Dance Legend Inhale

Dance Legend Inhale-3 thin coats

No top coat

Super sparkly for St. Paddy's day!

It was a pretty day here in Atlanta so

 I had to wear green and holo.

This was my choice.

Cute, I think.

So, I did two days of cleansing with this new diet I am doing.

It was hard, but I can see and feel a difference.

The energy and motivation I have is unreal.

I am getting errands and house chores

(Spring cleaning) done that I have been putting off for over a year.

I feel healthier.

I am glad the cleanse is over though.

The shakes are yummy and I can mix them with fruit.

I look forward to that and working out tomorrow.

I couldn't work out really on the cleanse days

because of the lack of calorie intake.

Which was good for me because of all the house chores 

that need to be done.

 I used my usual 2 hours of workout for cleaning.

I will post my progress pictures once there is noticeable progress.

Thanks for stopping by!

Maybelline Pacific Blues and Clearly Spotted

Hey! Long time no see.

Sorry about that.

My life has completely changed.

But, first let us talk about the polish.

I found these two polishes at the dollar tree.

I have been wanting a blue-jean blue and

a matte black & white glitter topper without line/hair glitters.

So, I bought them...even though I am on a

strict no buy.

Maybelline Pacific Blues is a creme polish that went on

well in 2 coats and dried semi matte.

I added one coat of Maybelline Clearly Spotted

for the above result.

I like it :)

I am having a major destash due to my life changes and

encourage you to look and buy if you

are in the market.

demapixie.storevny.com

I also started a new diet today and hope to check in with the results

at least once a week.

I have a hard time with binge eating.

This program is very constructed to keep me 

on track and not hungry.

Today I baked a cake for my son's birthday

and I resisted tasting it. 

(cake is my weakness, too)

We took the kids to see Cinderella...LOVE IT!

So magical!

Thanks for stopping by!

Make up Looks and Weight Loss Update

My face is Bella Terra mineral make up.

I really like how it blends with my skin and feels light.

My eyes are Urban Decay are Twice Baked and Midnight Cowboy Rides Again.

My blush is Wet n Wild Pearlescent Pink.

My lips are Kiko Rosetto Vinyl.

This is a fresh simple look that I enjoy wearing.

As I was a the kiosk for Bella Terra I bought some mineral gold shimmer

eye shadow and gold eye glitter.

I played around with it to make this eye look.

I started with NYX Jumbo eye pencil in white.

Then put the gold shimmer eye shadow and then dabbed

 on the LA splash proof sealer.

While that was still tacky I dabbed on the glitter with a brush.

After that I added liquid eye liner and false lashes.

I was going for a more dramatic look. But, it still turned out pretty.

The LA Splash proof sealer works great at holding the glitter on.

I highly recommend it.

Sorry about the pictures, it was late and the only light was my computer monitor, hehe.

WEIGHT LOSS UPDATE!

I am still doing great, if not my best with my 

being healthy and working out.

I go to the gym everyday or every other day and I push it hard for an hour.

I mainly do the stair climber and leg work outs that target my

glutes, hamstrings and quads (the leg and booty area)

Results are showing!

I have kept 15 pounds off for more than 2 months.

Now, I am just toning up and making the slim look strong and healthy.

What I eat is the main thing that is working.

I keep my portions small, meaning I only eat until I am

no longer hungry.

Because I have been doing this, I get full much easier and

therefore continue to keep my portions small.

I try to eat foods that are full of nutrients.

I do have 1 cookie or a bite of cupcake every so often.

But, I keep it in check and just a tiny bit.

I don't want to throw away all my hard work in 2 minutes of

consuming a food, ya know?

Also, I am drinking a lot of water all day and night.

My weakness is at night with my stomach is grumbling for a snack.

I don't deny myself, but I chose something low calorie

like the healthy pop corn or celery sticks.

I also wear tight fitting pants to keep me aware 

as to why I am being good.

The tight pants are REALLY helping.

Below is me on Saturday for a neon party.

And here is a close up of my make up

The filter I used on the picture made me look all orange, oops!

I found a $1.99 eye shadow palette at a beauty supply that had

all the neon colors I needed.

So, I used  them and added some false eye lashes and glitter to 

complete my neon look.

Thanks for stopping by!

Ninja Polish Chameleon

Hey again!

Here is another Ninja Polish today.

This is also from the Dragon Collection.

Ninja Polish Chameleon is shown in 2 coats over Zoya Jem.

I put 2 coats of fast dry top coat to smooth out the surface 

as well as speed up the drying process.

Lets talk about the polishes I used.

Zoya Jem was the perfect choice for undies.

CLICK TO SEE ZOYA JEM ALONE

It is from the Fall 2011 Mirrors Collection.

It is a jewel toned plum purple with gold shimmer and glows on the nail.

Now on to the star of show, Ninja Polish Chameleon.

I will be honest and say, I was not as excited when I first put it on.

But, when I got to my car and saw the obvious color changes.

I could not drive until I have snapped the pictures below.

Do you see the purple, red, orange, pink and even blue??

Amazing.

I purchased it for $11 at ninjapolish.com

This is currently out of stock.

But, you can sign up for emails for its return

HERE

Thanks for stopping by!

PS: I recently started back on being healthy and workouts. 

I lost 15 pounds in the month of August, which on my small frame, made a big difference.

It was by partying so much and barely eating, no very healthy.

However, I gained half of it back.

I am now working on toning up, especially my legs and butt.

And hopefully dropping a size or 2.

I will post updates at the end of future nail posts if you want to read them.

Last night I worked out for 2 hours...

I played 1 game of basketball.

I did legs with weights (squats, lunges, more squats with weights, and machines)

Then...(I was really pushing myself)

I did the Spartacus workout, 4 workouts, 10-20 reps, 3 times each.

I was dying during this...it is hard.

Then I stretched out for 10 minutes.

I was so pooped, I could barely walk after all that! lol

I ate sushi for lunch, a health bar, a banana, and another health bar before bed.

I honestly, was too tired to eat.

I drank a lot of water though.

Today is a new day and I hope to get back in the gym for another hour 

as well as keeping my food intake clean and minimal.

My goal last year was to look good in my Halloween costume.

This year my goal is to look good in my 3 outfits for

Tomorrow World.

Tomorrow World is an outdoor EDM Music Festival that lasts for 3 days.

I will be sure to posts pics when that happens at the end of September.

Ninja Polish Melted Snowman

Ninja Polish Melted Snowman (1 coat)

over

Sinful Colors Cinderella (2 coats) 

over 

Color Club Factory Girl (2 coats)

with 

Top Coat (1 coat)

Hey there! I didn't plan on wearing this manicure. 

I am always on a mission to wear my untrieds.

 Sinful Colors Cinderella is one of them.

 I wore it for 3 days and posted in a group 

about how pleased I was with the wear time.

 (I coupled it with Color Club Factory Girl and Top Coat)

 I put a picture of that at the end.

And the maker of Ninja Polish, Rhonni, said she wore Ninja Polish Melted Snowman over the same manicure. 

So, of course I had to do that! lol

Here is what Ninja Polish says about Melted Snowman...

"Melted Snowman is part of the 2012 Ninja Polish Holiday collection. Melted Snowman is a super fun and cute polish for the winter season!! Layer it over any chosen color to give the appearance that a snowman just melted on your nails!!! We personally love it over a light baby blue!!! So wintery and fun!"

I bought Melted Snowman on Black Friday.

 I think it is currently sold out.

 But, there are many other polishes on the site for a great price.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO NINJA POLISH

You can see the shimmer here.

 Sinful Colors Cinderella (2 coats) 

over 

Color Club Factory Girl (2 coats)

with 

Top Coat (1 coat)

Close up of Sinful Colors Cinderella

Update on my weight/fat loss journey.

I weighed in this morning and am back down to my low weight I was in October, 124. Yay!

 I have been eating small portions of healthy clean food.

Super proud of myself.

 I even resisted when we went to restaurants and ordered salads or 

just a steak and broccoli. 

I have worked out, but not enough.

Thanks for reading!

Maybelline Sea-Quins

Maybelline Color Show Sea-Quins (2 coats)

Top coat (3 coats)

Hey! Isn't this so pretty?

 Maybelline Sea-Quins is a really pretty glitter polish in teal.

I don't have another polish like this and

I am really glad I picked it up at Rite Aid. It was $3.99.

I put 2 coats and 3 coats of top coat. I think I should've used Geleous then a couple of coats of top coat. Oh well. Have a great day...more pics below :)

I am still sick, but here is a pic I took this morning.

I started eating clean yesterday.

It felt good to treat my body right.

Here is what I had for breakfast today...

1 packet of plain oatmeal

1/2 banana

I sprinkled some Truvia sweetner on top and it was soooooo yummy!

Water to drink.

Thanks for reading :)

Urban Outfitters Silver Holo

Urban Outfitters Silver Holo

 (3 coats, 2 is fine though)

No top coat.

Hey! Quick post about this AWESOME holo goodness!

I picked this up at Urban Outfitters at a steal of 2 for $8.

The only bummer is that it they only had 3 colors, silver, pink and green.

I put a quick comparison picture at the end to show you the Urban Outfitters versus the Color Club Halo Hues.

Below are the Urban Outfitters holos on my 3 center fingers. The thumb and pinkie are Color Club.

Very much a like. But, since I am a lover of holo, I have them all :P

PS: Weight loss day 3 is going well. I ate oatmeal, turkey sandwich, almonds, papaya, and boiled eggs so far and lots of water :)

Prayers and thoughts to the families and friends of the shootings in Connecticut.

Thanks for reading and have a safe and happy weekend!

e.l.f. Glamour Girl and e.l.f. Gold Star

e.l.f Glamour Girl (1 coat)

e.l.f. Gold Star (accent nail, 1 coat)

Hey there. I have on 2 of the elf polishes

from the 2012 holiday nail polish set.

My awesome Secret Santa included this set in one of my boxes.

I swatched all of the colors and they are better than

 I thought they would be.

If you can believe it, the color I have on (Glamour Girl) is just 1 coat.

Yup!

And the accent nail is also from the set, it's called Gold Star.

I dabbed it on and spread out the glitters to my liking.

Glamour Girl is a light brown nude packed with gold shimmer.

It is such a classy nude.

 Gold Star is a clear polish with medium and tiny gold glitters.

 Gold Star is meant to be a top coat only.

This is a great gift to receive or give.

I will post about my diet and stuff at the bottom of this post.

Enjoy the pictures :)

I broke my middle finger's nail after I took these pictures :(.

Now on my right hand I have nubs...boo!

1st world problems, lol.

Anyways, I was good all day yesterday with my food.

I ended up eating/drinking...

9 cups of water

3 boiled eggs lightly salted

1 large cup of coffee sweetened by Truvia and fat free creamer.

1 California roll

1 chicken breast

I did not do any exercises, so I didn't consume that much to compensate.

I did weigh myself because I know I usually lose a couple of pounds the first day I start eating better.

I do this to encourage myself to keep going

I will try not to weigh myself again for at least 5 days

 since the results won't be as much the next few days.

I was 130.8 yesterday and this morning I was 128.6.

My goal is to be healthy looking and not flabby.

But, if I have to put a set weight and size it would be

112-117 lbs and size 0-2.

That was my size when I turned 30 in 2011.

Remember, I am only 5'1.5.

So, don't think that I am trying to be really skinny.

Here is a chart.

According to this chart a low weight for me is about 106.5

and a target weight is about 123.5.

But, this whole thing isn't about weight,

its more about me eating and feeling healthy.

 I will be more active than the average person is, which I think the chart was made for.

Here is a picture of me in February of 2011.

This is basically where I'd like be back at...

just a little more toned in the thighs and back side than this,

but you get the idea.

Thanks for reading!

Zoya Kissy / Weight Loss

Zoya Kissy (3 coats)

Top coat (2 coats)

Hi! I wanted to wear another one of my gifts from 

my Secret Santa, Marissa. This is Kissy by Zoya.

 Kissy is from the Gems & Jewels Holiday 2011 collection. 

This is a unique glitter that has red, pink, purple and silver holographic glitters in tiny and bar shapes. 

The bar glitter in this polish is perfect and doesn't stick out at all. 

I wore it alone in 3 coats, but next time 

I will wear it as a top coat over a similar color. 

Great addition to any collection of a glitter lover :)

I don't have that many followers. So, of those followers I doubt many have read through all my posts about losing weight. I lost some weight in September and October, about 10 pounds. But, since then I have gained 6 pounds back. That is entirely because I have been lazy and stuffing my face with junk. I know the problem and now I am getting off my ass and fixing it. I am not getting any younger and life is too short for me to just settle. Being healthy is my goal, not being skinny. I suffered from an eating disorders from age 14 to 30. This last year I stopped damaging myself from binge eating and purging and I am very proud of that, but I also need to keep bettering myself. There are other things I am setting my sites on besides my appearance and health, like playing the piano and different hobbies. Enough rambling...thanks for reading :)

Breakfast

I took my vitamins as well as drinking lots of water.

This is what my vitamins have in them. They are organic.

Here are the daily value percetages of my vitamins.

I am sure you know not all vitamins are created equal :)

This is one Vitamin I take that is made from Veggies.

Vitamin A (100% Beta Carotene) 50%

Vitamin E 100%

Folic Acid  70%

SelenoExcell Selenium (Yeat Bound Selenium) 286%

This is the other Vitamin I take that is made from Fruits

Vitamin A (100% Beta Carotene) 50%

Vitamin C 167%

Vitamin B6 250%

Folic Acid 30%

Vitamin B12 1667%

My Halloween Look 2012

Howdy Ya'll! This was my look for Saturday evening.

 I was at an all adult costume party, so don't worry! lol.

And no, I am not naked, the tan color top and bottom are too close to my skin color. I didn't think about that until people were pointing it out. Oops. Anyway, as you may or may not know this was my goal date to have lost the extra fat/weight to fit into this costume. I did not fully succeed in my goal, but I got close enough. The fringe on the side of the vest helped cover any extra "me" and it was dark. I think I can call it a success :)

For my face I used Urban Decay Naked foundation 4.0 and Chanel powder. My eyes are with Urban Decay Primer potion, Urban Decay shadows are Midnight Rodeo, Midnight 15, Deeper and Vanilla. My liquid liner is Lancome, glitter liner is Ruby Kisses and I have false eye lashes on. My lips are Maybelline 10 hour Stain in Cool Coral. Below are some more pictures of me in my costume.

I also put the pictures of my costume on the model and my start weight pictures, where I am 10 lbs heavier.

And here is the costume on the model, below.

Below is me a few days into the healthy kick at 131 on August 28, 2012.

 I orginally started at 135.2 and I got down to 124.6.

So, that's a little over 10 pounds. I wanted to get down to 118ish. But, its not like I still can't do it!

Thanks for reading!

Halloween Nails- Weight Update

Things that go bump in the night!

Hits Zues

Hello! I was really short on time to do my nails. My husband went out of town. We run our business together and, of course, our house hold together. Since he was gone, I had everything on my shoulders. The busy business, 3 homework filled kids, 2 extra large dogs, 1 needy cat and my nails. LOL. Life is good and busy. :) Anyway, back to the nails. My nails all recently broke off. I am sure you can see the nubs. I removed my gel nails in July and the damaged part finally all grew out. For my theme I thought a nice holographic nail polish would help spice up the nubbins. Since the theme had to do with night, it had to be a black holo. This is my first time trying Hits Zeus. It went on easy in 2 coats. I should've went with 3 coats seeing these pictures though. The formula is like a jelly holographic polish, if that makes sense. The above picture is in a lightbox and the below picture is outside. The holoness is not that strong on the nails. Well, not on my nails anyway. It would probably show up much better on long nails...

like almost any polish would, lol.

I added some Halloween themed stickers and 2 coats of top coat.

Also, we had a Secret Pumpkin Swap between some of us ladies in a group.

Below is what I received from a sweet girl from Denmark. Her name is Stinna.

She got me lots of goodies! The new GOSH holo! Butter London Bluey!

Those are my first of each brand :)

She also got eyeshadow, lip balm, cuticle sticks, false eyelashes, nail sickers, nail strips, nail revitilizer, bath soap, a cute card, and TONS of candy! She really spoiled me. I use the lip balm and cuticle sticks multiply times a day.

I haven't posted about my weight in a while. So, here it is!

I have lost a total of 10 pounds.

 I have NOT been working out :( I have been doing a handful of sit ups, push ups and squats here and there. Nothing I would deem a workout. BUT, I have been careful of what I eat and how much I eat. Which you can see in my weight. Halloween is coming TOO FAST and I am pretty sure I will NOT reach my goal. But, I would like to lose 4-5 more pounds in the last 8 days. Just so my gut isn't as noticable in the costume.