Space Dust?

Couple things. First, I'm not going to gripe about this new interface BS because it actually, for once in nearly a year, lets me upload pictures without difficulty. It still only lets me select one at a time to upload, but at least it gets the job done.
Two, to all you poor souls who check my blog ever, I really hope you have email updates or something :P
Thirdly and lastly, I figured out how to disable the annoying verifications on comments. Let me know if that works.

I made my second ever franken and simultaneously discovered that my bathroom has pretty good lighting! Check it out:

I layered it here over Essence Lime Up! and OPI Houston, We Have A Purple. I finally have access to Essence polishes in Canada! I don't like the brush though. Look at that gorgeous cuticle line from the OPI brush, and then the mess from the Essence brush. This started as Wet'n'Wild Stars and Stripes, which I actually bought two bottles of because I knew I wanted to franken with it. The only drawback is that these polishes cost $3 here, sadface! I noticed that with this Wet'n'Wild polish it can be difficult to fish out any stars, but when they came out, they came in bunches of 2-5. The glitters used in my franken are almost all holographic silver and purple, though one of the polishes (ChG Marry A Millionaire) had what looks like green micro bar glitter, and there is a fair bit of gold glitter that likes to hide. Regardless, there is so much holographic goodness going on that one would think the base was made of crushed rainbows.

What do you think?
<3Oreo

Giveaway!

Check out this amazing giveaway from Fingers if you haven't already. I'm drooling so bad my keyboard is floating.
http://www.fingerspolishmania.com/2012/04/my-birthdayblogversary-giveaway-blowout.html#more

I Spy the End of the Semester!

HELLO MY LOVELY FOLLOWERS and all you lurkers out there! My fourth year at university proved to be rather time consuming, but FEAR NOT. I've been polishing away all year! I've got about a metric ****-ton of pictures to post. I've been messing around with cropping and such, but I'm still not the best at actually taking pictures. Ah well. You'll live for now :)

Here are some fantastically nerdy nails I did for a friend. We're going to ladies night at our local comic book store today!

The cherries are giant rhinestones, which is why they're upside-down. We didn't want them near the tip of the nail, because we were scared they'd chip off way too fast. I did these last night and ladies night is tonight, so they definitely needed to last at least 30 hours without falling off!

What do you think? I'm not the best at nail art, but I think these turned out pretty darn good! I <3 my dotting tools :D They are truly the most versatile nail art equipment ever, with tape being a close second.
<3Oreo

Test Post

Opera is being a leettle beetch, so I'm testing to see if Chrome will finally play nice for me

Hey lovelies! I've had less time than originally planned, but I'm still going to be posting more than I was (no posts in two months was full of fail). I thought I'd make at least one post before driving 12 hours to NYC tomorrow! Super excited to find an Ulta!! I have to limit myself though LOL. My budget for the 3-4 day trip is about $60, not including hotel and food. Polish is so much cheaper in the States though! And there are so many brands we don't have here. You lucky ducks don't know how good you have it!

So this is my NOTW. Sally Hansen Purple Pizzaz with a layer of OPI Rainbow Connection. I was originally going to do a jelly sandwich (attempted on my ring ringer) but decided I didn't like it. I mattified it and left the rest as they were. LOVE Rainbow Connection over this purple!!

<3Oreo

Ode to Fingers (Also, I'm Still Alive!)

ALSO, HOLY CRAP NEW FOLLOWERS.

Hi you guys! You came at a bad time! Where the heck did you come from? XD

I'm not going to say I'm a horrible blogger, because it's my party and I can cry if i want t--uh, well, you know. Stuff.

My semester at school really picked up, and I had a hard time finding time/motivation to sit down and write blog posts. I even stopped taking pictures of manicures I've been doing for other people :o
BUT FEAR NOT! I have folders upon folders on my desktop just BURSTING with pictures. Some of them even have subfolders.

As I'm writing this, I only have one paper left to write for the semester. Thanks to a good (academic) partner and the most amazing prof ever, this last paper is practically writing itself. I feel really good about it! It's due Monday the 12th, and then I have a whole month of Holiday Cheer to blog my little heart out! The plan is to blast through as many of these posts as I can before January 9th when I go back to classes. That might mean multiple posts a day, some days with no posts, or strings of days with posts all crammed together. I'm super excited :D

For now, here are a few pictures to tide you over until I finish this paper!

This was OPI The "It" Color base, and Swimsuit... Nailed It! for stamping. The more I looked at my nails, the more I knew they needed a little something extra.

I pulled out my bottle of Swimsuit... Nailed It! again and added some Fingers-patented funky french tips! Usually I fail at tips, but the oddly flat OPI brush made it a lot easier. 

And just for lulz, here's a picture of my cat being adorable while sleeping. You'd never know she's a furry evil bitch. She recently lost three pounds and seems to be showing off her new ability to kick herself in the face with her back paw. Toe fluff!

So, lovelies, how have you been? New lovelies, do you enjoy the tl;dr or are you just here for the pics?

Much <3, Oreo

Autism Awareness

October is Autism Awareness Month! I was going to just paint my nails the color of the awareness ribbon, but the ribbon looks like this. It didn't look easy, but neither is autism, so I gave it a go :) I used Sally Hansen White On, China Glaze Lemon Fizz and For Audrey, Clairns 221 Golden Red, and ACO Electric Chic. My pinky looks ridiculously curved. I promise it doesn't look like that in person. I don't know what happened there. Also, this is about as close as I can get to my lens without it being blurry-- even on macro setting. I may have to ask for a nicer camera for Christmas o.o

<3Oreo