before i show you my skittles mani, i have to share what i did to the french manicure before removing it.  i found a bottle of Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Ice Queen the other day while at Rexall (a pharmacy here in Canada).  the pink and blue hex glitter called out to me and for $2ish i couldn't resist taking her home.

so i did a "swatch" (of sorts) over the french manicure.

and now onto my skittley fingers :)

the polishes i used are Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Grape Going!, Sally Hansen Hard As Nails in Fashionista Orange, Hot Yellow and Be Seen Blue.  last but not least is China Glaze Reggae to Riches.

left hand:

 right hand (now that i'm seeing the pictures i have realized i flooded the cuticle on my middle finger.  doh!!):

mmmiiiiiinnnneeee: 

i really like makeup and nailpolish.  that, we have established through this blog.

i also really like shoes.  i don't own an embarrassing amount of shoes, but i love them as much as i love makeup and nailpolish.

shoes, polish, makeup and jewelry never disappoint.  i'm not a skinny girl, i hate shopping for clothes because it never fails that i leave the stores feeling flabby and large.  but shoes, makeup, nailpolish and jewelry... those babies always fit.

so sometimes i'll throw in a post about shoes or jewelry :)

today it's shoes.  i found these cuties at Winner's weeks and weeks ago.  but i was cheap and wasn't going to pay their full price for them.  yesterday i discovered them on clearance for $24.  so they came home with me.

Harajuku Lovers.  style: Leah heel.

i used to, back in the day, wear them everyday to work and walk around in them 8+ hours at a time.

today i was sorely (haha no pun intended) reminded i am very out of practice wearing heels out in the real world.  i managed to walk through Home Depot without much problem while my love shopped for a new table saw.  i managed to get back to the car without much pain.

but when we stopped at Walmart, so i could pick up hairspray, my ankles started protesting.  protesting by turning inwards and messing with my already precarious balance.

by the time we paid and were leaving the store i stopped, right in front of Walmart, and begged my love to please unbuckle them so i could take them off.  by then my balance was fucked, if i had bent down to unbuckle them myself i surely would have ended up face down on the pavement.

so he did... much to his embarrassment.  and i did the rest of our errands blissfully barefoot.

the lesson i learned today?  i need more practice.  more time on sexy heels, less time in boring flats!  )

i'm not even sure why i'm posting it.  it looks pretty much like every other white tip manicure, well, except maybe a little less tidy than most of them ;)

Joe Fresh un-named white on the tips.  and a few coats of Orly's Fifty Four top coat over the whole nail.  :)

this polish was hard to capture on camera.  i have no direct sunlight coming into the apartment at the moment.  it is so sparkly in bright lights and the sun!

i took quite a few pictures of this manicure but only a few ended up usable.

the polishes i used are Nicole by OPI's Me + Blue from the Justin Bieber collection.  the purple is China Glaze C-C-Courage.  and i used one coat of Orly's Prisma Gloss Silver on the fingers with the purple polish to make it match the holo of the Me + Blue.

a blurry shot to capture the holo glitter:

natural light:

flash:

under the stove light.  pardon the background!  the lighting under the range hood caught the holo glitter nicely:

Deborah over at Love, Varnish, Chocolate and More is having a giveaway to celebrate her 100th follower.  go check out her blog for some pretty nails :D

oh, yeah, and silver.  and new falsies.

i used China Glaze Reggae to Riches, Joe Fresh white, Sally Hansen Black Out and Kiss Nail Art in silver glitter.

and you can totally see that i am still pretty new to nail art by my wonky dots.  lol.  i am surprised that the silver lines turned out really rather straight and neat on my right hand, usually the designs on the right are just... blah... being right handed and all.

i'm not sure how long i'll keep this one.

i am really nervous about using polish remover on the acrylics though.  will it ruin them if i use it often?  i'll have to google that. 

 one with the flash:

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 :)