Nail Files: May 4th, 2014

This is my contribution to Star Wars Day...it was good to paint my nails again. I feel like I haven't done any nail art in a while. Oh wait...I haven't. I have been lacking inspiration lately. Star Wars Day was just what I needed. :-)

May the Fourth be with you,
Jedi Jessy

The Nail Files 4/8/14

Since I don't know if The Nail Files is still a link up that means I can post my pictures on Tuesday or Wednesday if I want to ;-) It's officially Spring in AZ (actually more like summer this week) so I decided to paint daisies on my nails. I like how they turned out but next time I may do pink with yellow dots. The yellow kind of bled into the white flowers and makes it a little hard to see the flowers. But overall they're still cute :-) Is it spring where you live? If not, at least you can enjoy the little daisies on my nails. ;-)

Happy Spring everyone! ~ Jessy

The Nail Files 4/4/14

I haven't posted in a while and it's been even longer since I posted a Nail Files post. I don't even know if this is still a link up, but I thought I would share this week's design with you anyway. :-)

Enjoy!
Jessy

P.S. I have now joined the world of Instagram and Tumblr if you'd like to follow me, my user name for both is mspinkydinks. I'll also add my links to the side bar too. 

The Nail Files 6/21/13

Well, let's see how long has it been since I've posted to The Nail Files...hmmm.... April 26th?!?!?!!! What the heck? I lost my umph for nail art for a little bit but let's see a few that I did do. :)

These first nails remind me of a Pop Star. The little stars are a stamp and the pink shatter is a Sally Hansen crackle polish.

 

 PAC-MAN!!! I have wanted to do these for so long. You would think that the little Pac-man dude would be easy but for some reason it took me forever. It may be because I am somewhat of a perfectionist...lol If you ever do this make sure to get some striping tape for the straight lines; it worked wonders!

 These ones were inspired by a shirt that I bought while I was in GA. The shirt is grey and black striped with a skull and a few hearts. I can't do little skulls so I figured just hearts would work. :) The pink on all of my nails is the new Sugar Coat from Sally Hansen, it's textured and so much fun! And I topped it all off with a matte top coat.

Now for my current nail design, Van Gogh's Starry Night. This is another one that I've wanted to do for a while and just haven't. I got the idea from Cute Polish's Video on YouTube.

Here's a close up of the thumb nail on my left hand. Yes, my LEFT hand. Please someone note this as the only week that my left hand will look more realistic than my right hand. :) YAY for impressionistic art!

 I hope you liked my nail designs. I can't wait to decide what to do next week! I got a pretty new holo polish while I was in GA too, so I may have to try that one out.

Your Nail Artist,

Jessy <3

The Nail Files 4/26/13

 

This week on The Nail Files....

I opted for something really easy. Pink, Purple Crackle, and Glitter three of my favorite things!! :)  I don't think I'd ever done pink and purple together but was feeling rather spunky this week, so there ya have it. lol 

 

Here's to already thinking about what to do for my nails next week, 

Jessy <3

The Nail Files!

I think I am finally creeping out from behind the funk that I have been in; painting my nails is actually starting to be enjoyable again. YAY!! Man the things winter will do to you! lol

This weeks design was simple, fun, and cute! Those are my three favorite descriptive words. :) For this design I used another Sinful Colors polish, Dream On (Matte), a white polish, a black shatter, and NYC's Matte Me Crazy top coat. I haven't really done any matte designs before because shiny, glittery, nails make me happy, but I think the matte top coat is growing on me.

Anyway, here are two pictures of my nails from this week and before you ask, Yes that is the same color in both pictures. I know, it's crazy but true. The Dream On color really took on a chameleon's essence and drastically changed depending on the lighting. The top picture is what it looks like in the bottle, so the purple hue really threw me for a loop.

Your Nail Polish Lover,
Jessy <3

The Nail Files!

WOW...I remembered two link-ups in a row! Life must be slowing down a little bit?! HA! probably not but I can dream. I haven't been painting my nails as much lately. Honestly I have been depressed/in a funk since January and haven't really had the ambition to do much of anything. Which has included painting my nails *Readers Gasp*.... I *Know* right?! This weekend I got to spend some time with one of my girlfriends who lives out of state so we played games and painted our nails. Here are the designs we ended up with. :)

Rachel picked out a pretty shimmery teal, we topped it with a silver shatter, and added flowers on her thumbs and little dots to the other nails.

Rachel's Nails

I just got this new purple (Sinful Colors, Amethyst)  and fell in love with it! I've been looking for a good purple that doesn't have any shimmer, found one. :)

My Nails

 I love taking pictures of my girlfriends designs and mine together, it makes for fun memories. :)

Both designs :)

Your Nail Polish Addict,
Jessy <3

101 Progress - September 2012

Well another month has come and gone, now let's see what I accomplished this month. :)

~ Blogged about my 101 progress, obviously! ;)
~ Made a pie from a recipe that I found on Pinterest! It was a Kit Kat pie and was SUPER easy!! Graham cracker crust, Cool Whip, cream cheese and Kit Kats. mmmmm The recipe was actually for Butterfinger Pie, but Kit Kat cost less at the store that I went to. lol 

~ Wrote a letter to a friend/a different friend...I'm not sure if I wrote a letter to a friend or not. But we'll say that I did and then next month I'll be sure to write down who I sent my letter to. ;)
~ Finished Reading the following book(s):
         ...um, none :( I was so busy with work and school I didn't even finish the book for book club.
      Oh Wait!! I did read one book, I forgot about it because it only took like an hour to read. LOL It was called "The History of the World According to Facebook." It was basically a bunch of Facebook Statuses from people over the years. It was a little crass, a little sacrilegious sometimes but still hilarious!!! If you are a big history buff you will get a kick out of this book. LOL

~ Attended Book Club meeting...yes I did even though I didn't finish the book. It was a small meeting of 4 and two of us hadn't read the book. So we spent most of the night eating yummy desserts and talking about movies instead of books. LOL (I think I have to start over for my 6 months since I didn't read the book this month. I plan on finishing it but I must start over for my count. I wasn't very "active" this month...lol)

~ Still writing in my journal albeit not as much this month but still writing.
~ Counted my pencils/pens; I'm at 277!! I got 6 new pencils this month; 2 of which were "Smencils" They came in a tube and I got one that smells like Peppermint and one that smells like Watermelon. mmmm
~ Counted my nail polish; I'm at 78. I got 4 new polishes this month which would've put me at 81, but I had to toss out three of my old ones. :( Including my black crackle polish /cry They were all too thick and the two white polishes were almost gone too. Also, if anyone finds my topcoat I would really appreciate it, the stupid thing disappeared!
~ Pedicure of the Month - Well, Dr. Who premiered the first weekend of September so I began my month of geeky nail designs with an abstract Dr. Who pedicure. :)

 ~ Song of the month: Last month I dedicated to Mom-mom, this month I am going to dedicate to my dad; he passed away from cancer on September 1, 2005. His favorite band was Pink Floyd. I listened to Pink Floyd on September 1st in memory of him; ironically this was the first song that started to play.


I can't wait to see what happens in October!!!
Jessy <3

The Nail Files!! Calling All Geeks!

This week on "The Nail Files"...

I do declare this Geeky Month!! Last week was Dr. Who and this week...

Nyan Cat!!! LOL

What Geeky something should I do for next week? I'm still trying to think of a design.

Your Nail Artist,
Jessy <3

The Nail Files!! Woo WHO!! 9/7/12

This week on "The Nail Files"...

Okay. So. September 1st was the season premier of Doctor Who. Being the geeky Whovian that I am I HAD to have Doctor Who themed nails. LOL So behold the awesomeness that is my Doctor Who Themed nail art. 

For those of you who aren't Whovian's this design won't make any sense to you. Are any of my blogger friends Whovians? If not you should be. LOL 

Quickly, I have a couple Daleks, the Tardis, my "bowties are cool" nail in-between the Daleks and my pinky is a galaxy nail. The galaxy nails were fun and I'll probably do those on all my nails one of these days.

To keep up with my pedicure of the month, and add to my Geekyness, my toes had to match. LOL I actually did my toes first. It's good practice before you spend an hour painting your fingernails. Plus you know your design and technique so it makes it that much easier. :)

I <3 <3 The Doctor!

Your Geeky Whovian,

Jessy <3

The Nail Files!!

This week on "The Nail Files"

I am posting a few weeks worth of pictures. I didn't realize how long it's been since I've done one of these posts. Oh how I miss you. lol :)

This past month (August) due to a Klout Perk I got TWO new nail polishes for FREE! Talk about Fan-TAS-tic! I decided to have some fun with "Stroke of Brilliance" and did a little Fire and Ice theme. It was awesome! The "ice" was so cool (no pun was really intended). I may have to do that during the AZ winter, when I am wishing for snow. LOL

The next week was the first week of classes, so I did "an apple for the teacher" theme.

And lastly, I FINALLY got some magnetic polish that works!! I bought some little magnetic polishes from ULTA while I was in CA and they sucked!! Never buy Ulta brand magnetic polish!! My mom sent me this new polish and I had bought a Magnetix magnet off of Amazon, together they were magical! Being the perfectionist that I am I had a little bit of a learning curve for this polish. If anyone has any tips they would be much appreciated! :)

I have already done this weeks manicure but I want to save it. It needs it's own post cuz it is just THAT awesome!! ;)

Your nail artist, 

Jessy <3

101 Progress - August 2012

Here's what I did in August 2012

~ Blogged about my 101 progress, obviously! ;) 
~ Wrote a letter to a friend/a different friend.
~ Finished Reading the following book(s):
       The Host

~ Things fell apart with the book club meeting this month but I did create a blog for us and have already started next month's book. :) Hopefully I'll finish this month's book quickly so I can read more than one book this month. :)

~ Still writing in my journal albeit not as much this month but still writing.
~ Counted my pencils/pens; I'm at 269 - 16 more than last month! I bought 12 (they were Muppets and Icee pencils; too cute to pass up) and I found a few around my house. Some them were pens too.
         Funny story for one of the pens. Andy and I went out to lunch and the pen that the guy gave us to sign with said "The Pen has been stolen from: Douglas Pest Control Inc." Now I know that it was prolly one of those pens that was made to look like it was stolen, but it was still fun to "steal" a "stolen" pen. But if anyone asks, just tell them that I accidentally forgot and walked away with it. ;)

~ Counted my nail polish; I'm at 77!! - 5 new ones and I got all of them for FREE!!! I got a magnetic one from my mom (YAY for packages!!), I got 2 bottles of Essie as Klout perks and I got 2 for .033 cents a piece (which is free in my book) from Julep. I'm not sure how long this is going on but if you sign up to be a Julep Maven and enter in the code PENNY you will get your first Julep Maven box for one penny. If you don't want to continue receiving Julep boxes just cancel your account after you receive your first box. :) Click HERE to learn more and sign up. :)

~ Found jewelry. I don't know if I'll ever find it all. But I found some and once it's all organized and in my jewelry box I'll count this one as completed. lol
~ Pedicure of the Month - It was the Olympics so of course I had to do something fun for that! ;)

~ Song of the month: I haven't found a specific song for me this month, so I think I will dedicate this month's song to my Grandma (Mom-mom) who passed away on August 1st 2007. There are two songs that remind me of her: Alexander's Ragtime Band and Flight of the Bumblebee. I found a really good video for Flight of the Bumblebee so we'll go with that one. :)

The Nail Files 8/10/12

 

I'm linking up with two fabulous ladies this week and sharing my nail designs. 

It's been a couple weeks since I've linked up so I have three designs.

The first is a cute turtle design that I did for my friend who wanted something green :)

And the other two are ones that I did for the Olympics first the nail design

I tried water marbling and got it to a certain extent, but I learned that it is picky. Your water HAS to be room temperature - no tap, no warm - room temperature. Plus it's best to use newer nail polishes, ones that haven't thickened.

Last one is my monthly pedicure Olympic Style ;)

I must say the Union flag was much easier to do on my fingers than it was on my toes. LOL

Your Nail Art Addict,

Jessy <3

 

101 Challenge - July 2012

Here's what I did in July 2012

~ Blogged about my 101 progress, obviously! ;) 
~ Wrote a letter to a friend/a different friend - not last months friend. 
~ Finished Reading the following book(s):
       The Wizard of Oz
       The Forgotten Garden

~ Couldn't attend the book club meeting this month but I did finish the book and plan to hold a G+ hangout with some of the other book club gals. :)

~ Took a trip to CA to see my mom!! I didn't make it to KS but I'll take it!! I'll still aim to go to KS before the 1001 days is up but my trip was a blast! Here is the trip post :)
~ Still writing in my journal; I documented my whole trip. :)
~ Counted my pencils; I'm at 254 - I've got 7 more since my last count
~ Counted my nail polish; I'm at 72!! - got magnetic polish!!! :D
~ Pedicure of the Month - My mom, Moonius and I did pedicures while I was in Cali. I did Disney themed toes. Here is a picture of my mani, so you can get a better look.

~ Wrote a poem - My blog celebrated it's first Blogaversary - so it needed a poem. :) - 7/24/12
~ Took pictures of 3 hearts

~ I learned to Knit!! My mom taught me while I was in California with her!!  It's not pretty but it's a start! :)

~ Song of the month: Somebody That You Used To Know - Gotye
I don't know what it is about this song, but I love it!




Oh and for my Gleeks, here's the Glee version with Blaine.../sigh

Your 101 goals blogger, 

Jessy <3

The Nail Files! 7/27/12

I am linking up with Vickilious Life and Fabulous but Evil this week. If you want to join in the fun click on the logo above to get started!

Ok, so it's been a couple weeks. I have had had 3 different designs since I last posted. So here we go.

I went to California for a few days and came up with something really simple for my few days before my Cali trip. I did a french mani with green glitter on the natural part of the nail and then aqua tips. Loved it!

Once in Cali, my mom and I went to Ulta! So after a major shopping spree we ended up doing pedicures (another thing to check off on my list 101 things in 1001 days). My mom got a really pretty red at Ulta. We were staying in Anaheim so I could not resist a Disney themed pedicure. I ended up doing the same design on my nails because I loved it so much! 

This weeks mani was really simple and really hard to see through my crappy webcam but it is really pretty irl. It is black with Sally Hansen's Vintage Violet crackle and a little bit of glitter. The contrast between the black and the purple is really subtle but looks really cool! I find that crackles have more crackle to them if you do something other than just a straight line, so I like to scatter mine. A straight line down, a couple diagonal, some slanted inward, some outward - just try to keep it all one coat and don't have a lot of overlap.

I got some cool nail polish at Ulta in Cali. I got 2 crackles and some magnetic polish! I am soooooo excited about the magnetic polish. I have to get some fun magnets for it tho, cuz the one that came with the little set (it was a set of 4 mini polishes) sucks and only has one line. :( I'm sure I can find some fun magnet on Amazon or something. I can't wait!!! :D


Your polish-holic,
 Jessy <3

California or BUST!!!

I guess I should've said that before my trip, Oh Well...lol Be prepared for a LONG post, just warnin' ya. I had a blast in California and just spent the last two hours going through making collages of pictures, otherwise I would have to post a blog entry for each day that I was there. I let my inner tourist out to play and ended up with almost 200 pictures. lol YAY for digital cameras, I can't even imagine how many rolls of film that would be. LOL Anyway, without further ado here are snippets from my trip.

My first collage is a little bit from all of the places that we went. I stayed at the Peacock hotel, which is literally right behind Disney so I could hear the fireworks every night. We ate at the "Pig N Whistle", ate at Fish Camp, went to the OC Fair, Downtown Disney, Newport Beach/Balboa CA., ate at Newport Landing and went dolphin/whale watching.

The two pics near the bottom right of this college are some treasures that I got while on my trip. For those of you who don't know, I collect pencils so I came home with 3 pencils, a pen and a new key chain. So I guess I am a collector of key chains now too. LOL

The other little picture is one of all of my trip treasures. My mom got both of us a jar to keep small trinkets in as little mementos from our trip. I may have to keep doing this for all my trips. It was kind of fun to find little things and those trinkets will make the memories last forever. :) I like to think of them as vacation joy boxes, in bottle form. ;)

 

I think from here, we will go by day. This is day number 1. I got to LA in the middle of the afternoon so we went to Hollywood Blvd to eat and wait for the traffic to die down before making our way to Anaheim. I always love going to Hollywood. The things you see and the business of it all just makes me feel somewhat invigorated. Only in Hollywood can you find people dressed as Darth Vader with their little tag along R2D2 and another person dressed as Elmo. Oh and ONLY in Hollywood can you find parking meters that take credit cards. I'm sure there are other places but this was a first for me. LOL In Hollywood, we ate at the Pig N Whistle (mmmmm Halibut fish and chips) and walked up and down the Blvd - My inner tourist taking pictures all along the way.

She took LOTS of pictures!!!! One of the ladies stood right in the middle of my shot, How Rude!!

Day number 2 was a very simple day. It was nice to be able to just relax for a day and spend time with my mom and Jay. My mom and I dropped Moonius off at the beach and we went to Ulta!! /sigh....every girls paradise!! I got $22 worth of stuff for $7! Yes, I am an awesome bargain shopper! I learned from the best, that would be my mom. ;) After Ulta we went back to the beach and discovered that Jay was waiting for us because it was too cold to lay on the beach. I think I left the sun in AZ because it was somewhat cloudy the whole time I was there. Since the beach was too cold we went to Fish Camp for lunch instead (I got grilled Salmon and salad mmmm) and then just went back to the hotel for the rest of the day. My mom taught me how to knit and we did pedicures. After I got home I made this tiny square of knitting to put in my little treasure jar. :)

Since we were so close to Disney, I did Disney themed pedicures on our toes. I offered to paint Moon's toes, but he wasn't too keen on that idea. For the Disney design, we painted our nails red, and then I did a white tip on our big toes, made a little tiny Mickey silhouette on the white tip and then put white dots on the rest of the nail. They turned out really cute!

Day number 3 was Friday the 13th. Eeep! It was the most awesome Friday the 13th Ever! The Orange County Fair opened that day and had free admission for the first hour, so we stood in line and waited. The picture in the top left is a picture of the line once we could see the gate; it was much longer than that, believe me. The fair was a blast!! I had never really been to big fair like that, so the only fried fair food that I'd ever eaten was funnel cake. I made up for it that day. I had a corn dog, fried cheese, a funnel cake (just a little one), a fried Snickers (omg...to die for), cotton candy (of which I still have some) and a gelato. Holy Hannah! I won't need ANY fried food for a while.

While at the fair, we saw some fun dancers and shopped till we literally dropped! The pretty flowers are hair clips that my mom and I got. It wasn't until we went to put them on that we realized that we had picked the exact same ones. If I believed in reincarnation, I think we may have been twins in another lifetime. LOL After the fair my mom and I took a nap back at the hotel, like I said we literally dropped. After the nap we taught Moonius how to play Hand and Foot and then we all went to Downtown Disney. I had to go to the Gigantic Disney store and I love the lego store too. We ate at Napolini (margarita pizza), caught some of Disney's Fireworks through the trees and called it a day! I think at some point that night I caught my mom and Jay dancing to the wonderful music that was being played in Downtown Disney. ;)

Day number 4. This was my last full day in CA and it was a BLAST!!! We went to Newport Beach, which is in Balboa California. Balboa is my new favorite place in all of everywhere. I loved the beach. I loved the town itself. It was a touristy town with all of the little fun shops right in the middle of residential area. 

We did two things while in Balboa. First we spent some good time at the beach. By the end of the day, I was incognito as a lobster. Luckily, I think I have put on enough lotion so that it is now a tan and won’t peel. :) While at the beach I took lots of pictures (of course) and enjoyed getting my feet wet. When I went down to the shore I hadn’t planned on coming back half drenched but it happened - I should've just known. Luickly the camera survived! ;) 

Since I had my little jar that I had to fill up with mementos from my trip I gathered up a bunch of seashells. The whole time chanting, “I’m picking up seashells, along the sea shore.” LOL There were a couple of pictures that I wanted to get while I was on the beach and those were some pics of my feet with the sea foam coming up to them. (I know, I’m weird) After a LOT of trial and error I did manage to get a couple shots that I really liked. In addition to the pictures of the sea, I also took a little bit of video of the waves. I love the sound of the ocean.

The second excursion that we took in Balboa was lunch and dolphin/whale watching!! We ate lunch at Newport Landing and someone who reserved a table was a "no-show" so we even got a pretty view! :) We saw lots of birds before we left on our boat to go see dolphins. I learned that Jay really likes birds, so I took pictures just for him. :) Our ship was the "Nautilus" and off we went.

I had never been out on the water before. I learned two things very quickly, one I'm not prone to sea-sickness, YAY!!! And two, it is very, very, VERY cold out on the water. I had dressed for the beach: shorts, tank top, flip flops...that is NOT how you dress to go out to sea. LOL Luckily I had brought a shirt with me, in case I got too much sun but that was definitely not enough. Note to self: Next time you go out to sea, bring a jacket, and maybe a blanket. LOL 

Along the way before we got to open sea the tour guide was telling us about the beautiful houses along the shore. I took several pictures of them but I now I don't remember who they belonged to, with the exception of the house in the bottom left corner of this collage. That house, with the green awnings, was Shirley Temple's childhood home. :) 

While out at sea, we saw many, many, many dolphins - but they are camera shy so it's hard to get good pictures of them. What they aren't shy of is video cameras! :) I only took a few snippets of video because video sucks my camera's batteries dry but I did edit them together and it is uploaded to YouTube. :)  We didn't see any whales. :( I tried to summon my inner Dory and speak "whale" but they didn't understand my dialect. LMAO!!!

Overall, my trip was awesome!! I made memories that will last a lifetime and had a blast too! ;)

To my Mom and Moonius, thank you so much for flying me out to spend some time with you!! The whole trip was a blast! I can't wait for the next trip. Hopefully one day I'll make it to Abilene. I really want to see your home in KS too!

Your California Girl, 

Jessy <3

The Nail Files!! 7/6/12

 

I am linking up with Vickilious Life and Fabulous but Evil this week. If you want to join in the fun click on the logo above to get started!

Soooo this week was OBVIOUSLY, the 4th of July so I had to do something fun with my nails. My friend send me a picture of paint splatter nails and I thought that would be fun so here is what I did.

I LOVED doing the paint splatter nails and almost did a tutorial but got distracted and ended up not having time. However, I will give you a few tips on doing paint splatter nails: 

1. Lay something down on the table - it is MESSY!

2. Use Petroleum Jelly/Vaseline around you cuticles & even up your fingers a little bit - don't get it on the actual nail. Personally I think that Petroleum Jelly works better than taping off your fingers for two reasons. One, it's easy to apply and two, have you ever tried to paint your nails with your fingers all taped up?! It's difficult.

3. Use a long straw, not a short one. I saw a tutorial that said using a short straw gave you more control but I couldn't get the short straw to work at all.

4. It will not work every time. So don't get frustrated, just remember to have fun. Oh and maybe do this in a big room with lots ventilation. LOL

Your Patriotic Nail Artist, 

             Jessy <3 

P.S. I will be starting my own link up this Monday, called Musical Mondays!! If you want to join in the fun remember to follow my blog either by GFC or by email and I look forward to reading about what music you enjoy!! :)

101 Challenge - June 2012

Here's what I did in June 2012

~ Blogged about my 101 progress, obviously! ;) 
~ Attended the first meeting for the book club I'm in.
         Here is my review of The Book Thief
~ Wrote a letter to a friend
~ Finished Reading the following books:
         Fifty Shades of Grey
         A Christmas Carol
~ Read the following Dr. Seuss books:
        The Tooth Book
        Are You My Mother?!
~ Took a trip to WY to see Julie!! Thanks for getting me the ticket girl
      and for spoiling me while I was with you. ;) Here is the trip post :)
~ Still writing in my journal; I documented my whole trip. :)
~ Bought crossword puzzle book, while in WY
        Now to complete all of the puzzles. :)
~ Counted my pencils; I'm at 247 - that's 10 more since I started!!
~ Got 2 new Nail Polishes
~ Pedicure of the Month

~ I started a Rainy day fund last month but didn't really have something cute to put it in, well I found something this month. So I am officially "Feeding the Kitty" all of my change. LOL (Plus I am saving my pennies too, just in a separate tin cuz somehow you always end up with more pennies than anything else.)

~ Song of the Month: Living Addiction by Alex Goot

Matter of Fact, all of Alex's stuff is great! 

Here's a playlist with all of his songs

Your 101 in 1001 blogger,
            Jessy <3