#31DC2 Days 7+8: Metallic & Dotticure

Hello friends! I am so behind on the 31 Day Challenge 2.0, its not even funny. Actually I'm a week behind exactly. Today I am trying to catch up a little bit with two days in one! Today I have days 7 and 8, but since today is day 9, I'm still not caught up.

For days 7 and 8, the themes are metallic and dotticure. I had a really hard time coming up with a design for the metallic prompt, since metallic colors aren't my favorite. But I ended up doing a easier design with China Glaze Elfin' Around, NYC Top of the Gold, and golden studs from The New Black. I used Essie Good to Go for my top coat.

For day 8, I did a blue gradient dotticure. I used my set of dotting tools to make the dots. The colors I used are: Sinful Colors Bright Lucite, Wet n Wild I Need A Refresh-mint, Essie Butler Please, and NYC Blue Basin. I topped it off with NYC Matte About You.

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Book Review

#31DC2 Day 6 Monochromatic: Coffee Nail Art

Hello friends! Today is the 6th day of the 31 Day Challenge 2.0. This is one of my favorite prompts: monochromatic (shades of one color).  For this prompt I made an idea that I have had for a while come to life. Coffee nail art! I love coffee, really it is a miracle that I ever lived without it. My personal favorite right now is Starbucks salted mocha frappucino. Yummmm!

or this design I used a nail art brush and painted it all free hand. I used OPI You're So Vain-illa as my base. Then I used Sinful Colors Nirvana, Elf Smoky Brown, and NYC Black Velvet for my coffee beans. I think this design looks a lot better matte, so I finished with NYC Matte About You.

Looking for Alaska Book Review

 Title: Looking For Alaska
Author: John Green
Series: NA
Rating: 4/5 Stars
Bookshelves on Goodreads:  books-i-own, contemporary, favorites, have-high-hopes-for, middle-of-nowhere, read, romance

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

There is something about this book that makes me want to smile & cry at the same time. It's not perfect, It's not TFIOS, but it is beautiful all the same. It kind of reminded me a lot of Paper Towns, in the means of nerdy boy falls for messed up, free girl. But I didn't care that it was similar because it was similar in all of the good ways. I loved the friendships in this book and there were moments were I was almost bawling because I was laughing so hard.

I feel like this is one of those books were you should go into it not knowing much, because you get a great/awful shock in the middle and I don't want to ruin that. But I will tell you a little bit. The main character's name is Miles. Miles is a nerdy kid who doesn't have many friends, so he switches schools to go to a bordering school to find his "great perhaps". He gets there and makes three good friends: Alaska, the Colonel, and Takumi.

I love all of the characters in this book to death. Miles is just a sweet, nerdy guy. He reads people's last words. The one thing that makes me admire him the most is that he goes after his dreams. He doesn't just sit there and deal with his semi awful situation, he deals with it and I think that is awesome. Alaska is a free spirited, book loving girl. I think that she is really cool even though she does some things that annoy me.

The Colonel is amazingly funny. Like 90% of the jokes that I laughed at were his. He just seems like a good friend. Takumi is funny as shit as well. Overall I just really liked this book. The one thing that I didn't like about this book is that the ending is kind of unresolved. Sure we get some answers but I don't feel like I got enough. It is hard to explain without spoilers, but people who have read it will get it. But I really enjoyed this book. It was just as I expected from John Green.

#31DC2 Day 5: Black and White

Happy Monday! Pshh no. Today has been a crappy monday. I got like 4 hours of sleep last night, then the pot of coffee I made was bitter, but I drank it away because I was too tired to care. Then I did way too much school work, dishes twice, lots of laundry, cleaning, and here I am!

So needless to say, I am super happy that I can just sit her and blog. I did these nails yesterday and still love them, and can't stop staring at them. I normally am not a huge fan of tribal print so I am pretty surprised that I like these are much as I do.

I used Rimmel London White Hot Love and NYC Black Velvet for this design. I painted the design with a nail brush and topped it with Essie Good to Go.

The Program Book Review

Title: The Program
Author: Suzanne Young
Series: The Program #1
Rating: 4/5 Stars
Bookshelves on Goodreads: books-i-own, dystopia, have-high-hopes-for, mental-illness, my-emotions-i-cannot, romance

  “I think that sometimes the only real thing is now.”

The Program was beautiful, heartbreaking, and scary. Really if you think about it, the whole concept of this book is scary as hell. What is suicide was contagious? What if you did have to hide your feelings? What if you could get sent to the mental ward just for crying or having a bad day? As a person who has had depression and anxiety her whole life, it is just a concept that seems to freighting and possible.

The concept of this book is that more and more teens are getting depressed and commiting suicide. The suicide rate is at an all time high and the Program has stepped in. If they find you depressed or even upset, they will send you to the Program. They drug you into not remembering your life and the people you love most. Then you get sent back into the real world and everything is blank.

This is Sloane's world. She lost her brother to suicide. The only reason she got through it was because of James, she brother's best friend and her boyfriend. Then their friend Miller dies and they both got depression and try to hide it so they don't go into the Program. But the Program is coming for them.

So I loved a lot about this book. I really liked how emotional it was and how real it seemed. I liked Sloane and felt for her situation. But while I liked James, I couldn't really love his character as much as I wanted to. But I didn't like the concept of the program or how close it hit to home. It was almost too emotional in the fact that reading it just made me upset. But overall I enjoyed it and can't wait to read The Treatment!

#31 Day Challenge Days 3+4

Hey guys! I know that its been forever and I'm sorry for that! My mom has been in the hospital this week and its been a little rough around here lately. But she is getting better so it should be better soon!

Today I'm making up for this week with two nail art challenges! Today I have day 3: blue or violet and day 4: primary or secondary. Also I actually did a water marble, well. So I am super excited to show you that!

For day 3 my choice is blue. I did a striped ombre with Sinful Colors Bright Lucite, Wet 'n' Wild I need a refresh mint, Sally Hansen Blue Me Away, and NYC Blue Basin.

For day 4 my choice is secondary colors. I used NYC Nolita's Lavender, Hamptons Peach, and Mint'ed on Broadway for my water marble. I know that quality of these pictures aren't the best but I had to take them inside at night. It's not perfect but really my first good water marble!

Shatter Me Book Review

 Title: Shatter Me
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Series: Shatter Me #1
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Bookshelves on Goodreads: books-i-own, book-boyfriends, dystopia, favorite-series, favorites, have-high-hopes-for, love-the-cover, other-supernatural, pissed-me-off, romance
 
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”

So I was going to shorten that quote, I swear, but I just couldn't. That is probably the most perfect, relatable quote that I have ever read. So your welcome. Saying that, I was scared going into this book. Really scared. I have heard so much good and bad about it and I was scared that I was just falling into a hype, but I wasn't. Shatter Me heard such a unique writing style that I think that it will be either a hit or a miss with people. But it was a huge hit with me.

I loved and felt for most of the characters. I thought that the writing style was perfect and beautiful. I literally couldn't put it down, it was just so gripping and unforgetable. It was really great seeing the main character, Juliette, come into herself and become brave. I loved the romance. I just have so much praise for this book.

Shatter Me is about a girl named Juliette who has a fatal touch. She doesn't have any clue why or how. Then she almost kills someone, by accident, and The Reestablishment (basically their government) locked her up in an asylum for murder. Her parents hate her, she has never had any friends, and her life just sucks until Adam comes along.

Juliette is in her dark cell when she meets her new roommate, Adam. She knows Adam from somewhere, but she doesn't know where. Adam is instantly nice and charming. She constantly fights the urge to touch him and they go crazy together. Then Warner takes Juliette and Adam to a government building and she discovers that they want to use her as a weapon.

This book just branded itself into my brain and wouldn't let go. I just bought the next book and I am so excited to start it.

#31DC2 Day 2: Yellow or Green

It's the second day of the 31 Day Nail Art Challenge 2.0! You can find more info about this challenge from its creators, which are listed in the photo to my left! Today you can choose between yellow and green. My choice was yellow!

Today I was rather lazy and didn't really do nail art but glitter. The end result reminds me way too much off bumble bees! But I do like it. Plus the yellow smells like bananas! I can't stop smelling my nails.

For this design I used Sally Girl Banana and Fandom Cosmetics To Love is To Destroy. I topped it off with Essie Good to Go!

#31DC2 Day 1: Red or Orange

I have already done the 31 day challenge twice, once with the blog and once without. So since it's that time of the year again, I decided to try to do this challenge. It was made by The Nail Polish Challenge, Will Paint Nails for Food, and Wondrously Polished. They are all great bloggers!

These challenge provides more difficult challenges, but it is easier because you only have to post twice a week: Monday and Thursday! But saying that, it will last two months instead of one.

At this point I'm not sure if I will get to do every day but I will sure try! Thanks to the great bloggers for making this contest!