Sinful Colors Adventure Island

Hey everyone!

Guess what? I'm finally on vacation!! Ahhh hopefully this will rekindle my spirits.

I'm roadtrippin' around the south and am currently laying over in Maryland. I'm not a big MD fan but it's just a stop to sleep before going to Virginia. I'm visiting King's Dominion for the first time in my life! I'm such a huge kid sometimes and maybe I need something like this to get me back into being happier.

Aside from that, my birthday is tomorrow! I hope to spend it quite glamorously. *ONLY in your dreams Rox! LOL* and I also hope to visit my first Ulta. I know, I am so behind! Living in Staten Island, I have no access to an Ulta, I never really tried venturing out to New Jersey to find one either.

Although I have no new manicures to share for today, it's just a post about ramblings, some things I've seen, places I've been thus far and blah blah blah. Uninteresting stuff LOL but I just felt like sharing.

I feel all executive-like with my laptop in a hotel hahaha

I'm planning on doing a birthday manicure that is also consistent with Independence Day hoping it doesn't end up looking like a hot mess. I don't want it to look TOO patriotic for my birthday.

It's day 5 and my mood polish has finally chipped. It's screaming to be rid of, but I don't see the point in changing it up to go to an amusement park, so later tonight I'll work on that mani and hopefully have photos and a new blog post to go with it!

I visited my mom in PA to drop off my son for two weeks. I miss her so much. I haven't seen her since January and it kind of sucks. I'm sure she enjoys Kenneth's company for the two weeks he'll be there on vacation.

While shopping for food and whatnot, I found a Rite Aid and I don't have many Rite Aid's in Staten Island, so I decided to check in and see what they had. I've gotten quite the haul. I think I have about 20 new nail polishes LOL ummm addicted much? They were having a buy one get one 50% off sale and I just needed to get in on that. Plus they have the Petites Color Fever polish line that I love.

I also stumbled across something I didn't see in NY, Sinful Colors Adventure Island Collection.

CLEARLY a collection in mimicry of O.P.I.'s Pirates Of The Caribbean Collection. Some colors didn't match up and I had a few FOR A WHILE that they've just thrown into the collection

*coughRise&ShinecoughEasyGoingcough*

Darn that cough!

But others were new. I picked up only three: Beautiful Girl, Star Fish, and Adventure Island. I'm missing Seaweed, Verbena, and Open Seas. I plan to hunt these down before coming home!

I'm sorry I have no photos yet as I am about to take a quick nap, it's been a long day! But I plan to take a few and update the next post in a collective haul. (Tonight if I'm not too tired from all the amusement park fun!).

I realize I may actually be a month late on this collection but hey, it's new to me! And I'm excited! The colors look very promising. I'm still going to buy my O.P.I. POTC though. It's a terrible need to have O.P.I EVERYTHING LOL

Thanks for reading!

Song Currently Playing On This Post:Katy Perry - Teenage Dream

Nothing Special..

This week has been trying on my nerves.

I don't know what is going on but every cosmic thing is driving me nuts.

Murphy's Law.. I live by it lately. I was so down and out of it, I really couldn't do my nails to reflect a mood I wasn't in.

I stuck with basics and of course, wouldn't it be hell to apply?

I apologize for the really short post but I'm so sour. I hope I can get out of this funk.

Also, a little rant, why does everyone love OPI's You Don't Know Jacques? It drove me nuts! It kept creating bald spots, it was very runny. Maybe it's just my ill experience with applying polish but it gave me a tough time. And it shows! I didn't bother taking more than one photo of the mess.

After a day I couldn't stare at poopy plain brown nails any longer so I added some nail art I got from Walgreens a long time ago by Kiss.

I know it's not the best but what else can a girl do when it's just one of those days?

Song Currently Playing On This Post:

112 - Cupid

M.I.A. & A New Manicure

I got caught up in a little trouble a few days ago, been a bit down since, so I'm sorry for not doing any posting the past few days.

Good news is, I'm back and with a new manicure!

I'm currently under treatment using OPI's Nail Envy. Never tried it before, kind of excited to see what it's about. Your first initial use, you use two coats as a base, then everyday for a week you use one coat. After 1 week, you remove it and start all over again until your nails are at their maximum strength, then you switch to Nail Envy Maintain. As you all know, I'm taking biotin vitamins. I'm on this quest towards stronger, healthier nails. I hope it works, because my nails have ALL types of problems; peeling, paper thin, discoloration.. UGH! It's so aggravating. I'm used to breakage every day. But lately since I've been more careful, I have yet to break my nails (Hopefully I didn't just jinx myself.)

There's some slight discoloration on my nails, thanks to Sinful Colors polish, I keep forgetting the name and I have that bottle BURIED somewhere.

This particular design, I wasn't too thrilled with. Being inexperienced and shaky handed (is that even a term? LOL) it was a PITA (pain in the a**) PLUS I used Sinful Colors new Neons that didn't thrill me much. They're very sheer and quite streaky. The green pissed me off the most! Yellow would be close second since it is EXTREMELY streaky. I don't know, I'm really thinking of purchasing a new set of neon colors. Maybe I will hunt down China Glaze's Poolside collection and call it a day.

Starting with THESE neons, they need a white base indefinitely or else you will need about 18 coats to get the color that is in the bottle (no joke, and NOT fun!)

I used Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri in Whirlwind White. Yeah, I'm messy, I figure with time I'll get it right.

Now here's the truly hard part *le sigh* candy striping..you will see ALL my horrible errors but the good part is, it gets covered anyway but I'm really hoping I can someday get this candy striping down. It's annoying and time consuming but I LOVE the way it turns out, it's so pretty. WHEN IT'S DONE RIGHT!

I was TRYING to go for a summery look using neon and crackle.. Maybe I used the wrong color crackle.

Using Sinful Colors Neons in Neon Melon, Summer Peach, Irish Green & Pink (yes, pink it's called)

And all the nails about an hour to 2 hours later. I take a long time because I get easily distracted.

The green is not so "blue" it's a very vibrant green. But takes about 3 coats WITH a white base to see that vibrancy

Candy stripes covered in Sally Hansen's Crackle Overcoat in Snow Blast.

At this point I had to switch from my camera to my phone because my memory stick was full!

Song currently playing on this post: M.I.A. - Sunshowers