marble swatches

ive been playing around with marbling a lot to figure out the best techniques. i still havent figured that out but i did make some cute color combinations lol.

im starting to think marbling would be a great idea for highschool girls going to a pep rally or something along those lines. i made one (not shown) of virginia tech's colors unintentionally. a lot of school colors would look nice marbled. i was thinking my own highschools colors. since i transfered my junior year i have two sets. the first was silver and navy blue and the other was gold and blue. just a thought!

heres what i think when i see these samples: halloween (spiderweb nails), cotton candy and summer! im going a pineapple mani soon, ill show pics later this week.  i love the results!! sorry though, i cannot remember which brands or names these are.. i was just mixing and matching haphazardly. enjoy regardless. click for enlarged detail! (=

"fruit stripe gum" mani!

pink & yellow are two of my favorite colors, but it wasnt until i finished this marbled mani that i realized they looked a bit like fruit stripe gum, especially my pinky!  this time i think it went a little bit better than my previous attempts. im starting to figure out what works best for me and which techniques are more efficient.

from left to right (and in the order used):
funky fingers "off with their heads!"
hard candy "splendid"
konad black
l.a. colors art deco "gold glitter"
sally hansen intsa-dri anti-chip top coat

i used fauxnad plate m11 for the design. i also used my dotting tool with the gold glitter to enhance the overall look by putting dots of gold glitter over the black dots.

i was happy with the final result, mostly because i havent been able to get a marble to look halfway decent. i think this mani overall though is a little flashy for me. i only wore it for one day and ended up taking it off.  i dont know if it was the color against my skin or what but i think i have a preference for more simple manicures! i did my friends nails too with a neon purple and a neon blue and she wears it so much better than i wore mine. ill try to get pics of hers up later.

also, just a side note: five below has an alice in wonderland collection with some very pretty cremes.  there is also a blue glitter that was beautiful! not sure if this is old news or not but i was so excited!

(bottom two images are clickable!)

sinful colors; beautiful girl

first off i wanted to say WOWWWWW school has consumed me! and secondly, all my nails broke, so i grew them back out.. and then they continued to break. so im just doing my own thing right now with some store bought tips that come bare and have been decorating them myself. i miss my natural nails but im just too rough with them. i actually broke a few in my sleep which continues to baffle me. and not just chip, but BREAK.

first gripe about the fakies is that i bought the wrong style, i got short square.. im thinking i shouldve gotten active square. i have to trim them SO much before theyre ok by my preferences. second gripe is theyre fake and going to damage my nails lol.


i was in rite aid in philadelphia this past week and i found a sinful colors color that mustve overlooked here in jersey. the display was on top of a counter instead of under one like the walgreens here.

its called beautiful girl and its a looooovely creme based baby pink. no frills, just what it is. and i LOVE IT.



fyi, daddy has been using his camera for fishing since its been so nice out.. so i had to employ my genuine POS. photo quality=low. color=mostly true. its a bit brighter i think, but i cant capture that with my camera.

today sucked.

today was a sad, sad day )=
we had to put my beloved kitty, zeus, to sleep. he was almost 14, but his old age doesnt make it any easier. he stopped eating, and lost a lot of weight. we waited a couple days more to see if he would eat again but i think the damage was already done. he was up and walking around yesterday, today he barely moved and couldnt even seem to hold his head up. the vet had a very hard time finding a vein because he was so dehydrated.



rest in peace little man, ill miss you forever <3

update of crap (=

so yea, school is back in full swing. but theres other reasons i havent been around much lately. ive provided visual aides to tell my about my absence:


ive been babysitting this one for a while. her mom and i used to be roomates. her mom is a single parent that didnt know too much about raising a baby. i had taken many education courses related to children and worked in daycares for almost 6 years, so i had lots of experience and knowledge to pass on. i helped her raise amaya since she was about 9 months old. i love her more than anything, i feel like shes my own child sometimes. i dont have any children of my own, but if this is just a taste of parenthood i cant wait.



look at her. shes absolutely precious. we have sleepovers sometimes which entails of multiple false alarm potty runs at 3AM. but thats not too bad. she is the love of my life and i want to steal her from her mother haha. such a personality on this one. ive called her nugget since ive known her, haha.


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WELL! aside from babysitting, it was my best friend kristi's 21st birthday week! yes i said week. we in jersey believe in, 'go big or go home' haha so we had plans all week for fun things. i call her gooter. derived from kristi yamaguchi.. then from yamaguch.. then guch which isnt the nicest of things to call a person.. so it quickly changed to gooter and has stuck since. haha good story, i know! (=




it was also my dads birthday on the 1st of feb, but i dont have any photo documentation to prove that. but it happened, really.
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aside from babysitting and birthdays, theres been school.



this is the mess i have to work with. my desk is taken up by my computer so schoolwork is done on my bed in this tragic fashion. and of course, my kitties love sitting on papers so flinging them off the papers every 5 minutes gets rather tedious.
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so thats that! thats what ive been up to. i dont have a photo of this to share, but im somehow accidentally created mannequin hands by using china glaze's "good witch?" with the matte magic topcoat. wtf. im so pink its not even funny anymore lol. so whatve you guys been doing?

question to the ladies;

how exactly does one pronounce "seche vite"? if you could give me the phonetic spelling thatd be great. itd been plaguing me!