One Minute Writer #58

Complete this thought: I usually forget...

a) anything I am trying to remember
Like a lot of people, I will leave a room with the clear intention of something specific. It may be going to pick something up, starting a new task, or looking into something I need an answer about. I will get to moving and halfway there I will forget what I was going to do or get. Sometimes I will have the clear intention of getting something from upstairs, decide along the way that I should go to the washroom and then forget to get or do the thing that made me go upstairs in the first place. It is very annoying.

b) my iPod before I head to bed
Almost every night, I listen to my iPod to fall asleep. This happens to be the same iPod I take to work with me on occasion and the one that goes with me to the gym to help me workout. 9 times out of 10, I will forget to take it upstairs with me and will get settled in bed only to have to get up and go back downstairs to get it from my purse or gym bag. Also very annoying.

OPI Spotlight#1 (and #2)

So I didn’t forget about this and instead have a one-two-punch as my first OPI nail polish spotlight.

The photo shows Kyoto Pearl with Red Shatter on top. This combo makes me think of candy canes, though having done this shortly after Christmas, the season might have had some influence on that opinion.
To be honest, when I bought Kyoto Pearl and tried it on its own, I wasn’t entirely happy with it as you could see the brush lines even after two coats. It covered well, but I really didn’t like those brush lines. That being said, it is the perfect undercoat for shatters!!
Shatters in general are really neat but as you have little to no control on how the shatter splits up, the overall look can go many ways. For example, I loved how this looked on my thumb (pictured above) but wasn’t entirely happy how it shattered on a few of my other fingers.
One downside to shatters, for me at least, is that the shatter results in a 3D effect on your nails. This sounds cool and was neat, but it left me with lots of little bits I could pick away at on my nails and as trying to not pick at my nails is one of the main reasons I use nail polish, this kind of defeated the purpose.