a quiz!

ganked from Vampy Varnish:

1. How is your day going so far?
meh. I found out that I tore some cartilage in my knee when I fell a few days ago. So, that sucks. But the painkillers and the anti-inflammatory will make things better.

2. What polish do you have on your tips today?
at this very moment, it's Nicole by OPI Blue Lace and OPI Curry Up, Don't Be Late.


3. When did you first start really getting into nail polish?

When I was about 10. I had acrylics from 8th grade through college. I have long loved dark polishes, and used to change my polish once a week. About three years ago, I started collecting polishes. And earlier this year, I started changing my polish every day. I do two colors, because on Valentine's Day, I couldn't decide if I wanted red or pink, so I chose both.

4. Do you do your own mani/pedi or get them done?
I do them myself. I have gone and would go again to get them done, but I do it when I come home from work. It's how I wind down.


5. Who is your biggest celebrity crush?
I adore Adrien Brody.

6. Would you rather do what you love for a living but struggle to make ends meet, or do something you just tolerate but make lots of $$?
I would rather do something I love. All the money in the world can't buy happiness. Although I would have cuter things to wear while I was depressed.

7. What is your dream destination for a vacation?
I want to go to Thailand and stay in one of those huts on the water, and do yoga at sunrise.


8. What are your favorite beauty related websites?
polish related: Polish Pixie, Scrangie, All Lacquered Up, Vampy and the Nail Phile. Non-polish: Beauty Addict (back when she still updated) and definitely the Beauty Brains.


9. What are your favorite non-beauty websites?
Facebook, Twitter, my bulletin board (which is general discussion, but we've been posting together for 10 years), Fan ChitChat and the Weather Channel (gotta know what it's like outside, away from my beloved laptop)


10. What is your favorite vampy color of nail polish?
man, this is gonna be hard: OPI Lincoln Park After Dark is probably #1, but I also love their Yoga-ta Get This Blue and OPI Ink. Oh, and Rescue Beauty Lounge's Recycle and Moulin Rouge.

thanks, Vampy. That was fun. :)

OPI Hey, Get In Lime! and Nicole by OPI Blush of Adrenaline

I stopped at a CVS by my house to grab some shampoo and pens for work and what have you. I was perusing the beauty aisles, because I love that section, and in any drugstore, grocery store, farmer's market, little gift shop, I go up and down and check them out. I want to see, smell and touch the potions and lotions, I love it all.

This particular CVS was having some sort of beauty clearance. Nicole by OPI poishes were $2.19 each. I quickly sorted through and chose three. Three polishes for under $7 seems like a great bargain to me.

Also, at someplace called The Beauty Store, next to my local Tom Thumb, they had discontinued OPIs for $3.50. I got the lime, because it's actually more minty than limey. It's a little runny, so I used three coats. I used three coats of the blush, so that they would be similarly creamy. I like the way my bargain basement pedi/mani came out.

Essie Perky Purple and Color Club Where's the Soiree

So, everyone's getting with matte-finish polishes this fall right? OPI, Misa, Zoya, not to mention the awesomeness of ManGlaze or Knock Out's stunning and expanding line of colors. I want them. I want them all.

I was using my Perky Purple for the first time. I noticed that the first coat was streaky and thick. And when it dried, it dried in a flat, matte finish. I wondered if I could make it work, and contrast it with a super-shiny, super-dark polish. I ended up using four coats of the purple, trying to even out the brush strokes. I also planned to use the shiny top coat on it when I got home, but since it chipped right as I was reaching into the box to get the top coat to apply. Good grief, that is a long and ugly sentence. So, here's a glimpse at what I achieved:

OPI A Oui Bit of Red and China Glaze Black Diamond with Konad m7

Another request. I tried to use the Konad special polish in red over the CG Black Diamond, but it wouldn't show up. The red is too dark to go over another dark color, even one as lusciously shimmery as the Black Diamond.

OPI Just Groovy and Yoga-ta Get This Blue

I take requests. One of my managers is a UNC graduate. He asked for UNC's colors. This is what I came up with:

I got lazy

I didn't feel like changing my polish on Monday night, so I Konaded it, and wore it to work.





I thought my collection might be getting out of control. However, I just reorganized and cleaned up my nail polish collection. I have 75 bottles of nail polish. It's really not as bad as I thought it would be.

China Glaze Liquid Vinyl and Rescue Beauty Lounge Concrete Jungle

Black & grey. There's nothing much to say here, other than to reiterate my adoration of RBL polishes. Just wonderful. Good opaqueness, long lasting. I just love them. I broke my left hand index fingernail, so it's real short, and its appearance of shortness is magnified by dark polish.