NYX Sexy Plum + Dorothy

   After the Tinkerbell disaster, I just wanted to slap on some cream polish on my nails and be done with it. Frost, shimmer and glitter polishes are a bitch to remove. Then I realized I didn't have many cream polishes, and I don't feel like wearing the ones I did have. In any case, these days I haven't been able to leave my polishes alone; I always feel the need to add some glitter polish or do nail art.

   So I wore this instead. NYX Sexy Plum (aka eggplant nails) + NYX Dorothy.

   I have a confession to make though. Pictured above is how my nails look right now, after I retouched them. But this morning, my nails looked like this.

aka morning-after nails?

    Yes, I have a bad habit of doing my nails right before I sleep, or at most, an hour before. So in the morning I always end up with hair-and-bedsheet-marked nails. I can't help it, doing my nails relaxes me and helps me fall asleep at night. Sigh. Time to break bad habits.

 

Bonfire Mani

   For the Annual Ateneo Bonfire I wanted to paint my nails blue and white, our school colors, but I didn't have any white polish.So I just did this:

Two coats of OPI Servin' Up Sparkle over one coat of The Face Shop BL 604.

one coat of BL 604. Yeah, I know, right.

    TFS BL 604 is one of my favoritest nail polishes ever. I've had it for two years and there are no signs of discoloration or separation or whatever. So it saddened me that I couldn't close the bottle anymore. Well, at first try. The next day I was able to close it, no problem.

This was the most it would go.

   My Bonfire mani was not very Bonfire-y but it did remind me of the fireworks that go off after the bonfire is lit.

Find the deformed hidden Mickey!

   So I'm renaming it My Bonfireworks Mani. Shut up, this is MY blog.

   It also reminds me of the view when you look down from the hill, where the Ateneo is.

Down from the hill, down to the world go I....

  I am in love with this mani.

 

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    This shot captures the awesomeness of Servin' Up Sparkle:

I'm sorry for my greasy fingers. Blame the rain. And the chicken. Long story.

   Do you see that sparkly sparkle? You can't miss it. (Unless you're blind)

(Bonfire photos courtesy of Grake Ablana)

Quickie Post - My First OPI

   (Ok, I know, everyone else just says quick post instead of quickie, but, admit it, it caught your attention. Ha! And it sounds cuter. Repeat after me: quickie, quickie, quickie)

   Anyway, so this is just a quickie post to tell you about my FIRST OPI EVER! Make that first two.

It's like giving birth to fraternal twins

    OPI Grape Set Match was on sale over at Digital Traincase. It went from 800php to 600php. Yeah, I know, right? Being a tennis fan it would be unforgivable if I didn't get my hands on at least one of Serena Williams' Glam Slam line, especially with that fantastic discount.

   Last night I passed by HBC and as always, I ignored everything else on their shelves and zeroed in on the nail polish.

   I finally kept my promise to buy pink polish. I bought these two:

L-R: Red Gleam, Tea Rose

   That's right. 37php. THIRTY-SEVEN freakin PESOS.

   I've never tried this brand before, but it looks promising. I just have a little issue with the name. Red Gleam looks pink to me, not red at all.

   I know it's minor, but it bothers me. First, the eggplant nails (see previous post. Btw, I asked my friends, guy friends included, what color I was wearing and the results were: Brown -2; Red-2; Eggplant-2. The name is Sexy Plum though, so maybe it is supposed to be eggplantish.), now Red Gleam that's not red. Looks like somebody slept through Art class in Kindergarten.

pictured: definitely not me. This girl looks too... awake.

   But anyway, yay for this week's haul!