Today's manicure

I'm in the process of learning about makeup, nail polish, etc. I never really had anyone to show me or teach me about these things, and I was teenager when the Web was new so back then we didn't have eHow or YouTube to learn from. Tutorials just weren't around on the Web yet, and I have zero close female friends to learn from, so I've been pretty much on my own here. I spent the better part of the past 10 years or so not wearing any makeup and rarely doing my nails! I just recently got interested in it again, so it's been a learning experience for me, at the age of 32. Better late than never, I suppose. So, one of the things I want to do with this blog is demonstrate what I'm doing, and hopefully get some feedback. I plan to view more tutorials, and add links as well. I realize this doesn't really fall into the "samples" category, but it's all about getting stuff for free, and knowledge gained through the Web definitely falls into the free category; sampling different techniques also falls into that category! I know I said I wasn't going to post a bunch of different nail polish techniques and how-to, but I will post samples of what I'm doing... and besides, I have a ton of really old nail polish (15, 20 years old) which I thought some of you might enjoy seeing. Oldies but goodies!

That being said, here's my manicure of the day :)

The white is O.P.I.'s Don't Touch My Tutu! The middle color is Sally Hansen's Chrome Royal Purple and the dark purple is Wet n Wild's Precious Metals Zealous. 3 coats of the O.P.I. on top of a fortifier, 2 coats of the Wet n Wild, and 1 coat of the Sally Hansen. The O.P.I. color is brand new, the Sally Hansen color I'm not sure how old it is, but you can find it on Amazon for about $7. The Wet n Wild color is pretty old as far as I can remember. I did a quick search online for it, and didn't find anything.

I will point out that these pictures were taken with my phone so the quality isn't that great. Also, I'm awake at night so all photos are taken with a flash. The first photo of the Sally Hansen polish is pretty true to the color in the bottle.

I had a lot of trouble trying to photograph the Wet n Wild color, it simply did not want to photograph true to it's color. It's a really pretty shade of purple, though! I think it looks best in the O.P.I. photo. This is the best picture I could get of the bottle, unfortunately.

Edit: I finally broke down and took out my good camera to get some better pictures :) The last two photos are the new ones!

edit as of 4/3/13: I don't know what happened to my photos.. they're missing from my blog photos for some reason. I'll have to hunt them down sometime and see if I can re-upload them.