Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Swatch: Rainbow Honey Be Mine

When I got home on Friday night, I had a huuuuuge package waiting for me!

Some of these are for me, some are for friends and some are for prizes when I hit 100 which I hope is soon!

So I had some trouble deciding on where to start but I settled on what would best match what I'm gonna be wearing for the next little while. It's about the only outfit that doesn't cinch around the middle...

Be Mine is a creamy pink that reminds me of a strawberry smoothie. There's a hard to capture shimmer that is much more prominent than any photos have shown and that's really all I have to tell you. Enjoy the picspam <3




 I tried matting it, but it looked lumpy. I dunno what to blame for that, but I Seched it after to restore shine.






This is my favourite photo. The sun came out this morning and I snapped =)

What do you guys think? Did you get any of the Sweet Talk Collection? I highly recommend <3

Monday, February 18, 2013

Swatch: China Glaze Winter Berry

Hey all! First up, I want to say thanks for being so sweet on my last post <3 You guys really are the bomb!

Somehow I've got posts all queued up =D Today is another from that wonderfully large box from Kelly (Nails for the Sake of Sanity). It's China Glaze Winter Berry and it is like WHOA. This is a classy red, people. The first couple pictures are ONE COAT, and I added another after but can you even tell?





Seriously. I feel really classy. I feel like this one might replace my Julep January for a go-to red even!

Sorry I don't have much  to say but, hey, tell me what YOUR favourite go to red is! And go say hi to Kelly!

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Personal Update!

I don't know how many of you care and I'm not trying to garner sympathy or anything but I wanted to give you guys some warning in case I don't pop in for over a week. If you follow my facebook, you've seen this already but this time I have pictures of adorable old dogs.

This is basically how I spent my reading break from school:

So on Sunday my stomach started hurting, which wasn't totally out of the ordinary since I had had a ton of Japanese food the day before (I'll post on that!). It just felt like bad gas to be honest, so I rolled around and tried to get everything moving. Didn't sleep much on Monday night, but all day a puppy cuddled with me.

On Tuesday I got up at 6:30AM to go over the border to send mail. I sent all the mail! By then I was feeling nauseous enough that we went straight to the doctor on our way back who said that it likely wasn't my ovaries (hurrah!) and that the desk would make me a CT scan appointment to check my appendix and call me later. He said if it got worse to go into the ER. So I went home and napped while waiting for a phone call that didn't come. When I got home that night I tried to sleep, gave up at 1AM and had my daddy drive me to the hospital where he stayed with me all night.

I didn't sleep much either. They gave me an ultrasound in the morning which was equivocal and then said since I was feeling better they'd usually just send me home. I laughed and said, oh no, I have a high pain threshold PLUS you've got me on an IV with antibiotics and painkillers. I'm not going anywhere! So they sent me to the other hospital 20 minutes away because hurrah! The CT scanner was broken here xP

The latest in hospital fashion
They fed me CT scan radioactive fluid before I left and when I got there I sat around and had a nice chat with a man named Yoni (sp?) <3 The CT scan machine is suuuper cool btw. Anyway, moving on. I checked in at the ER where I met a nice lady named, possibly, Gida (sp?) and Branden showed up. I sat around for a while more and the doctor said heya, appendicitis! and called for a appendectomy. Within an hour I was in. It was now about 2PM Wednesday, and I hadn't eaten since 7PM Tuesday but they counted CT fluid as consumption... sad.

Woke up groggy and hurty, nothing is interesting here except I ended up in a bed next to one of Branden's old family friends/neighbours so I had some company. I was drugged and cranky and all my electronics ran out of batteries. In the morning they brought me shitty hospital breakfast (holy crap is that stuff bad!) and then I was released at 10AM-ish with a prescription for some T2s.




When Branden picked me up, he brought me these <333


As for after-appendectomy meals...


Yes, that is chocolate milk.

Homemade sushi!
I inhaled EVERYTHING.

I'm not on le T2s today! It still hurts to get up and down but I can waddle around alright and laying down is nice. I also have a nap midday lol. I DID paint my nails finally, so that's a post coming up.

Expect a couple regular posts coming up, and then no promises <3 I'm milking this recovery for all it's worth ;)

And with that, I leave you with some cuddling things <3


Thursday, February 14, 2013

Let It Snow #11: Valentine's Day

Hey lovelies! I hope you guys like this post, there's some story. First up:

Happy Valentine's Day <3


This time of year used to be really hard for me. When I was 10, my mom passed away. She fought leukemia for 8 years and on February 12th, 2001, she let go.That year, a rose bloomed edged in frost. In the middle of February. Every year my dad gives me two roses, one for me and one for her.

So with that sob story, I started with Sally Hansen Lustre Shine Lava and with my trusty dotting tool and some KleanColor Gold Bright. My inspiration came from this pin on Pinterest and though mine's not as realistic, I really like it.

My mom's favourite flower was a yellow rose <3














I wish I could get better photos but what do you think? I really like it <3






Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Swatch: Sally Hansen Lustre Shine Lava

HAI ALL! So I went shopping today! I had some goodies to get for some awesome people!


=D Just a peek! And I passed by this on my way...


So of course I grabbed myself the belle of the collection: Lava.

This is an orange-pink duochrome that is REALLY strong in the right light and looks like sunset. The first time I used it I did four coats, but it really only needs two medium thick ones. Can you tell which pics have Seche?

(Some of these pictures are bad, but I wanted to show the duochrome nicely)








This was the most unique shade of the bunch, and a glassfleck! I'm in love!

Have you seen this collection around? Which one's your favourite?

(Oh look, the sun came out!)



Sooooo prettyyyy *____________________*