Lee's Beauty Blog - All things beauty..

Those are the words of the immortal Big Bopper aka J. P. Richardson who died in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly and Richie Valens, February 3rd, 1959. Truly a great tragedy for the world. Haven't a clue what I'm talking about, look it up. My last post I was struggling to get my nails back in shape. Sadly, they would grow a bit longer than my fingertip and then peel. I couldn't have a Nail Art Blog without nails!! Well now I do. Let's check it out.  Here we are... I decided on this color because it's Spring in my neck of the woods. These are really simple, I think anyone could do them. These are PolyGel. Not a gel, not an acrylic. You do have to cure then in an LED/UV light but you could do them with regular polish and some nail art supplies. The pinky and thumb nail have gold nail foil on them. The ring finger has some glitter and a gold tone shield. The middle finger has some pearls and rhinestones attached. The index finger is my favorite. I starte...

My last post was almost one month ago. I decided to use the OPI products foe one month to see how my nails faired. Well they faired well. Due to the use of gel polish(I believe), my nails peeled until last week. When you remove gel polish the wrong way, it peels the natural layers away. One would think, I would know not to do this. Guilty. I did it anyway. When I quit doing that, my natural nails grew out and they no longer peel. Yea!!  Are they short, yes. Are they healthy, YES!!! Patience is a virtue and not one of my better qualities. Now I need to work on my cuticles.😒 About six months ago, a small cat decided we were really cool and took up residence on our porch. She is the sweetest cat ever. March 19th, we walked out to the porch to discover the cat with a tiny orange tabby cat in her mouth. She had four teeny tiny baby kittens. I'm sure that is some sort of run-on sentence but WTF! Here they are in all their glory. About 24 hours old.   The grey one is...

Hopefully. I've grown a bit tired of snow. So in my last post, I talked about natural nails and what I was using to try to get them in better condition. I tried the Barielle for without success. I tried the NailTek Formula 4 without success. Honestly, I didn't notice any change in the condition of my nails. I'm sure either of these products could potentially work for you. As I have mentioned previously, I have RA. One might think it wouldn't affect fingernails. It does. Could I please, pretty please have one break? Nope!! Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.  Apparently, my nails must match my hands. My kids use to tel me I didn't need a Halloween costume. I had Zombie hands. Ohhhhhhh!! Pretty!! I decided to give OPI Nail Envy a try. Voila'!! I have growth, my nails feel stronger and the peeling is almost nonexistent. Yea!!! As you can see, I had a little trouble with pictures. If you knew me, you would understand. :) There is some gro...

I just feel like it about 99.999% of the time. It's a dirty job but somebody has to do it. So, I'v been off the grid due to health issues. As I'm sure all 56 of you who like my posts know, I have Rheumatoid Arthritis. It's a nasty bit of business and it has made my life extremely difficult. I'm no longer working so I'll have all the time in the world to post. Previously, I posted about nail art. Since my last day of work was 11/28/18, I've taken off my gel nails and started over. At first I was using Barielle Thickener, Hardener and Growth Activator. I purchased these at Amazon. I used then for one month. I've hard good things about Barielle products. For me, I didn't see much improvement in my nails. Years ago I had tried NailTek. I liked the results and my nails looked great. Did I leave them alone? Hell no! I put my acrylics back on. I have now started a new regime with NailTek for weak, damaged nails. If you are wondering, I purchased...

Here we are. It's been a bit since I posted anything. Things may be a bit different but be assured, but's still crazy me. I should have more time to blog; I'm no longer working. Yea, yippee and whoot, whoot!!!!! It's been coming for a very long time. If you follow me, you will know I have RA. My pain became so severe, it hurts to walk, Not the life I was expecting but I'm still alive. I haven't decided what I'm going to blog about. Jokes, real life events maybe. I don't know. We will just have to see. Thanks for stopping by. Lee

Well, here I am again. I've been busy at work. Busy at home. When my Aunt passed away in November, It was hard. We emptied all her things out of the house she  lived in for 60 years. I think 90% of it is in my living room. I thing I have her graduation dress of hers from High School. That would have been 1942. She was very special to me. She was like a second mom. It's amazing all the antiques she had in her home.  She still had my curls from the time I got my hair cut. I miss her so much and I see her everyday in things I do. Anyhoo..... Just a quick post to let my hoard(LOL) of followers know I'm still around.  Today I'm actually doing my nails. I'll post my masterpieces after. Thanks for stopping by. Lee Hugs to my B.

Yes, I know it's been two months since my last post. My health issues have carried over for two months and I have been exhausted. I was finally feeling better and I lost someone very dear to me. When I was born. I was blessed with amazing parents, my Nana and my Aunt Wanda.  Wanda has always treated me like her own. I spent every minute of my childhood that I could at Wanda and Nana's house. It was home to me. My grandmother taught me how to iron, cook and sew among other things. I lost her when I was 11. Both parents passed away in 2003. Wanda was always there for me. She was like a second mom to me. She helped me with anything she could.  She babysat my six kids when I was a single parent going to school. She treated my kids like they were her own. She was an amazing woman. She worked at Grand Coulee Dam when it was being built, she traveled and she truly loved life. She was a Christian and she devoted her life to Jesus Christ. Back in July when I had surgery on my foo...

Nope. Not going to risk it. Just in case.:) Well here we are. A beautiful September day. Some would say chilly but I think it's a perfect. You can even see the mountains. We had had some wildfires recently and it's been really smokey.  There have been days you can't see across the street. I think thoses days are past. I pray God watched over anyne that lived in those areas. It would be scary as Hell knowing that at any given moment, you could lose everything. On to something cherry. While I was rehabbing after three surgeries, I decided to try my hand at acrylics again. I wore them for years but seemed to develop an allergy to them. SOmeone suggested that it might be the primer that I was allergic to, not the acrylics. So I tried a protein primer and I haven't had any issues thus far. For this look I tried my hand at "extended nail bed." I thought the thumb looked great but I need to keep practicing. In case anyone in wondering: Disclaimer:  I am no...

He's out in the middle of nowhere. If you have teenagers, they may have watched a show called "Charlie & Lola." My daughter loved that show. She was five at the time. Foxy was Lola's toy fox.m One day she lost him "out on the middle of nowhere." If you asked her where Foxy was, she would say, in her tiny five year old voice,l with her best British accent "He's out in the middle of nowhere." That's how I've felt these past two and a half months.  Like I was stuck out in the middle of nowhere. I had Achilles tendon repair on July 6th. I'm apparently clumsy as Hell because I fell trying to go to the bathroom and put my foot down. No big deal. There was no pain involved so I didn't think anything about it. On July 11th, Mr. Unhappy Gallbladder came out. Cool. No pain. I saw my Podiatrist who was unhappy that I fell but understanding. wasn't sure about the whole situation. Followed up with him a week later and we decided ...

When it comes to Wonder Woman! "Why?" you ask. Because Wonder Woman is the original female Super Hero. As far as the others are concerned, they are just knockoffs. She has been kicking ass since ass since 1941. Last year at Walgreens, they had some Wonder Woman items. My daughter was sweet enough to buy me the makeup brushes. They are nice little brushes. Today, I walked into Walgreens and hit the jackpot!! I found a different set of brushes for $12. I came across some makeup bags as well. These came in a set. The large clear vinyl measures 9 1/2 in wide by 7 1/2 in tall x 7 in deep.  It's trimmed with red and black and has a large gold star on the zipper pull. The second bag is a soft fabric with a zipper. It measures 7 1/2 in wide x 5 1/2 in tall x 5 in deep. The set of two bags was $10. The next bag is a soft fabric "weekender." It has a lot of room inside.  It's 9 in wide x 7 in tall x 7 in deep. There aren't any pockets  but I...

But the possibility is still possible. Not really. I try to always do the right thing. Be the better person. You know what I'm talking about. So I did my nails. Add then I had a revelation.  Do something different, I said. And here I am;. I'm going to cal it the "I wanted to love it...." blog post. I am sure that everyone has bought something and after you got home, realized that it wasn't what you expected. Unless you live in a booming metropolis...I don not, you would have to drive at least 50 miles to return something. Fortunately, I can always find someone to share with. And since I buy everything with my own funds, I promise to give you a brutally honest opinion. Lets talk about.........Lip Sense. Have you ever heard of Lip Sense? Long lasting lip stick that smells something akin to grain alcohol? Well I tried it. My daughter in law seemed to like it so I thought I'd give it a whirl. The color itself will run you $25.  If you want a gloss...

It's been a month since I've blogged. :( I'd love to say my life is so busy and exciting I forgot but I can not tell a lie. Health issues keep me tired all of the time. I'm feeling pretty good today so here I am. I think it's going to be a busy Summer at our house. I have three grand-babies on the way. One boy so far. I am waiting patiently on the other two.  I have five grandsons right now. I'm not going to lie, I was wishing for three girls but I will take whatever God has planned. I have a wedding in two weeks for my baby boy. He's not really a baby, he's 23 and 6'3" I believe. He is still my baby and I am happy for both of them. So I'm guessing the many of you have see water marble nail art.  I think it is beautiful. Every design is different.  The only draw back for me is the mess. I know there are many brands of "Nail Tape" out there but they are all latex based. I, sadly am allergic to latex. So it gets messy.  One day...

It['s been raining all day so I binged watched "The People vs. OJ Simpson." Talk about stupid people.  He was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt with DNA evidence and his Lawyers played the race. People were so mad because wsome rotten LAPD Cop used the "N" word they forgot Simpson was guilty. Derps. Rant over. Here's the idea to end all ideas. Nope, just kidding. I had this look all done and I wasn['t happy with it. Even though it looked almost exactly like the picture, I had to do something else. It looks like this: Black is absolutely the worst color for me to work with. Ugh!!!I can never seem to get it to look right. No matter how careful I am, it always looks messy to me. I saw this look on pinterest and thought it was awesome. Here's the link:https://www.pinterest.com/pin/394979829804834347/ Her's are so much nicer. Obviously Black polish is her Besties' So I used L.A. Girl Color Pop Darkness, L.A. Girl Color Pop Glitzy, P...

Hello polish fans: If you haven't seen my posts where I have mentioned that every month I receive makeup brushes from LiveGlam. The box is called "MorpheMe." These are really awesome brushes from the Morphe' Brush Company. All of the brushes I have from this subscription are soft and well made. These boxes will run you about $20 dollars. Here is a picture of a few of the brushes that I have so far: In case you might be interested, here's the link to LiveGlam. https://liveglam.com/morphe-brushes/?ref=mamacinco61@yahoo.com Now LiveGlam has started offering a polish and lipstick subscription as well. PolishMe, which came in my P.O. Box yesterday; and KissMe lipstick. Sadly, the lipstick box is"wait list" status. So wait I shall. Back to the PolishMe box. It comes in a cute little box, which I have already found a use for. As a child of parents who lived through The Great Depression, I save everything. It looks like this. In this ...

I'd would be in deep trouble. Blame it on RA. Not Ra the Egyptian God, nope. Blame it on my Rheumatoid Arthritis. Or as my father-in-law use to say "Arthur-itis." It sucks and on the weekend all it seems I think about is hiding under a blanket.  Still, here we are. My daughter came to visit yesterday. She is my "pedicurist." She spoils me by painting my "tailnails" as we have always referred to them. I thought the color was nice so I chose to paint my nails the same color. This is it: Base coat first. Any of the thousands of brands will work. Use what you have. If you can't see it i n the picture, there is ho pink sparkles in the blue. The blue is Dollish Polish Boo Boo Kitty F*ck. In life, it is a ble-grey color. This is two coats.  Link here: http://dollishpolish.bigcartel.com/product/cult-movie-classic-boo-boo-kitty-f-ck-full-polish The pink is Square Hue Placa Catalunya. Gorgeous frosty magenta. Two coats as well. If you have ...

I'm actually posting on Sunday. Whoot, whoot! So here we are once again. Sundays are my quiet days. It's the day I don't do anything. becvause I did everything on Saturday. I've been a little lacking in the creativity department lately. I do believe I am depressed.  Life is giving me fits I don't expect a perfect life by any means. Grrrrr. This weeiks design I came up with by looking at ideas on Pinterest. The design that inspired me is this one by Chantal Toile. Here's the link.https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=stamped%20nail%20art&rs=typed&term_meta[]=stamped%7Ctyped&term_meta[]=nail%7Ctyped&term_meta[]=art%7Ctyped I decided to use tone on tone colors and this suited me too a T. Base coat...your choice. :)  I followed this with two coats of Pure Ice Shore Bet. This is a pale sandy color. I chose to do just two coats because I was stamping over the polish. Otherwise I would have used three for good opacity. For the stamping...

Beer Nuts are $1.25. And Deer Nuts....well, they are under a Buck.. Laugh it up fuzzball!  If you don't know where that line is from, I'm sorry for you. Think about it, maybe it will come to you. Sometime between this post and the last, I decided to take my gel nails off. I needed a change and I wanted to see how my real nails were growing. Well, I think the answer is bad and bad. They don't bad, they are just short. But they are bad because they have not completely grown out under the gel and frankly, they suck. There isn't really a boat load of surface to create stuff on. I think I'll put then on before the next post.  Sadly, this is the o nly picture I could get that was decent. My camera is apparently on holiday or something. I didn't use a base coat because I have three coats of builder gel on my nails. They are weak and thin.....still. I used Orly Terra Mauve (I hope). I say that because it's the darkest color of Orly in my polish database...

My daughter has been out of school for nine days due to the weather. At this moment, it  is snowing like a son of a gun. She's so bored. I recently received the latest copy of Nail It! magazine. It's the November/December issue. There are so many amazing ideas for nails. As I was perusing through it's pages, I came upon this. This was submitted by Nora Ramsdell, Richmond, VA @naq57.  I really liked the look of the gold and green/teal color. Very chic but simple too.  Here we go.  I started with a base coat. Your choice. As long as it works, you will be fine.  I like Green but not all Greens. I tend to gravitate towards the blue-green, green-blue, teal-y colors. I chose Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Re-teal Therapy. I love this brand. It drys quickly and on me, it lasts until I take it off. That's usually about 10 days. I used two coats. For the Gold, I decided to try something new. I usually use stamping polish. I have seen videos on YouTube...

Being almost 56 years old, I have lived through many things.Some when I was young eg. The Sharon Tate/Tony Lo Bianco murders, the Viet Nam War, the Moon landing and I saw first man walk on the Moon. I watched the News during the Hostage Crisis in Iran. I watched the Shuttle Challenger burst into flames on live TV. I listened to the radio during Desert Storm. I watched the footage of the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers. I'm not bragging. I just stating facts. I am appalled at the behavior of people I have seen on TV about the Inauguration. This isn't some Third World Country. This is America. Donald Trump is the President of the United States. Like it or not, that's how Democracy works. Majority rules. From the pictures I have seen recently, there is so  much hate. I can not believe that people actually act this way. Over a President. I didn't vote for Bush, Clinton or Obama. I was disappointed, angry, frustrated. I didn't send my kids to stand in fro...

Oops.... I didn't realize it had been two weeks since my last post. Since I apparently live in the new Arctic Circle, all I've had time to do is stay warm. My daughter has missed five days of school due to the weather. That's unheard of where I'm from. When I was in High School, I can't remember ever having a show day.  Maybe that was before Global Warming.  Who coul d tell. And is Global warming really a thing? Or is it something the Government made up to scare the Hell out of normal people like myself?  On that note....away we go.   This is the look I came up with for New Year's Eve. Did I go out? Nope. Did I have a Gourmet dinner party for 20 at  my home? Again, nope. I never do  things like have dinner parties. I just thought it was New Year's Eve-ish looking. Yes I know that isn't correct Grammar. And no, I don't care. If people can say "A'ight or turnt." I can say  Eve-ish. Get with the program teachers. Start teaching c...