The past couple week’s worth of nail art. Teachers have nail polish lives too, you know.
black ombre over light pink also seen here. Inspiration/copying from here.
I call these my ‘wannabe ikat print’ nails. I tried to follow the refinery29 tutorial on ikat nails, but I failed. I couldn’t create a discernable pattern with my thick nail art brush. next time will be better.
I do my nails just about every sunday evening. I plan my lesson for monday, and I reward myself with music/mindless TV and pretty nails.
The biggest hit with the teenagers by far: Pokeball nails
This design took a while but was pretty simple in the end. Full grey nails, covered half way with red. Then add a white dot and outline with black sharpie marker (or sally hansen nail polish pens). By the way, this photo was taken on Australia Day where B (the aussie) and I celebrated with Coopers Pale Ale and special edition sheepskin stubbie holders by Aussie Bentley.
This week, I went more geometric. B bought me a 3 month subscription to Birchbox, and january’s box came with this lavender Zoya polish. It’s pretty enough, but I’m not a fan of the brush or the viscosity.
School is back in after a nice 3 day weekend (4 day for me). LA was great, but it’s always nice to come home. Even nicer when you have presents waiting for you from hawaii!! B was on a business trip in Oahu for a week and he was awesome enough to bring home some goodies for me. Like this and this. I’ve also been dying to try out Incoco nail wraps and he surprised me with them!
love them! super easy and flashy. I was never really into nail polish and stuff till recently when I kept seeing all the amazing nail art all over the blogs. Nail art is fun. It’s cute. Fun nails puts a bounce in my step, etc. The kids react to my nails. They make comments, they talk about it, it helps me relate to them and vice versa. It works for me. And it’s FUN!
Other recent nail art inspired by here and here:
new bag! triangles on nails!
on my way to LA (the Asian part) for the weekend to spend some time with family (the Asian part).
I saw these nail sticker decal things at h&m this past weekend and decided to get them. an homage to my little animal, Bambi. she’s so chic.
in the end, the nail stickers sucked. Sally Hansen salon effects strips kick these to the curb.
it’s finals week! this means two significant developments for the social lives of teachers. first, it means only one more week till Christmas vaca. second, it means no lesson planning and half days! woot woot! unfortunately for me, it also means I’m working on BTSA (dumb useless paperwork crap for credentialing) stuff that I’ve put off all semester. boo.
Students make me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside sometimes. Especially when they come bearing food gifts! Like this Viet style coconut jelly desert.
other warm fuzzies, matching nails and pants! with glitter!
reminders that I have a heart. and a life.
Teachers Have Lives Too! 
