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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Greetings: I hope everyone had wonderful Holidays with their loved ones. Mine was quiet. my immediate family is 9 people. Seven kids mean significant others, grand kids and my dear Aunt. That means a grand total of 21. This year there was but four at my dinner table. Quiet. This weeks post is Blue. Maybe because I have been feeling that color for awhile. New year, new things. Yea!!!!  Away we go. I saw Ad somewhere for Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Flash-ionista and had to have it. It is gorgeous. It's a beautiful Mermaid blue-green with microglitter. Boom! In your face Ariel. It's the first bottle in the picture. I had to search for it and finally found it at my local Rite-Aid. Just my luck they had the other two colors right next to it on the display. Had to buy them. The picture doesn't do them justice. The first color  in the picture is Flash-ionista. This is the color I used on my index, pinkie and non-existent thumb. As usual, I used my Pro-Fx Nail Conce...

Could also be the season to break the bank buying gifts... Or not.  Me? I always set a limit. With seven children, 6 significant others, four grandchildren....WOW!!! My one regret is not being a billionaire So this Christmas I'm not feeling my usual non-Grinchy self.  I have been feeling icky, down in the dumps blah. Is that even an actual diagnosis?? I wonder if there is an ICD-10 code for that? This weeks look is simple. A little bit of glitter. Boom. Done.  I do like it though, it goes with everything.  I used IBD Just Gel Base Coat. I cured this in an LED lamp for one minute. For the glitter I used Fairy Glo Color Coat. This is three coats. You will need to cure each coat for one minute. To finish, I used IBD Just Gel Top Coat. Guess what? Yep, you guessed it. Cure for one minute. After you have finished the curing process, you will need to wipe the sticky residue off your nails. You can do this two ways. You can buy Gel Cleanser from ju...

Well, here I am again. I suppose you might be wondering about last weeks post. I said I could't connect to the wi-fi. I wasn't able to upload the nail art I did. In this day and age, I should be able to do that. One would think. Apparently, I am a derp. So this week's post is sort of Christmas-y. And it looks like this.    This is a look done with the mysterious Gel polish I bought from Amazon.  It came in a set of 10 colors....all in tiny pink bottles. Do you remember now...I knew you would. As this is gel polish, you will need either a UV or an LED lamp to cure the gel. My lamp came in a Sensationail kit I bought at Wal-Mart. The kit comes with a combo base/top coat, one polish color and some cleaner. If I recall it was $50.  I wasn't totally thrilled with the polish but the light is compact enough to take just about anywhere. Since I have had my light for two years, I had to purchase some new base/top oat. I have been using Super Nail Pro Gel bas...

What is that??  So, I'm unable to connect to the wifi at home, or anywhere for that matter. So I shall rant.  Who doesn't love Christmas? Most of the people I know do. Some more than others. My sweet daughter-in-law Elizabeth was listening to Christmas music when I was visiting.....in October. I have no problem with that. It makes her happy, go for it. I was raised in the Episcopal Church. I loved it. Advent and Christmas was my favorite time of year. I don't know if it was the prayers, the hymns or the amazing Father White.  It was very a special treat to go to midnight Mass and sing the harmony to all the hymns with my sister. Sometimes my brother would be there too. He had the best baritone voice. It was truly magical. The off we went to our home. My dad always had eggnog with Puerto Rican Rum in it. It was the best. We put stockings up and went to bed. Even when I was in College. We still do for my kids and grand kids.  Christmas morning we would awake...

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 t...

I knew if I washed my car on Friday, it would rain. Sorry all you weekend people thsat bike, hike, lion tame and what have you. Last weeks post I talked about as new brand of Gel Polish I had tried. You remember, the one where every color is in a pink bottle? Yep, I knew you would remember. I bought a set of 10 colors from Amazon. Previously, I bought five single colors. I decided to change things up a bit. Instead of one look, I would show you the colors of gel polish. For each of these colors, I used two coats and I cured them in a LED light for 60 seconds. Away we go. The first color is 006. It's a thermal color. When your hands are cold, it's a dark purple. When warm, its a pretty turquoise-y, teal-y blue. The bottom picture shows what it looks like blue. 013 is a mid tone cool taupe cream. 014 is a deep metallic burgundy. 015 is a metallic dark blue. 016 is a peach-y glitter. 017 is a deep red glitter. 018 is a pale pink glitter. 019 is an opaque mid tone ...

Well here we are once again. Another beautiful Fall Sunday. II have spent the day shooting with my awesome son-in-law Matt. Thanks Matt for inviting me. It was awesome. So the Nail 'o the day simple. Of course is has to have a tiny bit of glitter but hey.  About two months ago, I tried some gel nail polish I saw on Amazon. I bought three colors and the base and top coat.  It costs $6.99 for a 10ml bottle. The base and top coat costs $10.99 for  the set. These are also 10 ml bottles. I found the colors are opaque and they last about 10 days. You can buy them in a single color, set of 4, 6 or 10. This time around I purchased the set of 10. It costs $49.00.  Here is the link for the 10 piece set. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01337OPPW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s03?ie=UTF8&psc=1 For this look, I used the base coat and cured for 60 seconds in a LED light. I used two coats of Aimeili Color 021. On my ring finger I used one coat of Aimelil Color 023. ...

I would have to say it would be my courage. Yep, courage t tell my very first boyfriend to fuck off when I should have. My life would be so different.  Ladies, always stand up to those idiots that think you are a fool. Off the soap box I go. I missed last weeks post due to a the change in barometric pressure. I'm sure some of you are thinking "What the Hell?'  I have determined the my Arthritis pain is controlled by the barometer, not the temperature. You think I'm crazy I know. Ask anyone. Pain makes me bitchy, Bitchy isn't a good thing when you are trying to be positive. Here's the look I chose: Thank you Lupe for taking my pictures. As you can see, my joints aren't pretty. Maybe that's why I am so into nail art and stuff.  I used Super Nail Cover Pink Gel for this color. This is a milky pink, totally opaque and really pretty. The stones and pearls are from nail art wheels I bought at Amazon. I think this might even work for a wedding lo...

Oh my!! If I recall correctly, in my last post I talked about keeping the fimo fruit on my finger because I liked it so much. Or maybe I just thought it. either way, that lasted one whole week. I did manage to change to the neon colors I originally purchased. I discovered that if I used my Pro-Fx Nail Concealer, it would cover enough so the neon colors would "pop." Sadly black and white polish is the bane of my existence. I do not like working with them. I actually think white is worse. Anyway, here you go. Naked nails... Neon nails... For this look, I used Salon Perfect Copacabana Girl (orangy-coral) and Honey Dew, Honey Don't (green). With the Pro-Fx I only had to use two coats of the neon colors.  I like this look but I am a fickle woman when it comes to nail polish. Someone asked me how many times a week I did my nails.  The answer"At least twice." You  have to keep life exciting.  I thought I would get at least three looks...

Pardon me Mr, Cooper but school starts again in two days. If you are unable to connect those two references, you missed out. I have one child out of sever still in school. She is an amazing child. Smart, funny, talented and beautiful. Just don't piss her off. It's like poking a bear. This nail look was all my idea. I was trying to come up with something using my fimo fruit slices and here is it. Sort of. I had originally purchased three neon colors from Salon Perfect at my local Wal-Mart to use with this look. Pink, green and orange. Not happening. The colors looked pretty but I put three coats over a white  base cost and it was still streaky. I chose a red instead. Now it looks like this. This has to be one of THE most uncomfortable positions I put my hands in. Grrrr. So I chose Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Sonic Bloom. One coat. Boo. Done. Gotta Love it. This is a pink-red-coral color. bright yet easy to apply. One coat. I buy all my supplies at Rite-Aid, Wal-Mart...

Here we are again. I didn't realize I hadn't posted last Sunday until I started my post today. You're right. I'm lame. I live in a State where there is still County Fair every year. When my kids were little, we went every year. Since my youngest is now 16, it's been awhile since I have gone. Traversing back and forth is a bit difficult with my RA so her Daddy has always taken her when I wasn't able to go. This year, my very best friend came into to town. Sheila, and another dear friend Denett went. It was so much fun and so awesome to get together with them. These ladies are like family and really special to me. I am blessed to have them. I am use to the fair being jam packed with people I knew but this year it wasn't crowded. Sadly the Ag, Arts & Craft, Gardening and Commercial buildings were a bit empty. We had a ball. Space Burgers are amazing. Corn on the cob is delicious. Lion's Ears really crispy and sweet. Sadly we didn't get t...