Lili Lost in a Book: Sunday Post #264: Getting Professional With My Nails

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Sunday Post #264: Getting Professional With My Nails

Welcome to The Sunday Post hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer, where I talk about what is going on in life and the blog, and show you all the bookish things I got that week!

What I've been doing:
It was a quiet week... not much to report on. Just work and reading and catching up on some shows. However, I do need to work on scheduling my March posts cause I still have not done that 😬
What I've been watching:
I finally got caught up on Attack on Titan and OMG everything is crazy! It's good though! And I apparently already finished season 2 of Cells at Work??? Why was it so short? 😭

I also watched all my other shows... WandaVision is 😱 I can't believe the series is already coming to an end! It's been such a fun rid and I'm really looking forward to the conclusion. I am also very excited for Falcon and Winter Soldier! Oh, yesterday I also watched My Cousin Vinny... probably one of the only movies I like that is not horror/superhero-related 😂
Nail art of the week:

And this past week I did some very simple nail art. Last week I actually broke a nail, and this is my nail length after I filed them all down to match. BUT then this week I broke that same nail again...

And I didn't want to file down my nails again because they would be too short. And the only reason I care is because shorter nails = less space for nail art. Lol. So I did a thing I've never done before: I built a nail enhancement (aka a fake nail) 😲

I do nail art with normal nail polish. I've never in my life messed with acrylic, and I don't like gel polish very much either. But the only reason I even had builders gel (the heavy duty gel used to make nail enhancements) is because I use it to put a very thin layer over one nail that is particularly thin. That just gives it a bit more strength. SO, I made a jenky home made nail form out of cardstock and built myself a nail, something I had never done before, or even had any interest in doing. But I thought, "Hey, why not? I've watched enough YouTube to sort of know what I'm doing." 😅

And you know what, it didn't turn out that bad! The nail did not look great when it first came off the form, but I buffed it and filed it until it was a nice shape, then I added one more thin coat of gel because I filed it too much in one part 😅 One part I was worried about was the cuticle area, because there's real talent that goes into building a nail and making sure the enhancement blends in really well into the actual nail and just making sure there isn't a ledge there. But I think I did an okay job. I'm quite proud of myself! Lol. Especially considering I didn't have a good nail form on hand. (Definitely gonna be buying some of those for emergencies like this. Lol.) Or had ever done this before. Or the fact that I'm NOT a professional 😂 I also think it was easy because I wasn't doing a very long nail.
But the real tell whether the nail looks good or not will be when I put polish on it, which I'll do today 😬 The thing I'm not looking forward to is removing the gel after my nail has grown out 😩 It's why I hate gel polish: the removal process. But we'll see how things go this week with this nail and whether I built it right and had it adhere well. (I watch a lot of Nail Career Education just because I like her videos and like seeing the nail art she does. But she does have a lot of helpful stuff when it comes to building nails. I used a couple of her videos as a guide while I was doing this.)

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