Nail "Art" Blue Skittles

PSA: If you text me saying you have a random urge to walk into Sephora and come out with some random nail polish (despite never having done your nails or wanted to in your entire life) I will reply in ALL CAPS to come over and not waste your money because I own 250+ different colours of nail polish and at this point it's probably more like 300.

So guess what? ;D

Left to right: Rainbow Honey Charaxes, Rainbow Honey Lumine Hall, Rainbow Honey Prussian Sky, Rainbow Honey Midnight Fountain, Essence Walk On Air. As you can see from the lack of linkies, she was the first to try a couple of these polishes :D

PSA#2: Don't come in and say "blue" because I will hand you 20 polishes....

This is Sarah!! She did all these things and then let me paint her nails! She's the coolest person and is apprenticing as a car mechanic.

This is her "what have I gotten myself into" face

Ta daa!

This was actually also one of my only times to have ever painted someone's nails. I was about to say it's my first but then I remembered I painted a lovely friend's digits with Zoya Dahlia. Sigh.

I was kinda going for a skittly-ombre-y kinda deal here.

This is my first successful skittles mani also btw. I'm just not good at them, I pick clashy colours.. Practice makes perfect I guess!

So I hope this encourages my nearby friends to always text me for nail polish things :D. What colour skittles would you have asked for?

Influenster VoxBox: Broadway Nails imPRESS Press-on Manicure

Happy Saturday! Time for another Influenster VoxBox! This will be my second one that includes the imPRESS press-on manicures. I have a bit more experience now so this should work better and not pinch =3

So there's two sets and there's a couple ways you could play this. You could do your nails twice, once with each package. You could also mix n match and do some accent nails in different combinations... or...

YOU COULD HAVE A FRIEND :D

BLAST FROM THE PAST (circa 2007)

HI ALLIE. We've done our nails together and you'll get both our perspectives. Two-for-one, influenster!

So we've got two and it's a super easy choice because I am in LOVE with the lace design and the other one has Allie's name on it basically ("Disney Villains" ;D love ya girl).

Here we go!

Fun fact: these nails were done in the middle of our local park with nothing but the things included in these little imPRESS kits.

I took the nice fancy lacy one  called Holla!...

This worked much, much better than the last time I tried an imPRESS set! I like the design a lot more, I managed to match the sizes up to my nails a lot better this time and maybe I just knew what to expect a little more this time too!

I lasted a full two days before my fiddling interfered with the index and thumbs. Those got pulled off. The last three fingers however are still going strong four days later and in their entirety they did not interfere with life. I'm just a picker. Sorry, fakies. Did I mention I really love this design?

UPDATE: As you can probably tell I wrote this review over several days. I initially applied the nails Wednesday early afternoon and picked off the thumbs and index fingers Thursday night (past midnight). On Friday night I forgot I had an event (The Giggle Dam in PoCo, highly recommend!) and so I pulled out the rest of the pack of nails, managed to find four more nails that fit my index fingers and thumbs and had a full set of glorious nails once again. I think they actually fit better the second time actually. The other three nails per hand are still going strong. The ones I am worst about picking off are actually the thumb and index on my right hand and the difference between those and all the rest of my fingers is that the nails has quite a downward slope at the tip (eg they are curved longitudinally as well as laterally). If you've got any nails like that keep in mind that the tip of the fakie will be quite detached from the tip of your own nail. Doesn't show from normal view but if you're like me you'll poke at it a lot.

PS I applied those four on Friday in a moving vehicle, no problems whatsoever. I wasn't driving! Don't do this while driving k! It had to be said.

BONUS OOTD feat. imPRESS (with my neon yellow heels!)

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The second set that Influenster sent me is from their Disney Villains collection called Evil Queen and the dark duochrome was perfect for Allie, who expressed that she had wanted to try fake nails! This was her first time doing it and we both took our time to make sure we picked properly fitted nails and setting them out before starting to peel off the backing (pinkies first!). We battled some windy weather for a bit but *drumroll*...

TA DAA~ Look at those beauties! Allie says her first impressions are good! It took a little bit to match up sizes but application was super easy and the result is nails that look finished and professionally done. (I will add how long these lasted her here so come back if you're curious! As far as I know they're still on from Wednesday afternoon to today (Saturday morning))

Posing like a pro!

I remember one of my complaints from last time was that it was hard to type but I did the majority of this post with my nails on and haven't given it a second thought. Clearly my last less-than-glowing impression was a result of improper sizing resulting in pinching on my cuticle which is definitely user-error and not a reflection on the product itself. Go figure! Goes to show the amateur-pros are still not perfect :)

Overall a positive experience and one I was very, very glad to have the opportunity to share with my friend <3 Thanks influenster! And thanks, Allie for humouring me and trying these out!

Happy 400th post!

That's right! You guys have been listening to me for THAT LONG. How does it feel?

For me, it feels pretty cool to have been doing this for so long, and to have made the amazing friends I have through it. To celebrate, I did my nails (duh!). And speaking of Did My Nails, I was inspired by my latest package by that wonderful lady, Elizabeth at, you guessed it, Did My Nails :D

She sent me this super cool package full of candy and nail polish and POCHACCO. Oh my gawsh, I love this thing. I don't really have much to say except that I started with Nubar Absolute (which will be posted Thursday, since tomorrow is special ;D).

Anyway, I used acrylic paint to put on some details and took my new little buddy outside to get some sun.

I dinged little thumb-chacco and had to redo him. It's not terrible but I definitely wish I'd done him and Elizabeth more justice =3 I do hope you like it though. I used Essie Pure Pearlfection as topcoat and the pictures were all done with my bornprettystore.com paint brush set. That fan is really coming in handy this summer too!

I want to end this with a tribute to my friends, who I don't believe I could continue this hobby without.

Kelly from Nails For The Sake of Sanity

Jessie from Nailed It NZ

Harriet from Nailhilism

Nichole from Adventures of the Nail Friends

Alyssa from Frugal Polish

Will from Lacquer Lad

Kylie from SparKyl!e Nails

Wes from Polish Me Manly

and of COURSE Elizabeth from Did My Nails <3

Check them out! They are some of my favourite people =3

I am awesome =D (apparently)

You understand right? Just look at them <3 *melts*

Anyway, as you may know, I met my American doppleganger in Nichole from Adventures of the Nail Friends except she is an amazing artist.

First, she drew me:

I know this is exactly what you all think of me, don't even lie. She is amazeballs xP

She also gave me this:

This is a NO RULES award. Because there are just too many rules sometimes (and I broke them all anyway).

So there's some awesome going around, and right now I just want to give it to all my Pokemon Nail peeps.

Here's AotNF original post.

And you guys should check all these awesome people out, okay? And if you wanna take this award and give it out, just send Nichole some traffic for it, okay? =)

Adventures of the Nail Friends

Nailhilism

Sparkle 'n' Shine Nails

Nails for the Sake of Sanity

Melanie's Fancies

Manifix

Racho's Nail Love

Nerdy for Nails

PokeNail Art

Kitty's Painted Claws

Helloobee

You should check them all out because they are amazeballs =]

Starbucks dates xD

"I just want to go to a drugstore one time and buy tampons, a morning after pill and a box of condoms and watch the cashier try to figure out which order I'll be using them in."

Richmond Summer Night Market (old location)

So yesterday was an adventure day! We went to the beach! And then to the Richmond Night Market at the old location. I was really excited for the food because that was what I was told was the reason to go =P We were a group of five and we drove, which was good because it wasn't THAT great. I mean, the food was FANTASTIC, and you should definitely go once, but don't transit, it'll take waaay too long.

My friend and her man going for a dip. Lookit that backdrop!

I got a tan!

Night Market wise, here we go!

Hurricane potatoes!

 Ignoring my ugly face (what is even happening here??) these were delicious! They came in lots of flavours and just rocked.

Nutella wheel cake

 Basically a mini pancake sandwich with nutella in the middle. Only $1 and SO GOOD.

Noms!

 (The post for those nails is coming as soon as my Julep add-ons come in!)

My friend Philippe with sticky rice!

Deep fried mango ice cream and deep fried banana with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce

 Oh, my god, so good. The ice cream was interesting, but the banana was awesome. No, I did not eat theses all by myself. If you haven't had a deep-fried banana before, get a scoop of ice cream on top and enjoy the hot-cold deliciousness.

Mango!

 And, last but not least, a suggestive bouncy castle with Philippe!

Spiderman in the background, luring little children into his castle of horrors

And then there was this.

The stuff of nightmares.

Traumatizing.