Foxy!

This is Foxy.  She likes going for rides in the truck to the dumps, dog biscuits, barking at neighbourhood dogs, having her hindquarters scratched and pestering me while I'm taking nail photos.  She is not very bright, but she's incredibly sweet.  I should point out that she isn't technically my dog, but my stepmom/neighbour/landord's.  This means I get to enjoy all the perks of having a dog without actually having to claim ownership of her or find a place to keep her whenever I move.  Yay!

This is also Foxy.  She's a China Glaze color I bought on clearance at Ulta.  Admittedly, I only bought it because of the name, but now I see that it's one of the best colors I've put on in a while.  It's a gorgeous rusty garnet color with just the faintest touch of shimmer to it.  Application was fabulous (which is good because I didn't have my cleanup supplies with me when I did this mani), and wear is awesome.  I've gone through two full days with it and have only the tiniest chip on an index finger. 

By the by, Foxy is from the Fall 2010 Vintage Vixen collection, and I came thisclose to buying the entire collection that day at Ulta.  I may forever regret not doing so.  Do want.

You suited up!

Quickie post, and I'll warn you:  this is not about quality, but design.  And I...LOVE...this design!  Zoya Gigi was just begging for some zhoozhing.  (Please tell me other people use this nonsense word.  I made up the spelling, but it means "aesthetic enhancement."  Tell your friends.)  So, I grabbed Ruby Kisses "Steel Magnolias," scotch-taped the bottom half of my nails, and applied the shimmery gunmetal to the tops.  Hmm...not quite there.  I grabbed a toothpick, placed my tongue firmly between my lips, applied my best concentration face and came up with this:

PS, I still can't find my camera.

I love this!  I'm so sad to see tipwear showing up already.  (I just type too dang much to keep long nails.)  It reminds me of a great women's business suit - feminine, but strong at the same time.  The dots even make me think of buttons!  I'm so glad I did this.  I really had to overcome my fear of dotting with household implements, but I'll be doing it so much more now.

Oh my God, Danny DeVito, I love your work!

I admit, I had not seen "Mean Girls" in years, so I borrowed it from a friend for a refresher.  Ohhhh, Lindsay Lohan.  What happened to you?

Anyway, today's Pink Wednesday brings you the first of my Zoya Earth Day Swap haul...Gigi.  I used the Swap to up the pink in my polish collection, and I went in thinking I wanted to pick up Bela.  Then, I found Gigi!  She's like Bela's glittery sister!  This is a lovely pale pink with a sprinkling of silver glitter.  What you see below is three coats, and there's a bit of VNL (and a boo-boo on my middle finger), but I don't mind that at all.

Sorry about the crappy iPhone pic.  It's been raining so much here that my road is flooded and I can't get to work!  I've got a lot to do there, and I think my camera's in the office, but better safe than sorry, right?

Don't be jealous.

Does it strike anyone else as sort of ironic that Sinful Colors named a color out of its OPI Texas collection knock-off "Envy"? 


I stumbled onto the Sinful Colors Lone Star collection the other day at Rite-Aid, and was definitely intrigued.  The only OPI Texas color I liked enough to spend the money on was Houston, We Have a Purple, so I can't say for sure, but I don't think the Lone Star collection is meant to completely imitate the Texas collection; just rip off the inspiration and branding!


Take Envy, for example.  Its closest Texas cousin would be Don't Mess with OPI, but Texas is not quite as grassy.  It's somewhere between grass and jade.

I decided to don a green since I was celebrating Earth Day at our city's Earth Day Festival!  Since I can't leave well enough alone, I put Nfu Oh 40 on the ring finger, which I didn't like...so I topped THAT with Black Shatter!  A guy working at Pinkberry complimented my nails, saying they were shiny.  That, of course, made my day.  Til ten minutes later, when I got in a car accident.   Yippee!  All are well, but what an eventful Saturday!

I hope everyone had a great, uneventful, SAFE Earth Day/Easter weekend!

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

Essence What Do U Think.  Doesn't it make you want to head to the ocean and go for a swim?

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Yeah, me neither.

I love my, love my, love my Galaxy Girl!

Yeeeaaaaah, sweet Galaxy Girl!  Also, yadda yadda about Interplanet Janet. 


Okay, now that the pop-culture references from my childhood are out of the way (not that I'm old enough to have been around when Neil Sedaka was on the radio or Schoolhouse Rock first aired), meet Orly Galaxy Girl!

Outdoors, cloudy

Oooh, I love her.  Tipwear showed up really quickly, but other than that, I've got stars in my eyes for this polish.  (Wah wah.)  What you see above is two coats.  I like this polish so much that I came home and threw on another layer of color and another layer of topcoat so I can get another day out of it.  It really looks better with three coats, if you want my advice.

Pink Wednesday: Shocking!

In my first week of making a concerted effort to wear pink on Wednesday, I came to a swift realization:  I don't own much pink polish.  This is not surprising; I am not a girly girl.  I have often been described as "one of the guys."  Nevertheless, I have this polish obsession.  However, given my lack of feminine inclination, most of my collection consists of colors from the non-pink spectrum.  I'm gonna have to remedy this, not only because I'm finding that pink really does look good on me (I'm not conceited; just pale) but so that I'll actually have something to show on Wednesdays!

Today (yesterday actually, but anyway) I chose from my thin collection of rosy tones Maybelline's Pink Shock.  That bored me just a bit, so I topped it with a recent purchase from the blogsale of Lacquer Ware for Tips and Toes - Spa Ritual's Shower the People.  Shower the People is a very, very faint opalescent sheer ivory with a smattering of pixie-like purple glitter.  If you look reeeeeally closely at the pictures below (you may have to enlarge it), you'll catch a glimpse of that purple shimmer.  Other than that, the addition of Shower the People did not much alter the truly shocking pink of Pink Shock.  Enjoy!