’t really bother me. This could be a one-coater if you’re careful enough, but I did two coats to even everything out. I guess I don’t have too much to say about this polish except that it’s pretty!

I should not have taken a freaking nap in the middle of the day…if you can call sleeping for 3 hours a nap. I hope I can fall asleep tonight. Soooo…I am debating about going to the gym tonight. I feel like everything I’ve been posting lately is all about the gym, but I just really have to lose weight for my health. Since I’m feeling motivated lately, I might as well take advantage of it, right? Sorry if all the gym talk is boring!

I hope you had a nice weekend, and thanks for reading.

Sunday Morning

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Am I the  only one who really really likes this song?

Anyway, happy Sunday to all. Thanks for stopping by! I am kind of exhausted right now. I didn’t get home until around midnight last night and didn’t fall asleep until almost 2 am. Then I woke up at 6 am because my friend and I wanted to go to the beach. It’s been eons since I’ve been to the beach even though it’s literally like 10 minutes from my place. It was so nice to be out that early breathing fresh air and hearing the sound of the waves. I also saw tons of people with their dogs. When can I get my dog, dangit?!

We were there for a long time. We walked along the sand laughing and making fun of each other. See, I’ve known V since we were like 10 years old. We didn’t like each other very much until we were stuck working together on a project for one of our classes in 8th grade. So 20-some years later, we’re still friends and I’m very lucky to have her in my life. I always tell people that my litmus test for friendship is to travel together. Well, we have gone on vacation twice and we had a fantastic time. The first time we went to Hawaii which was freaking awesome…even if we got so hammered we could barely walk up the stairs at the hotel. Ok, maybe that was just me but I  know she was probably pointing and laughing. The next time we took a trip to Europe and went to Paris, Florence and Rome. She reminded me today of how we were freezing in Florence (it was late fall/early winter) but we HAD to have some gelato late at night. So we went to find a place that was open and walked outside eating our gelato and freezing our bums off.

Since V is a true friend, she told me that my nails looked ugly. Haha! Yeah, true biatch. (I still love you, though!) I can’t say that she’s wrong because I didn’t like my nails much so I didn’t even post them yesterday. They just turned out so ugly…kind of ghettoish. I started with Zoya Malia. I don’t have a lot to say about Malia. It just looks like OPI Do You Lilac It? to me. It is a color that I like but not terribly exciting. The formula was great, and it only needed two thin coats.

You can tell by the crappy job that I wasn’t that excited about doing my nails for some reason. I didn’t even do decent clean up! But wait till you see them after konading.

My nails are starting to look wonky to me because they are so long. However, I can’t cut them because I am going to beat Nicole at our imaginary nail competition. I just noticed a hair or fiber that got stuck on my middle nail. Can you spot it? How gross.  Anyway, I need to take these things off asap and try another color.

Last night was really fun as well. I went into a sushicoma with my sil. We both didn’t eat all day so we could fully enjoy our sushi. So this place that we go to is a little neighborhood joint. The sushi is really good, fresh, delicious and reasonably priced. Their service has always been on the slow side which we don’t usually mind because we are slow eaters and talk the whole time. Sometimes it does get a little ridiculous like waiting an hour or more to get our food when they are super busy. Surprisingly, they weren’t busy last night so we were annoyed with attentiveness. We should have counted how many times the waiter came by our table or the busboy peeked to see if we had any empty dishes. It might have been 20 or more times. It was getting beyond annoying. At one point, we thought we were on some hidden camera show to see how much we could take before we told them to fuck off and let us eat in peace. After we were done eating, they brought us the check without even asking if we wanted dessert!!! So of course we had to order some out of spite (and cause who are we kidding? we love our sweets!). We laid a bet to see how many times someone would come to our table to bug us while we ate dessert. My sil said 3 and I said 5. I won. 5 times!!!!!!!!!

After that we watched The Lucky One which was ok. There really wasn’t anything else we could watch and The Avengers was sold out for the rest of the night. Is it just me or does Zac Effron still look like a baby?

I don’t know what to do right now. I want to change my nails, but I really want to take a nap. Wow, a nap sounds so good…………………

Illamasqua Nomad

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First of all, I would like to tell you about my disappointment when I removed Zoya Zuza, and I gazed at my blue fingers and nails. Zuza is stainorrific. Granted it’s not as bad OPI Fly, but there was still staining. I forgive you, Zuza. I’ll still wear you because you’re pretty.

I was super excited to try this new nail polish by Illamasqua. I haven’t purchased anything by Illamasqua before (make-up or nails) so I didn’t know what to expect. I am glad to report that I was not disappointed. The formula was creamy, highly pigmented and easy to work with.

When I first put this on, I immediately thought of China Glaze Four Leaf Clover. It really isn’t the same because Nomad is a more bright jade color while Four Leaf Clover is more teal based. My one complaint would be the cap. I find it so awkward to hold when I’m applying the polish. It’s just too big to feel comfortable in my had for precise application. The brush was nice except that it had one wonky bristle.

I am very pleased with my first Illamasqua purchase and will purchase more products from their nail line in the future. Future meaning June. Hee!

Tomorrow is Cinco de Drinko. Are you going out to get hammered?

I’m A Hazard To Myself

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Today’s workout left me feeling a lot better. I didn’t push myself as hard, and I thankfully don’t have a headache like the last two days. I’ve been having a really hard time sleeping since I started up with the gym. I toss and turn all night and wake up pretty much every hour. I don’t know what’s going on but it’s not pleasant.  I hope it’s just my body getting used to the exercise.

This is my third day of going to the gym and every day I think I keep seeing someone that I know. However, I can’t be sure because I don’t wear my glasses when I’m sweating on a machine so I can’t really tell if it’s really him. I know he goes to my gym so that’s what makes me think it’s him. I HATE him. I don’t say this often about people, but this guy is just a fucking asshole. I fired his psycho ass at my last job because he kept undermining me and my number 2. He just had this huge chip on his shoulder; I think his midget ass had a mean case of the Napoleon Complex. (Sorry to the short people out there. I’m short too.) So if it is him, he probably wouldn’t come up to say hi to me. If he did, I’d probably throw my sport drink at his face. My only regret is that I didn’t fire him sooner.

So moving on from a waste of space guy, I was getting really irritated at the gym today because my ipod was acting wonky. It got stuck on one song for like 30 minutes: Sarah McLachlan’s Possession. That is so NOT a workout song. Then it got stuck on Blind Melon’s No Rain. Then it got stuck on Spin Doctors’ Two Princes. I was not having any luck with my ipod. It finally started acting normal and I got to my workout mix. I guess I was already pissed about my ipod and about the assholio guy I think I see at the gym so I was getting irritated by people’s gym behavior. First of all, if you’re not going to the gym to work out, get the fuck out and off the machines so that people who are there to work out can do so…especially when it’s busy. Get out of the gym if you’re just there to socialize and check out people…you’re using up my oxygen. If all you can do the whole time you’re on the stair climber is check yourself out in the mirror, I hope you fall on your face. If you stop mid-workout to take a picture of yourself  in the mirror to post to your youtwitbook, I hope your phone explodes. People can be so freaking annoying and dumb sometimes.

I missed the first 30 minutes of Grey’s Anatomy because I was taking a shower after the gym. Grrrrrr. Now I’m watching Scandal. Is anyone else getting into this show? Because I’m just starting to like it so that means that it’s probably going to get cancelled. I still have not gotten over Dollhouse being cancelled…and V. I was really liking V.

Tomorrow is Friday. I don’t have many plans for the weekend…just a workout with one of my friends and sushi and a movie with my sister-in-law on Saturday. I am looking forward to both! I haven’t had sushi in a while and I’m going to allow myself one “cheat meal” per week. Sushicoma, here I come!

Do you have any exciting weekend plans?

Zoya Zuza

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I wasn’t expecting my Zoya goodies until Friday so I was very surprised when they arrived today. Happy Thursday to me! They arrived when I was in the middle of re-arranging my melmers and trying to figure out what color I wanted to use today. Welllllllllllllllllll, I decided to use one of the new polishes I received today. But which one? Hmmmmmmm. Decisions, Decisions.

I picked Zuza. I have never met anyone named Zuza but that doesn’t make me love the nail polish any less. It is a welcome change from Essie Haute As Hello for sure. The formula on this was fantastico magico. It was opaque in 2 coats and was so easy to spread on my my nails. I had pretty much no clean up at the end which I love. It’s not a shiny nail polish; it just has that grainy shimmer that I really like.

Oh so pretty! And I finally had some sunlight for these pictures!

I wanted to share this with you because I was laughing so much when I read it. I am a dog person for sure. I usually tell people that I hate cats but I really do like them. I guess that cats act so aloof sometimes that they don’t immediately endear themselves to me the way dogs do.

Are you a dog or a cat person?

Did you order any Zoyas through their Earth Day Promo?

Milestone!

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According to WordPress, I just published my 200th post. Wow, really?! I started this blog in late 2011 so that seems like an awful lot. Well, what should I do? I’ve never done a giveaway and that seems kinda fun. I have no idea how people run giveaways so I guess I’m going to have to do some research.

I want to thank everyone who visits my blog. I love the feedback and interacting with all of you so much! No one understands the mind of a psychotic nail polish hoarder like other psychotic nail polish hoarders.

The other day I ran across an article talking about how facebook cracks down on how giveaways are being handled and that some people have had their accounts deactivated. Apparently these rules have been around for a while but no one was paying much attention to them. It seems that you can’t ask people to “Like” your facebook page for an entry in a giveaway and you can’t advertise a giveaway on facebook either. Eh? I am not sure I understood correctly. Every giveaway I have entered recently asked me to “like” their facebook page so that seems weird.

In any case, if you have any suggestions on how to do a giveaway with the least amount of headaches, please share!! I don’t really know what I would like to give away either. Hmmmm….I guess I could contemplate it this month and then do it in June since I’m not buying any nail stuff in May.

Oh, and in case you haven’t done so, go like my facebook page! 😛 I’m trying to be more active on it. You can click the link on the right or you can click here.