OPI Shatter

I'm happy that I quit working for that fast food restaurant chain because now I can paint my nails! YEAHHHH BEBAYYY!~!~!~!~ So, so, so, I bought two OPI Shatter nail polishes. The white and gold ones called White Shatter and Gold Shatter respectively. No fancy names for the shatter edition, I guess. It's funny, I was just thinking about the OPI bi-annual Buy One Free One base and top coats edition and shortly after, I saw it while Christmas shopping in a mall and I bought them for $9.95 (plus tax). Even though I already have them--I bought them in Malaysia for... RM30 I think?--but as my belongings have yet been shipped over, despite it being over a year since I've left, I could no longer wait and purchased this special combo so I could start painting my nails regularly.

It's fairly simple to use. Put on any base color and apply the OPI Shatter on top of it and it'll give a cracked look. After applying a thick base coat to protect my nails, I put on Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri in Night Flight (24). It's actually a really, really dark blue but it shows up black. The brush is also different from most other nail polish bottles, it's denser and wider, giving a firmer application which applies A LOT of varnish.

It's true to it's words as it was dry when I touched it two minutes after applying it. It was very pigmented which I liked.

This being my first time trying out the Shatter edition, I was told by my school-mate to put on a really thick layer. Which I did for all of my finger nails but one to test how it would end up. So this is the end result of using Gold Shatter atop of a dark base. I'm sorry for the messy edges, I don't tediously remove them with nail polish remover since I usually scrape them off the next day which gives a cleaner appearance, in my opinion.

This is how it looks like two days after. As you can see, there weren't a lot of cracks and I was slightly disappointed until I received a handful of compliments on my nails. It did not look like the image of the shattered nail polish on the bottle, it was unevenly cracked. But now I find that it would make every application unique.

(Picture quality difference due to above photo taken by phone.)

It was really cool watching the polish divide itself and then you start hoping it would split at certain areas but it doesn't. The middle finger was the one where I applied a thin layer of Gold Shatter, the cracks are less prominent and the color isn't as vibrant as the others. So you definitely want to make sure you apply more than enough nail polish for OPI Shatter polishes. But I made the mistake of putting a dollop of the lacquer and I had to quickly brush them off and apply them on my other fingers.

Perhaps if someone could give me some tips on how to make the shatter effect prettier?


Oh, I forgot to include the prices. They were selling for CAD9.99 but as it was Boxing Day it was on sale for CAD5.99!! #omgIloveBoxingDay

Winter Wonderland

Today was really fun. Also, I bought this winter robe from Costa Blanca on sale for CAD30. I think it's really pretty. I've never bought anything this earthy before. It finally started snowing... so heavily like it was heaven! So I met a friend and we took a walk through the woods where I snapped quite a few pictures.

I love snow. I think it makes everything so beautiful.

I just realized that I should have brightened all the pictures before uploading them. But I don't fancy editing scenic photos.

Doesn't the snow make them look like blooming flowers? They look like little fluffs of cotton.

Meet my friend Garrett, it's a handsome name for a... goofy boy.

They look amazing in real life, it's a pity I couldn't capture the beauty of the snow-covered trees.

The frosty leaves reminded me of grey hair. Cold, alone, barren... but in a community elderly home.

Frozen stream.

My favorite shot.

I was totally walking in a winter wonderland in these woods.

I took this picture while lying down.

And my make-up was jeopardized when Garrett, a lovely gentleman, very kindly palmed my face with his gloves that was covered in snow. The snow melted upon contact and my mascara started to run. Why, thank you, thank you very much.

Omg, the crystallization of the snow is so beautiful on the branches! It was so intricate and delicate... but I apologize, my 12MP compact camera didn't do a satisfactory job.

I guess that's about it. I hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.

Pre-2012 Greetings

Christmas Greetings

Hello all, I come to you in peace... or rather, in exhaustion. I'm so sleepy and tired. But I want to wish you a merry, merry Christmas. There's no snow outside. Can you believe it? Could it be possibly the first snowless December in Toronto in Canadian history? I think I jinxed the weather by coming back.





Also, I'm going on a school field trip to New York next May. It's $660 for a 5-day, 3-night tour. But I wonder if it's going to stink because of it being related to school. I wish I had traveling buddies. I need backpacking buds. I wanna explore this continent while I'm in it! I'm very fortunate to have travelled around a little in Malaysia thanks to my friends. They brought me to Malacca, Penang and Ipoh for food! None of that relative visitation crap.

Okay then, enjoy this wrapped up photo of me looking zoned out. I'm so happy my drama presentation about Ancient Greek theatre, physics test and biology quiz is over. All I have left to worry about is my two chemistry tests tomorrow and Friday.

I really like physics because it's so interesting, science has always fascinated me and been my strongest subject in primary school. It's unfortunate that I'm doing so badly right now. I was wrong, logic alone is not enough to understand physics. The concepts are so abstract and mathematical it really blows your mind away. Of course, there are people who find physics easy, but I think what I struggle with is remembering which laws apply to which formula and what the elements in the formulas mean. If only I'd put in some real effort. My insincere effort is last minute cramming right before the test. I manicly read the text book and notes I've taken but I only retain a fraction of the information.

I'm such a lazy bum, I wish there was a pill for work deficiency. Can I pride myself with the fact that I don't cheat? I've seen my friends write solutions on the palms of their hands and store pieces of paper in their pencil cases. Hm, no, cheaters are winners. Having integrity makes no difference. But it should.

Thank God for Christmas.

Iron Defeatiency

I've finally reached the last pill of my iron supplement. I had my blood extracted in March and my blood test results came within a month and I found out that my iron level was only 4% of what it should be. That was very shocking to me. Immediately, it made me wonder how long I've had iron deficiency and why I had it. I had always thought that I had a lot of iron because of the healthy cereals I ate usually contained 40% iron. Later, when purchasing this bottle of iron tablets, I learned that calcium "takes away the iron from your body" or so the pharmacist said. He claimed that it would be pointless to eat the iron tablet if I ingested calcium with it or closely before or after. I don't fancy eating cereals dry unless it's Reese Puffs and Reese Puffs isn't very nutritious either. It's a lose-lose situation!!

Alright, so I took my 100mg-iron pill every night for 4 days in the first week then 3 days in the next and it became so irregular and random I don't remember how often I took it. All I know is that this bottle was supposed to last me for only 100 days but I've had it for 8 months which would be... approximately 245 days. I think I wanted to challenge my deficiency, I didn't believe it would affect me. But the past month has been hell, I felt so lethargic, even after sleeping for half a day, I felt that I didn't have the energy to do anything. I was baffled, why am I so bloody tired even after 10 or 14 hours of sleep? Why is all that I'm thinking about everyday at school is sleep? Am I that much of a bum? 

So after not taking it for one month straight, I swallowed one before sleeping and the next day I felt normal again which I haven't been feeling for so long! It wasn't like it gave me superpowers or extra strength but I functioned a lot better and I wasn't fatigued.

Of course another reason I didn't take my iron supplements was because I couldn't stop eating milk chocolate or brownies with milk for supper and yogurt for breakfast. I can't consume dairy product two hours before or after taking my iron pill. What a bummer! Why does it have to be calcium? Why can't it be... gluten? I don't care about gluten. I've been so concerned about my bone development and osteoporosis that I've neglected my red blood cell formation. I won't worry about that anymore, I get ample exercise by walking from school and work. Now it's all about my blood, baby. I'll take good care of you, red blood cells. I'll make sure you get enough heme in your hemoglobin (something that I learned in Biology last week :D)!

Well, my doctor said that iron deficiency is fairly common is young woman because of menstruation. Well, I will not take my health for granted and I'm going to buy another bottle soon and take my iron supplement every day. Chocolate will have to step aside for now, until my iron deficiency is eradicated (hopefully soon, PUH-LEAZE). I don't want to develop anemia either, which is a more severe form of iron deficiency. I don't think it's curable either...?

I bought chewable vitamin C tablets to accompany my consumption of iron because the pharmacist said vitamin C helps your body better absorb iron. Actually, it's because it was on sale at Shoppers Drug Mart and I thought it was cool to eat vitamins for no reason. Then I read in the newspaper that synthetic nutrients aren't that good for your or something... hmm, whatever. Go ascorbic acid and iron!!

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