Yesterday after I got out of work I went and bought a bottle of fingernail polish to try out. The blouse that I have is about a thousands different shades of green, so I thought green would be a good color and so that is what I was looking for. The first bottle I found was a color that I absolutely loved, but it was “instant dry” and since I’m not very good with fingernail polish, I opted to look for something else after a quick mental debate. I hesitantly put the bottle back and in doing so noticed another bottle a little further down that was a great shade of green and also had glitter mixed in with it. I grabbed the bottle and gave it a quick scan, seeing that no where on the bottle were the words “instant dry” and so I proceeded to the checkout lane.
I got home, grabbed the fingernail polish remover from the bathroom and the bag of cotton balls I bought with the polish, plopped down on the couch, turned on New Girl on Netflix and got to work. As soon as I started the first stroke on my thumbnail I realized I had made a mistake. The polish I grabbed, Pure Ice: Looks Like Rain, was actually a clear coat with green glitter as well as a little bit of slightly larger, metallic glitter mixed in with it. I tried doing a couple of layers, but wasn’t really happy with the end result.
As I removed the polish, I remembered my wife got a gift bag at work a couple days prior and in the bag was a bottle of fingernail polish that is just kind of flesh colored. We both tried it on and found it rather boring. I mentioned that it reminded me of a fingernail polish version of foundation and she agreed. So now, here I was with access to these two bottles and I went to work experimenting, knowing my wife wouldn’t mind me doing so as she didn’t really plan on wearing the polish she had gotten anyways.
I applied a couple layers on each finger on my left hand and did various amounts of the glittery polish on top of that. I even tried different designs, covering my thumb and index finger in even coats across the entire nail, but with a layer less on my index finger than thumb, then on one finger I tried to do a sort of French manicure with the glittery polish at the tip of the nail only and on another I just did a single line down the center of the nail, leaving my pinky with only the skin tone polish.
They looked fairly decent, but there was a lot of polish (I went a little over board) and so they were just taking far too long to dry. I took it all off and tried again, this time only on my thumb. The end result looked pretty good, so over all, I call it a pretty good learning experience, with one of the main lessons being to put fingernail polish on one thin coat at a time, with thin being the key term.
Another thing I bought yesterday was an epilator. Ever since I started shaving my legs, I’ve spent a large amount of money on razors blades, about as much as I spent on the epilator, but the point is that it was getting too expensive to maintain having smooth, sexy legs. I wasn’t really able to try out the epilator yesterday, though, because I had just shaved the day before and my hair was just barely too short for the tweezers on the epilator to catch them. However, I was able to use it today after work. I’m not sure I will ever go back to shaving again… well… as far as my legs go.
If you are unfamiliar with what an epilator is, you can think of it as the unholy offspring of an electric shaver a pair of tweezers and looks to have been designed around the same time as the iron maiden. Basically, rather than having blades that run perpendicular with the head of the razor, the blades are at a ninety degree angle with it. The blades are also not really blades, more little spinning metal discs with tweezers attached to them. If you think that sounds painful, then you are correct because it feels like taking little spinning metal discs with tweezers attached to them to your legs. However, I will say that my tolerance to the pain went up rather quickly, which may be contributed to the long, warm shower I took before hand to soften up the hairs, or maybe its just that easy to get used too. By the time I finished my left shin, the pain was more of a dull burning and was far more tolerable. Still, though, certain areas were far more sensitive than others, such as the back and front of my knee, though the sides weren’t very bad at all. I also noticed the front of my thighs tolerate the epilator far more than the back of my thighs, so I was pretty happy I had two speeds to work with.
The whole process was pretty smooth and once I found a good technique that seemed to work for me it all went smoother and much quicker. I will say it took me nearly two hours and I was only able to do my entire left leg and my right leg from the foot up to just above my knee, but I am going to finish that leg later once its done recharging. However, I contribute this to the fact that I realistically probably should have waited until tomorrow and let the hairs get just a little bit longer. I noticed the patches where the hair was a little longer required fewer passes than the patches where the hair was a little shorter.
I will say this, though, by the time I was done my leg looked like someone with a red pen drew dots all over them. These dots are already significantly less prominent, though, and its only been about an hour and a half since I finished. When I was done I plugged the epilator in so it could charge and threw on some lotion. As I said, now the red spots have faded and I’m sure they will be completely gone by morning, but we will have to wait and see.
Stay Beautiful,
Erica S.