A Book!

Has anyone read this book? I finished it last night (well, I started it last night too ...), and I loved it. I also cried. Twice. Once for a very long time. It's so dang sad! It's also a lovely book ... lovely writing, lovely images, lovely everything. Even sad parts were lovely. I'd recommend it, if you don't mind weeping a bit. I plan to read Shanghai Girls (another one by Lisa See) next. It's on hold at the library, and I believe that I am #2 in line. Hopefully I'll get it before I leave for college! ;)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is about a girl in China and her laotong, or old-same. Laotongs are girls that are matched for life in friendships. Since girls were married out to men they had never seen before, and probably would never love, latongs fulfilled the emotional love that everyone needs. One thing that I thought was particularly interesting about this book was that there was no lead male character. I kept waiting for the main man to enter the book, but he never did. It's pretty awesome.
I'm fascinated by Asian culture (including India). I read as many books as I can on it, particularly books about India. These are mainly novels, but I read a few bios and stuff. Non-fiction that is not comedy, poetry, plays, or biographies is hard for me. I'll read some history books, but other than that, I stick to novels.
By now, you've probably guessed that I'm a reader. I read books constantly. When someone asks me what I do in my spare time, I reply that I read. :) It helps that I can somehow read extremely quickly. Like, weirdly quickly. Once I made my sister very angry and confused by reading a book at a speed of 200 pages per minute. (it was an extremely good book.)
Anyways, I've strayed from my point. Whatever that was. Normally I review the books that I read on this website called goodreads, which I would highly recommend for the readers out there. It's very fun. :) Check it out and friend me.
But I think I might post occasionally about books on here too. Books that I think were really good or really bad. What do you think?

Yay For Free Nail Polish

Heyy, look! Free nail polish! I vaguely remember entering a contest sponsered by Jell-O and Essie ... and this is what came of it. It arrived whilst I was wallowing in pain and self-pity in the throes of wisdom teeth removal. Very timely! Did I mention how weepy that medicine/exhaustion made me? My sweet mama and sister bought me some very beautiful red cannas. When they showed them to me (like, "look! We brought you feel better flowers! Aren't they pretty?"), my response was, "Waaaaaaah! My teeth hurt!" I also took a bath while mama was gone, apparently something I wasn't supposed to do, as I could have fainted, etc. Ooops!
Anyways, I'm rambling. (I'm very good at rambling, if you haven't noticed by now. ;))
The name of this free nail polish is Jell-O Strawberry Acai. I know, what kind of a name is that? But it does look like strawberry jello a little bit. It's a pinky-red with a slightly jelly finish, and very shiny. Not the most original color in the world, but definitely pretty. And I lurve anything free. My only problem with this nail polish was that it was slightly streaky. Oh, and this is 2 coats. You can see some VNL, but only a little, so I didn't add any extra coats. Maybe because I was being slightly lazy and doing a slap-dash job on my nails. Bad Faithy!

Awesome Cute Polishes That I Need

You guys! Have you seen Scrangie's post on Eyeko nail polish? It's a British makeup brand with FREE worldwide shipping. I know, awesome, right? You really need to check out Scrangie's swatches. The bottles are so dang cute! I think I might have to order Disco and Pastel and Pretty and Vamp. :)

School Shopping

My mama and I went school shopping today! It's much more fun to shop for college than it is to shop for highschool. :)
We bought me some bedding, here's the bedding I bought. It's from Target, nothing to fancy, but I think I'll be able to live with it for 4 years. A lot of the stuff that they advertise for college students is really bright and in your face ... I don't like my room to be too bright, I like a space that I can relax in. I bought the matching sheet set for the bedding as well.
I also bought this dry-erase board. Fun stuff! Oh, and we got me a hamper, pillows, etc. My friend Olivia bought me a bedside lamp for graduation, so I don't have to worry about that. I also got towels and a luggage set for graduation, so that's nice. It's really weird to actually own things like towels and bedding and hampers ... I'm used to my parents owning it, you know? But this stuff I can take with me when I leave college and use in my apartment or whatever. Weeird. Ok, maybe y'all don't think it's weird, but I do. Haha!
We've also been researching a computer for me. My daddy took me to the Apple store yesterday, and we looked @ the Macbook Pros. I'm liking that students get free ipod touches with their new Macbooks. :)

So I want to ask y'all something. I was thinking about making this a non-polish-exclusive blog. I'd like to post about my daily life as well. And perhaps some beauty stuff too. What do y'all think? Would that make you angry? Or are you cool with it?

OPI Bastille My Heart

Hello darlings! I have one of my favorite polishes for you today. I can't believe I haven't posted about it yet. It is quite fabulous. Bastille My Heart is from the OPI French Collection of 2008. That was a very good collection. OPI describes Bastille My Heart as red, but I most definitely do not. Sure, that picture right there in the bright bright sun makes it look red, but look at this picture.
See? It's a gorgeous berry that looks like a creme but actually has secret shimmer. Yay! This is 3 coats, if you use 4 it'll get vampy on you, which can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on your preferences. :)
I don't know why I love BMH so, since it's not especially unique or blue or anything, but I love love love it. Everytime I put it on I feel so fancy and pretty. Always nice to feel that way. ;) It applies smoothly with minimal streaking. Very good!

I'm Not Dead!

Hey y'all! I did not intentionally desert you this past week, but I've been pretty busy. I've got this annotated bibliography I have to write before tomorrow, plus I got back from St. Louis on Tuesday, and then yesterday I got my wisdom teeth out. :O Yeah, that was painful. Thankfully I was under complete anathesia, but I react very poorly to anathesia, so I spent yesterday throwing up every time I tried to eat something. Fuuun. Today I feel a lot better ... guess I threw up all the anathesia. ;) My mouth is not so painful anymore, but my face is swollen to a ridiculous size. If you just saw my head you would think that I weighed 200 lbs, and had a square face shape. Haha! It's pretty funny looking.

So anyways, about my post today. I got this email the other day from Essie talking about this new collection that's got diamond dust all in it. The colors are kind of meh, and they cost $15 each. Buut, there's a jewel in 3 bottles of polish. An emerald, a diamond, or a sapphire. Hello, I'd like one of those! ;) The red looks nice, and I'm wondering how sheer that pink is. The brown-y color could either be gorgeous or competely ugly. We'll see if I cave and buy any. I wish that the colors matched the jewels, you know? Like, an emerald green, a sapphire blue, and a sparkling white. Wouldn't that be cool?

[[EDIT: Scrangie has posted swatches of these! Click here to see them.]]

OMG, y'all!

It is very weird that I haven't posted about OMG yet ... I have no idea why. I've worn it several times, but never deigned to take a picture of it. Whatever. OMG is from the China Glaze OMG collection of 2008, an entire collection of holos. It is a very fantastic collection. The holo is very fine, you can't really see the particles at all. OMG is, as you can see, silver holo. There's a huge amount of holo packed in there ... it's almost blinding in the sun. Awesome.
My only complaint with the OMG collection is that the formula is weird. You have to wait for each coat to dry completely before adding another coat, and then you have to work quickly and without mistakes, or else the polish comes off instead of going on. Ooops. ;)