i kno, i post like once a month, and it's really not nail related at all. ahh~~i have finals @ the moment, and i can't seem to make sense of anything! i'm scared for my customers bc i look like a mean muggin' thug. lol. i've been doing a lot of christmas nail art! starting from most popular: snowmen, snowflakes, christmas tress, candy canes, and ornaments. i can also do presents, holly, the ginger bread man, candles, angels, wreaths, blah, blah...blah! i'm tired! this one time, a black girl came in and was like, "why does santa have to be white?" so we did a black (brown skin of course, haha) santa with green jewels for his eyes bc black ppl do have naturally green or hazel eyes. it was funny! i've did a lot and it's been getting busy for the holidays and yet i didn't take the pictures that i should. jus the other day i did these nails in this shimmery black and her one ring finger had a snowflake, it was so gorgeous, her hands looked all picture perfect too!! and the other day i did a...hamzah? (i think) on this jewish lady, it was neat. it's a palm with an eye on it so it can ward off evil...it was on her blue and green toes...so it wards evil from her toes and up? lol. but let's see if i do have any pics at all...
ahh~~sad that that's the only one i've taken! i don't even remember the colors she picked out. my own fingers are a mess too, bc of finals, i chewed and ripped off all my nails until they bled, and the cuticles are really bad too. i've been wearing gloves jus to keep from burning my owies. aight, it's back to the grind, the studying. hopefully after this last one, i will be able to finally put something up...but if not...HAPPEE HOLIDAYS!! be cheap and save money. bc i am officially a brokeass for spending extravagantly.

ahhh~~i'm so tired! well, semi-tired. today was the first day that i actually seriously worked out, i think bc now i'm paying a membership fee and bc i'm really concerned about future weight gain! i have this terrible reoccuring nightmare that i tip the scales and fall on my ass crying! exercising definitely relieved the stress that i feel for all the upcoming school things. i'm dreading each day it seems bc the deadlines jus loom over me...i kno, as of yet, i haven't even posted a nail how-to and this is a nail blog. my toes are bare for the first time in the longest time, well the second time ever for winter, i used to have polish year round, but i've become lazy. my fingernails aren't as decorative as they used to be. i became tired of the tedious carefulness i had to put in jus to make sure i can keep my nails looking pretty while i did other ppl's nails. they are interesting shades right now. hold on, let me take a picture, altho u are forewarned that they are a bit worn and chipped, and grown out!!! but still cute simple concept.


good news: i found my tripod. bad news: it sucks. i wouldn't go at the angle i wanted it to and so the lighting sucked too, that's why the picture isn't a good one. i think it's bc the lil piece of sh*t is too small (it was cheap!). basically it's shades of pink on every other finger, it's not genius, i did it out of laziness (i was trying to pick one) and by accident, i liked it. the pinkie on the left is OPI Mod About You (I think) and i don't kno what the pale Essie one or the dark China Glaze one was called. i mostly kno my OPIs. lol. i will try to post how-tos on christmas nail art bc the season's around the corner!! and i do a lot of them actually. AND~~from all the make up blogs i've been reading, i've been spending MOOLA$! what ppl said was good sh*t, i ran to buy--i have a lot of makeup that would pbly last me a while since i'm kinda of a mascara girl now. and i have lots of cute clothes!! winter is here and i am fattening up my closet to keep me warm! bc i will mos likely end up in the streets for spending so much money! the economy is in recession!! obviously i'm not that scared sh*tless, bc if i was, my ass be puckered up tight!! well, this was supposed to be a short post bc i gotz to write me some papers so i really can't be stalling any longer and blathering on so...so i'll catch ya'll all lata!! HAPPY TURKEY-DRUMSTICKS DAY!! jus in case i don't get anything up til then. maybe i should try a turkey nail art...?

SEE--u can already tell what kind of blogger i am; i've neglected by blog for days already! my excuses are that i've been extra busy w midterms, trying to catch up on much needed beauty sleep, and i'm jus a plain ol' lazee bum! i can't really recap the past week but i'll let u in on a few things--not that u would want to kno bc i'm really not livin' la vida loca AT ALL! frankly i can't really remember this past week...while i studied for my test i learned that acetone {polish remover} eats at the lipids of your brain cells-->no wonder my brain is deteriorating and i'm so f'N brain dead already!!! i kinda knew already what the stuff in the nail salon do to ya but to know exactly what happens scares the sh*znit outta of me! i really shouldn't say...but...I HATE DOING NAILS WITH A PASSION! i kno it's kinda like...wha?? but i think it has to do w the working hours and environment. gosh, family obligations suck.

BUT anyway, i think today was not a good day. it wasn't the worst but things were...bizarre. last night i stayed up all night to study for my anatomy & physiology exam--so even now, i haven't had a wink of sleep yet--and then went to take the exam unwashed and greasied {new word, stick it in the dictionary}. i think i did pretty good, out of 35 i prbly missed 5 or 6, that's still bad but considering how retarded the tests are and how bad everyone is doing, not bad, not bad at all. oh yah...on the way to school, what i thought was a leaf landed in my path while i was driving, and i looked behind me at the other car and saw this whoosh of feathers! i think this is when my karma jus went bad. but it wasn't intentional! it fluttered like a leaf! it was small and brown too!

let's have a moment of silence...for what i think was a sparrow...

guiltily-->i went to the mall to return some things {i kno, i don't sound like i feel bad, but i dooo!}, but ended up walking out with some things anyway--and i was trying to get my money back! {and not that oprah had a show on how kids should be more frugal today!} old navy had a sale and i stocked up on my first cardigans! everyone had been wearing them and i thought they were so cute! some warnings: 1} i am a shopaholic, 2}i am a thick girl--> i don't really follow trends, i kinda improvise along the way...but i think that's considered a trend...whatever, 3}i'll warn u of some other things along the way when i get to them...lol. but to the point, i am a thick girl. the trend is to wear the cardigan oversized and it could be belted, and i jus LOVE it! i can do that too, but it's hard for me to pull it off without looking like a burrito. the trend now is about the loose and romantic...whatever u see in the freakin' magazines; i kinda like my clothes to flatter my body shape...kinda show it off, so my clothes tend to be snug or fitted. i would love to layer too{!} but i end up looking like a burrito anyway. and DUDE, i can sweat like no other! WARNING {4} i ramble, {5}i forget what i'm talking about, {6} i get off topic, {7}bc i'm random. i guess it's a good thing i'm typing stuff down...but anyways--the cardigans aren't snug or skanky, but i love how they kinda cling here and there on my curves! i don't feel like putting them on, but here are some mugs:

i bought two, a magenta/purple, and a gray for $14.49

i love this white and green cardigan! it was also $14.49

this one was cute over a t-shirt! it was $9.99.

i also bought a pink poodle costume for lil cuz but i left it in da trunk in case i see her. i had gone to victoria's secret to return a hoodie and they were like, "we also need the dog." i was like..."uh, b*tch, ya should'a told me the policy before!" they've been giving out those lil stuffed dogs with a PINK purchase. i spent over $80 on the the hoodie i returned, and i also didn't have the dog, i gave it to lil cuz already! {believe me, they would not want it back} they were gonna charge me $10 for the d@mned dog! she told me the rules and i grabbed a $7 undie to keep the d@mned dog for free instead! gosh--what's the biz?? i grabbed these undies:

the undies {altho a size too big, no smalls left} matches with another VS hoodie i had grabbed a week earlier. love the hoodie, it has puffy loose sleeve. WARNING #8: i hate pink, but i think it's kinda growing on me.

ok...i had other news, but i'm tired due to all my ramblings. but quick agenda: i have a wedding to go this saturday and my best friend is planning a halloween party this sunday (i've been helping to plan too, so i'm exhausted at the end of the day/night). sooo...oh wait, here are some quick nails i've did since my last post:

these were my toes last week. the color is OPI cherry chutney or something, it's a dark purple. i did them again this time but with a deep, deep red (Essie wicked), and a slightly, and better pattern, but i'm too lazy to take a picture.

i've been doing lots of halloween art! pumpkins, spiders, webs, the bats, ghosts, and skulls! obviously i didn't take any pictures of the others.
this is what i had on my nails from last week. it's a liquid gel overlay, and then a gray colored acrylic mixed with glitter and bits of sea shells. and then another coat of gel so acetone wouldn't take it all away. my thumb has a circle of while polish from nail art i did for customers.

this is what i have on my nails now. it's for the wedding this saturday. some ppl were like, "wow, pretty!" others were like, "...that's too much." mixed reactions. i was going for the whole japanese nails, and {9} i love bling! but i have mixed reactions about them, i like them {bc i mos def put in a lot of effort into it all by myself}, but i'm overly concious of them. i still do things normally but i check them a lot! the gray acrylic from last time, i didn't worry about at all, they were easy to live with. but again, these are with the gel overlays, then i painted on the french (OPI kyoto pearl), stuck on the rhinestones and pearls, and then another layer of gel. hopefully they'll last me till the wedding.

i've been meaning to put up a tutorial, and i did make one...but i didn't like it. i didn't like having to pause and take pictures. so i'm thinking maybe a video would be better. i should go find my lil tripod. well, i'll try to get a move on things and be more on the daily, but i'm jus this lazee bum.

PREVIEW of my skill level...i guess

haha--they're all of my toes! i've been doin this for 3 years, and yet i've taken no pictures!! these were jus of my own toes bc i don't carry my camera around with me like that and i never can remember to take pictures of my clients nails. oh, wait i jus took one!
haha (i laugh a lot, get used to it)--she was goin to a wedding and she had some fancy shoes to go with a very plain dress--so she said--her shoes were a mixed print, they were leopard print on the back near the hee,l and so my job were to make her toes go with her shoes, and TA-DA! she loved it and it made me feel good.

i do a lot of art on the hands too, but obviously not on my hands bc i'm too much of a klutz to keep it on at work, it's a hassel trying to not touch the acetone (polish remover)--it's near impossible! for the most part, all my art work is painted freehand, however, recently i've been obsessed with junk art, aka 3d art, aka acrylic art, whatever u wanna call it! i love the japanese style! my aunt from california jus came to visit and i pimped out her nails! it took me a long time bc it was my FIRST attempt! ok, i did like 2 flowers for 2 customers and a lil bit on fake nails, but this is my first set! and it took me FOREVER! we stayed after hours, i was GRUMPY. but i'm pretty pleased, i have potential.


so watch me as i try to reach my nirvana in nail artistry!! and semi-daily bloggings of my daily struggles and shopping raids (WARNING: perfect candidate for shopaholic anonymous). WARNING#2: i am a student; i am a full-time worker and semi-business owner (lol); a dancing fiend; and a lazy bum = so i might be a real flake at updating my blog, but hopefully i really get into it and get some great motivational feedback!

thank you, thank you-->DEE

HULLO OUT THERE!!!

ok, so it's 3:55am, friday...i can't sleep...i have class at 8am, haveta be up by 6, shower, leave by 7, go to bank, stop to shop for neccessities, and then zoom into work before my mother disowns me...i can't sleep. i think it's kinda too late for that too.

ok, here's the deal-i-o. lately, i've been obesessed--OBSESSED--i tell ya, on beauty. (artificial beauty, haha) i've been watching youtube makeup how-tos almost non-stop, and obviously into the wee hours of the night/morning, and i've been visiting blogs like crazy on makeup reviews! needless to say, i went to my nearest sephora and dearest walmart and SPLURGED on makeup. i used to be a girl who (kinda) caked on the makeup, and currently i just wear mascara and chapstick on the daily. lol. but my skin is not feeling to great bc i've been using all sorts of acne toners, scrubs, washes, medicine, and etc. so i wanted to get into the makeup thing to cover out the redness in my skin, and also to get rid of the oily sheen! i swear if it's hot enough outside, u can use my face as a non-stick skillet to fry an egg!

but any-who, i've noticed that some of the bloggers were doing some diy nail art. let me tell u, i got myself in a tizzy bc i was so excited! i'm a CERTIFYD nail technician for 3 yrs now, but i love the title nail artist bett-ah! if i can make a living off it, i might jus drop outta school...maybe...mother is going to disown me, tho...haha. i also noticed there aren't many, not that i can find (found like 2 nail bloggers and random bloggers nail salon experience pics). SO--i wanted to post up what i kno and what i do! hopefully all this stuff isn't like some insider trade secret or anything if that's why it's not all over the place already...

CONCLUSION: i hope i get good feedback--bad feedback is ok...i could learn from it, but please don't p*ss me off or hurt me T_T--and make some budds.

DEE