Howdy, folks! I can't believe October is almost gone. It just got here, didn't it? You wouldn't know it's October by the temperatures were still getting here in AZ. I can only hope that by Halloween our highs will only be in the high 80s. :::crossing fingers::: The evenings here are pretty gorgeous though. I definitely have nothing to complain about when it comes to that. Right now its 71 degrees out. It's the perfect weather to have dinner out on the patio of a restaurant, which I did last night with several of my girl friends. It was quite lovely.
So I have bought several of these Salon Effects kits and have never tried using them until a couple of weeks ago. I don't know what it was about them, but I think I thought they wouldn't work and I wasn't ready to flush what I spent on them down the drain so quickly. Well, I finally sucked it up and decided I would finally give them a try. I bought this set at Ulta for half off about 8 months ago! I opened the box and was ready to get down to business when I realize one of the sets of strips was missing. The box is supposed to included 2 sealed packets of the various sized nail polish strips- one for your right hand and one for the left. It's also supposed to have an orange stick and a small nail file. This box had the orange stick and one set of the nail strips. I was robbed!!! Lesson reluctantly learned. If you see these on clearance, check the box to make sure everything is there before you buy or be a sucker like me.
Because of the above, I decided to still use what I bought and came up with an accent nail mani using the Stud-io Time strips on every other nail, alternating with OPI's Sanguine. I'm not going to go into the application process because you can watch a fantastic video instead, if you would like: Nail Strip Application Tutorial.
I wasn't sure what to expect with these nail polish strips, but they turned out to be pretty cool. There was some very obvious lifting that occurred immediately on only my thumb nail near the cuticle line (I think I should have watched the tutorial first!). No matter how hard I pressed down on it, it kept popping up. Even still, it wasn't really a problem - it didn't get snagged in anything and pretty much stayed the same degree of separated the entire time I had them on, which was about 4 days.
Here's how to make the best of half of a box of nail polish strips:
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| You can really see the lifting up of the strip on my thumb in this one. :( |
Until next time. ☺
