Liebster Award #2

Hi guys!

So I've just been nominated by Beauty by Shortylegs for the Liebster Award. Thank you so much, lovely!! <3 This will be my second time being nominated and I don't think the thrill of people thinking I'm cool enough for this award will ever go away. I am so flattered and at the same time it makes me feel bad for not updating here as often! Time to remedy that.

I promise that I'm still highly into nail art but it's just coming along slowly because 1) I moved to a new country and the move has messed things up. I didn't bring ALL my nail polish with me - super sad about that - and my tools are everywhere (!!) so I definitely need to organize them into one spot.

2) I've been busy with college and stuff, gah. You saw lots of posts from me last year because I was taking a break from college thus all the free time haha.

3) I've surprisingly been blogging more on my main blog. I've just been more inspired to write there. If you miss me on here, please drop by my main blog that I share with my sister. We kick ass there. Please do not be overwhelmed by our seemingly endless reviews of animes - really into that these days. OH, nail art idea - favorite anime characters. Haha, would anyone want to see that?

And reason 4) for not blogging regularly - I brought a smaller laptop so nothing really works as fast anymore. I can't run Photoshop, I can't run many programs in the background (damn you, small hard disk), the keyboard drives me up the wall half the time and I didn't import my bookmarks so I've pretty much got nothing on this PC.

I'll work on creating more nail art and I'm slowly trying to look for all the nail blogs I used to follow T_T

Anyway.. Not to get sidetracked, I'll get right down to the award and stuff. Here are the questions and answers:

THE RULES:
* Answer the 11 questions set by the person giving you the award
* Nominate 11 other bloggers with 200 or less subscribers
* Come up with 11 questions for them to answer 

1. What are your thoughts on Organic/Natural makeup? Have you used a lot of it? Own any products that are Organic/Natural?

A makeup question. This will be interesting. Haha. I am not a makeup kind of girl. I'm still a noob at it. I can barely tell the difference between foundation and primer. Actually, I can't. Please send me instructional videos on makeup for beginners, thank you.

I'm not sure if any of the few beauty products I'm using are organic/natural but I'm pretty sure my mom does use it..... Almay, I think? Haha, told you I'm a noob.

2. Who is your top 5 favorite authors?

Oh, good question!!

Carolyn Keene - she started it all. My mystery-genre-loving side was inspired by all the crapload of Nancy Drew that I read as a kid. I was OBSESSED with Nancy Drew... and later the Hardy Boys (Frank and Joe made my 10-year-old heart skip a beat because why not? They're cute).

Meg Cabot - then along came The Princess Diaries. I LOVE the way she writes. It's so casual and relatable and makes you feel like you are actually living the character's life. Isn't that the way to go?! The Princess Diaries started my romance phase of reading and writing. I was all about the romance genre when it came to books and writing my own fiction. FOR YEARS. My favorite though would have to be All American Girl (but not the 2nd book). P.S: I never finished reading TPD, haha.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips - because Natural Born Charmer. Hands down my favorite 'adult' romance book ever. Dean and Blue forever. I don't even care that I sound like a teenybopper.

Barry Eisler - while I question John Rain's morals and principles, I don't question Barry Eisler's writing. He is a literary genius.

Robert Crais - because The Watchman. Because Joe Pike. Ever wished you wrote a particular book because of its astounding level of mind-blowing-ness (I made this word up)? Yeah, I totally wish I wrote The Watchman. Joe Pike is one of my all-time favorite fictional characters. He kicks ass and I only have Robert Crais to look up to for that. :d

You can actually never ask me to list only 5 but here are 5.

3. When you were a kid, who were your favorite artist(s)?

Artist as in bands/singers, right? Westlife. Backstreet Boys. Ronan Keating. The end. Okay, kidding. There were tons but these are coming up off the top of my head when I think of my childhood.

4. What is your favorite lipstick? If you do not wear lipstick what is your favorite lip balm or lip gloss?

Bath and Body Works's Liplicious - Black Cherry. I don't think they still carry it. If they do, PLEASE direct me to the exact store you saw it. I'm IN LOVE with it but I am so stingy with it because I don't want to finish it.

5. What is one of your biggest pet peeves? What annoys you to no end?

Just one? Okay. Rude AND unfriendly people. The ultimate combo. I have met so many in the past few weeks. I want to punch them in the face.

6. Let´s say that you have your entire day free of anything in particular that you have to do. What do you do when you just want to relax?

Surf the internet. Play. Write. Watch shows. Eat.

7. What is your favorite makeup brand?

I........ will just randomly say The Body Shop. Don't hate on me.

8. What is your favorite type of food?

Potatoes. Spuds, duh. ;) I like them any way.

9. Why did you start blogging and was it hard to decide what you wanted to blog about?

Excellent question. My mom thought it would be a good idea if my sister and I started one so she bought us our own dot.com. How awesome of her, right? This was 5 years ago. At first we blogged about a LOT of random stuff. Then last year after I created this nail blog, I was suddenly inspired to start blogging back on that blog. I wouldn't call our blog a lifestyle blog but I guess it is? So suddenly I find myself juggling 2 blogs.

10. When it comes to eye shadows, do you prefer loose eye shadows or pressed ones?

Loose, I guess. I've seen pressed eye shadows fall to the floor and crack. Not pretty.

11. Name your top 3 favorite nail polishes

Right now I am loving China Glaze - First Mate, China Glaze - Turned Up Turquoise and Essie - Naughty Nautical. Yes, they are shades of green and blue.

x

Whew! that was pretty long. And now I have to think of questions and nominees? This is not my favorite part today haha.

I nominate YOU. If you're reading this, pick this award up because I just nominated you! Have fun with it.

My questions:

1) Your favorite song at the moment is...?
2) What is your favorite season and why?
3) If you were a super hero what powers would you have?
4) What is your favorite holiday destination?
5) What shows are you currently watching or looking forward to watching? Bonus question: Who is excited for Game of Thrones season 4?!
6) What do you typically have for breakfast?
7) Where do you find yourself singing most often - in the shower/when you're doing dishes/while walking home/other? If other, where?
8) What was your favorite subject in school/college and why?
9) What is your fashion sense like? Practical/retro/preppy/etc?
10) What are some of your favorite quotes?
11) Do you have a driver's license? If yes, when did you get your license? If no, why not? (I'm throwing this question in because I don't have my license haha!)

There you have it. Random questions off the top of my head. I hope you answer them. If you don't want to answer them as an award (why would you not accept this award from me? T_T), you can always answer them in a regular post. Comment with your link, I'd love to read your answers!

That's it from me! Let me know what you think of my answers or if we share any of the same answers. That's always interesting.

Thanks for reading! x

My third feature! Thank you so much everyone!

Hey y'all! So today's post isn't about nails but it's just as exciting!

I opened my inbox not two minutes ago , only to find that I've been featured a 3rd time! SO EXCITING, I know! When I started linking up to these link-ups, I did not expect to ever be featured. I joined the link parties, just thinking that it would be nice to share my love for nail art and hopefully find others who appreciate it as well.

So it definitely came as a pleasant surprise when Pam (who hosts the Dare to Share Saturday Link Party) featured my nails..
 

And then last week I was featured on Karla's blog. If you didn't know, Karla hosts the That's My Style Link Party. It's a link party that you can link all things stylish. I love her link party so of course I was ecstatic when she told me that I was featured.

And then just now I received an email from Rose of Fine Craft Guild saying that I'm featured on her blog this week. I could not believe my eyes. I thought I had received the email by accident because you know, I'm the kind of person who finds it unbelievable that someone would like what I do enough to feature me. I need to work on that self-esteem, lol. But then I went over to Rose's blog and saw my bat nails and kinda freaked out.. in a good way.

So I guess what I'm trying to say in post is Thank you so much for featuring me!! Thank you for liking my nails! You have no idea how happy it makes me to see people loving what I do!

It may seem like a small thing to some people but it really does make my day.

Also, I appreciate every comment that I get - it really means the world to me when you comment and tell me that you like my nail art. I know a lot of people say that but I really, really do mean it and I hope you know that.

Thanks so much for reading everyone!

P.S: If nail art isn't really your thing, you can always look me up at my blog that I share with my sister.

How I made my images Pinnable

Hey everyone.

I don't have a nail post today but I would like to share something awesome with you! If you have noticed I've been joining lots of link parties recently - I LOVE discovering inspirational and down-to-earth folks in the blogosphere and I have found a few :D - and I've been dropping by random blogs to check blogs out. I've lost count of how many posts about potatoes that I've commented on today :P

Anyway, I stumbled on this Pinterest link party (omg, I can't remember what the exact name is, sorry) and I thought, a Pinterest hop? Cool... so how does this work? And I didn't read the rules properly (it was early, I wasn't fully awake yet, lol) and submitted my link. After submitting my link I reread the post and was like, omg no way. You're supposed to submit the Pinterest link of whatever picture you have from your blog but I submitted my post link.

And I was like, where the heck can I find this photo link?? Then it clicked in my head. It's the big [P] button in the center or upper corner of pictures that I've seen on other people's blogs. I was just wondering a day or two ago how to get those buttons.

So I did the only logical thing right then: I asked my mom (she's also a blogger and I'm sure some of you have seen her in some of the mommy blog hops). Mom, how do I get that Pinterest button that will allow people to Pin my pictures from my blog?? My mom's not the biggest Pinterest user so she didn't know.

So I did the next logical thing to do: I Googled how to make my images 'pinnable'. The first few links were bleh but then I visited this site which led me to this site and found the perfect tutorial that showed me how to insert the code into my blog to get the button. I followed the instructions and voila, now you can Pin my pictures to your heart's content... only if you want to. For those of you who've been meaning to make your images Pinnable or didn't know that such a function existed, now's your chance to do so. :)

Okay that's the story of how I made my images Pinnable. Hope you found the tutorial as helpful as I found it.

If you like, here are a few of my favorite nail designs that you can Pin.

Moving on, I don't know about you but everyone I know seems to be on Instagram. I'm not the biggest fan of Facebook which owns Instagram so I've been putting off making an account. It does seem to be the 'it' place.

Do you think I should make an account? 
Will I have fun there? 
Is it anything like Tumblr (I love it more than Pinterest, I'm sorry haha)? 
Also, should I make a Facebook account for my nail blog? 
Would you follow me on Insta and/or Fb??

Thanks for reading and I appreciate everyone's comments so much! xx

P.S: I am on Twitter and I love Twitter so you can always follow me there.

I found my one true love - Tiger Cam

I don't have a good nail post today - I've been busy, busy with lots of packing and going out - so I'm just going to share a SUPER CUTE LIVE video that will have you going, AWWWW!! wherever you happen to be. I mean, look at those two adorable innocent little balls of fur and their momma.

I LOVE big cats - tigers, cheetahs, leopards, jaguars, panthers, you freaking name it and I love 'em. In fact, it's so weird because I love all kinds of feline creatures except domestic cats. Yeaaahhh... I'm a dog person, not so much a cat person though if you find me a cat like Garfield, I wouldn't mind keeping him. A fat orange spaghetti-loving cat is for me.

Anyway, The Pet Collective is this AWESOME Youtube channel that streams baby animal videos live. I especially LOVED the pitbull, eagle, mini horse and most recent Labrador cam (the one with Buddy!).  This channel has been taking up so much of my time and every minute is worth it!

Did you already know of the existence of The Pet Collective? First timer? Cute, right? Which is your favorite cam? Come on, you know you can't resist cute puppies/kittens/eagles.

Thanks for reading and commenting <3 and be sure to check back for more nail posts coming!