March 2012
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My First Franken: Planktonic
My franken supplies box came in the mail yesterday! The first thing that I did was throw a bunch of my different craft glitters into some of the empty polish bottles with some bulk clear top coat to test them for colour-fastness. Many were terrible. Some were surprise successes. After some mixing, here is my very first franken: Planktonic.
Planktonic is a dupe of my quickly diminishing bottle...
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Oh yeah? I'll show you a cougar!
So I was recently accused of being a cougar, no, actually, “Coug”, for thinking Jon Snow was hot. I am only 30. I object sir.
These are the nails of a cougar… wait, those are my nails. Damn.
Moving right along, I would like to direct your attention to the price tag of this OPI lookalike polish bottle. That’s right. $1.50! SHE nail polish is a recent dollar store find, and...
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So today at work I had an isolate of Alcaligenes faecalis, and I was sooo excited to get my student to smell it, because it smells like super fruity apples…
Unfortunately my student was horrified that her instructor practically shoved a plate of bacteria in her face while saying “Just sniff it! It’s Amazing!” over and over. Sigh. Why do they all react like this.
Grape Hyacinth inspired Mani
This manicure was inspired by my favourite flower, the Grape Hyacinth. If you have these in your neighbourhood but you haven’t gotten way down to smell them yet you should do that right away. They are a good-smell explosion, like grapes and sweet tarts and green fresh air and heaven.
I dotted a bunch of different blue polishes over a shimmery periwinkle blue shade from Icing’s Baby...
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Neon Skittles Monarch Butterfly Mani! and um... oh...
Gah! Awkward first blog post jitters are taking hold, so instead of me rambling about my hopes and dreams for self expression and making friends, here is a photo:
I followed the video tutorial for Monarch Nails from Cutepolish. I wanted to try using my new Neon polish so I started off with a white base coat and the following colours: Icing Suntan Lotion (neon yellow), Essence Wake Up! (neon...
