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Never fear.....

No one will ever know.

So, today's post is about two things. I was raised in a fairly conservative family.  Air Force Dad, working Mom. I got my ears pierced when I was about 8 years old. I begged to get them pierces for what, at the time, seemed like an eternity. My Mom finally relented.

It wasn't until I was 17 that I got a second piercing in my ear lobe.  In collage, I added a third piercing to one ear. In the words of Bob Dylan "The times, they are a changing."

Nowadays, people pierce everything I've had my eyebrow, nose, tongue, lower lip and ears pierced. The remaining piercings besides my ears are a tiny stud in  my nose and under my lower lip. Ive had them pierced for so long, I don't even think about them anymore

Long story short, I bought some piercing needles and jewelry. I had hemostats from Nursing School.  I sterilized the hemostats and jewelry. My daughter was home so we pierced my ear. I decided to pierce my septum. No big thing. With the right type of jewelry, you can put it in your nose and no one can see your piercing. My teenage daughter asked f I would pierce hers.  I did. HUGE thing.; Dad was furious and had more then a few choice words for me, some which were "Weak minded" and "Lived in a fairy tale world." I'm not sure how these pertain to piercings but apparently they do."  I looked at the whole situation differently. We didn't ask him first. That was my mistake.  But piercings are so immaterial. Unless you have 00 gauge earrings, when you take out the piercing, It's going to close up. I could not get Dad to see this. She isn't pregnant, in jail, doing drugs or sleeping around.  Choose your battles. Kids like to try new things. In my book piercings are the least of my worries.

I bought this new stuff from Amazon. Here's the link. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01824Q63K/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I'm not sure what I expected but I don't think it was this. At first glance, this stuff looks like opalescent paper. Well, that's what it is. You get 10 colors for $9.

The trick is when you cut up said paper into tiny different shapes and randomly stick them on you nails.......

I know, right!!
 All you need to do this is base coat, polish (I chose gold glitter) this paper and a topcoat. Don't forget scissors.  I used a LED Gel top coat but a regular topcoat

It took about 20 minutes to do all my nails. I'm anxious to try the other colors too.

I hope you like this look.

Thanks for stopping by.

Lee


**I always purchase all of my own supplies.**

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