Cupcake cutie nails

So, I just posted about this perfectly pretty pale purple piggy paint polish that the boy gave me for Christmas. Well, I also got these metallic blue edible ball bearings for Christmas. I rememibered a 3D nail confetti I got for Christmas a few years ago that was the EXACT SAME COLOR. I had a mission:

MAKE CUPCAKES AND MAINICURE THAT MATCH!

In a stroke of totally goofy creative genius, the mission started. The combo paired perfectly! 

The hard part? Photographing it. For some reason the gloss and color of the frosting and bearings showed up differently in pictures. I played with lighting, I played with camera settings. I spent way too much time trying to photograph things.

Obviously, my skin turned all yellow and orange in the above photo, sod clearly the coloring was wrong on this one.

I changed some settings, and the color still didn’t look right. I mean, even my skin is some odd color. What’s going on here?

So I changed some more settings and everything got a sort of grey and dead hue. Hm, this still isn’t right.

I changed lighting and location. The frosting looks way paler than in real life. Who knew frosting would be so impossible. 

I tried another setting, and they still looked off. Also, I need to point out that holding a cupcake in a way that you can see your own nails and being able to click the photo button while holding a phone with one hand is not easy! So, please excuse the totally awkward hand poses.
Maybe in some alternative universe, my nail blog goes viral and I get to hire a professional photographer. Ha! I don’t have half the patience to polish this blog so it looks professional and revenue-worthy (see what I did there?? Polish the blog!? Ah, yes, I crack myself up. It must be all the polish fumes).

At this point, the boy’s mouth is watering and he wants to eat some cupcakes. They did smell pretty good. So, I had to forgo taking pictures like an obsessed amateur and sit down and mom on some cupcakes. Yes, we are ALL OF THEM! Actually, they ended up lasting a while. The frosting slowly blurred the sprinkles, but remained fresh and tasty. 

Piggy Paint!

The boy gave me this delightful new polish called Piggy Paint. He likes the piggies, so this is the perfect polish for him to give me. 

The cool thing about this polish isn’t it’s name, though, it’s the ingredients. Thier website says it all: 

Piggy Paint is a non-toxic, low odor, kid-friendly nail polish. It’s safe for all ages and a great alternative to solvent-based nail polishes.

It is a smooth, opaque color that is deep and rich in tone and easy to apply. It doesn’t smell like the typical high-VOC polish, this smells more like latex housepaint. 

Clover fields forever

I decided to glitter up my nails for St. Patrick’s Day, and boy did I get lucky! My color choice ended up making the glitter looks like a field of clover. It doesn’t translate real well in photos, but every time I look at my nails, I expect to find little 4-leaf clovers lost in the design.

I started out with a light teal for the background color. For some reason, I tend to use golds and yellows to pair with my greens, and I grew tired of being mistaken for an Oregon Ducks Fan (I went to thier rival school- Oregon State. So this is a catestrophic problem!)

Then I added Jade green confetti glitter on top. The result is spectacular! I feel like I won a pot of gold! Have a happy day, everyone!