Sally Hansen "Shrimply Divine"

"Shrimply Divine" is truly, simply divine! First of all, the name cracks me up. And then what isn't there to love about a pink creme-y wants-to-be-a-jelly polish?

3 coats of "Shrimply Divine"

 It finishes like a creme and looks like one in the bottle, but it has a strange way about it when applying the first two coats. It's bizarrely translucent. But then that goes away. So I guess it is an irrelevant observation.

This really is a "perfect" polish!

I love pinks and I love cremes, so this has it all.  There really isn't anything bad to say about it! Especially since I got this for a steal at 3$ at Five Below. Wonderful application! I don't know about wearability since I removed it the next day.

funky fingers "cayman island" scented polish

Yellow: the double edged sword of nailpolishes.  So pretty in the bottle, but rarely looks nice on my skin tone and has terrible application. I am always instantly drawn to the yellow bottles but tend to steer clear. And once again, I am reminded why.

Five coats of Funky Fingers "Cayman Island"

Excuse the blurry at the bottom. I'm working with a different camera and I think one of two things occurred: me setting the focus wrong or condensation on the lens. Either way you get the basic idea of this polish.  Some nails required 6 coats due to streaking and impossible touchdown marks.

Yellow shimmery sheer with green shimmers.

It is a sheer polish too, that also being the reason it needed so many coats.  It is also scented - but not Revlon gag-inducing scented.  This polish has a light, refreshing lemon-y scent to it, but it really very very subtle. (Which is a good thing! Revlon's blueberry scented polish triggered an 8 hour migraine for me.)

Click to enlarge to see the green shimmers.

The photo directly above captured the green shimmers pretty well. In indoor lighting the color gets lost on my hands and doesn't POP like it does in sunlight. This photo is a more accurate representation of what the color looks like most of the time. It is pretty, I think that is pretty undeniable, but it isn't for me. I probably won't ever use this again.

As far as my skin goes, in order to keep the eczema at bay, I have been avoiding the rubber gloves at work as much as possible.  Only in cases of #2 diapers and blood do I put them on. I haven't decided if the constant washing has been aggravating it, but the absence of the powder from the gloves has certainly made my hands less irritated and very few cracking incidences.

live near a Five Below?

This is just a little PSA for all of my readers. I found AMAZING scores when I stopped in today. Here is what you should know:

I've been to 2 different locations that are an hour apart and they both stock relatively the same things, so I hope you find what I found!

-All Funky Fingers are always 3 for 5$. The Fresh Paint brand is the same pricing.
-Today I found Sally Hansen Salon Effects for 5$! They had 6 complex designs and 6 colors on a full display.
-Sally Hansen Complete 5-in-1 Manicure bottles are 3$.
-Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polishes (paired with a FREE Insta-Dri topcoat) were 2$
-Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polishes were also available in other colors but w/o the bonus topcoat.

Best of luck (= I hope you all get to do a little guilt-free shopping like I did.

"favorite girl" & a skin problem

Uh.. what day is it? Friday? I feel like Monday morning, lol.  I figured I would give a quick update and post about a new polish I bought the other day.

This blog crosses my mind about 3 times or so a day. I miss it but have been successfully dodging it for more reasons than "lack of time".  As mentioned before, the gloves I wear are destroying my hands.  No latex allergy but the powder has been brutal.  I have mild dyshidrotic eczema on my hands, and it is (in my case) stress triggered.  The constant washing, lotioning and gloves have caused the skin on the sides of my fingers to literally peel off by the end of the day.  I don't want to post pictures of raw skin and aggravated blisters.  Up until this week I hadn't even painted my nails for about a month in order to not call attention to them.  The topical steroids my doctor has prescribed help, but it doesn't cure it.  I've done research on the condition and there isn't much you can really do.  WARNING: if you decide to be ballsy and google pictures of it, it is pretty gory.  As I said, mine is mild (actually, very mild in comparison) but micro focus is rather unforgiving.

Work has been truly exhausting.  It's hot, the air conditioning isn't the best, and enrollment has picked up.  There's a handful of coworkers who have turned being lazy into a true art form, meaning those who do work have to work harder to pick up the slack.  A lot of people there seem to have unofficial "daycare tenure" and can evidently do no wrong.  I'm in the 18 month - 2 and a half year old room by myself, there is a lot of lifting, chasing and general running around. It's mentally taxing, too. I come home and watch TV for a bit, and usually fall asleep. I have an 8 hour day, but usually spend my hour break trying to catch up on work that needs to be done. I am by no means a morning person and waking up at 6:45 am blows. I don't think anyone wants to listen to anyone gripe about work, but this is my little soapbox!  It is really nice having a break from school though.  When I come home from work, there is no sitting at the computer typing paper after paper.

On to the polish (=  I tried having long(er) nails while working but holy crap it was impractical.  I have super nubs now.

Forgive the cat fur, my Ralphie LOVES this thing, haha!

Polish damage after ONE day of work )=

Funky Fingers - "Favorite Girl" 3 Coats
A pretty pink foil.

I don't have many (or at least, wear many) foils, but this is really pretty.  The application was somewhat splotchy, but I think it has more to do with me being out of practice.  Some lighting and holding my hands just the right way so thin spots of the polish.  But about 95% of the time you can't tell - you'd really have to be looking for it to see it.  2$ at five below - totally recommended!

And back to my previous paragraph - does anyone have or know of anyone with dyshidrotic eczema?  I've seen information saying to keep it dry, some says to keep your skin moisturized - it's all pretty confusing.  Any tips or advice is greatly appreciated.  My doctor(s) basically shrugged it off, they had NO useful advice.

bargain haul - 12 polishes under 19$!!

Hi ladies! Finals are over, got my 3.33 gpa :D super excited and now I am working fulltime. Daycare work is bad on the nails and hands. Rubber powered gloves dry my skin out, and I've been banging my nails and snapping them left and right. But I am doing well! Finally (=

I wanted to share with you my recent accumulations of polish. I've got 12 new bottles for 19$!

Five Below
3 for 5$
Oatmeal - High Voltage - Bashful

Five Below - CVS - Local Dollar Store
2$ - 2$ - 1$
Saved by the Blue - Fashionista -White Shadow

Five Below
2$ - 1$ (clearance)
Sand and Stilettos - Kelly

Local Dollar Store
1$ each!
The Rocks - royal puple (lol!) - delusional

Five Below
3$
Blue to Lavender

Uh, this is blue to light blue.but close enough? lol.

There you have it! 12 bottles for 19$. So exciting to me. Reviews to follow, hopefully. and what is this annoying box underneath this text.. I CAN'T GET RID OF IT

MOODSTRUCK - color changing nail polish.

I bought my first bottle(s) of color changing polish from Five Below for 3$ each.  There was a decent selection but I chose two that looked pretty to me.

"Orange to Light Orange" with one coat of ChG "Bad Kitty"
This is the "cool" tone. Hands were cold, lol. Excuse the
chipping on the thumb, too.  I did it almost immediately after
painting both hands and was heading to bed.

This is the "warm" tone.  I wore this a few weeks ago
when it was warm out and it stayed this color all day!

A side by side comparison.  Two fingers in hot water,
two fingers in cold.

1/2 dipped in cool water.  This is how they look when I'm
not cold or warm.  My longer nails create a really cute
French tip type of look!

I have to laugh at the bottles though.  I've never seen such poor design, the bottles are curved so the labels don't sit right.  They keep bubbling up.  Also, it looks like 12-year-old-me designed the label when I first discovered Photoshop. RAINBOW GRADIENT YAYYYYYY. 5+ points for the font choices xD

The formula on these is pretty sad.  It's quite streaky, it dries matte so it's very prone to chipping without a topcoat of some sort.  Also, speaking of design flaws, the whole bottle is about the same width, so the polish collects heavily at the top of the brush, making it a goopy mess that needs to be scraped off every time you rest the brush back in the bottle.

  Since it is a matte finish though, it dries INCREDIBLY fast.  Which is a double edged sword.  I chipped my thumb nail almost instantly after applying Bad Kitty and my topcoat.  The 4 hard, already solidified layers of polish underneath I'm sure contributed!  And yes, this was 4 coats to eliminate streaking.

It's cute and novel though - for 3$ I'd totally recommend it (=


BTW, SEMESTER OVER *EXHALES*