neon pastels + easter

i'm not too big on pastel colors. i guess they've always just been too wimpy and pastey for my taste, but i read a few rave reviews on claire's neon pastel (what an ingenious idea!) nail polish set a few weeks ago and set out to FiND.ME.SoME.

if you know me in real life you'd know i wouldn't be caught DEAD in a mall, but for the good of finding some neon pastels, i braved the horrendous mall for 15 mins --- just enough to pop in and out with 2 sets of neon pastels in hand. :D

i wanted to use all of colors at once (i know i'm so bad), so i did a rainbow-neon-pastel-mani for easter - complete with a slice of fime lime!





very springtimefresh!

guilty pleasure #1...

NAiL$.

...and since i started doing my own nails a year ago, i've become an aDDiCT as well.

don't get me wrong, i was never big on getting fake nails or even simply sporting nailpolish; i guess somewhere along the way i discovered the awesomeness of unique manis and i was hoOKeD. started off with the basic primary colors and mixing what i needed to an eXplosion in color+tools+doodads.

a few rules i gave myself when i started designing&doing my own nails:
1) no repeats - new designs everytime! i haven't worn the same mani twice... and i don't plan to.
2) no reds - though red seems to be everyone's staple 'fem' color, i just don't dig it. no offense ladies+gents, red just ain't a stroke for this folk here.