Jade Is The New Black!

It has been raining a lot lately.  I guess the last couple of days of April are really taking advantage of the 'April showers bring May flowers' rule.  I'm not okay with this.  I really just wish summer temperatures would come and stay.  To make up for feeling the blues, I decided to paint my nails and toes green.  Whats the point in waiting for everything to turn green when you can just paint everything green, right?  Needless to say I took to my nail polish rack and chose Jade Is The New Black by OPI.  

I've written about OPI polishes on here before.  As you know, I always like to do about two coats of polish no matter what.  I think here I did three because sometimes I just prefer.  This particular color is pretty opaque so you don't have to worry about sitting there forever and getting it to come out the color it looks like it is in the bottle (like some other polishes I know you do).  This color just makes me really happy and brings a little color to these otherwise mundane days.  Here are a few photos:

        

        

I actually started with this color on my toes.  After I had the polish on my feet for about two weeks I said to myself, 'maybe I should just put that on my nails.'  Haha.  Please ignore the bandaid, I stepped on a piece of glass while volunteering with my dad a couple of weeks ago.  We were doing a stream clean-up and the glass went right through my boot and into my foot.  This did not make me happy as I am sure you could imagine.  I got that darling little ankle bracelet from a local boutique called Sunshine Daydream here in Point Pleasant.  I know its easy to make myself but I like it!  I got another piece from them as well that I will share with you soon.  Thanks for reading!  Make sure you send me a tweet & let me know what you've got on your nails/toes lately.  Talk to you soon!  -Brit.

Braziliant!

Okay guys.  As I had previously said, the weather has finally been looking up but I knew for sure that it was too good to be true (being that it's only February).  Granted, tomorrow is the last day of the month and I could not be more excited.  For some reason I just cannot stand February because it always kind of meant 'dead of winter' to me and I hate winter (no surprise).  

Being that you know I hate winter, I bring you a nice little pop of color for the time being.  While we wait for the weather to be on a steady incline rather than just popping up in random places when it feels like it, March IS actually coming so that means it's time to starting bringing out the pastels and the brights.  Nothing makes me happier.

Come May I'm sure I'll do Manicure May but for now you have to take a look at this color!  I remember when the color came out with the Braziliant collection and I was so excited.

This is the collection titled color Braziliant.  I love the bright pop of color because it's HOT orange and it just makes me happy.  I can use this as a crutch to get me through the rest of this gross winter weather.  

As you can see, the polish has amazing duo-chrome.  The subtle hints of purple are just enough to make it look like 'not your average orange' polish.  I like the application of this polish,  I have two coats on here and that's really all you need.  Normally Essie polishes are great this way, pretty opaque.  

I feel like I also must add that I have Lush 'Dream Cream;' on my hands at the time of these photos so thats why they look a little oily.  I couldn't wait to take the pictures because I wanted to show you the color.  I am going to definitely be sharing my favorites for dry skin coming up soon, so make sure you don't miss it.  I have eczema and not everything works for me  (barely anything), so I have a lot to say about Dream Cream and another line of amazing products.  

What are you doing to get through these last couple of cold months?  Thank you so much for reading and make sure you check in for my dry skin (eczema friendly) post coming really soon!  Also, more outfit of the days coming up as well.  Send me a tweet or comment!