Current Affairs v.02

Book: Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Nails: Skinfood BR610 Rich Mocha

Show: How I Met Your Mother Season 8 (finally caught up!)

  

Quick post today!  I started Catch-22 last weekend, but haven't gotten very far.  Hopefully, I'll be able to finish it over the weekend.  On my nails I'm wearing Rich Mocha, which is like a metallic brown/bronze.  Isn't it pretty?  It kind of matches the book... :P

Until tomorrow!

Liz 

Skinfood Bronze Party

Hi guys!  Today I have for you #4 Bronze Party from Skinfood's Party Tox line.  Bronze Party has an orangey-bronze jelly base filled with various sized silver and holographic glitter - basically a bronze version of Ruby Party.  It's kind of like a sparkly fake bake on my nails...lol.  I found the formula easy to work with, and you're looking at 2 or 3 coats here.  I forgot which. -.-  In the sun, it's super sparkly!  Unfortunately, the sun ran away when I took these pics.

What do you think of Bronze Party?  And just curious, do you think this would work on those with pink undertones?  I thought it might not be flattering, but I wasn't sure since I obviously have warm undertones.


Liz

Happy Friday! :)

Urban Outfitters Smush (mint) + Skin Food PK 217 Hot Fruit (coral) + China Glaze Luxe and Lush (flakie)

Liz

Come on, Barbie / Let's Go Party

Doesn't this color remind you of Barbie?  It's as if Barbie's holding a disco party on my nails!

If you're a girly girl who loves pink, you'll love Skinfood Party Tox Nail in #2 Ruby Party.  Ruby Party is actually a hot pink jelly with very fine and fine holographic glitter.  There are also small pink holographic glitters scattered throughout.  The whole thing is very sparkly and very pink.  I've never been a pink girl, but I can't deny my love for glitter. :P  I'm wearing 2 coats.

A blurry pic to show off all the sparkles.  It's really a lot more sparkly than this.

And finally... I can tell you about a book I finished almost a week ago!  (I wanted to share right away, but was waiting to do it in a more personal post.)

 

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.  Have you read it?  If you haven't...go. read it. now.  No, I'm serious! :P  I found out about this book through another blogger's post.  I forgot who it was but thank you for sharing!  I wanted to read it right away, so I looked it up at my local library. 7 holds on it already.  I grumbled a lot and put in my hold request as the 8th person in line when my dad surprised me by gifting me the Kindle version.  After that, I did nothing but read.

I don't want to give anything away, so I'm just going to say that it was good enough to leave me breathless at the last word.  You know, that feeling where you just slowly put the book down and sit there trying to soak it all in.  It had me laughing, crying, thinking...  It was goood. Anyone else read it?

♥ Liz

Paper Crane Nail Art

I've always loved paper cranes.  Folding them out of squares of pretty paper is childhood memory, and I love how whimsical they look.  Naturally, I had to attempt a paper crane mani.  How could I not?  Don't worry, I didn't try to draw a 1,000 of them. ;)

First I started out with gradient using Julep Sasha and Milani Beach Front.  I also brushed on Skinfood Pedicure Sparkle in 01 Sparkle Gold between Sasha and Beach Front.  I think this provided a nice transition, since I painted the gradient on rather than using a sponge.  I finished off the gradient by dabbing on some Milani Jewel Fx Gold.

On my thumb, I outlined a simplified image of a paper crane in white.  Then I went over the outlines in black and colored the crane white.

What do you think?  Let me know in the comments! :)


Liz

Skinfood (스킨푸드) Haul from Korea!

My mom's finally back!  I'm so glad to quit the mom job. lol.  Being mom is tough. T_T  She also brought back a bunch of nail goodies for me.  I was surprised at how many she brought me because my mom is not an enabler.  Lol.  She is always telling me I have too many polishes and that they are all the same. :P  I also got make up, so I might review those later on once I use them.

For now, here are the polishes I received.  Under each picture I wrote the nail line, polish name and number, and its price in Korean won.  The same thing is written in Korean underneath, in case you were wondering.

 Fruit Drink Nail in #9 Rose Cocktail (3,000 won)

과일주 네일 9호 로즈주

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 Party Tox Nail in #4 Bronze Party and #2 Ruby Party (3,000 won)

파티 톡스 네일 4호 브론즈 파티, 2호 루비 파티

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 Milk Shine Nail in VI01 Lilac Shine (3,000 won)

Milk Creamy Nail in BL002 Melon Milk and BL004 Ocean Milk (2,500 won)

밀크 샤인 네일 VI01 라일락샤인

밀크 크리미 네일 BL002 멜론밀크, BL004 오션 밀크

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 Pedicure Sparkle in 09 Sparkle Red, 01 Sparkle Gold, 05 Sparkle Indigo (3,000 won)

패디큐어 스파클 09호 스파클 레드, 01호 스파클 골드, 05호 스파클 인디고

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Skinfood Nail Vita /스킨푸드 네일 비타 (1,500 won)

Top row:  RE102 Pinky Red, VI407 Puppy Purple, VI408 Purple Stone, PK217 Hot Fruit, 

PK215 Warm Pink, BR610 Rich Mocha

Bottom row:  GR901 Gray Rum, BW701 Pearl Black, VI403 Gray Bean, BR614 Double Choco Cream, RE107 Red Stone

위:  RE102 핑키레드, VI407 퍼피퍼플, VI408 퍼플스톤, PK217 핫프루트, PK215 웜핑크, 

BR610 리치모카

아래:  GR901 그레이럼, BW701 펄블랙, VI403 그레이빈, BR614 더블초코크림, RE107 레드스톤

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Whew!  That was a lot.  For the English names, I translated them from the Korean ones written on the bottles.  Some of them were a bit iffy, since the Korean names are actually English words written in Korean.  So for Gray Bean, at first I was like Gray Bin?  Lol.  Hopefully the names are all correct.  Please let me know if any of them are incorrect!

So...which ones should I swatch first? :)


Liz

Pink Wednesday! Skin Food Grape Milk and a Newspaper mani :)

This is my first On Wednesdays We Wear Pink post!  If you're a nail blogger and would like to join, just click the Pink Wednesday badge I have on the side to go register -->

Here it is: Skin Food Milk Creamy Nail in Grape Milk.  2 coats.  Smooth, creamy, and shiny deliciousness.

So okay, it's not exactly pink.  It's more of a pink-toned lilac...but still somewhat pink.  Right?  I got this one when I was in Korea.  The formula was a bit thick when I got it, which was weird because the turquoise one I got with it, Ocean milk, has an amazing formula.  I added about 4 drops of nail polish thinner and now I just adore it.

Here's a story about nail polish thinner.  Buy it!  Especially if you have a lot of polish, you're going to need it eventually as your older polishes evaporate and thicken up.  Never add nail polish remover to thin your polish.  It's bad in the long run because it'll ruin your polish!  The one I use is Beauty Secrets Nail Polish Thinner, which I bought from Sally Beauty Supply.  It costs $3.99.  $3.49 if you have a Beauty Club card.  I also suggest you use a dropper to add the thinner to your polish, since the thinner will leak onto its cap sometimes.  It doesn't cost much and will last a long time.  I've used mine quite a bit and it still looks full.

Anyway, that's my spiel on nail polish thinner.  Back to Grape Milk!

I believe I bought this for around $2, so what's not to love?  The bottle is also a cute baby bottle.  I kind of regret not having bought more.  Sigh...why wasn't I as into nail polish back then?  Which reminds me, I have a pretty Nfu Oh flakie polish coming up soon.  Expect great things. :)

After a day with this polish, I wanted to do something new with my nails but not remove the pretty color, so here's what I did.

Newspaper Mani!

Pretty cool.  This was inspired by one of the nail bloggers I follow, only I follow so many I forgot who it was.  If you know it's you (I commented on your post) or know who it is, let me know so I can give credit.  Since I couldn't link her, I did look for a site with instructions. You can look at it here or read on :)

Here's what you do.  First cut out 10 squares of newspaper.  Take your time and be creative!  Look for cute designs, large print, cartoon strips, etc to decorate your nails with.

I used mainly text, but also used an ad with cute stars, and sudoku and word cross puzzle answers (they're smaller) to make my nails more interesting.  Next, add some rubbing alcohol to a cotton pad.  Place the newspaper down onto your nails with the print against your nail and press the alcohol soaked cotton firmly on the newspaper.  Make sure you take your time and press hard so that the print comes off onto the nail.  Also make sure you don't accidentally move the newspaper, or else you might smudge the print.  Don't forget to pay attention to which part of the print is going on your nail, especially if your using something other than text.  Peel the newspaper off and you'll get this:

Yay.  Although I didn't get as many stars on my index as I wanted.  Only 1/2 a star. :P

 After you're done, seal the print in with your favorite top coat.  I used Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat.

After your top coat is thoroughly dry, use some one of your alcohol soaked cottons to clean the print off your skin (if you got any on you like I did.) 

Ta da!

Word cross puzzle answer key on my middle nail :P

Sudoku answer key on my thumb ^ ^

I think this is a cute, easy way to decorate your nails.  What do you think?  Also let me know if you do this mani by posting your link in the comment section!  I want to see them :)


Liz