AAAHHHHHH

I freaking love this nail polish.

My nails are so bright and colourful!

LOOK AT HOW CUTE MY NAILS ARE

Again, camera not great, picture them as like about ten times more blinding than they are in the pic.  

I spent too much money today :(

So today I went to the mall!  I was supposed to go with Sam, and head up to Value Village to look for a Halloween costume, but she was a butt and decided to feel sick today.  So the Halloween costume search is put off 'til next week, but I still needed new headphones (as you may remember) so I went to the mall solo tonight.  Insert Forever Alone face here.

Overall I'm relatively pleased with my purchases! I got the new Harvest Moon game -- well, relatively new, it came out last year -- and two pairs of headphones instead of just one, because I lack willpower.  Nail polish for the same reason.  But both the headphones and polishes are really cute so it's okay.

I haven't tried the earbuds yet.  I'm expecting them to be pretty mediocre-to-terrible, since they were only six bucks.  I'm sure they will crap out in a month or two and I'll have to buy another, better pair.  I did try the big over-the-ear headphones on the way home, and I think they were kind of shitty?  I can't really tell.  I mean, they don't sound as good as my old earbuds used to, but that might just be because my earbuds were noise-cancelling and these aren't, so I'm expecting them to be louder than I have a right to expect them to be, uh, loud.  Still, that's what I get for buying the cheapest pairs in the store.  I should have gone for the Skull Candy ones, like TK recommended when I called him for an opinion.

I might end up buying a better pair next paycheck and just keeping these as backup.  They are really cute, and they did a good job of keeping my ears warm.  Plus they fold together to be small enough to be (kinda) portable in my purse, and they have that nifty curled telephone-wire on them which just looks neat.  And they were cheap.  So overall, I'm happy with them.

Trust me, they're adorable.

I haven't played the Harvest Moon game yet.  I'm gonna start it tonight, and I will probably be completely sucked into it and disappear from the world for a week or two once I do.  I will have to do my best not to become completely obsessed.

No promises.

The nail polishes are omfg crazy cute.  I tried the pink and green colours on my left and right hands, respectively.  The pink went on frickin' neon!  I thought it would take a couple coats, but nope.  Straight out of the bottle, blinding pink.  Also it dried into sort of a matte finish, rather than a gloss.  I've never had polish that dries like that before!  I like it.  I always did prefer the feel of a matte finish to a smooth gloss finish.

For the record, my camera does not do justice to the crazy-bright colours of these polishes.  Or to my bright pink headphones, since we're on the subject.  All these colours are like ten times more intense than they look.

So that's what I got at the mall tonight.  It was an arduous journey, but the loot was worth it.  Now excuse me while I go play Harvest Moon for the next eight hours.

Why I can't ever be a nail blogger

I admit it, I am wildly jealous of people like Ash and Jen.  Their lovely long nails, their skill at applying nail polish and holding the camera steady so they can photograph their work, plus not to mention all those pretty colours!!  To have a nail polish blog must be a wonderful thing indeed.

I will now show you exactly why I can never have a blog like theirs.  Feel free to point and laugh.

It was really hard to take a photo of my nails.  I suck at holding cameras steady, let alone holding the camera steady and focused at my other hand which also must be held steady.  

Fifteenth time's a charm!  Finally got a not-blurry photo, now you can see how carefully and accurately I did my nails.  I don't even bother trying to do a tidy job of nail-painting, by the way.  I learned years ago that it's hopeless to even try.  I just tip my entire hand in a bucket of house paint and clean it up later.

Oh fuck it, I can't keep both hands steady at the same time.  I finally compromised and found something to put my hand on so I could take another picture (it's the edge of my sink, not the toilet bowl.  Though now that I've brought it up you probably won't believe me anyway).  I wish I could grow my nails longer than this, I'd love to have Ash's eye-gouging talons.  They'd probably be easier to paint, too.  Unfortunately I've been a nail-biter all my life.  If I let my nails get any longer than this they start driving me nuts and I start chewing on them.  It's a pretty hard habit to kick :(

Look at this, I can't even show the bottle without fucking it up.  Can you read the name on that?  I can't.  If I didn't have the bottle in front of me right now I couldn't tell you that this was a picture of Wet n Wild's Wild Shine polish.  The colour is Sunny Side Up but that's on the back, so I have an excuse for blocking that.

So this is why I can't have a nail blog.  I thought it would be funny to show the world how bad I am at painting my nails.  It kind of backfired, though, because this isn't funny at all, it's just boring.  Turns out there's not much point in writing about nail polish if you know nothing about nail polish and can't take decent photos of pretty nails.  At least the colour is cute?