NAILS OF GLEE

Can we just talk for a minute about how obsessed I am with those adhesive nail polish strips?

Oh, MAN. The Sally Hansen ones are my favourite. They are hella expensive, but if you use them right, you can get two manicures out of each box.

SNAKES ON MY NAILS! These are the shit. When I take them off, I'm going  to be all, "I WANT THESE MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES OFF MY MOTHERFUCKING  NAILS."

So anyway, these things come with a little nail file/buffer type thing in each box, along with a cuticle pusher and instructions. The actual nail strips are in two separate packets - once you open the packet, you have to use all the ones in there or else they dry out. There are 8 strips in each, which seems like a cruel joke on Sally Hansen's part.

At first, I was like, how the hell am I supposed to not open both packets at once, I have ten damn fingers, what is this bullshit? Then I watched Sokolum79's video on how to to get two manicures out of each box, and it all made sense.

Applying them took forever the first time, but once you get the hang of it, it takes maybe ten minutes from start to finish. I throw some topcoat on there to make them a little shinier and help them last. I'm still wearing the rattlesnake ones and it's been two weeks. There's some minor tipwear happening, but it's nothing you wouldn't see after say, three or four days with regular nail polish.

You know what I don't really get, though? They have normal ones. Like, you know, light pink and blue and green. Pretty colours, but... why would you not want to just use regular nail polish for that? Who the fuck is like, "I'm so ballin' that I'd rather just pay through the nose to get regular nail polish strips instead of buying a $3 bottle of nail polish. Also, my shoes are made of diamonds." All I'm saying is that for $10, I want rattlesnakes, not pink with sparkles.

I hate neutrals.

Neutrals. Bah.

 

Don't get me wrong, there is totally a time and place for neutral colours. But that time is not now, and that place is not my face.

I have always had the good fortune to have jobs that allow me to be as creative with makeup as I wanted to (although the look with the flower is a straight-up copy of the Hunger Games District 6 Morphling look that Leesha from XSparkage posted awhile back). I've never had to tone anything down, or make something I liked more "wearable" - because it's ALL FUCKING WEARABLE TO ME.

Back when Urban Decay's first Naked palette came out, everyone lost their minds. I almost got sucked in myself, and then I realized that I have all those colours - or reasonably close approximations - and since I never bother with the ones I had anyway, there wasn't any point. If I'm going to spend 20 minutes on my damn eyeshadow in the morning, I want searing, retina-burning vibrant colours. Also, glitter.

This is probably why people think I'm a teenager.

Who?

Where the magic happens, folks. Where the magic happens.

Me: I think I'm going to start a beauty blog.

Mr. Demon Rapunzel: Don't you already have one?

Me: I have a Youtube channel that I haven't updated in like, 2 years, and a sad LJ blog that I used to update with beauty stuff that no one cared about.

Mr. Demon Rapunzel: And what makes you think anyone will care about a new blog?

Me: Well, I can have a cooler background if I switch to Blogger.

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So, hi.

Honestly, I am nobody. I did, however, go to beauty school and I dropped out halfway through eyebrow tinting. The only good thing to come out of that whole experience was the fact that I could legitimately say, "I had a little trouble in tinting class." and "Beauty school sure isn't what I thought it was gonna be." I tinted my eyebrows blue and my instructor hated my guts, and also? The other ladies in my class were in no mood for my hijinks.

Now I have taken my hijinks to the internet... where hijinks are welcome and encouraged. SO THERE.

So now I have this blog where I talk about makeup and the things I like and the things I purchase and the things, the things, THE THINGS! I love things.

Here are some facts about me that you may or may not care about:

* I have many cats. And by many, I mean three. They essentially run the house, and they are the reason I haven't made a new YouTube video in a couple of years (their fur is all over everything and somehow in my camera lens? I don't know).

* I say that I am married, but really we are engaged. We haven't gotten married yet because we are really bad planners. I hate the words "fiancee" and "hubby".

* I manage a LUSH Cosmetics shop, and I know a thing or two about skincare.

* I know a thing or two about haircare as well, but I shave my head bald except for a small and unruly tuft of bangs at the front, so I don't buy a whole lot of haircare products. I can talk for hours about scalp treatments, though.

* My favourite corporate cosmetic brands are MAC, Makeup for Ever, OCC and NARS. My favourite indie cosmetic brands are Fyrinnae and Sugarpill.

* The origin of The Demon Rapunzel thing is a long and not very interesting story.

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