I went out this weekend to do some grocery shopping and to hunt down some items for some swaps I was doing. My husband decided to have some father daughter time so I could have some mommy time while I did all this. You have no idea how much I needed this little bit of time to myself! I ended up finding most of what I wanted for my swaps. I was so excited! I even found a small amount for myself. I got home and I had a huge bag of goodies from Andrea at Finger Painting Fingers! I will post pics of my mini haul and nail mail next. 

Oh, how I've missed you guys! I enjoyed revamping my page, but I've missed painting my nails and sharing with you all. It's silly how, once you get into the swing of things with a beauty blog, the stupidest little cut can kinda put you out of commission for a bit. At least is was only 3 days! I had to wait for the cut to heal so I could use remover without putting myself through a lot of pain. I knew I had to do something fun for my first post back. I asked my husband what color I should do, he said violet, but unfortunately I don't have any violet polishes. :o( Everything is either really light and lavender or super dark. I guess I need to focus on some in between shades of purple. Anyway, on my hunt for a purple that could be called violet I came across some pinks. More specifically, Max Makeup Cherimoya Matte.n.a Fairytale. It's a silvery bubble gum matte pink. I LOVE it! But then, I love the 16 Matte.n.a polishes I have and I need to find out how I can get the other 16.

I recently got a nasty cut on my finger while chopping onions. I'm sorry it put my posts out of commission for a few days, but I got a chance to revamp some things. Yesterday, I decided I had had enough and Maggie and I really needed to mani/pedis. Instead of diving straight into smothering my hand in acetone, I tested things by taking off Maggie's polish. No issues!! I was so happy! After that, I couldn't wait to get her in bed so I could finally chance my nail color. 3 days of the same colors was driving me batty! I told Maggie to go pick a color and she came back with this... 

So, we had fun plans this weekend to get out and drive up to Gettysburg and explore (the outlet mall). haha Then it decided to rain all weekend. There goes that plan. Even better, we had fun pajama days and watched movies, had dance parties and the best part of the whole weekend... laundry!! :o) To brighten my rainy days, I got some nail mail!! Nothing huge, but I'm still very excited about them!!

So many people have been doing neon manis. It's been rainy and gloomy in these parts lately, so I figured I would grab the few I had and do one as well. The only neon polishes I have are matte, and I just got my first matte top coats. So I was also excited to finally be able to use the polishes as they were meant to be used... matte... not glossy! My nails look like highlighters right now. I feel like I'm back in high school Yes, I used to paint my nails with highlighters when I got bored in class sometimes... who didn't?!

In my nail mail post yesterday, I showed you all a beauty I got from Finger Painting Fingers by Hard Candy called Beetle. This polish is absolutely stunning in the bottle. It took me forever to get my post up yesterday because I kept staring at the bottle. This is what kept distracting me...

I've received some good nail mail the past couple days! I got an email last week saying I still had credit on Copious. If you haven't been, it's pretty decent. When you sign up, you are given a $10 credit. So you can get some items for "free". I have to put it in quotes because technically they have to charge at least a penny for each purchase. They have just about anything other than groceries on there. Check it out! I've made 3 purchases from there so far and have gotten my items very quickly. I was eyeing a couple Sinful Colors polishes on there but by the time I went to check out, they were already sold. The next thing that caught my eye was this Milani. I hadn't tried any of their products yet and this one I saw was actually a lot of 2. So, why not! I can try one then I'll put one aside for a giveaway or a swap later on. So, here's my mini nail mail from Copious.

Last night I REALLY wanted to try my first tape mani. I failed miserably and will be trying that again at a later date. Then, I thought I would attempt a sponge mani. Once again, I failed miserably. At that point, I decided to try something different. After my dark Grimm inspired mani, I wanted something bright and cheerful. I had 3 bright colors and a sparkly top coat from my previous failed manis that I knew I needed to use. 

Today, when Maggie went down for her nap, I took the opportunity to catch up on last week's episode of Grimm and do my nails. I'm really loving this show and the darkness in it, when normally I have a special place in my heart for teen shows (don't ask me why, I do not know). After my bright orange mani yesterday, I decided to go the opposite direction... dark and mysterious. Not a great mani, my cuticles are now dyed red. Clean up was a B!*&@! And still didn't get everything. I'm definitely investing in a clean up brush this weekend! 

I finally had time to do a new mani today! I'm working on my time management in doing all my everyday things with Maggie, couponing, blogging and actually be able to do my manis. In a perfect world I'd change it everyday (not to match my outfits, just to do it), but let's face it... this world is far from perfect! :o) I'm settling for every other day at the moment. I wanted something fun and vibrant today. I wanted something pink so badly, but then I reached for orange! I love it so much! It's so simple (it got messy towards the end because Maggie woke up and wanted food), but pretty. I think that's the theme of most of my manis. So, here we go!!

The Friday before Easter, I finally got my email from Birchbox letting me know it was my turn to sign up. I was sooooo excited! So excited in fact that I just forwarded the email to my husband cause I was too excited to fully explain to him exactly what it was and go through the whole shebang.  He got sent away for the majority of the weekend for work (which is why I missed the Cult Nails sale), but he surprised me and signed me up for Birchbox before he left. He's so good to me! Well, yesterday, I got my April box! I was a lot excited and only slightly disappointed. Watch my video, you'll understand why. :o) I'll post links to the full sized products of what I got after the video. Hope you guys enjoy!! 

My Wocka Wocka inspired mani was so bad I couldn't wait to get it off my fingers. I never got a chance to touch my nails over the weekend so I had to change it late last night. Everyone kept saying "blue mani", so that's what I did. I'm so happy with this mani! It's not as pretty as the Purple Rain/White Veil mani I did, but it's pretty (except for my clean up job which I had no idea about until I was resizing pictures - so please excuse that). Now, because I did this mani so late at night, I wasn't able to take pictures due to the lack of places to take pictures in good lighting when there is no sun. There will be no step-by-step pictures this time, but there won't be a lack of photos!