I'm Switzerland!!!!

Quick post before I get ready for the day - I have the rest of the week off work because I have a visitor in town!!

When I was in high school, an exchange student from Switzerland lived at my house for a year.  She's in town for a little while so here's what I did this morning in her honor:

Today's plan is to rent some Nice Ride bikes and scope out the food trucks in downtown St. Paul.  I hear there's one devoted to bacon, so this should be good!!  Thankfully, there is a Twitter feed dedicated to just food trucks: @tcstreetfood.

On Saturday one of my best friends is getting married - so stay tuned for more, since I'll most likely change my mani for that.  :)

Have a great week everyone!  Enjoy the sunshine!!!

Rrrrrrrrruffles!!!!

Chalkboard Nails did a great tutorial for ruffle nails - so that's how I spent my night last night.  9 different nail polishes, 3 episodes of Scrubs, Sally Hansen Quick Dry Top Coat, and a few spritzes of OPI Rapid Dry Spray later......

My apologies for the less-than-stellar image quality....I took this with my cell phone this morning.  Wanted to get a halfway decent photo of this before it chipped.  I had originally planned on applying each row of dots in a random color order, but the boyfriend decided it would be best to put them in the proper order.  :)

Anyways - OPI Rapid Dry Spray is my new favorite product.  It's been sitting around with the rest of my nail polish and up until this point I've only really used it on my toes.  This stuff works wonders!  My nails were dry to the touch (no nicks!) in 15 minutes.

Have a good weekend everyone!!

Pretty blue boxes!

I walked in to Ulta one day with the intent to find some Tiffany blue polish.  The closest I could find was more green than it should be - so I turned to Amazon once again and ordered China Glaze's For Audrey.  It's perfect!!  I just love those pretty blue boxes.  :)

(My apologies - I'm still working on getting the lighting right in these pictures....)

Accent nail is Nicole by OPI's Rainbow In The S-Kylie.

Copycat (kind of)

I have a confession to make.  I couldn't help myself.  Nailside has inspired me once again...this time I'm looking a bit more like a copycat. Amazon is quite an amazing thing when it comes to purchasing nail polish that you can't really find in stores - hence my recent purchase of OPI's Mrs. O'Leary's BBQ and China Glaze's Jitterbug.

Mrs. O'Leary's BBQ was not what I was expecting - it looks almost pink/purple tinted in the bottle.  Once you get two coats on your nails though, it's pretty close to being the color of BBQ sauce.  Very, very nice dark color.

Add a little bit of Scotch tape and one coat of Jitterbug, and we get this!

Angles

This week's inspiration comes from Nailside.  I've really been wanting to use China Glaze's Smoke & Ashes (from The Hunger Games collection) but it's much much too dark for my taste, especially with my fair skin.  It is a gorgeous color: a very dark black/blue base with some green/blue glitter.  You have to get rather close to see the glitter.

The base coat is Essie's Turquoise & Caicos - I love the color, but I had to put on three coats for it to come close to opaque.  I left it at the base coat for about 6 hours to make sure it had dried completely, then taped off a diagonal portion on each nail with scotch tape, then painted the tips with Smoke & Ashes.

I also picked up some Lemony Flutter Cuticle Butter at Lush last weekend - makes a huge difference and is really cutting down on hangnails (no pun intended)!

Easy-peasy

I opted for something relatively simple for this past weekend.   The boyfriend and I went on a road trip up to Duluth for his college graduation.  :)

Stopped at Target on my way home from work on Friday and couldn't resist picking up some more nail polish!!  A friend of mine recently reminded me that Sinful Colors polish is only $2 per bottle - and they have some really fun colors!!!  The color on my index finger is called Happy Ending (strange name for a nail polish I thought, lol) and all the rest are Aquamarine.

A touch of organization

Found my inspiration for the day today on The Beauty Department.  I always end up with bobby pins and hair binders all over my bathroom counter - the madness had to stop!!!

Fortunately, I had some plastic shot glasses left over from my 21st birthday.  :]

Love it!!!