Beauty Obsessed

May continues to be a busy month, and I haven’t had much time to sit down in front of my computer much (at home at least…work is another story, but that’s not fun time)!  I just came back from seeing ‘La Cage aux Folles’ at the theatre here, it was FANTASTIC.  What an excellent cast!  We usually go to see 3 shows at the Neptune theatre per season, and we’ve been doing this so long now that most of the cast members feel like old friends   They really outdid themselves with this particular performance!

Anyway, I still have a little bit of pep left in me to show you something *sorta cool* I did a couple weekends ago.  I was dying to do a mani but none of my polishes were inspiring me.  I honestly looked through my stash for the better part of an hour before I decided on a look!  I decided to try out a gradient manicure (also known as ombre – though that can be considered another style altogether too!  Confusing!).  I am by no means a nail art expert or even much more than a novice, so please forgive my poor skills – though I think this is something I’d like to practice more often, as it’s not too hard that I can’t eventually get the hang of it!I used LA Girl’s polish in Hyper, a near-neon pink, and then sponged on first a coat of OPI’s Dutch’ya Love OPI? (medium grape), and then a bit of a-England’s Lady of the Lake (violet prismatic polish) on top.  I was hoping the shimmer would do a lil something extra, but it just kinda fell flat – lesson learned! At a glance, my handiwork doesn’t look too bad, but up close……you can see it’s not ideal – a little uneven, and the sparkly bits should have been avoided altogether.  But I LOVE the color combo, and even though it annoyed me to see the irregularities, I still admired my work often – though it chipped within a day, which has been happening a lot lately to my mani’s!  I think my nails are a bit damaged so I’m trying to keep them short and hydrated as much as possible for the next while so they can grow out healthy – I’m all for changing my polish, but more like every few days, not every day!

Anyway, this was a fun little thing to do to mix up the normal *same-old* mani, and actually fairly easy – I just snipped a makeup sponge in half and dipped it in the darker polish and sponged it on the tip after the base shade had TOTALLY dried (this tip is a must).  There are great tutorials on this process that I highly advise you checking out if you’re interested in trying it – I was too lazy to bother watching them all but I probably would have done a much better job if I had! *MEH*

Have you done any nail art lately?