Happy Valentine's Day 2013!!

Five (I think it was five years ago...) years ago on Valentine's Day I was heading with my five best college friends to all make Build-A-Bear stuffed animals and trade them with each other. We were all single and...as such...didn't have any strapping young lads to spoil us with candy, chocolates, stuffed animals, or flowers. I'm pretty sure my mom was the only one who sent me anything for Valentine's Day that year (how sad! Loved it though Mom!) Now, for the FOURTH Valentine's Day in a row, *warning this is where I get all mushy* I have the most incredible, handsome, loving, and caring sweetheart in the world to spoil me on Valentine's Day! I love you so much Andrew and I hope you have a wonderful day today, even when we can't be together. I can't wait until this weekend when I get to see you! I love you so much and am so lucky to have you as my Valentine again this year =D Thank you for always being by my side, having my back, and just generally being there for me. You are the best boyfriend EVER. And I mean that. <3

Now back to the nails: I decided on a light pink base (Zoya Nicole...because it's my name and was given to me as a random surprise from my sweets) and one of my new Zoya polishes for the design (Zoya Moxie because he had to have moxie to ask me to be his girlfriend three years ago!). It wouldn't be Valentine's nails without a heart so I added that to my ring finger, an A for Andrew, and "I love you" on my index finger.

Fun fact about my relationship with Andrew: We have never celebrated Valentine's Day on February 14th in person. I decided it will be our tradition to celebrate Valentine's Day either late/early...whatever works with our schedules.

I'm Making Waves (from the vault)

No matter what I do this photo is uploading on its side! Luckily, it takes nothing away from the design so I'm leaving it that way. You win computer! This one is a forgotten gem! Sometimes I'll save the picture to my computer but forget about it! Then I'll see it randomly and remember to post it. So please excuse the whole previous-post-nubby-nails to miracle-length-nail-growth in no time. These were polished maybe last month?

Inspired by: MKsNailDesigns

Today's post was taken from a YouTube video tutorial I watched by MKsNailDesigns. She has a few really good ones and if you're looking for inspiration or a nail design to do you should check her videos out! The one I used is here.

The original is black and white so I tweaked it a bit by changing the colors to a pearlescent white and navy blue. For this design I used: Sinful Colors Tokyo Pearl, Orly Witch's Blue, Orly White Out, and Kiss Brush On Nail Art Paint PA10 Silver Glitter.

Requested by Caitlyn: Rainbows

One of my law school buddies has the most adorable daughter ever who was shown this little blog here and came up with some ideas/challenges for me to try! Wahoo!! I love getting requests! Her list is short...and should be possible...but I'm notorious for over-estimating my manicurist abilities so we'll see how it goes. Today's post is the first in my "Requested by Caitlyn" series. Kicking off a list that includes giraffe, tuxedo, candycanes, gingerbread men, diamonds, Toadette and Mario (oh boy!), Yoshi, rainbows, and the phases of the moon (that's going to be intense...might have to steal from The Daily Nail for that one)...I started with rainbows!

And because I can NEVER leave well enough alone...I added some black to jazz it up!

My First French?? Really?

Always something exciting going on over here! My grades came in from this past semester at law school and...I kicked butt if I do say so myself!! I'm very very pleased and it was such a relief to start my second semester already knowing my GPA wasn't going to be a worry.

Anyway, after the results came in I decided to take a chance and I sent a bunch of cover letters and resumes to a few local law firms looking for a summer internship. Someone in Heaven is watching out for me and I got contacted by not one but TWO law firms to come in and interview!! Luckily, a huge part of my Christmas swag this year was professional attire so I knew just what to wear.
                                                                                  Me looking all fancy->

Officially, I have been offered both internship opportunities...so now I have to decide! Yay!!

Of course, even MORE important than the clothes...the nails. Because lawyers are conservative (boringgg) I took off my colorful manicure and replaced it with a simple French Manicure. It dawned on me that I don't think I've ever done a French on my own nails before. They came out clean and I'm still rocking them.

I've got a summer internship! WAHOO!

Sister S went on vacation!

S and her boyfriend went on vacation with his family to Hawaii this past week. I'm a little jealous because I love to chillax on a beach as much as the next person but I never get to go on vacation because I'm either broke or in school. Bummerrrr. Anyway, I love when S travels because she always spoils me with little goodies when she gets back. For her Hawaii trip S brought me some yummy chocolate macadamia cookies, chocolate coated macadamias, a hula girl pen, a sea glass bracelet, and hula girl post-its. Love it all!

Might be a little fancy for running but...

This hairstyle is one of my "go to" favorites because it's sooo easy to do and takes literally five seconds (or however long it takes you to french braid your hair). If you're ever running late or short on time just give this a try. All you need is a tiny hair elastic (easier to hide when you flip the braid in) and a spin pin or two.

All you have to do is french braid your hair (secure it with the elastic) and then flip it (and secure with a spin pin or two). See? It's that easy!

City Nights

Just found this while I was stumbling around on my computer. I miss my city weekends with the boyfriend.

Happy New Year from Zoya!!

I loooooove these deals!! You can pick any 3 Zoya polishes you want and the total is only the cost of shipping!

For this sale I'm going to have two additional people order with me so I can get: Moxie, Indigo, Natty, Crystal, Kristen, Lotus, Jo, and Zuza! Zuza is definitely going to be my favorite!

Caviar Manicure

Today's manicure is a Caviar Manicure a la Ciate paint pots. 

Never did a manicure like this before but I really like the texture and the look of it a lot. Hopefully the beads will stay put for longer than an hour though. I might be trekking back to my parent's house this weekend and I'd like my mom to see it intact!

For this look I used: Ciate Power Dressing and Ciate Caviar Pearls in Prom Queen.