Nail Bit(e)

So I thought, since I do nails, why not do a little "bit" about nails. As a manicurist, I get to see and work with many different types of nails during all seasons of the year, and since it's winter, let's talk about what is happening with our nails...they're DRY! And yes, when i say dry, I not only am talking about our skin, but it's our nails as well! So there's a lot of chipping, splitting, and breaking of the nails going on. It's sad. And as most of you know, I bite my nails as well (yes, I should know better as a manicurist but really, as long as YOUR nails look good after you see me, that's all that matters right?) and this is the worst time for nail biters because our cuticles get so dry that things hang everywhere and we pick and bite every second of the day. My advice? Keep lotion around you at all times. All the Purell and sanitizers everywhere makes our skin even worse. Try to lotion as much as you can until the warmer weather comes (which I am hopeful it'll come early this year). And ladies, I do recommend clear nail polish if you do not have any nail polish on at all, it helps from breakage a bit.

AIDS Action's Dance Party

Friday night after work, I went to the "AIDS Action Dance Party" with a bunch of my friends. Are you ready for the theme? This is an actual quote fromt he website "Wear your best '70s, '80s and/or Disco Beach Party outfit!" I'm sorry, what? Yeah, I wasn't the only one confused. Oh and: "NOTE: There will not be a lifeguard on duty; wear Speedos at your own risk ;)" What an outfit dilemma. haha I originally heard it was a beach party and thought "Leave it to the gays to have a 'beach party' in the middle of winter".

Then I found out it was 70s, 80s, disco. Hi, I'm overwhelmed. The party was at the Mariott at Copley, pretty nice venue. I was hoping there were gonna UV lights everywhere so we can tan while dancing... didn't happen. When we walked in, there was a disco ball in the middle of the dance floor with 70s music playing with beach balls being thrown around. Just take a minute to picture that. Yeah, awkward.com. The good thing about this was that I went there with fun people. We drank, we danced, we left with lots of beads :) After dancing to a lot of dated songs, we decided to hit a club that played music that was actually danceable/young. That was a nice end to the night.

Oh, and for those of you curious about what I wore?

These shorts...in red.

Ugly Betty Cancelled

So I'm not, nor was ever an Ugly Betty fan... odd, I know, but it is kinda sad that the show is getting cancelled :( I believe it's gonna run eight new episodes, including the series finale and then...bye bye. I'm just glad it's not one of the five million shows I'm hooked on. My condolences for all of the obsessive fans of the Ug-Bet.

As some of you may have already noticed, I haven't been updating my blog daily. yup, I came to the conclusion that my schedule doesn't really allow me to update daily, I just do (and want to do) way too much. So I'm going to predict that this blog will become very sporadic. Let's hope it's enough for people to follow me :) It's Sunday night, nothing better than chillin' in my PJs with a glass of merlot, blogging. Enjoy!

Armani Exchange has a new campaign...The point?

So I admit, I used to be a giant Armani Exchange person. There was a time where I thought shirts that stuck to my body was hot. I believe we are all grateful that phase has passed.

I recently fell upon the new Armani Exchange campaign and thought to myself... "what is the point?" Ok ok, we all know that "sex sells", but really, what is happening here? Don't get me wrong, I love half naked people, but what are our friends at Armani Exchange headquarters thinking? "Let's advertise as little products as we can." Do pictures like these make you want to buy? I'm curious about their marketing strategies.





Example number one: This guy is basically naked. What is he selling? A tan? Not sure about you, but I'm pretty sure he's saying he wants to have sex with me.




I'm a little confused as to how/what I am supposed to feel when I look at these pictures. A part of me wants to take off the rest of their clothes, I mean, it looks like they're in some tropical island, it's hot, the other part of me is asking, "are we supposed to buy the clothes so we can 'look' like them"? Honestly, I don't think people that beautiful actually exist in real life.





All of a sudden, I want to go tanning.

Hello Hello!

Hello there! Introductions are the hardest/worst. I'm diving head first into this blog with a random subject - yes, taboo - but it is happening. here. right. now.

Enjoy!