It's Friday pumpkin!!!

Yay!! Its finally Friday!! I have some amazing things going on for next week and I think that's why I am so excited an happy its Friday. This week feels like its been going on for forever. 

First of all, I have been blessed with an amazing neighbor. She is my sons' friends mother (lol! I know it sounds weird). She has offered to help me out with my kids so I can go back school which is awesome!! All she asked is for me to switch my daughters' pre-k schedule; totally doable so I did it. So starting Monday she'll be watching both my kiddos for me M,T & W taking my daughter to school and picking up all the kids after school for only $15 a day which is very reasonable considering my last sitter wanted $30 a day and she wasn't able to pick them up. So I get to go back to school starting Monday!!! Yay!!

But onto other things. So I had posted I did my own nails; a full set of acrylics which I wasn't very pleased with. They started lifting and I was needing a fill bad. So I took them off, which I realize now was a bad idea cause my nails are now super thin and severely bruised (at least my pink is :( ). I must have done it wrong, but i di it exactly they way they taught in school so i don't know what happened. So after bruising the crap out of my nails I went on pinterest looking for a easier less painful way to get the acrylic off your nails and found this

27 Nail Hacks For The Perfect DIY Manicure

Amazing right!? All kinda of cool DIY stuff for a perfect manicure I was so very happy when I found I haven't tried everything on there but I will ;) But anyways if you scroll down to #15 it shows you how to take off a gel manicure pretty simple and its stuff you have at home (if you do your nails as often as I do you rarely run out of this stuff). So I though hmmmm.......ok so I should be able to do this with acrylic right? WRONG! Well at least not with a regular acetone or non-acetone polish remover. So I was like ok I need to find another polish remover. So I went to my local Walmart and found this ---->

Onyx Professional Soak Off Gel & All Nail Coatings

I was ify of whether or not this would actually work. But figuring that it wouldn't hurt to try it I soaked some cotton balls in this and wrapped a few fingers that still had acrylic on them with aluminum foil and left it on for about 30-minutes maybe longer. When I went to take the foil off the acrylic came off with the cotton ball no scarping no pain involved. I am in love!! <3

It saved a few of my finger nails but I bruised the crap out my pinky nail and all my nails are so thin its ridiculous so I went on a mission today looking a a nail strengthener and repair and found one. But you'll have to wait til tomorrow to see what it is. Have a great Friday everyone thank you for stopping by :)

It's Been Awhile

Sorry for not updating you all but I have been insanely busy with school, kids, babysitters and just drama in general.

But i will give you all an update on what I have done so far in school. First I just want to tell you that I am in Phase 2 of school. That's right I past my first phase which was much more difficult than I thought it was going to be.

In Phase 1 I learned how to do a proper manicure, which you would think is pretty simple right? Wrong. I learned I have been giving my self a manicure the wrong way for years and I suck at putting nail polish on the right way that's for sure lol! But this will get better with time and practice. I also learned Infection Control. Meaning the DO's and DON'Ts when comes to nail care and your salon. Now I am just shocked at all the places I have gone to where I could've caught a fungus because of the way they do things (makes shiver ewww...).

I also learned how to do fiber glass nail wrap. Which in my opinion is way easier than acrylic but everyone is different. You can see for yourself tell me what you think here's a pic.

I had to do 5 of these Fiber Glass Nail Wrap

We also learned how to do pedicures, funguses, touched base a little on reflexology and the DO's and DON'Ts of pedicures.

Now I hate people touching my feet I am insanely ticklelish and a little self concisous about my feet. Long story short, I had a really bad wart problem on both feet got made fun of for it when I was in school had surgery got them removed but I still don't like people touching my feet, my husband doesn't even touch my feet.
I think pedicures are my thing. I like doing them and I feel I do a really nice job. Unfortunately when we did pedicures in school I didn't take pics but my classmate was pretty happy with her pedi :)

As it got closer to the end of Phase 1 we studied a lot for our phase out exam (both written and practical). But also during this time learned how to do acrylic nails and gel nails. I honestly didn't realize how much time and patience goes into doing acrylics and gels, I thought it was going to be super easy. No such luck but I did pretty good job on both, well at least that's what my teacher said she was really happy with my work. I do have pictures so I'll let you be the judge of that
So the first pic is acrylics that I did on a classmate.

Full set of acrylics on my classmate Krystal. She has naturally long nails so I didn't have to do much.

The gels on the other hand were a pain to do. I understand why people get them but good lord they are hard to do. Those I'm not happy with I wanted them to turn out better but I did the best I could not using a drill. Here's a pic.

These were done with CND (Creative Nail Design) Brisa Lite gels

Not my best work but my teacher liked the way it turned out. Probably would've turned out better if I used a drill to file instead of filing by hand but none the less this is the finished product on my mannequin hand.

And finally my phase out day. We did our practical first thing that morning which was ok but I wish I would've practiced more. I got a 73 for my phase out which is passing but really close to failing. To celebrate we did a potluck which was even more fun. But unfortunately I had to take leave of absence from school and I'm missing it and hating life right now.

That's all for now I'll update again when I go back to school which I'm hoping will be really soon.