I'm a HUGE nail polish and nail art junkie. From the time I was a Senior in high school to when my second son was born I had acrylic nails. A brief history on my real nails, I never had a problem with growing my nails out or them breaking. I was actually able to grow them very long, I always had them painted and they almost seemed fake. Then I jumped on the fake nails wagon in the 90's and messed up my nails. I had the acrylics on for so long I just thought that my natural nails would never be the same. About 3 years ago I decided to take off my acrylics for good. I was pleasantly surprised how quickly I was able to get my nails healthy again. But I was sort of lost when it came to painting my nails. I did the boring one color with an occasional glitter topper once in a while but it was pretty boring. My friend at work was showing me all these different nail arts that she would love to have done on her nails but the nail places that did nail art were pretty pricey. As she was showing me she tells me that I could totally do this. I just looked at her like she was nuts! One of the nail arts she loved was a Cookie Monster design. I never did nail art ever! She sent me the picture and told me to try it..."I have faith in you" she says hahahaha. So that weekend I went to the swap meet and visited this nail booth I always see but never shopped at because I didn't know what to do with anything in there other than with the nail polishes. I took a look around and saw a lot of interesting tools and picked up quite a bit and some nail polish colors for the Cookie Monster design. At this time I had literally 4 bottles of polish. I think I spent less than $20 there and got a lot of neat stuff. Went home and started practicing. I surprised myself how easy it was and how good it turned out. I had a picture of it somewhere and I think I may have posted it on IG but I don't have one saved in my files right now. I got a lot of positive feedback and so begins my nail polish hoarding.
Below is what I started doing right after I took off my acrylics.
This was one of my first dotting tool manicures and trying out the Magnetic nail polish craze. My nails were starting to take on a nice shape and length here.
There are a ton of pictures on my personal and beauty IG accounts but I really got the hang of nail art and my polish collection really grew. I have over 100 nail polishes right now. It's cray-cray!
Then I did the unthinkable last week and got acrylics put back on again. I was in a rare funky mood with myself and my nails that week were just breaking off one by one. I was getting so annoyed and I happened to be right next door to a nail salon that I decided right then and there I was going to fix my mood. Do I regret getting them put on? Not really. Did I need to? Not really LOL But I did instantly felt better and I am still able to do nail art.
I had seriously scuffed up the polish that the lady at the nail salon did so I didn't take a picture of my nails. I went home and took off the polish and painted the design below.
I did a fresh mani today and I was feeling the purple and glam bling.
Overall I have not regretted getting acrylics again. It will be nice to get away and have someone clean up my cuticles and fill them in. I can handle the painting part lol Go to my Instagram pretty_obssessed to see more post on nail art.
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