Nail Tip: How to Paint the Opposite Hand with Ease!

This may be the dorkiest post I have ever done and this tip may just sound totally uncreative but it works well for me and in using this tip, my right hand now looks just as neat as my left hand when it comes to my painted nails. You know that we all have this problem with our coordination in the hand opposite to the one that we write with while attempting to paint our own nails. I used to just sit at the table or stand at my counter to paint my nails but I was missing the elbow support that one needs for a well-balanced, steady, polish application. It wasn't enough to have had my wrist resting on the hard surface I was doing my nails on. So I started to do this: I sit on the ground with my knees bent, feet on the floor, and nail polish bottle conveniently placed in between my knees for easy accessibility. In this position, you can rest your whole forearm on your leg while painting the opposite hand. The elbow support is the key to a neat and precise application. No more do-overs and no more uneven applications. Unless someone comes and bumps you or you drop that polish out from in between your knees, then you're pretty much screwed. Tight grip ladies, tight grip. Here are some really lame photos to give you the idea of proper polish position.

I give my 5 year old credit for taking this photo for it was the only place that the lighting was decent, I don't really do my nails sitting on the stairs.

Like I said, make sre you have a tight grip on that polish bottle, its kind of a thigh workout while you paint.

Oh, nail polish featured in today's post is Essie Lapis of Luxury, currently available @ most drustores and Wal Mart and highly recommended.

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OPI Chip Skip: Does it Help to Skip the Chip or Not?

OPI Chip Skip works as a base coat to adhere your nail polish and give it something to grab on to, in attempt to get it to stay put. At first glance, I thought this was a super odd formula in that it looks like water when you shake the bottle around. The brush is very teeny and you don't apply it quite like you would any normal polish because it dries before you can even see where you put it. Rather, I had to lay the brush on its side and swish back and forth to get a proper amount of product on the nail. The formula instantly absorbs onto the nail leaving you wonder if you even applied enough for it to do the job. In order to avoid being hasty with my judgment, I wanted to use this stuff a few times to give it a fair shot. It wouldn't be exactly accurate if say, I used the product, and went about my day bleaching my bath tubs or scrubbing the inside of my oven and then reporting back that my nails were chipping and it was all Chip Skip's fault! Rather, I've used the product several times with the same results, leaving me to surmise, that OPI Chip Skip is totally worth skipping. Rather than being a "Chip Protector", it acts more like a "Chip Provider." Below is a photo of me wearing three coats of Essie Lapis of Luxury over OPI CS and under one coat of Seche-Vite. In order to be even more efficient, I've used a couple of different top coats while testing out the OPI CS. One good thing I can come away from this experience with is that the Essie polish I used is an absolutely gorgeous periwinkle shade that I will be using over and over.

This is what I used to paint my nails on Thursday and this is what my nails looked like by late Saturday:

Essie Lapis of Luxury over OPI Chip Skip (after 2 days of wear, above)


Reminder! Now through May 27th, Urban Decay Naked Palette Contest:

Like a broken record, I will be re-posting my contest link time and time again so that I don't lose my original contest post in the sea of new posts I'm writing.Why not just re-post the original? Because then I would have entries on several different versions instead of just the one. So I am just going to annoyingly remind you daily, maybe even hourly, that there is a contest and you are free to enter. See below for details and please read the instructions!

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