Gray Crackle (it never works)

I really don't know what to tell you on this one. I love crackle, I love easy nail art. But I don't love gray and I don't love silver crackle. Maybe I'm missing the color combinations, I know I have tirelessly looked online for color combinations and failed. I don't see anything I like or, when I do try it on myself I think it looks like a pile of ass. This time I said to myself, I like crackle over glitter, so lets try a nice darkish purple glitter, thinking it would look nice. I put china glaze's "Cracked Concrete" and then I instantly hated it. Wore it for one day because I can't do my nails more than once a day for fear of ripping them off, but hated it nonetheless.

I will continue to look for other combinations, I kindof like it with pink, but think I should like it with more colors then ones from the hot pink family. And anyway, I like anything thats hot pink so I don't think it really counts.

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frustrated with frugalista

Okay, so the title of the post may suggest that RBL's frugalista is the source and be all end all of my frustrations today. However, simply stated, I can't deal with today anymore. The truth is, I dont take much responsibility for my own actions, planning things (like my wedding and the fifty thousand parties coming with it... uhoh) or generally making sure that things go smoothly in terms of my life. I love frugalista more than most glitter polishes I own, and I have to say that my manicure still looks bomb although I must have thrown more things than I have ever thrown in my life, traveled up and down manhattan for hours and made more phone calls than I did when I was in telemarketing. Maybe its because glitter polishes enable me to pretend that I am an underground rock star and won't ever have to worry about money problems or being late or ever have to wait on a bus for a hundred year old woman to get on or off in the middle of rush hour, only to deal with awkward robots to tell me that I need to be on-time, not five minutes late.

Anyway, that rant made me feel a lot better, but here are some shots of my rescue beauty lounge haul that came yesterday. And no, I cannot ever spend this much on nail polish again as I have bills coming out the ears at this point.

As per the mani shot, I have a few chips which have only made this entire day so much worse, one tip to all of you is if you do a manicure, find that you often have chips NEVER leave that bottle at home and bring other bottles with you, that way you can fix it if you ever have down time and it will make you feel better.

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