I know this sounds ridiculous, but...

I know this sounds ridiculous, but I can't stop thinking about doing my nails.  When this semester ends and I finally get to have a life for 3 weeks before school starts back... IT'S ON.

I finally have period poops!

I finally have period poops!

I've been looking for this for a while now. Super THANK YOU to my special nail polish friend with the insane memory for tagging me when someone decided to destash it. (I didn't tag you because I wasn't sure if that was cool in a post such as this, but you totally made my day. ❤️)

Just look at it, y'all. So pretty. So unashamed. I love it! 😂😂😂

I've been trying for almost 2 weeks...

I've been trying for almost 2 weeks to get good pictures / videos of my proposal polishes.  I have been failing, but I did finally get a wheel to swatch them on and since Shaun has a better camera and bigger hands for wheel-spinning I tasked him with making the video.  This is how the polishes look in outdoor lighting.  I'm going to try to get one more of them this week in indoor lighting because they are beautiful both ways.

Shaun worked with Lindsey, the magic-maker behind Tonic Nail Polish to come up with this.  His goal was to make a custom color for me that was a brown / olive green shifter.  "Marry Me Blu" was THE ONE, but the other prototypes turned out so beautiful that he asked to name them and buy them as a collection so that is what this is.

So without further delay - here is the Delta X Collection, given to me on 3.14.  The names of the polishes are math puns since I really dig math (despite my struggles this semester).

1:  Marry Me Blu 

2:  Trapezoidal Pool (Trapezoidal Rule)

3:  Convergent Seabreeze (Convergent Series)

4:  Functional Ambivalence (Functional Equivalence)

5:  Divinely Integral (Definite Integral)

6:  No Name (free prototype)

7:  Partial to Derivatives (Partial Derivative)

8:  Tangent Pine (Tangent Line)

9:  Differential Elation (Differential Equation)

Shaun had a custom polish made for me....

Shaun had a custom polish made for me. A whole collection, actually, but this is my favorite. 😃❤️

Peep that polish name...

Edited to add:

Y'all... OF COURSE I said yes.  We've been together for almost 9 years because we like each other a little bit.  😛

Wedding stuff isn't really my jam.  I don't have time to think about it right now, anyway.  I've gotta finish school for financial aid reasons first so it'll be a couple of years yet.  We do everything in our own time and in our own way, so no rush.  🙂

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Apparently, this has been in the works since January. There is a whole collection of polishes because he had a hard time choosing just one and he knew I'd want them all. 😂 Two of my very favorite colors are brown and olive green, so "Marry Me Blu" shifts between those two colors. It's PERFECT.

Today was a regular day. I had just gotten out of class and he had just gotten off work. We were getting ready to go to be adults and buy groceries and I was sitting in my desk chair getting my list together. He came in, was squatted down checking on Bruce, then turned around and said something like "How'd this get in the floor?" and handed a polish to me. I knew I had not lost a polish so I looked at the name. I know my eyes got huge and I was like "Are you really asking me?" and he was like "Yeah" so I was like "Fucking yeah, then!" 😂 We are so romantic. Then he gave me the rest of the collection.

This was super great. He's amazing and creative and supportive and thoughtful and I love him. We're nerds. He named the rest of the polish collection with math names because I like that. Here's to 9 years in, plus many more! ❤

My bottle of Cyber Punk is here...

My bottle of Cyber Punk is here and she's gorgeous. 😍😍😍

I've been waiting since January for her arrival. WORTH IT. 

If you can't tell what color she is, that's ok. She's every color. More than a holographic, more than a multichrome. I love her so much that I want to tape the bottle to my chest and wear her that way. 😂😂😂

I know that I've been so involved with school, but I've kept an eye on my second love, nail polish. Polish is easier than animals because once they get here they don't require upkeep. 😂

Here is a blog post so you can see swatches since I'm not quite ready to use mine yet:  http://www.lacqueredmama.com/.../vapid-lacquer-cyber-punk...

Ok, so it's a day later than I thought I was posting it but here it is:

Ok, so it's a day later than I thought I was posting it but here it is:  The paint job that I'm super happy with. 🙂 I guess that was my last big "Hurrah!" before school starts.

I took some time to throw down a watermark because a lot of my nail friends in groups and on Instagram keep telling me to. I would say that I'm not worried about people finding my photos and using them, but it's happened before. (I found my nails on eBay when I was shopping for nail stuff one day). LOL I was not upset, but I guess this way at least I could possible get some more traffic to my social media.

So I used another magnetic polish for this mani... actually, the same one from last time. I know it looks really different, but it's just layered over itself rather than black so that makes a difference. I did the flowers with a stamping plate from Bundle Monster and the (supposed to be) diagonal-ish lines with some cheap nail art tape I had.

Btw, these are not supposed to be French tips - I just wanted some color aside from the flowers. I used the magnetic polish again to add depth. I'm really digging that stuff! Also, I know these look spring and it's winter (so I SUPPOSEDLY should be doing snowflakes or whatever), but you guys should know by now that I do what I want. LOL

Anyway, that's it. Possibly for a while, but maybe not. I guess it depends on how this semester goes.

Tourmaline of Passion by Masura;
Bundle Monster plate BM-S183;
Reverse Stamping and Taping techniques

Finally did my nails again.

Finally did my nails again.  I'm not big on holidays, but happy whatever you celebrate!  🙂

I know that I've got a little bit of everything going on right now, but it's got a holiday-esque theme, so it's cool.  LOL  It took me longer to plan this mani than to actually put it on myself... that seems to be my holdup lately.  😕  Thankfully, I've had some extra time since school is out, so I could think on it all I wanted to.  😛

I've done a few Christmas paint jobs in the past.  I would say that I'd re-share them, but I don't know.  I don't really feel like it.  I had a friend tell me that I should start water-marking my photos and I think she's right, but that just feels like more work.  I have to think about it.  LOL  If I do re-share anything, it'll be on Instagram, though.  You should follow me there just in case.  😛  www.instagram.com/polish_ALL_thethings

May or may not update this with polishes and plates used.  Depends on if anyone cares.  My biggest regret is that you can't see the beauty of the green on my pointer finger.  It's such a deep and amazing color.

Updated to add what I used:

For this mani, I used so many different things.  Here is a list:

Pinky:

Base - Peregrination by @differentdimensionus 

Stamping - It Mossed be Love by @hit_the_bottle from @beautometry 

Red Dots - Reindeer Games dots by @vapidlacquer

Ring Finger:

Base - Hot Black to Go by @rimmellondonus 

Stamping - Sparkling Diamonds by @colorsbyllarowe

Middle Finger:

Base - DS Radiance by @opi_products 

Stamping Decal - Gold Medal by @sinfulcolorsprofessional and Reindeer Games by @vapidlacquer

Pointer Finger:

Base - Pre-Lit Opal Tree by @enchantedpolish .  It's so beautiful, but I'm a sucker for greens. 😃

Stamping - Bronze by @mundodeunas

Thumb:

Base - Joy to the Waves by @chinaglazeofficial 

Snow - White on the Spot by @milanicosmetics , Break the Ice by @wetnwildbeauty , and The Outer Edge by @chinaglazeofficial .

Stamping - Black by @mundodeunas

Plates used were BPX-L008 by @bornprettynailart , @bornprettystore , @bornprettystorenailart , @bornprettynail , @bornprettystamping .  I also used a plate labeled "HD05" that I bought from ebay a while back.

When you get an email...

When you get an email saying that you sold something on Etsy and you are surprised, because you've been too busy to think about Etsy and totally forgot you had a shop.  LOL

I got up 3 different times...

I got up 3 different times this morning to go Black Friday shopping - ON THE INTERNET!  FOR NAIL POLISH!  LOL  I probably spent more than I should have, but some of them were gifts and honestly I work so dang hard that I just wanted to treat myself.  I scored some stuff that I'm super excited about.  I can't wait until it gets here!

Finally, a nail pic! 😃

Finally, a nail pic! 😃

I don't normally take nail pics in full sunshine, but these polishes were far too pretty for anything less. I'm time-crunchy right now, so I will edit this later and add what I used, but for now, just know that I was going for a forest-y, mysterious, magical, woodsy kind of feel. Nothing in particular, although the words on my thumb might be from a book (says Shaun. I don't know.)

Research polish;
Research plate;
Stamping, Layered Stamping, and Stamping Decal techniques