Yesterday's Nails: Crazy Navy

I wanted to preface this by saying that I am not normally one to show a gazillion pictures of the same manicure, but for this one, I felt that several pictures were necessary to show just how pretty this was.  This is 2 coats of OPI Russian Navy and 1 coat of Klean Color Chunky Holo Bluebell...

I had been wanting to dig Russian Navy out of the depths of my storage container for a few days.  Russian Navy is one of those colors that it took me several uses to like it.  When I first got it, right after the OPI Russia collection came out, I loved it in the bottle, but hated it on the nail.  At the time, I had acrylics, and I thought it just was too much on the long nails.  However, once I tried it on shorter nails, I liked it much more.  Unfortunately, right after I applied my manicure, I got tip wear (grrr), so I decided to apply something over top.  My first thought was to do glitter tips and then I saw Klean Color Chunky Holo Bluebell in my glitter/holo drawer.  I adore these Klean Color Chunky Holos.  Bluebell is a slightly blue base with random-sized multi-chrome (green, gold, red) glitter.  I think this is a fabulous combo.

Makeup.com 5 Tips for a Long-Lasting, Marathon Manicure

Recently, I was contacted by a beauty editor for Makeup.com to submit a tip for a long-lasting manicure.  My tip was to properly prep your nails by using a dehydrant, as well as a sticky base coat.  I am so happy that they used my tip, that I wanted to share it with you.  Please click here to go the article on makeup.com.

My tip is #5, and there is also some great information in there from 4 other bloggers, as well as Essie Weingarten, so be sure to check it out.

By the way, the picture at the top of the article is of my nails and I am wearing OPI Designer Series Desire.

Blog Roll Maintenance and Blogger Round Ups

A few days ago, I looked at my blog roll and realized that many of the blogs on there are no longer live or haven't been updated in awhile.  Now, I realize I'm the last person to say something about someone not updating a blog and I completely realize that life gets in the way, but I still wanted to take some time to clean up my blog roll.  I want to delete older, inactive blogs and list newer blogs that never made it to my list before my hiatus.  Over the next week, I will be checking all of the blogs listed in my blog roll and any blog that hasn't been updated in 6 months will be taken off my blog roll.

I am mentioning this because I think it gives me the perfect opportunity to list some of the new blogs.  If you have a blog or a blog that is not currently on my blog roll, and you would like to be listed in my blog roll, please reply to this post and I will be more than happy to list your blog when I am in the process of cleaning up the list.

Also, I wanted to mention that I will be planning on restarting the Blogger Round Ups.  There are so many new blogs out there that I want to do these again to help as many new bloggers as I can.  For now, if you would like to be in the Blogger Round Up, simply reply to this post.  When I add you to my blog roll, I will also create a Blogger Round Up post.  The next Round Up post will be on Friday, 3/9/2012.

Going forward, I will reopen my Blogger Round Up form.  Once I start the round ups, I will begin using information gathered from that form for any new participant.

Before I slacked off on the blog, I know several of you filled out my Blogger Round Up form, and I never listed your blog.  If you have previously filled out the Blogger Round Up form, please let me know by replying to this post and I will find your information and add you to my blog roll, follow your blog, and list you in the Blogger Round Up.