Sara’s Weekly Whatever, still crying inside after the Super Bowl edition

I know it’s been almost a week, but there’s a part of me that’s still crying inside. WHY WOULDN’T YOU BEAST IT?!?!! Anyways, back to the star of the show, Sara.

Super Bowl nails may have been my first use of tape, was a pain in the ass, but I Hate giving up, so I invented this design just to do a second attempt at tape. It worked well!

red : New York Color Long wearing nail enamel Broadway Burgundy Frost

green : Sinful Colors Professional nail color Last Chance

Scotch tape

For this design I cut blocks and strips of tape

Tape nails first!

Use a strip to cover full tip (area covered will determine how thick the finished tips are)

Place a block piece of tape, making certain to center nail laterally and, this piece of tape extends to cover full lateral half of nail. A bit redundant, but results are worth it. It helps stabilize the small tip strip so it doesn’t wiggle or other “fun” things.

At this point, you should have a bare squarish shape on each nail.

Paint the bare area green.

For mostly straight, sometimes jagged edges, wait about 15 seconds, peel tape Slowly, the bits that stretch and are stringy are the jagged edges.

For crisp clean lines, allow green to dry then slowly remove tape.

You have a blocky green shape on otherwise bare nails.

At this point, if you want to neaten the green, do it before final step.

Final step is to just carefully paint the tips, and you’re done.

And some bracelets to go with the design.

Sara’s Weekly Whatever, after sickness edition!

Quick question before I launch into the intro for Sara…..does anyone here have any experience formatting e-books properly? I Want to add mine to the Smashwords catalog, but they say it’s not formatted right. Getting very frustrating, especially since I have to commandeer my friend’s computer to work on it! Rather get help from someone who enjoys my writing than from some random guy I don’t know.

Okay, that’s enough complaining for the day. Feeling much better, just a bit of a tickle left in the back of the throat. Should be back to our normal posting routines now that we’ve kicked the crap! So, without further ado, I give you the woman of the hour. My lovely wife, Sara!

Been sick for far too long for my liking. I’m doing much better, wasn’t able to think clearly at all for several days among other things, was also clumsier than usual too. Weather is getting colder, so I followed suit and switched out the rest of my summer clothes for long sleeves and thicker fabrics, switching out colors in the process. Been looking stuff up, the trending colors for this season and month so far have been pink (all shades), strong cobalt blues,teal, emerald greens and woodsy browns, deep wine reds and berries, also leather and lace of varying colors have been popular too. Metallics are having a Big moment in clothes and makeup. These are the following trending metals, rose gold, silver ( bright, antique) bright gold,and I think copper too.

Woot! Seahawks play Sunday at 10am!! I might put up a game day makeup look before game starts or after if I’m running late.

After washing face and plucking eyebrows, I first applied a light wash of the pale green found in the bottom triangle of Rimmel’s Glam’eyes trio eyeshadow in Tempting. It went on browbone , crease , not on lids. On eyelids I used two colors from Milani’s Autumn Earth eyeshadow quad. Used the green in a few layers, turning up the saturation level. I then chose the red to line under bottom lashes and to line top eyelashes, flicking out past top lashline for a personal touch on the cat’s eye look. Finished eyes by using Maybelline’s Great Lash mascara in Blackest Black on both top and lower lashes. For lips, a well blotted stain of Milani’s Bonfire lipstick, with a sheer glossy layer of Covergirl’s Blackberry Splash Wetslicks fruit spritzers.

Swirls of reds and greens

leaves falling, spinning

seen,

then unseen

A mixture of greens, reds, cranberries, with leaves,clear drops, stripes of black rainbow patina and the gray cylinders are hematite.

Painted half of each nail using Revlon’s Rain Forest Colorstay Longwear nail enamel in the usual two coats. On the other side after the green’s dried, I applied a bright red,NYC Long Wearing Nail Enamel’s Broadway Burgundy Frost used three coats for a more saturated hue. Went over minor mistakes with a third coat of Rain Forest. I really like the pairing of these two similarly glittered colors. They both feature tiny specks and flecks of glitter that contrast with base color,are big enough to empart some sparkle and small enough to not look “cluttered” and easily comes off.

Here’s a close up of the colors.

Here’s two of the trees I’ve made out of wire and various types of beads.

Tree is modeled after those viewed during autumn.

This one is inspired by palm trees and a summer breeze, there’s even some coconuts hidden under the leaves. Both trees stand on their own.

Sara’s Weekly Whatever: Breast Cancer Awareness

I love my wife, she’s a wonderful woman who is so loving and undestanding. So don’t be upset at her for the lateness of these posts. It’s all my fault for not buying the parts I need yet. Then again, you need money to buy that stuff. Either way, here’s the star of today!

That’s okay, sexy. I Love you anyways.

Seahhawks nails

I felt like doing something different, so I devised a stripe cheat cause I don’t use tiny brushes only toothpicks. First I painted nails twice with Rimmel’s 60 Seconds Vinyl Shine in Denim Dreams. Once certain it was dry, I then used Sally Hansen Chrome Nail Makeup in Titanium Chrome on about half my nails, used two coats, waiting extra time between to prevent heavy streaking.

I then started to use Pure Ice’s Lucky Charming to lightly tip nails. It looked okay, but I could do better. I thickened the green converting it into a bolder stripe causing the silver to become more of an accent and the green ended upbalancing the blue better.

No bracelet pic, wore the usual quad for gamedays.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Feels like if its not Halloween or autumnal, then its pink for breast cancer. Practically Everything…….All this funding and still no marketed cure. There’s a cannabis derived oil that’s helping some fight cancer, There’s also a berry from the Blushwood Tree. It’s newly discovered from Austrailia. Can get more info –> http://bit.ly/1y3YLCq . Well here it is. Pink for breast cancer!

Nail pic

Here’s a trick for the half moon manicure I figured out.

First paint your full nails the color you want your half moon accent to be. I chose to apply Scherer’s Chameleon in a pale barely there metallic pink called Ballerina. Most use stencils, dots, other things at this point. I then applied a few coats of NYC Long Wearing Nail Enamel in Plumberry Plaza carefully leaving a half moon shape at cuticle base. I deemed the accent shape too light so went over the pale pink with a bright pink from the same line as the pale. It’s called Heat.I then reapplied the dark berry to cover up minor mistakes. Heat catches the light and is a really fun new take on the autumn pallette especially with Plumberry Plaza. May do more similar color pairings.

Bracelets pic

Colors of cranberries with palest pink accented with bubblegum, black with rainbow patina, and a touch of magenta. All glass seed beads on elastic stretch cord.

Makeup pic

Only used three colors of eyeshadow and black mascara.

First applied Maybelline’s Roller Color in Go-Go Rose to crease and browbone. It’s a shimmery light pink. I then used two colors from Milani’s Autumn Earth quad, the soft ivory and brick red.The red went on eyelids and lined lower lashes. Afterwards, I layered the ivory over it for a softer feeling, more flowers, less rebel. Topped it off with a few generous swipes of another Maybelline product, their mascara, Great Lash in Blackest Black on upper eyelashes.

For my lips I did a sheer well blotted wash of a dark berry lipstick, Milani’s Black Cherry. Then used a gloss, Covergirl’s Wetslicks Fruit Spritzers in Blackberry Splash over the lipstick. These colors really made my hair and eyes stand out. I especially enjoyed the contrast of the soft green of my hair with the light pinks and bold berries of varying shades and hues…My hair looks faded in this pic, now’s the time to redye it.

She threatened to beat me with a skillet if I didn’t let her do this!

Haha! Told you all I’d get the woman more involved! She even came to me wanting to do this, and I encourage her. She needs to get out of her shell and quit being antisocial.

Bracelets Sara Made

Riley is a lying Shithead…he’s forcing me to do this….well, bribing me, actually. -.-
hand pic : Normally I don’t partake in fads, but today’s bracelet grouping influenced me to try the ‘accent nail trend’ especially since the selected nail polishes coordinate with the bracelets.
Both colors are Pure Ice, the metallic pastel purple is New Lilac. Green with golden shimmer dust is Lucky Charming. Wearing two coats of the purple, three of the green. Green is very sheer as a single layer so i added two more to achieve a saturated sparkly nail.

bracelet pic:I’m wearing these today. Made all, save for the flowered one, which was a gift. Beads are a motley of glass, pearls and plastic bound by elastic cord
~SLW~