they're all acrylicized and ready for me to paint.  i cut them that short myself.  the clicking of them on the keys of my laptop as i typed was kinda making me nuts, so i cut them short yesterday.

and finally went out to have the acylic filled this evening.  they're so fresh and new!  and naked!  i can't wait to paint them.

i stopped in at a beauty supply store across the road from where i get my nails done and they had the China Glaze Metro collection on display.  i chose the mini bottles rather than getting the big ones for fiscal reasons :)  that, and chances are i won't use up the little bottles let alone a regular size one.  and of course i went with the set with the glittery polishes.  the only one that isn't in some way glittery is Urban-Night.  it's a cream purple.  very pretty.  the other colours in the set are Skyscraper (blue jelly with silver glitter), CG in the City (burgundy-ish jelly with tiny silver/gold/burgundy glitter) and Midtown Magic (a brown-ish with fine gold glitter).

i also grabbed a bottle of Orly Glam from the clearance basket.  but, as i was sitting waiting for my nail appointment, i noticed that i was charged regular price for it.  so i'll have to go back tomorrow and have that remedied.  oh, the horrors... another stop at the beauty supply store!  ;)

*runs off to eat dinner and moisturize my cuticles*

so... i'm sitting here at a total loss for words.  what do i say to go along with this post?  i dunno.  it's a simple manicure.  with happy little black lacey flower nail stickers and a 3D pearl.  the pearl is my first bumpy addition to a manicure and it's taking a lot of willpower not to pick it off.  lol.

while taking off my last manicure last night i realized i need to go in for a fill very soon.  so i thought i'd keep the new look simple so as not to draw too much attention to the space between where my cuticles end and the acrylic starts.  that naked space.  i wonder if there is a name for it.  hrmmm.

anyway... on to the pictures.

wahoo!  i have long(ish) nails again.  i gave in and went to the salon and got some acrylics.  i just couldn't handle the stubbin nails any longer.  so i gots me my veddy veddy first acrylic nails.

for the most part i'm happy with them.  but gah, they're thick!  next time i go for acrylics i'll make a point of asking for thin!  also, they seem wider at the tips than the are at the base, is that normal for acrylics?  i feel like a such a newb.  oh... wait... i am.  heh.

it is late here, i'm really tired after a night of poker and chillin' with the boys, otherwise i'd be all over taking some pics right.naow.  but i'm not so tired that i couldn't come rushing here to talk about my new acrylics.  so tomorrow... or, technically, later on today, i will update with some photos.  and i'm definitely going to be removing the salon polish and doing my own.  i'm a bit of a clutz, i wrecked the perty salon job pretty much as soon as i walked out of the door.  :\

k.  to bed.  nighty night blogiverse.  i will be back in the daylight with pictures :)