A whole entire entry about nails.

So the reason why I started getting Calgel manicures last year is because I've been struggling with my nail biting habit for my entire life. I think I picked it up from my mom... she picks at her nails when she gets anxious as well, and I think I just watched her as a child and copied her or something... or maybe we just have the same personality? 

But anyway, for years I was never able to grow my nails long because I would keep picking at them, or biting them. I remember when I got my first boyfriend in high school, I told myself I had to make myself pretty and was finally able to curb it significantly by painting my nails... as long as I have a perfect manicure, I don't touch my nails. LOL I just want to feel beautiful, huh! 

But what's the problem with nail polish? -____- Of course it chips and peels like crazy, and so inevitably, I will be stuck somewhere and notice my chipped polish and lose it. I can't stand having mismatched nails (like having one super short and another long, or one without polish and one with polish...) and just pick all my nail polish off, and then of course I'll start picking at my nails because they're so long...  Ultimately I always end up back where I started and I have to wait weeks before they grow out again. :( 

So when I discovered UV gel manicures, I was ecstatic. A lot of my friends think I'm mad because I pay so much money for manicures but for me, it's really a godsend. Having short nails bitten to the flesh really makes me feel gross... because it is gross. -_-  Calgel makes my nails super strong so they don't break anymore, and the polish stays perfect for weeks.

HOWEVER!!! While my friends' manicures stay on for weeks and weeks, I've found that mine start lifting around the 2 week mark. It's really frustrating because that's where my anxieties kick in again and I find myself unable to resist peeling the polish off when I find one that's lifting at a corner... and of course, when one goes, the rest have to go. :( 

I was super stressed out by class resuming again yesterday and low and behold all my nails were naked by the end of the day. BOO!!!! I'm always so disappointed in myself for caving in; I feel like a child! 

I tried looking up on the internet to see why my nails always start lifting so soon, because maybe if I can figure out how to prolong them, I won't be as tempted to start picking at them when I notice a corner lifting. And I fucking found out that if you use moisturizer on your hands too often, your nail beds become oily and that's what causes the Calgel to recede and start flipping up. .........WTF?!? Everyone know's I'm obsessed with hand lotion... I keep like two in each bag I own so no matter what I always leave the house with hand lotion (same goes for lip balm). So this comes as sad news to me... but summer is coming, so hopefully I really won't need to use hand lotion as much...

So that's that... my nails are naked again after a week and a half. It totally blows. I have another appointment with Jessie in two weeks and I hope none of my nails break before then. :< 

But besides that, I just bought this new nail polish and it's sooo cute. It's a champagne pink glitter! 

Spring Break

We had so many different plans for our spring break but... in the end, me and Mikey decided to go the cheap-o way out and just did a mini road trip. He has an empty summer house in New Hampshire so that's where we decided to go! I am so grateful to have a boyfriend with a car, my god. We tried to get other people to come, but none of our spring breaks synced up so ultimately we just went alone. Not like that was a bad thing though... It's cute that my boyfriend refers to us as BFFs without any prompt from me haha!

Prepared to go! Actually that was a lie. Those two boxes of chocolate biscuits lasted us (mostly me.) all of 30 minutes.

Our first meal at the Red Arrow Diner after we got to Manchester at like 10:30PM. Apparently this diner is super famous and got featured on a bunch of different programs... I mean we just went there because it was a 24 hour diner! It really was awesome though. Simple comfort food with awesome service.

New matching iPhone cases from the Marc Jacobs store in Boston! Thanks hunnie :"). They are simple, but the quality of the rubber is actually a huge upgrade from the cases we both had before, so for now this will calm our hearts from our iPhone 4 desires. D:

Anyway it wasn't the most exciting or the most eventful trip but it was still really lovely. Manchester is a really quiet town, and everyone is so humble and sweet. This was my fourth time visiting his house there, but the first time that Mikey and I had this huge house to ourselves, since normally we would be there with his family. It was nice just relaxing and hanging out. Truly an escape! And I guess that's what spring break is supposed to be.. unfortunately now I'm at the end of my vacation and class starts again on Monday. :(

I finally got a new manicure after like three weeks of having naked, brittle nails. They broke after my previous set of gels came off and I just didn't have enough money to get them done again. Well, I could have, but I have to feed myself first. Anyway, this is the best picture you're going to get because my cuticles are gross from this dry weather. They're just a simple grey with pink, white and grey leopard print on two fingers because getting them done on every single finger would have cost me like 80 dollars and even though I've done it before... Times be hard.

Speaking of nasty winter cuticles, today was 75 degrees! Warmest weather we have had in a long time. I really hope it stays this way!

Mikey bought me Pokemon White Version!

I just beat the 5th gym, hehe. 

GOJI BERRIES ARE SOOO FREAKING GOOD!!!
they are packed with shitloads of vitamins and are actually a great source of protein which is a nice plus since i don't eat meat...

i kind of feel like a typical brooklyn douchebag though. i don’t know if i would have tried them if i didn’t see it sitting in nice packaging on a shelf in whole foods.
i went home to see my parents last weekend and my mom coincidentally had a huge bag of goji berries from the chinese supermarket sitting on the table… it looked 10x less appetizing in that big plastic bag but it’s the same shit! i can probably say with certainty that i wouldn’t have ate a handful of them if i hadn’t had them before, and if she had offered them to me right then and there just because the dried berries look like random chinese herbal medicine.
i was like “yo mom you eat goji berries?! they’re so fuckin good!” and she like didn’t know what the hell i was talking about because obviously we don’t call them freaking “goji berries” in chinese.

fml.

usually i’m on the other side laughing at when americans get tricked by sneaky remarketing of asian things but alas this time…