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The neverending nail growing project

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My nail nail growing project has finally reached a point where I’m starting to be really happy with the lenght of my nails. Of course I’ve had to file them shorter every now and then cos of peeling and things but now I have pretty healthy and good looking nails. My nails just happen to be so thin and they break really easy so this is sort of the max lenght I can grow them in to without breaking. I still want to try and grow them a tiny bit longer just to see if I can ;)

On the side of my index finger nail you can see a toiletpaper-superglue fixing attempt cos the nail already started to tear. I also had to fix the middle finger and the right hand index finger nails too. I’ve been able to grow them for 3 weeks with the fixing now and soon I have to file the broken parts off. I just hope my other nails will stay without breaking and tearing.

I started my nail growing project in May by removing acrylic nails. After that my nails were in a terrible condition.

 

Blog moved under my own domain name

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I finally got my blog moved under my own domain name. The old blogspot address is still working and it’s redirected to the new addy which is www.polishaholic.com. So please update the new address on your bookmarks. My blog is also getting a new layout design as soon as my dear husband gets it ready :)

My photo used without permission

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Link to the sellers store

Someone was friendly enough to inform me about an eBay seller using my photo and she/he wanted to make sure the seller has my permission to use the photo. Well of course the seller didn’t have permission and I have already contacted both eBay and the seller asking them to take the photo down immediately. This one was too lazy to even cut out my blog address from the top of the photo. The seller seems to have other peoples photos there too so if you know who those photos belong to you should inform the person and make sure they gave a permission to use those photos.

You guys should also always inform the person who owns the rights to the photo if you see familiar looking swatch or other photos somewhere other than the copyright owners own site. These poopyheads stealing other peoples work pisses me off!!

**Edit** The eBay seller has now removed the picture he/she stole from me and replaced it with a pic of a polish bottle. My China Glaze Code Orange picture is what was up on the page earlier. This time the stolen pic was only an amateur photo of someone’s nails but I bet this happens a lot to real professionals too. Either way using someone’s photo without permission is a bad bad thing to do and you should always report the person doing it no matter how small the matter seems to be.

Sinful Colors – #79 Opal Glitter

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This time I decided to try a glitter polish that actually is supposed to be very sheer, Sinful Colors’ Opal Glitter. Like the Mavalas on yesterday’s post this is best for layering with colored polishes. I was feeling like a more natural looking mani so I chose to wear this alone. The polish itself is nothing too special, just multi-colored glitter in a clear base. In the bottle this looks a bit milky white but on the nails it’s clear.

Opal Glitter is quite thin and applies pretty well. Three coats didn’t take forever to dry with Poshe. I also think this should be easy to remove since there isn’t too much glitter on my nails.

In this mani I used: OPI NNS x2, Opal Glitter x3 and Poshe on top.

 

Sephora by OPI – Never Enough Shoes

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As a total shoe-freak I just had to get this nail polish just because of it’s name. Even got a laugh out of my husband showing him the name. Apparently it’s perfect for me ;)

Never Enough Shoes is a nice, average nail polish. Many bloggers describe it as black but to me it looks more like very dark brown. It also has very fine, multi-colored micro-glitter in it. In a dimmer light you can’t really see the glitter and it just looks like a very dark creme polish

It’s quite thick in the bottle but not impossible to apply. I didn’t feel a need to use thinner yet. Two coats was enough for opaque result and this dried quickly.

In this mani I used: OPI NNS x2, Never Enough Shoes x2 and Poshe on top.

 

Nail growing project – over three months later

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I’ve now spent over 3 months growing my nails back to being long and healthy after having acrylic nails on. I still have a tiny bit of damaged nail left (if I filed my nails really short it would all be gone now). I have still been able to grow some length to my nails and they are starting to look much better. Of course I want my nails to be much longer but right now the length is looking pretty damn good after the short nails I had for so long ;) I still keep accidentally filing my index finger nail shorter while filing customers nails. Bad bad habit I need to get rid of.

On the pic I have 2 coats of OPI Natural Nail Strengthener on my nails.

 

Shopping!!

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Here’s a few photos of some of the things I got from my vacation. New York was so hot and humid that I didn’t have energy to shop as much as I intended to. I didn’t even get as many bottles of nail polish that I thought I would. But I still got a few.

In the beginning of our vacation we spent 4 days at the east coast. Then we flew to Midwest (Davenport, IA) to spend some time with the family for 3 days. After that we returned to Long Beach, NY for the rest of the vacation before flying back home. We had a great time and it was a very good vacation. We spent two whole days walking around New York City and there’s still so much to see. We’ll be going back there someday. I’ll upload some vacation photos too some time :)

Here’s photos of some of the things I got from my vacation

 

My first Borghese polish bottles – Palermo Plum and Espresso BrownSally Hansen – Plum Power and Jumpin’ Jade

Sephora by O.P.I. – Never Enough Shoes (had to get it just for the name ;D )

Sinful Colors – Opal Glitter and San Francisco

The most useless thing ever!

O.P.I. – Alpine Snow and Big Apple Red

O.P.I. – Ate Berries In The Canaries and Here Today…Aragon Tomorrow

More cuticle cream

Some Urban Decay cosmetics

My favorite lip balm

Classic tall UGG boots I’ve been wanting for a while

Hubby also got me a beautiful ring as a 5th anniversary gift :))

And of course I had to take a pic of mommy’s little helper
who payed such a close attention while I was taking these pics :D

 

 

Vacation!

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I’m on a vacation right now and enjoying sunny Long Beach, NY. I’ll be back in about week and a half with a lot of new stuff to show you guys! Already got a few bottles of nail polish today ;)

Nail growing project still continues

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It’s been quite a while again and I apologize for that!

My nail growing project still continues. I haven’t started to grow length to my nails yet but the part the acrylic damaged has almost grown out. My nails are growing faster now and I don’t think it’ll be much longer till it’s all healthy and I can start growing them long again.

I still oil my nails and cuticles daily and a while ago I added Creative SolarOil and SolarBalm to my nail care products. Those have worked wonders on my nails.

Next week I’m going for a vacation in USA and I hope to find a LOT of new nail care products and polishes from my trip :D I also finally got around to buy a new camera. I hope that will help me to take better quality photos for my blog.

 

Random gel nails once again

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Past few days have been so busy again that I’ve had no time to think about blog postings. So here’s a random gel nail photo again. This time it’s a very simple design with pink tip and some silver glitter.