Essie...I'm a collector

When I was in my teens I began to be" beauty conscious", {like my tween and teen are doing now}.  I started reading Teen Magazine, I would read the article on how to give myself a facial. It told me to put water to boil and then steam my face over a towel. In this article they asked certain models what was there beauty advice and I remember Christie Brinkley answer was WATER!  Drinking it and steaming your face over it.   Then along came my twenties and I started reading Cosmopolitan along with all the "how to be in touch with your inner Sexy" articles I would read the beauty articles. One in particular was  how to give yourself a manicure on a budget.  So after I "steamed" my face I would but on a mask and add a bit of cold water to the hot water to the big pot and soak my feet and hands. I then would rinse my hands and feet and use a cuticle stick to push them back and cut any hang nails.  Then I would paint my toenails and fingernails, usually a bright hot pink or red.

                                                             DIY Manicure

I did this every Sunday afternoon for the longest time up until I had kids!!  My beauty regime went out the window.  Fast forward to this fall and I read an article  in Better, Homes and Gardens on Essie Weingarten

 and Essie Nail Polish.  So I seeked out her Nail Polish at Target and low and behold I got my first bottle of Essie.

I bought East Hampton Cottage, I was looking for Ballet Slippers because Essie in the article suggested it but they were sold out.  East Hampton Cottage is very similiar and who wouldn't love that name?  ah yea, me!

 I went home and gave myself a DIY manicure following the article directions and boy did that manicure  last quite along time so I became hooked on Essie Nail Polish.  Being that this was September I wanted a Fall color so I picked up Chinchilly the next time I went to Target.  

So slowly began my collection of Essie's Nail polish.  This year my stocking was loaded with nail care products.  My "elves" picked out Sugar Daddy and Bahama Mama.   

I then have been "pinning" to my Fashionista Board and here are some of my faves I would like to add to my stash.

                                                   Marshmallow for winter

                            Size Matters {got to Love that name} for Valentines Day

                                                     Watermelon for Summer

 

                                                      Saint Tropez for Summer too 

 and my favorite of all name and would love this in summer too..Going Topless and Barefoot, well it actually called Topless and Barefoot but I added the "going" part. I used to have VW Cabiolet Covertible and on my license plate it would say "I love going topless", Yes..my twenties...cRaZy times for me!  I think this color would be great looking on a tan skin in the summertime, ya?

                                                       Pale blue for anytime!

This is my medicine cabinet and from left to right we have;

East Hampton Cottage, Sugar Daddy, Nice is Nice, Chinchilly, Carry On and Bahama Mama.  And as one of my New Year Resolutions I would like to declare a Beauty Hour for me. I'm a very LOW maintence I have only had one facial in my almost 50 years of living on this earth and only one professional Mani/Pedi.  I told the girls that we will get Manicures and Pedicures on Mother's Day as a treat and we will start this coming Mother's Day.  Now to keep my nails suffiently groomed in the mean time I vow to reenstate my "beauty regime" again.  And its no time like the present....

Ok...I'm off to go give myself a manicure , hope those dang curtains I need to start don't veer me off track....

Comments

[Lisa]

Oh my god how can you apply the lacquer so perfectly? I always have those stupid little bubbles everywhere or I'm painting my whole finger with the color -.-
Love your nails!!!