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| Top: Gap(recent). Pants: Old Navy. Belt: Thrifted. Flats: Cents of Style. Necklace: NY&Co. Ring: Dillards. Sunnies: Oscar de la Renta. Polish: China Glaze (re-fresh mint) |
the thing about nail polish.
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| Top: Gap(recent). Pants: Old Navy. Belt: Thrifted. Flats: Cents of Style. Necklace: NY&Co. Ring: Dillards. Sunnies: Oscar de la Renta. Polish: China Glaze (re-fresh mint) |
I never paint my nails, except for like once a year. And I use a nude or light light pink color. You should try Sally Hansen Insta-dry. Its the only reason my nails get painted that one time a year.
The pastels in this look are so pretty! Sometimes I don’t have time, but I love doing my nails. I just feel like having a manicure makes you look so much more pulled together!
-Sharon
The Tiny Heart
I love having colors on my nails but hate the time it takes for them to dry. I’ve been using one if those quick dry topcoats on my nails. Sephora by OPI makes quick drying drops and Revlon makes a good drugstore quick dry topcoat.
Your top is incredible. Ok, really, the whole outfit is a total hit for me!
I rarely paint my fingernails. I feel like I’m touching them up every day if I do and that seems like overkill. Oh well.
Have you heard of the new thing they are doing on nails called shellac?? It’s amazing and looks awesome and lasts for weeks!! You should totally try it. :)
I usually don’t paint my nails either, for all of the reasons that you listed. I can’t stand for my toes not to be painted though.
I hate painting my nails too.. specially hands! I have like really skinny fingers which is also a problem you see :-) plus im a mom, who cooks and cleans and takes care of a toddler. So it wont stay on for more than 2 days with out chipping and I hate chipped nails!!
You look lovely and totally adore the pic of your little girl!!
I was also going to comment about shellac! It’s $20 but it’s a color on your nails that doesn’t chip and stays on for a long time! Totally worth it!
Seche Vite quick drying top coat is the bomb! Costs about $9 a bottle and has a bit of a funky smell, but it dries quickly, leaves a high gloss shine and my nails look good for a week – I polish on Sundays. Give it a shot!
Cute top! And my daughter has the same sweater as yours ;)
I just love the soft colors of this outfit!
jess
JESS CAUSE BLOG
I paint my nails all the time, I hate chipped nails so I’m constanly doing them. My solution? Seche Vite. It dries them mega fast. You can find it at Target too.
Also Shellac works wonders like they mentioned.
So true. And even if and when I do find time to do my nails, they chip within a day, which totally negates the hassle of doing them in the first place! Cute pics…do your children take your pictures? I’ve tried to teach my 5 year old, but they end up blurred….of course. :)
-kristen
Shellac/gel is amazing!! No drying time and lasts up to 2 weeks. Perfect!! Love that mint green color!
i love your outfit today :)
and i’m the same way with nail polish. i usually try to get my nails painted a color that i have at home so that way i can do touchups at home when they start to chip. but i think i get more polish on my fingers than my nails whenever i do it…
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I am the exact same way! Right now I only have 2 bottles of polish, red and pink and they are only for my toes. I am horrible at putting on the polish and for some reason I feel like I can feel it when I put in on my fingernails! :)
I am the same way! Until recently I only had like 2 or 3 bottles. Now I have a lot more and am trying to get creative! It never fails though I always at least mess one if not 7 up.
i have super long, skinny fingers (and finger toes for that matter) and i have an obsession with buying nail polish. i LOVE it. but i always smudge, too. mine were actually mint as well… until i had a job interview and had to take it off to be “work appropriate”. boo. i’m off to repaint, too!
cent of style? tell me about their products.
This is EXACTLY why I rarely paint my nails — because I always smudge them and have to start over! Grrr. BUT Urban Outfitters has super nice nail polish with pretty colors. You should check it out! :)
I know how you feel about the nail polish, but you are so good at doing your eyebrows. I claim the same steadiness of hand problems, but that is why I leave my eyebrows to professionals. The lady who used to do my eyebrows (and hair, but quit recently when she had a baby) used to tell me to just go ahead and NOT even try to do anything with my brows between visits. hahah.
I never paint my nails either because they chip so quickly that it doesn’t seem worth it. However, I just got new nail polish from babysteals.com (love that
website!) by a company called Keeki and I really like it. It’s water-based and non toxic so I don’t have to worry as much if my teething baby wants to chew on my fingers. It doesn’t smell bad either, which is nice. I plan to use it to paint her toes/nails when she gets older. It’s pricey but worth it (although it was a great steal on babysteals!). Lasts about as long as regular polish on me, which is to say not long…bringing us back to the beginning. Oh well!
Loooooove this look. And I, too, am not a proper girl. I think I have 5 bottles of nail polish, also 3 in pinky/corally shades.
You should try a fast drying top coat. My personal favorite is Seche Vite because it gives a wonderful glossy finish and drys the polish in about a minute. Good luck!!
I hear ya sistah! I’m the same way, nail polish for the toes and rarely…very rarely the fingers. I love the color you picked though, very Spring-y.
I enjoy reading your blog – thank you for posting! Today, I felt compelled to share something I’ve learned and find helpful. It’s easy to be critical of our bodies; all the parts that don’t conform to some ideal model in our minds…and all over our culture/media. However, when I saw you write about your joints specifically, I wanted to respond to remind us all that joints are meant for movement. Growing up with a mom with severe joint disease, I actively remind myself that my body *works*. It does what it is intended to do, and it does it with relatively little pain or complaint. I encourage all of us to remember what our bodies are meant for, rather than just what they look like, and to be grateful for our bodies’ many accomplishments and capacities.
In terms of nail polish, consider UV gel polish, or shellac. It’s awesome, stays on without chipping for 2-3 weeks, and dries completely in 2 min/layer. Perfect for playing with the littles, and much easier to apply than old-school polish.
Love that shirt! Where did you get it? I have grey crop pants just like those, and I love that shirt with them!
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fun!
by the way have you announced the winner of the DEB dress yet? i must have missed it!
I feel the same way about my knees and hands..but I do like my feet. ;)
I have short fingers and really small finger nails too. My pinkie is smaller than one carat diamond… I used to paint my nails with nude color. By the way, is that Old Navy Perfect Khaki? I’m 5’1 and always having hard time perfect pants.