Why, hello there.

I've never been very good at keeping a blog. I prefer the old-fashioned, tangible journal-y journals (I'm less terrible at keeping those, but still terrible nonetheless). Not that that's much of an excuse.

I promise that my life hasn't been of skydiving and hidden treasure discoveries. Often, it's just a monotonous school-work-sleep mode. Well, with atypical drama junk and moodiness, but I'm sure people would much less like to read about it than I would like to write about it.

Anyway.

A blog that I follow, Broke & Beautiful, is holding a contest, and I thought it might be a good way to maybe get back into the swing of things. Basically, the idea is to post self-done mani/pedicures to either show off the skills or hopefully develop some new ones.

So without further ado, I give you my first photos of a self-done manicure:

I'd rather be at the beach but I'm stuck at work...


...and then sick in bed.


The idea behind my color choice was sand and shells. Which I have neither of, sadly. I might need to add that I'm guilty of being a fan of those conventionally "ugly but hurts so good" colors.

Here's what I used:
- Zoya Anchor base coat
- Sephora by OPI - Under My Trenchcoat
- Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure (LOVE THIS STUFF SOMETHIN SERIOUS)
- Seche Vite top coat

I promise that the gorgeous flaky rainbowness of Hidden Treasure is much prettier than shown. Now, I'm no photographer by any means, so please don't hold that against me. My weapon of choice (due to convenience and financial woes) is simply the camera that's on my phone, which has a few ailments due to my brother's love for tinkering with electronics (ie. if it ain't broke, make it better... sometimes). Even with this all in mind, I didn't want to miss out on the action.

Apologies for the rambliness. It's been a while.

xx