Want your nails to look as pretty as this?
Oh, they'll look much prettier, I'm sure. Because while I'm fairly puffed-up about my DIY manicure skills...sometimes there's just nothing like handing your digits over to a professional.
My lovely friend and partner in Wasabi Lobby-ing, Anna, just started working as the Executive Editor at beauty, health & fitness deal site Lifebooker, and offered to give a special deal to my readers.
THREE DOLLAR MANICURES.
I can totally feel Spring coming.
This pretty much says it all.
The plan had been to watch the Oscars - or at least the red carpet part - at our friends' place, but an early-to-sleep baby switched the night's activity to Beef & Beer Stew on the couch. Which was fun, too, and let me make expressions like this without anyone seeing them (until...now, I suppose).
The tall drinks of water pictured above get the Number One spot not because of their outfits...but because of this photo, and the whole owning-it thing happening here. Look at them. Brad's expression! Angelina's leg!
I am obsessed with this Graham & Brown pattern and am thisclose to ordering it for my office-to-be in a home that I do not yet own (we're still contract-ing).
Question for you: if you were to put this paper on one wall in a room, what color would you do on the other three walls? I'm leaning towards some shade of white so as not to get too crazy with it - that paper is crazy enough - but am open to suggestion.
Update: Very pale dove grey, yes - and I love JulieGirlie's suggestion to add some bright pink peonies.
Easy updates for rental apartments.
A little Friday fingernail inspiration: China Glaze in Dress Me Up with FingerPaints in Circus Peanuts.
Not that I'm the most talented person in the world at DIY French manicures - I used to do them all the time and was pretty good at them, but this one, as you can see, was a rush job completed during a much-shorter-than-I-expected-it-to-be nap - but there are a few little tricks that make them way easier:
1. Start with very little polish on the brush - you don't want any rolling down and glopping onto your nail.
2. Begin the line at the halfway point and go to one edge of the nail, then return to the halfway point and draw the other side of the line.
I only had about half an hour and one hand (the other was occupied with a bouncy chair) to get everything ready; fortunately, that's exactly how long this meal takes to make.
Above, one of the cocktails featured at the 7 For All Mankind Spring 2012 launch. I had one (just one, because me and tequila are not friends), and it was delicious. Very summery. Excited for summer.
GARDEN PARTY
2 oz Patron Silver
1 oz simple syrup
