The Many Nail Adventures of BzB

For the past few months, I've been totally into playing around with my nails.  My nail polish collection has grown extensively, and I'm pretty much obsessed with trying new shades and doing different designs on my nails.

I decided to post a collection of all of the things I've managed to photograph so far.  Note, the quality of alot of these photos are ridiculously bad.  I somehow broke my camera, and after procrastinating purchasing a new one, am still waiting for my new one to be shipped to me.  I can't wait!

Many of these photos may be repeats of things I've already posted, but I'm bored, and I wanted to put them all into one clever post.

Bumblebee nails!

I got this idea from BubzBeauty, its a bumblebee on my thumb with the flight pattern on the rest of my fingers.  It was totally effing adorable and perfect for the beginning of spring.  The other hand I had clouds on it, but my clouds turned out like crap, so I didn't bother taking a picture of it.  For the blue, I used Pure Ice in "Splash".  The yellow is Pure Ice in "Excuse Me" and the black is a nail art pen by (guess who) Sally Hansen.  Filled in the white with my white manicure pen, made by... Sally Hansen.  I am all about drugstore polish.  Drugstore anything, really.  I'm no product snob!

More Bumblebee-age, but the flight pattern isn't very visible.  Very sad.  Boooo.

 

My daisy nails!

This was one of my favorites.  I used Sally Hansen's "Shell We Dance" from the Complete Manicure line as the base color, and for the yellow center of the daisy I used Pure Ice's "Excuse Me".  The petals were done with my beloved Sally Hansen french manicure pen--I don't *think* it comes in any other shades, but if it does, I obviously used "pure white".  The green was also Sally Hansen Complete Manicure in "Grass Slipper", and I used a toothpick to make a small line.

I did these in Phoenix, I'm not sure on most of the shades.  I can tell you that the deep red was an OPI shade that belonged to Becca, and I used Sally Hansen's Complete manicure in "Grass Slipper" for the top of the strawberry, but also put this darker green glittery shade over top of it that Becca had.  White dots were achieved with my Sally Hansen French Manicure Pen.

Newspaper nails!

Me playing around with the webcam acting cute :)

This one taken with my cell phone.  Notice how the quality is shit?

For the newspaper nails, I used Sally Hansen complete manicure in "Lavender Cloud".  I wanted an off-white shade that could pass as newsprint but didn't want to go with something that was leaning toward gray and could use later on if I wanted just a simple manicure.

After putting on a couple coats of "Lavender Cloud" I took newspaper clippings and transferred the writing to my nails by putting the clipping on my fingernail and wet the back with a paper towel wad soaked in rubbing alcohol.  After sealing the top with a clear top coat, the newspaper nails were finished. =)

Neon Orange, taken at night with webcam, which explains the ridiculously grainy picture.  I'm wearing a purple nightie.  LOL.

NEON NAILS!!  I saw these colors at Walgreens and became absolutely obsessed with summer just around the corner.  The shades were from the Sinful Colors collection, and although I was tempted to go with the neon pink and green I saw, I decided to switch things up and picked up orange and yellow.  On my fingernails I obviously put the orange, the shade's called "Summer Peach".  The yellow was on my toes, but I don't usually take a picture of my toenail shades.  If your interested, its a highlighter yellow color and called "Neon Melon".  Just be sure to use a white base shade to make the colors really pop.

 

I saw the OPI Katy Perry collection while at my local grocery store and absolutely had to have all of the colors!  They came in a collection of four and for $15 I couldn't resist.  (They are pretty little bottles, but I've always found that they go a long way-- I still have my mini- OPI Mad As A Hatter).  This is my cell phone capturing "Teenage Dream".  The quality, as usual, sucks.  It took about three coats on top of white to get it opaque enough, but I absolutely adored the pale pink glitter shade.

Better shot of Teenage Dream nails

Being complimented with a big green cocktail ring

Last Friday Night - my new favorite from the collection!

Here I used my Sally Hansen "Lavender Cloud" and put two coats of the OPI Katy Perry series "Teenage Dream" on top.  The result is a really whimsical fairy-dust like shade that I can't stop staring at!  Its a really bright blue glittery color in the bottle, but with the super-pale lavender color on the bottom, I feel like a fairy princess.

I'll be testing out the rest of the OPI Katy Perry series once this starts to chip off.  The ones I have left are "Not Like the Movies" and "The One That Got Away".  Can't wait to try them!

Until then--

I have spent three hours trying to articulate in my mind, to myself, how I feel at this moment.

The tears have been falling and haven't stopped, except for the occasional dry spell.  Then these thought bubbles resurface and I find my face wet yet again and my heart feeling heavier than the moment before.

Tonight, we went to see his family and friends for a birthday party.  I had a great time chatting with friends and seeing Tony's family.  As we drove home I told him what a great time I had, and he told me the same.

I didn't realize until later just how wonderful that made me feel--how special I felt, how loved I felt.  You never really realize those types of things until you feel otherwise.

When we got home, almost immediately he said he was going to another friends house for an hour or so.  My heart sank, but why?  It's just an hour, after all.

But he had been drinking, not a lot, but enough to make me worry.  I expressed how I felt, and of course, he got offended.  No one likes being told their too drunk to drive, I've noticed.


But there was something else, the thing that made me spill over in tears, but in that moment, I just couldn't put the words together--even to myself in my mind--as to why I felt so... hurt.

It was because the night was so wonderful... it hurt me to think that even though it was, it wasn't enough to just be with me tonight.  I wasn't enough.  I felt foolish for even thinking for a second that he would just want to be with me that night, that there wouldn't be some other need to fill, that I would have filled it.  I felt like all I wanted was to be enough, and I just wasn't.  I kept thinking of our anniversary night, and how I had to beg him not to go to his friends house.  I felt so pathetic and desperate, begging my boyfriend to stay with just me on the night of our anniversary.

So I didn't beg--I just couldn't feel that pathetic again.

He came back again after an hour, and I was still crying.  He was good to me--told me he loved me, made us a late night snack, poured me lemonade.  He asked me if I was OK, and I lied and said I was.  I wasn't, and I'm still not.  I still feel lower than low.  I still feel not good enough.

Will I ever feel good enough?

I LOVE KATY PERRY.

Just saw the video for Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night".  It's so cute!  I absolutely adore Katy, I think she's done a great job of making her place in the music industry and establishing herself as more than a fly-by-night artist. 

This video is set up like an 80's movie, and there are several cameos throughout the whole thing!  Very epic, very awesome, and now, I present it to you.

Last Friday Night!