Years ago, before kids, I used to paint my nails red or pink or tangerine. Or French tips. Last year, having purged many bottles of nail polish, I just had a few colors I would have on my toes (I do always have color on my toes) but for fingernails I only used clear or maybe the occasional pale shell pink.
But lately I have been taking an interest in my fingernails. Maybe it is because it is a part of my body that still looks good? Anyway, Hubs uses You Tube videos to learn how to fix something around the house and one day I looked for videos to show how to do a multi-color technique I saw in some Cover-Girl ad in a magazine. I found several videos that showed how you first paint your nails a pale shade close to white, and then you get a make-up sponge --the kind shaped like a triangle--and you paint your choice of two or three nail polish stripes onto the sponge and then dab on your nail. A layer of clear afterwards improves the look. I later became the cool aunt on a FL trip, demonstrating this technique. Here is one look:
So I have been buying nail polish in funky colors now (for when I am not visiting a client) and I now have blue and green. Here is what I did with the blue. Also, You Tube video girl had "squared off" nails so now I do that too instead of more rounded:
So maybe this is my new hobby now. Painting my face isn't the same anymore. I am ashamed that I was doing the walk/jog/run routine in March and that tapered off and I love long skirts that fold down at the waist now...... I took some selfies at the beach and found out that for all future photos I must raise my head as in the shot below. Either that or I am going to strategically place my hand/fingernails in front of my neck.
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