The Weekly Nail Report

Nail-job craving: Subdued. After the teal shade I sported for my 8k race last weekend, I wanted something a little dull. (BTW, as I trudged up a difficult hill in my race, I actually thought to myself “No Boundaries”. Oh, and in case you were wondering, I haven’t yet chosen a shade for my half-marathon in six weeks).

How I satisfied that craving: Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Commander in Chic 370. That little ridge you see a few mm up from my cuticle? That’s a Shellac mani underneath–I get pretty tired of the regrowth and sometimes of the shade that I’ve started polishing right over my Shellac and Axxium manis before I go in to have it removed.

How this nail colour makes me feel: At the beginning it seemed a bit blah, a bit too muddy in tone to be interesting. But then it coordinated nicely with my outfit (but perhaps my nail colour inadvertently lead me to choose that outfit…).

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Leave a Comment April 8, 2011

UV update

This news ain’t gonna make Mike “The Situation” happy: researchers have discovered that it’s impossible to get a perfectly even, all-over tan (it’s the derriere that doesn’t get golden as easily).

And something else I’ve been meaning to look into that the New York Times has just provided me with the answer for? Those UV nail lamps. I’ve been using them more often than usual (have tested out both Shellac and Axxium manicures recently) and putting my digits under the lamps always make me a tad uneasy–I mean, what sets them apart from using a tanning bed? Nothing much, it turns out, and it appears that UV nail lamps “could be a risk factor”, according to this item from the NY Times.

5 Comments August 4, 2010