Bettina Sunkissed and Green-Plus Return of the Funky!

For my people out there who battle acne like I do, I've switched to something new.  I went fourteen months straight using Ole Henricksen.  Twice a day without once missing a day and it worked at the beginning, but then the acne started back up.

I was watching YouTube videos, Wayne Goss, who does makeup and he was touting Acne.Org. I went to that site (I linked it for you) and read from top to bottom.  What this guy had to say made sense to me.  He says that irritated skin is acne skin and the ProActiv is too strong in it's Benzoyl Peroxide, which I have to agree as I tried the updated version and my face was red and flaky in like one day.

This Regimen they call it, is three steps.  Wash, treat, moisturize.  The concept is using way more cleanser than you would imagine as the more you use, the slippery it is and the less likely you are to irritate your skin by rubbing it.  The thick lather just glides over your skin and you literally only wash for ten seconds! Now I will say it does NOT remove eye makeup.  I tried.  I also am not sure ten seconds is enough time when you have a full face of makeup on, so I have been doing a few more seconds on those times.

The first week, you only do the Benzoyl Peroxide once a day working up to two full pumps, like the cleanser twice a day by week two.  Then the moisturizer-two full pumps! At first, I was like damn that's a ton of product, but if you think about it, dry skin makes oil which makes acne and the Benzoyl is drying the crap out of your skin so you have to replace that moisture.  I got the Jojoba oil with my kit to add that to the moisturizer.  My problem is trying hard to not get it around my eyes. There is so much product you are using, that I'm having difficulties!

It takes a lot longer to do your face because you have to wait 5-15 minutes between each step for your face to dry and absorb that step.  So far it's been a week and I can already see my nose black heads are cleaner.  I cheated and decided I'd skip the week-by tomorrow, it'll be time to increase the Benzoyl to two pumps twice a day. My current issues are eye dryness and neck dryness.  I'm extremely conscientious of not getting the BP on my eyes or neck, but since you are using so much moisturizer, it must be creeping as I have had a red neck rash and dry eye lids from hell.

I wrote the company and all they did was copy and paste the detailed instructions to say make sure you are following this to the letter.  We know the beginning sucks as you will have dry skin, but keep it up and you will see results.  All I can say right now, is my skin is clearer than it's been-but it's only been a week so far. I didn't appreciate the non answer I got from the company.

The other thing is you wash your hands between each step.  So you don't add bacteria to your clean face.  My big thing is that I touch my face a lot-plus I'm a horrible picker.  I'm trying very hard to not do that! I got the 16oz five piece set on subscription as it was the most cost effective. Note that this is not fancy packaging whatsoever.  That is to help pass on the savings to you.  Personally, I just want something to work, I could care less about the packaging.

Oh and those of you who watch YouTube makeup videos-do you find it weird to watch men put makeup on?

I ain't going to lie, I do.  There are two I like, one is Wayne Goss, which I mentioned but also MannyMua.  At first I was like-nope I just can't, men shouldn't wear makeup, but Manny's personality cracks me up big time and I've gotten to like him a lot.  I tried watching Jeffree Star and nope, just couldn't.

Don't hate me for that.

Now those that have been with me the LAST FIVE YEARS, will remember my funky french. It was my way of easy nail art and I loved mixing different colors together.  I thought bringing that back would maybe keep me going for now in polish.

Here is Bettina Sunkissed and Green.

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I just felt like Spring yellow and green! I hope you like this!!!

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?

Enchanted Polish Faerydae

Now for those of you who pay attention, you know how important music is to me.  Plus you should know that since I was sixteen, the Violent Femmes has and will always be, my all time favorite band.

Just imagine my total and utter happiness when I found out that they had put out an EP of four songs and a brand new album early March!!! You bet I bought it the second it was released.  I then proceeded to listen to it on repeat for four days straight.  Yes I now have all the songs memorized. My faves are Good For/At Nothing, I Could Be Anything and Issues.  Of course, I love all of the songs.

I bought both the digital version and the CD. I was hoping the CD would have an insert with information, but it didn't.  It just showed how rode hard and put away wet they look now.  Gordan Gano has the voice of a god in my opinion.  I cannot stop listening to it.  It's on now as I've been typing these last three posts.  I had no idea they were even working on an album.  It's been fifteen years and they haven't even been playing together for years.

I've seen them at least five times in person.  I just hope they keep making music.  It makes me happy.

OH!!! And for those who got on the adult coloring book wagon with me-Johanna Basford has put out another book called The Lost Sea.  She also has two on preorder at Amazon.com.  One is a jungle theme, the other is a Christmas one.  I haven't preordered yet, but they are in my cart.  I also bought a big box of crayons, thinking that would be better than the pencils.  I haven't tried them yet.

The pisser is that when I got the box of 96 crayons, the outside picture shows the colors all sorted. Well they aren't on the inside.  I felt that was kind of sh*tty.  So I dumped them all out and organized them myself.

Yeah, it's the OCD in me.

For those who read Stephen King, he has a new book on preorder for June.

Now, let's look at this beauty for today. Yes it's pink, but man is it a stunner.  My only complaint it that it is another microglitter.  So yeah, it's a b*tch to remove.  Worth it more than last posts blue one.

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Indoor Sun

Oh how gorgeous is this???? And check out my nail length.  I did some filing and the three weeks I went without polish, I technically was wearing the Zoya Naked Manicure collection.  Since then, I've still been using the naked base and I'm not sure if that's helping, or just the warmer weather.  But for now, I'll take the nail length! Someone please let me know when Zoya is having a sale so I can buy more of that base!

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?

Enchanted Polish Space Ghost

I had told you that Mom and I went to Myrtle Beach.  It was the first time there without my Dad. We've been going there since I was fourteen-now I'm forty eight.  That's a long time.  I've told you before that I love Myrtle Beach to visit, but I wouldn't live there.

Anywho, my Dad always did all the driving.  Typical man who just never got lost.  Me, I'm clueless about what direction is east, north etc.  So Mom and I decided we were going to go to this mall to watch the new Star Wars movie.  Mom was the copilot with the map.  Can you see where this is going???

Yup, we got lost.

I was yelling at Mom the street intersections asking her which way to go and she was yelling back saying she didn't know where we were and I would yell back you have the map! The part you're missing is the f-bombs flying back and forth between us.  I would say "we're at the corner of such and such-which way do I turn?" Her reply would be, "I don't know where the f*ck we are!" My reply would be, "you have the f*cking map!" And so on and so forth. It got so bad that finally we both just started laughing and said that Dad was in heaven laughing his a** off at us.

BTW, that movie was so amazing.  We wonder just how much Mark Hamill was paid to be in that movie.  If anyone knows, please tell me!

The other cool thing we did in Myrtle Beach was to go and have lunch at the place we always ate at growing up. It was always a special occasion fancy place.  It was so popular and crowded that we would have to wait outside for an hour just for a table.  I remember as kids how that part sucked! It has been years since we had been there.  I mean years.

We got there and had a nice lunch.  It was a nice remembrance of times past.

We went to both Tanger Outlet malls.  I always stock up on stuff when I'm there.  New nurse shoes, new Jockey undies at the outlet store, new Coach purse.  This time I got a bunch of Crabtree and Evelyn lotion.  I love that stuff but the store here closed.  It's always better to pay outlet prices.

All right. Today's polish is not that pretty.  I again didn't have any sun, but even when I personally saw this in the sun, it didn't help the matter. Plus, it has micro glitter, which is a b*tch to remove.  Oh and to top it off, the blue stains bad.

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Yes, this is not good at all.  It would have been better off just being a pretty blue jelly.  But the glitter doesn't add anything to this at all.

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?

Enchanted Polish Vintage

It's been a long time since I've sat here and written down my thoughts.  It's been a rough period of time for me. I've been overly depressed about my dad's passing, plus things at work have gotten bad.

I'm not going to get into the work stuff today.  What I want to say today is that I was truly thinking of quitting this blog.  I lost the love for nail polish and the nail community itself.  I tried makeup and while I am still rocking the colorful looks at work, I've stopped taking photos of them. I also gave up the false lashes.  Takes too much time!

The other issue I was grappling with is the fact that people out there feel it's OK for them to sit behind their computer screen and say sh*tty things to a total stranger.  I've never understood that. People today hate their life that much that they have to put a total stranger down to make themselves feel better.

A recent comment I got was this one, "you need to stop badmouthing other people, makes you look like a bitter b*tch." Gee, I didn't know we were BFFs and you can tell me something like that.  You know nothing of me or my life, just what I say here.  If you don't like what I have to say then f*ck off and go read someone else's blog, or better yet, start your own so I can go write nasty sh*t on your posts.  I pay my ten dollars a year to own this space.  So I can say and do whatever the f*ck I want.

Now if my mom were to come at me seriously and say, Fingers you really are sounding bitter, are you OK? Then I'd have to take that seriously.  But from some random a**hole out there? Nope.  Not happening. No more.

Normally, this stuff doesn't bother me, but between the depression, work and missing my dad, this comment just made me want to quit it all.  So I did.  For a time.  I went three weeks with no polish on at all.  I stopped looking at Instagram.  I deleted all my makeup posts. Then one day, I started wearing polish and taking photos, but not cropping them etc.  Then more days and I got the photos ready.

Then today, I decided to write a post.  I had gotten some messages that people were missing me and my blog and asked me to come back.  That really made me feel good.  I'm not making any promises, I'm here now.

Now the polish I wanted to show you is one that is gorgeous, but I had no sun to show off its glory.

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This is a beautiful holo and I really love it.  I need to wear it again in the sun for full holo-ness.

Until next time people.  Any thoughts out there?