Girl Anachronicles

First things first – I did my own nails about one or two weeks ago, and they looked fantastic… for two days, that is, until the ol’ nail polish chipped off. And that will happen, why not, I mean: i did only one coat, no top coat, no base coat. Can’t be bothered with those details, but I realized having a fast-drying nail enamel helps making the process less painful (yes, beautifying myself is always painful).

I found this in my humble nail product box (which is really just an old, wobbly shoe box) in a nice, shimmery, cream-colored shade. Can’t remember the name, but it was incredibly quick to dry (plus points) and it turned out to look gorgeous on my short-short nails (double plus points) But then mom showed me a Bettina shade that proved to be an inspiration (#168, I think … did you know that the company that makes the Bettina nail polish we Puerto Rican girls buy for $1.99 a bottle in our local drugstores and supermarkets, has no presence in the internet!?!?!)

So, that would be my intentions today: buy Maybelline Express Nail Color in a shade called Racing Rubies (see pic above) and get some nice, dark red scratchers, very fast!

Tonight we have a small business get-together with one of the bands we sort-of manage (and by “we”, I mean CarbonoMúsica), which means I will have to prove myself once again as … The HouseWife!

That would mean (mainly) sweeping and mopping the house a bit (white tile is a bitch!), and cookin up some canapés…

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

I meant: grab a crate of beer and some chips and dip on the way home.

Tomorrow is supposed to be the second 1991 Sacred Heart School class pre-reunion, which would be sort of like a staff meeting to plan and talk about what needs to be done for the official reunion. I might go. I might not go. I still don’t know, it all depends: Eze gets in to work (@ Border’s) at 8PM. Frecuencias Alternas remains under Pepe’s control, I might as well help him out.

And Sunday is still a blank, with a small hint of what could be done. BBQ, anyone?

… or maybe some cookies?

Well, since I spent my Sunday afternoon aimlessly ambling around the aisles at Walgreens (all the while cursing the dratted place for not selling packaging tape on Sundays), I decided to lift my spirits a bit by purchasing makeup replacements.

I was all out of pressed powder (I was dragging around small crumbs of face cake with the little sponge) and it was time to replace my mascara. Also, it’s been a week or more since I last shaved my legs. After a lot of thinking, I decided to give up the razor in favor of a more “glamorous” way of getting rid of my leg hair. What got into me? Beats me! I just know I wanted a change in that sense, and after a lot of thinking, I decided in favor of waxing. At least you have to do it less often.

So I start looking for a wax that looks trustworthy and not too lethal. The variety of wax brands in here is fascinatingly sparse! My eye kept getting drawn to the tub of Nads, and in spite of the price tag ($20!!!) I ended up buying it.

In favor of Nads, I have to say that in spite of the bad rep, the thing does work. Most probably, a great deal of the people that have reviewed the product negatively have simply failed to note one detail in the instructions: when it says to spread a thin layer of the product over the area to be depilated, they mean thin. My first trial was with what i understood was a thin layer, and the strip took barely any hair at all. I was flabbergasted (and bummed out, since I thought it was $20 down the drain). But at the second try, Voilá! (and OUCHIEWAWA!) Lotsa hair off the skin! Yeah!

It will take a few days, since I don’t want to overwork my skin (and I have tons of hair), but I will finish what I started.

When I got to my mom’s home, I got handed this little particular tube:

It’s a ‘plumper’, and the fucking thing works! It works at setting my lips on fire and making me look (and feel) like some superhero with spicy saliva gave me one fury-packed smacker! Haha! Thanks, Tatts!

This morning I tried the new mascara I decided to buy:

Maybelline’s Define-A-Lash Lengthening Washable Mascara (fucking long name!)
I wasn’t wowed, but I wasn’t disappointed either. And the little rubber brush is pretty funny to look at. Fun in the morning routine, yay!