Friday, June 22, 2012

Stripes & Dots

Hooray!  I'm done my provincial exam!  I think it went pretty well.  Now I only have a couple of outstanding bits of assignments left to do, and then I'm done Socials forever! (It's my least favourite subject, if you can't tell.) 

Anywho, here's the nails!  On my (first ever) trip to Ulta (heaven!) last weekend, I picked up 2 new polishes for myself, Essie Mojito Madness and Zoya Dove.  So on Wednesday morning I painted my nails with Dove, an absolutely beautiful grey!  Is it normal to call grey beautiful?  I'm a real sucker for grey polishes.  I want them all!  Anyways, I knew the plain mani could only last so long, so after about three hours of studying  that night (and feeling very brainwashed) I took a quick break to add stripes in Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Black Out.  Stripes are my absolute favourite thing to have on my nails, but I don't do them near enough.  Since I don't have any striping tape and have to literally cut up strips of tape, I got lazy and just did polka-dots on my right hand.  I actually quite like the two hands similar-but-different!  Picture of both hands at the end of the post.  















I know I said I'd never take a picture like that again because it looked like a spider, but I couldn't figure out  another pose for both hands that wasn't super awkward. 

Also, I have some good news and some terrible news.  Terrible news first: the ballet school that I'm going to for a month in the summer doesn't allow us to wear nail polish in class.  I think I died a little when I found out.  Of course I'll still paint them super-sheer neutral colours, but probably nothing worth posting.  I'm figuring out some different posts for those four weeks.  If you would like to do a guest post for me to be posted between July 22 and August 18, please let me know ASAP, I'll be extremely grateful!  You can e-mail me at ecm.dancer@gmail.com if you're interested.  

Good news: I'll be having a small giveaway once I reach 100 followers, so keep an eye out! :)

18 comments:

  1. Oh This is beautiful :)
    I have the same shirt in sripes:)

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    1. Thank you :) The day after I did this, I wore a matching outfit without even realizing until half-way through the day!

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  2. WOW i love the striped design. your nails are so flawless!

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  3. Both are fabulous!! I really love the stripes! :)

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    1. Thank you! The stripes are my favourite :)

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  4. GORGEOUS! i love the two hands together, stripes and dots they look so good together!

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  5. Woah, I wish I could get stripes and dots as perfectly placed as those!

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  6. Lovely mani. I love both hands. A month will fly by so fast, especially when you are doing something you are so passionate about.

    I am happy to have found your blog. I look forward to looking through your blog some more. I also look forward to more great posts to come. Good luck in ballet school. : )

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    1. Thank you so much for your lovely comments :)

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  7. I really like the stripes and dots ....they look so nice together. The lines are so crisp ....

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    1. I really like them together, too! Thank you :)

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  8. Can I ask what might be a silly question to such a pro polisher..... when taping off and doing stripes etc, do you wait for the polish to dry before removing the tape - or can you tape, then polish over and remove straight away?

    I am just starting out, but completely obsessed. Did a nautical theme mani the other night and I removed the tape at the 'tacky' stage and it made a real mess!

    All your pics look amazing by the way :-)

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