Nailin’ It – 3D Pink Hearts

Well it’s been a busy week for me and thusly I have neglected my poor blog yet again. It’s a shame because I now have an actual computer desk and feel more compelled to blog now that I officially have somewhere or my laptop to sit, but time-wise I just haven’t had much luck!

Anyway, I got my nails done almost two weeks ago with this design and they’re still going strong! I got these stickers in Tokyo and thought they’d never last, but I guess enough top coats will ensure maximum lastingness! I did lose one little heart when I slammed a finger in a drawer but luckily the Japanese always supply spare shapes for just such emergencies and all was fixed in no time at all! I am pretty sure that if Barbie was real and got her nails done, this would be what she’d have.

Speaking o Japan, Aussie airlines Jetstar are having another 2 for1 to Japan sale on again and I’m pretty sure I will be going again this year. Aside from the fact my crazy nail sticker collection is running low, I have been desperate to go back for months now. Maybe even since we got back! I am in the process of trying to convince my mum, sister and some friends to come with me as I need to share Japan with as many people as possible! So if ever you’ve been thinking about going to Japan, I suggest finding yourself a travel buddy and going or half price! It’ll be the best decision you ever made, seriously!

I can’t live without rage-ahol!

I have spent the last week being full of rage and generally annoyed at just about everything going wrong around me. I’m actually not that cranky a person  typically and so my usual rants are usually tongue-in-cheek and mostly just for laughs or to get something off my chest quickly and effectively. But sometimes my venting doesn’t help all the time and nature does its thing and I end up in a bad mood that I can’t shake. I pretty much have  to ride it out and be as tactful as possible to avoid excessive ranting or hurting someone’s feelings by getting carried away. As a result this week has been hell and I am hoping so badly that I will be over it this week. After all, I’ve just started a new job (I’ll have been there one month from tomorrow) and I’d hate to tarnish it with this unexplained bad mood!

As a result I made sure to have a nice quiet weekend doing some of the things I love which I think has helped me immensely. These included going to see Alice in Wonderland at the movies on Friday night (which I loved, by the way) before coming home to find my good friends over with their Wii console where we battled it out with Wii Tennis, which I am shocking at but love it none-the-less. On Saturday I slept in late, watched Video Hits and old cartoons before slowly getting ready and catching up with some friends at an afternoon punk show. That evening I headed to my mum’s for the night where we stayed up late watching movies on TV and chatting. On Sunday we bummed around the house, did some scrapbooking, watched blue wren’s teaching their babies how to forage for food and use the bird bath (Cutest. Thing. Ever!), ate way too much food, ran some errands (which resulted in my almost having a seizure from laughing so much, I kid you not). Then it was home for $5 steak with a friend and now I am feeling refreshed for the new week, especially since it’s my first 7:30am shift at this job and the first one I’ve done in years (I really do not do early mornings so this will be a massive learning curve for me).

My plans for this week include getting back on track with my healthy eating regime, exercising an extra day this week and preparing myself for Lady Gaga on Friday night! I am too excited to comprehend and I still don’t know what to wear yet!!!

How do you  get over an extended bad mood? Do you have battle tactics to fight it, or do you just succumb and let it take over?

Being a Girl is Hard Work

I don’t know about the rest of you, but being a girl ain’t easy. I mean, I really do love being a girly girl and would never want to be a guy, but the other day it struck me just how much we ladies do in order to keep looking beautiful. All girls are different and obviously not ever girl goes through the same beauty regime as others. Some girls barely have a beauty regime at all whereas others may have a very strict and incredibly intense one that takes many hours a day. I guess if there was a scale to represent this with 1 being None and 10 being Crazy-Obsessed I’d be about a 7. Actually maybe an 8. Well pretty high up anyway.

When I take into account the expense I go through in order to maintain everything, my mind boggles (s0 I try not to think about it too much) so just for prosperity and to make you all cringe at how much of a friggen girl I really am, here’s a list of what I do to look my best everyday:

Makeup
I LOVE makeup and wear it a lot. I also have a very specific regime with makeup application and have spent a lot o time perfecting it. I am always open to suggestions about how to be more efficient/cost effective or whatever, such as my recent purchase o makeup primer. That shit be awesome, yo! I tend to stick to Clinique for most of my makeup products but do use cheaper stuff like Revlon or Rimmel for lipstick, blush and eyeshadow (plus Clinique is pretty crap for bright colours so I have to go elsewhere to get the colours I like). I am always buying new stuff, particularly lipstick, so I spend a fair bit each year on new makeup.

Hair
I am actually quite cost-efficient with hair as I get my mum to dye it for me (I don’t trust hairdressers with this since my regrowth is a very complicated matter). I do get my hair cut at Oscar Oscar every few months, and my stylist is amazing so I a bit pay extra for her services than the standard stylist. I don’t actually use a lot of hair products and have a non-GHD (therefore reasonably priced) straighter. I do however make sure to straighten and style my hair everyday. If I don’t have time for makeup, the very least I do is my hair because I’ll be damned if people are going to look at my pink/black hair and think “Ugh she should maintain her hair better if she wants to rock colours like that”.

Nails
I used to be pretty slack with nails, only getting back into painting them regularly early last year. Then I went to Tokyo and got nail bling done and haven’t looked back since. I have to get refills every 2-3 weeks (I usually push it out to a good 3 weeks) which is a pain in the arse, albeit a worthwhile one because acrylic nails are da bomb! Don’t get me wrong, the nails you see are MY nails but the acrylic and gel stuff makes them super strong and lets them grow super long. I got them done on the weekend and had to shave a few mm off as they were getting insane. I relish in having anew set with a new colour and deciding which nail stickers to use. It’s time consuming but I get a lot of comments on my nails so totally worth it!

Tanning
I only got into this REALLY recently as I’d always vowed and declared tans were stupid and I liked being pale. But then I got a spray tan for my high school reunion and fell in love with brown skin. I don’t believe in real tans – skin cancer is not something to flirt with so I am all over these sunless tans now. I can’t afford to get spray tans every week or two so have Ella Bache tan cream to maintain a sun-kissed look. It makes my legs look so much better which is a very big thing for me as I have always had a bit of a thing against my legs. Plus a tan takes a few kg off you and god knows I love tricking nature in every way possible!

Waxing & Shaving
Something no one enjoys but is a necessary evil. I tend to shave everywhere except my bikini zone because I am pretty much hairless all over and so can go for a lot longer than the average girl between leg or underarm shaves. Shaving your bikini area is  huge NO NO and if you don’t already, start waxing IMMEDIATELY! Waxing is actually kind of expensive and because it has to be done every 4-6 weeks it’s a pretty major commitment as far as time and money go.

Clothes
All girls, even those who all at the lower end of the scale of girliness, love clothes. I defy any girl to say they hate clothes and shopping and never do it. I’m pretty sure it’s inbuilt in all of us, even if some of us can ignore the urge more than others. Personally I am OBSESSED! I have so many clothes it’s alarming. I doubt I know anyone who has half the amount of dresses I have or have spent half as much money as I have on their wardrobes. A lot of what I own are all from impulse buys because I literally cannot resist a sale, but I do have some items, dresses in particular, which were investment pieces and I actually gave some thought to before buying (they’re few and far between though, I gotta admit). I recently worked out my wardrobe is my most expensive “possession” and what I value the most of all my belongings. Sad but true!

Exercise
I personally exercise to keep fit and healthy, but a large component of my wanting to go for a run instead of sitting at home watching TV and eating crap is to get my body looking good. I also swear by the gym as I’ve become obsessed with classes like Body Combat which is another large expense (something like $650 a year I think). Plus I go to boxing once a week which is another expense at $10 a class. It’s probably the most beneficial of all my “looking good” expenses but still, totally not cheap and another expensive thing I do, along with so many other ladies out there, to keep looking good.

I’m not sure if I’ve missed out on anything, but that’s a good summary of what I do to keep looking the way I do. Sometimes I think I live such a superficial existence but then realise it’s who I am and I do it for myself more than anyone else anyway, so whether it’s superficial or not, it’s my business. I like looking nice and am not afraid to let people know it! I am very curious about the regime of others and how it differs to mine and the reasons why. So tell me, what do you do to keep looking the way you do and what would you change if you had the money/time/patience?

Things That Pissed Me Off Today (Part 2)

I am one of the lucky few who doesn’t suffer from PMS, though apparently I was unlucky today (damn St Patrick’s Day for lying to me!) and had it bad. Hence why we have another “Things That Pissed Me Off Today”!

1. That Time Of The Month. It sucks balls and all men should be eternally grateful that they do not have to go through with it. I really am pretty lucky where I don’t get PMS or cramps (except for today when I randomly got both) though I do get nasty migraines and bloat up like a water-logged corpse. I also hate how all girls, as much as they hate their periods, breathe a sigh of relief when we do get our periods because hallelujah we’re not pregnant! It’s awful and totally unfair and justifies us to be mean as hell to all males at that time of the month without repercussion!
2. Grocery shopping. OK so sometimes I really enjoy it but not when I am in a foul mood. It’s incredibly hard to try and buy practical things that will last you til your next shopping trip when you feeling like stabbing someone in the eye. You also find you’re absent-minded so that when you get home you forgot to buy some of the main things that drove you to go shopping in the first place. Also, the stuff you want is NEVER on sale when you’re in a bad mood and need to go shopping. INFURIATING!
3. The cow who made my lunch half the size it was last week. See, there’s a Farmers market right in the middle of the City every Wednesday and I discovered one stall that sells the most delicious (and totally bizarre) food – avocado and mushroom floats. I got one last week and almost died from food-lust so went back today and got about half as much as I did last week. Sure, I could have complained, but I am not the complaining type so I ate it (and admittedly, enjoyed the hell out of it) and then sulked a lot and ate lots of St Patty’s Day themed lollies to make up for it. Needless to see it wasn’t a great combination :S
4. People being to cool to dress in theme for festive days. I was appalled by how many people I saw walking around the City who made no effort to wear green for St Patrick’s Day today. Oh come on, it’s St Patrick’s Day, get over yourself and have some fun and get into the spirit of things like the dag you really are. I refuse to believe anyone when they say they have no green in their wardrobes whatsoever. Green is so common, and when its bright it looks fucking awesome, so everyone’s got something green tucked away somewhere, you damn liars! On the other hand I thoroughly enjoyed noticing what levels of green people wore today, some of it was over the top and in-your-face, some of it was sneaky and subtle :)
5. And now for the big one! The thing that pissed me off in particular today, as it has for pretty much ever, are over-opinionated arseholes. I am so sick of how so many people I know find it necessary to inflict their opinions on the rest of the world and be damned if you don’t agree. I consider myself a great person to be friends with because I don’t really give a damn if you don’t like all of the same things as me or want to do all of the things I enjoy doing. And yet all I ever see around me are people who have to open their fat traps about every damn thing like it’s their god given right to bad mouth anything they don’t like or agree with. Ya know what? No one gives a flying fuck! I don’t mind it when friends have a bit of a rant about something (god knows I love doing it myself, clearly) but when it’s constant and gets to the point where its like they have nothing good to say about anything (unless its one of the rare things that they happen to like), I could seriously start punching fists through skulls. Look here, if you’re the kind of person who has to be like that, learn some goddamn tact and shut your mouth for once. You don’t like that band or style of music I like? Hooray for you, but I don’t want to hear about how much you hate it and why it suck and have you be all in my face about it. You don’t like the things I happen to enjoy doing? Then don’t do those things and get the hell over it! Far out, it’s like it’s become fashionable to become a self-righteous fuck these days and it’s really gotten to me, as you can probably tell. There’s nothing wrong with keeping opinions to yourself, or at least saving them for the people who you know will agree with you. It ain’t your job to tell everyone how you think it is because a) you’re wrong, b) no one cares and c) it’s not funny or clever and it actually hurts/angers people. Next time, think about who you’re about to bitch and moan to and decide if it’s worth looking like an arsehole, because chances are that’s how you’re going to come across. And all for the sake of your over-inflated fucking ego.

OK well now I feel a bit better! Nothing like a bit of a whinge to get the chip off your shoulder, eh? Bare in mind, with that last one, I am referring to a broad range of people in my life, so if you’re reading this and think it’s about you, it is. But not just you, so suck it up and take my advice for once in your damn life and accept the fact you come across as an arsehole when you tell me the stuff I do, the things I like and the people I hang out with are all shit. That’s right, I’m talkin’ to YOU!

The Internet is Great! Also, so is my Fish.

It took around five weeks but we finally go the internet connected at our new place! As a keen fan of the internet, and one who lives with two internet-obsessed super-geeks, this was torture for us all and we’re extremely glad it’s all sorted now. FINALLY!

To prevent this from being the #1 lamest blog of all times I thought I’d pad it out with a photo of my new pet fighter fish. He is named Winchester Von Schnauzer and is extremely handsome and a very angry little guy. My last fish (named Roscoe Reginald Rudibager, who killed himself by flipping himself out of his bowl one night) was so docile compared to Winchester. I like teasing him by dipping my nails into the water and making him flare up. It’s totally cute because it’s like watching a posh old many getting into a fit of the angries. Hahaha. Anyway, here he is in all of his fancy glory:

I promise I will have a lot more to blog about in the coming days. But or now I am getting my nerd on and catching up on all of my favourite blogs and mostly just wondering what to look up next after a month of being almost totally internet-free!

Nailin’ It – Poodles!

So I finally decided to go with the obvious and call my nail-related posts “Nailin’ It” because sexual innuendo is always hilarious and I lack creativity generally (thanks Janie for the suggestion).  Today’s nails are pretty damn special and probably my most favourite of all. I present to you… POODLES WITH UMBRELLAS:

Oh yeah that’s right, poodles and umbrellas. Plus hearts, bows and jewels, of course. It’s totally random but as I got this sticker pack in Japan it’s no big surprise they’d match such random things together like this. I imagine they were going for a Parisian feel or something. I used a nice pale pink as the background (it’s Napoleon, some free stuff I got ages ago, I’m too lazy to check what colour it is though) which I never get to use as it’s usually a bit too dull for me – in this case it was perfect for the little black poodles and fancy umbrellas! The big silver hearts are super 3D as are the other jewels so I am worried they’ll pop off pretty quickly, though I added a tonne of top coat on them to keep them for as long as possible. Yep, definitely the cutest nails ever :D

Meanwhile Brisbane is in the process of flooding, I swear to god. I am so glad there’s a bus that takes me from directly outside my work to 20m from our front door because I’ll be damned if I am getting caught in this monsoon! This is a picture of how Fortitude Valley looks from our lounge room window right now (you can’t see the rain too well but believe me it’s there):

Mmmmm bleak! Here’s to a cheery start to Autumn, eh?

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