… and they want this swimsuit back.
What in the world were they thinking? Lace yourself – the beach is waiting? Wha? I’m also imagining some horrible tan lines with that thing. The lace, the zig zagging. Fuglyness.
Some blog link love January 9, 2011
- Since I have been a little obsessed with the idea of nail polish lately I ran across this post from “Sassy’s Stamping Stampede”, what a mouthful. I had never heard of Konad nail stamps but now I kinda want some. Probably for more subtle patterns but hers are still neat looking. Seriously, I want houndstooth patterned nails.
Closets! A couple of people recently posted some good closet posts:
Jill at Good Life for Less posted “Casa Good Life: My Closet!”:
And Kendi Everyday posted “Create a working closet”:
Both blogs have excellent ways to store and display necklaces and other jewelry.
I’m a bit jealous since the house I’m in has negative closet space (older home) but I’ve been looking at wardrobes / armoires as an option to get more more clothes space and thus more organized.
Zoya Loredana, Lulu, & Shiloh
The three I finally chose as my Facebook promo code freebies were Loredana, Lulu and Shiloh.
I also went ahead and ordered their “renew” product that’s supposed to help revive nail polish that has gotten thicker. I figured it might help if something goes on streaky as well (I have a couple of older ones that are headed in that direction.)
Current Obsession – Nail Polish
Thanks Zoya for sparking me to become re-obsessed with nail polish – sheesh. 🙂
Part of my problem is I lean towards liking colors I don’t think are exactly … first-meeting-with-a-potential-client appropriate.
I knew I wasn’t going to be having meetings around the holidays though so I am actually wearing this color aqua at the moment. I’ll try and take a picture tomorrow before I remove it. One thing I didn’t like was that even being super careful and allowing for excessive dry time I ended up with some smudges. Nothing so bad I needed to redo it but not as good as the opaque white I wore the week before. Maybe I put it on too fast, I’m not sure. I plan on giving this aqua another go after my Thursday client meeting.
I don’t have a ton of in person meetings but a lot of my clients are fairly conservative and 40+ so they didn’t grow up with strange colors being appropriate on nails.
I remember wearing black nail polish back in 1993 and got crap for it from people I went to school with. I’d almost say that certain shades of black are more … socially acceptable now though?? Anyway – it’s leaning on the safe side that had kept me from using much nail polish in the last five-ten years (seriously.) That and the unnecessary chemicals that many of the polishes are starting to slowly remove due to demand. Plus typing used to mean that two days max and my nails looked like crap.
The teal has been going strong for about 4 days now and the opaque white (I don’t remember the name but it was also a sinful colors polish) died on day 7. Day 7 that one just started peeling off in blobs. I don’t think I’ve ever made it that long before without some tip chipping. I used the base coat, 2 coats, and then the base coat as the top coat simply because I didn’t seem to have a top coat polish here anymore.
Maybe that’s what I messed up on the aqua. I did base coat, 2 coats but no top coat (or base as top coat.)
In upcoming days I’ll be posting my research / wishlist for the sinful colors line and also sharing the massive number of spoons I’ve got from Zoya in the last couple of weeks.
Some Blog Link Love Dec 20, 2010
- OutsaPop Trashion turns regular boots into furry top boots (it’s a sock insert so you can switch back to regular boots!) The instructions use a glue gun for those ladies who like “no sew” fun.
- Love Meagan has a new Boutiques.com store. Check it out and then hit the home page to see other collections picked out by celebrities, designers and bloggers.
Free Zoya Nail Polish! (Hopefully)
20,000 Likes equals 3 Free Bottles of Zoya Nail Polish! MUST have 20,000 likes by 11:59 PM EST on January 3, 2011 (or before that date if 20,000 is reached). See their Facebook page for full details!
I was not paid to promote this but I do want free nail polish from them because it’s:
Vegan-friendly and completely free of formaldehyde, toluene, DBP, & camphor
The 3 colors I’ll get if they reach 20,000 likes:
And I may go ahead and buy one or two more (so hard to choose!):
http://www.facebook.com/ZoyaNailPolish