Deep Space

* My nail polish didn't survive cleaning the house on Saturday. Surprise! ;-P

Earlier this spring, doofus dog, commonly known as Maggie, she of the fuzzybutt, stepped on my foot. This dog has done this numerous times to all members of the family.

She has no clue about boundaries. But she is a dog, a beast which loves unconditionally, so I'll take a black toenail or two.

Well, everything was fine and dandy until sandal season came upon me. I didn't want to show my damaged toe. It looked gross, like it had some disease or something.

Here's a picture of my tootsies. Sorry, I know I don't have the prettiest feet in the world, but I do like my purpley toes.  

So I painted my toenails. . . purple, and then added sparkles. I took off the polish two weeks later. It was still intact with no chips or peeling.

If you didn't realize it, sparkles tend to make your polish stay on longer. I know it took forever to get the darn stuff off!

Yesterday, I polished my toes again, but then I decided to do my fingernails.

Hubs thought the colors looked like deep space with purple atmosphere and the sparkles being stars.

What do you think?

Yes, I painted my nails myself. I used to do my nails all the time, but working in the lab with latex gloves and then having a horse, well, my nails were worthless for years.

Now I can play with fingernail polish again. There are a few tricks you need to do so you don't smudge your nails. I don't have a nail dryer, or UV light, or even using gel nails. Do plan to have a couple hours free for drying, just in case.

Here's what I used to get this look:

1. Cut and file nails. Push or trim cuticles. I roughed up my toenails with a fine grain file, but I didn't with my fingernails.
2.  Apply OPI Chip Skip--this product gets rid of any lotion or oils you might have on your nails and helps the polish adhere to the nail.
3. Apply light coat of OPI Nail Envy--I used the product for sensitive and peeling nails. Try to keep on the nail, which means wipe off excess polish from the brush into the bottle.
4. Use Essie quick-e drying drops
5. Apply light coat of NYC long wearing nail enamel (WalMart <$1!) 133 Purple Pizzazz Frost--it goes on very pale. Don't worry, you'll be applying another coat.
6. Repeat #4
7. Repeat #5 after polish is dry to the touch. Coat will go on much darker this time
8. Repeat #4
9. Dab on NYC 105 Starry Silver Glitter. Brushing on didn't evenly place the sparkles, which is why I dabbed it on.  
10. Repeat #4
11. Final coat when the sparkles are dry to the touch is OPI RapiDry Top Coat. This seals the sparkles.
12. Repeat #4

If you can, wait to go to bed for a few hours, to keep the sheet prints off your nails, though if you did get sheet impressions you would know it with your sparkly nails!

I tried to link all the OPI products, but there was only one web link, this OPI one.
Chip Skip can be found under Nail Care, Lasting Manis pull down.  Nail Envy is under Nail Care pull down, too. While RapiDry Top Coat is under Quick Drying Treatments.

Yes, there are FIVE coats of polish here. Now, to see how long they last on my fingernails!

Later, Peeps!

Painted Nails

Today the kidlet will go back to school, the hubs will go back to work, and I will start a new story.

And with a new story, one must have new fingernail polish, right?

Sometime over the holidays, my daughter had the polish on the floor of her play room. This is a 'normal' bottle of polish.

This is a bottle of polish after the almost three year old 'puppy' thought it was a chew toy for her.

See the difference?

 

Yeah, I'm just glad she didn't 1) manage to get the lid off, 2) break the glass, 3) swallow the darn thing, 4)spill polish everywhere!

 

Talk about a doofus dog, geez. And you might actually think Old English Sheepdogs might be smart, but you'd be wrong on so many levels!

 

Anyway, I painted my nails.

 

Poor little things have been a stubby mess since I went with the kidlet to get gel manicures right before her birthday. It might have had something to do with my peeling the gel OFF my nail instead of paying $5 to have it removed, or the cold weather which makes my nails brittle anyway. Whatever.

So I decided to use my pinkie's as an accessory statement . . . at least the newspaper said that nail polish was now considered an accessory like jewelry or whatever. So I painted my pinkie fingers green and blue, respectively.

 

Just because I could.

 

Believe it or not, my hands are actually considered small, though they look old, rough, and workworn . .  .and I have a busted middle finger on the bottom hand. Kiddies--this is why you ALWAYS drop your reins when you jump a fence and your horse doesn't! Actually, it was a water element (known as a liverpool), but still! The reins twisted around the end of my middle finger. I never had it x-rayed, but it was swollen and hurt like the devil for about six weeks and then developed a knot along the joint. I have full mobility, so I'm guessing it was a just a 'greenstick' fracture--a crack, but not a full break.

 

Anyway, back to doofus dog, despite her ability to fart constantly, chew and eat everything in sight. This next picture is why I love my doofus dog, Maggie . . . yes, we share a name, scary, huh? 

Later, Peeps!

 

Sorry about the picture placements, but Blogger in it's infinite wisdom has made it difficult to upload images from my computer. I have to switch to HTML, blah, blah, blah and then do a couple of handsprings to get it to work.