cross my heart

Look, look I embroidered this! I have been wanting to start embroidering things for a while and I finally made this! I am so excited about it. (If you can't tell, it's a heart with vines growing around it). Also I accidentally put it on the opposite side of my body but whatever let's pretend like I didn't do that. Also important: my beautiful powder pink matte nails and my Rocksbox ring from two posts ago.

 I feel like I have pretty solidly reached a "dgaf" kind of place in life and that's actually really exciting because I've pretty much proven I don't do things the traditional way and might not find a traditional job. But I like weird things and I like being different and I like making things and I want to continue on this path. I feel more myself than I have in the last year and I think it's because I am just embracing what I care about and realizing some goals are just not mine. 

Also for the last 24 hours I pretty much have been making this and watching the incredible miniseries Over the Garden Wall. It's a weird cartoon that I think I had a lot of influence on my heart design. It's amazing, watch it.

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really fucking obnoxious valentine's day nail art

Wow look at this ridiculous manicure I have given myself. How long will these last? Probably until my shower tonight and certainly not until Valentine's Day.

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Pink Snow Nails

For as obsessed I am with my nails, I really don't do much to take care of them. I love painting them and I love looking down and seeing long nails on my hands (I love hands in general) but I don't do much for them. So when I was sent some nail tips by the nail polish company Julep (and when I bought my mom a manicure set for Christmas) I actually started to think about how to better take care of my nails. I usually have long matte-painted nails or super sparkly ones (here and here) but I decided I would go for a little subtlety for winter. I cut them a little shorter than usual since they generally just grow long from my neglect. I stole a little of my mom's new cuticle oil, rubbed on some jasmine lotion to improve the overall health of my hands, and got to work on some powdery pink nails.

A note about the books: I have been having many conversations with myself about if I want to pursue a job in fashion and if I will feel fulfilled when doing so. I still don't know the answer, but I decided to consult some of the greats. Grace Coddington's memoir is especially interesting because I think creative direction is really what I would go into.

 So for these nails I used a very light shade of pink polish. It took like 8 coats of that stuff but I finally made it to a really lovely pink base. I then applied a topcoat and pressed the powder onto it. I used this sparkley powder I got from ULTA ages ago and I never knew what it was for but it worked pretty well here, so I must have solved the mystery! I think the key was to just put a copious amount of powder on my fingers, let it dry, and wash my hands so it came off of my fingers and stayed on my nails. I actually really like the result and it seems that it was applied pretty evenly.

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Triangle Nails!

I won't lie, I was pretty freakin stoked about the way I did my nails. Now that the photos are so large on my computer, they look a little messy but whatever, its not my job. 

I was also pretty excited they (sort of) matched my new phone case. 

So at some point I will get my life together and actually post regularly again. But COLLEGE IS HERE. STEALING ALL MY TIME AND OVERALL GUSTO FOR LIFE AWAY FROM ME. But soon friends. Soon.

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RED ALERT: I'm a Nail Artist Now

HIYA FRIENDS so fun thing: I am almost positive I have mono, still waiting to hear back from the doctor for sure. But. Pretty sure. Soooo it's been a lot of days laying around my house. So I paint my nails a lot. Today I did this rather shocking gold treatment and then took weird pictures of my hands. I like hands though. They are one of my favorite body parts. Fun facts about Jenna.

Hope you all are well!

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MIRROR NAILS ARE NOW MY LIFE

Maybelline mirror nails. So stoked.

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