Monday, May 21, 2012

Hand Painted Flowers

I was watching a video on YouTube on how to do hand painted flowers on your nails. I fell in love with the design so I decided that I wanted to try it myself.

For being my first time of doing hand painted flowers, I would say that I did a pretty good job. In the video she used paint brushes and acrylic paint. I used just my normal nail polish and nail art polish (the brushes are very thin). I think next time I do it, I will use paint brushes instead.

Nail Polishes Used: (all polishes were bought at Rite Aid for $1.99 each)
White Tips: Sinful Colors - Snow Me the White
Pink Flowers - Sinful Colors - 24/7
White Outline (on flowers) - Sinful Colors Nail Art - Bad Chick
Black Outline (on flowers) - Sinful Colors Nail Art - Time Off

I absolutely love the Sinful Colors collection. They have so many different colors and glitters and for $1.99 each how can you not love it! The nail art collection is really nice as well. My only complaint about the nail art collection is the brushes have a tendency to get stray hairs, which can make outlining difficult.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Home Opener Nails

I am a huge baseball fan! I love everything about it, especially the Cleveland Indians. I am currently a season ticket holder and I get to enjoy games all season long. I also try and catch a game when they are on the road somewhere as well. Thursday is the home opener and I have started to get ready. I do my nails every year and this year I decided to do something a little different.

One of the current trends is to paint your ring finger nail different from all the others. At first, I wasn't sold on the idea, but I decided what the hell and I gave it a try. The ring finger nail is a baseball and the rest of the nails are a red and blue french. My nails are now ready for  First Pitch!

Go Tribe!!!!

Monday, March 26, 2012

Pinning These Pictures to Pinterest

I tried to upload these, but Pinterest or my computer are not working with me today, so I am going to post these pictures on here just so I can pin them.









Thursday, March 15, 2012

St Patrick's Day Gradient Nails

I was struggling on how to do my nails for St Patrick's Day. I tried a few different designs and I couldn't figure out exactly what I wanted. Nothing seemed to look right.

While browsing Pinterest, I came across a purple gradient nail design and I loved it. So I decided why not do them in green for St Patrick's Day. So here they are:


Monday, January 16, 2012

Donating Hair

When I was little, I always had long hair. My hair was down to my waist for most of my childhood. When I was in high school, I cute it for the first time and throughout high school and college, I wore my hair shorter. In 2007 I decided that I was going to grow my hair out after going really short. (at least short for me). I kept my hair about midback from 2007-2010 and then 2010 I decided to just let it grow. In 1 year, I grew my hair back down to my waste. I always wore my hair in a pony tail or in a messy bun because it was just so long that I didn't know what to do with it.

One day at work, we were browsing on Pinterest and I found a hairstyle for one of my co-workers that I thought would look great on her. After finding her a new hairstyle, I decided that it was time for a new style for me. I went to Facebook for some ideas and a friend of mine suggested that I donate my hair. I highlight my hair and a lot of places will not take bleached hair. After researching, I found an organization call Children with Hairloss.

Children with Hairloss is an organization based out of Michigan that provides hair pieces for children. The minimum donation is 8" and they take chemically treated hair!! They aren't as big as Locks for Love, but they do the same thing.

I talked myself out of doing this and Saturday when I was browsing facebook from my phone, I saw a special at a salon in town. They were doing a free cut with any color service. I knew that if I was going to do this, I was going to have to do it on impluse and not allow myself to talk myself out of it. So I booked the appointment, had lunch with my mom and went to the salon.



I was so nervous when I got there, but I knew that I was helping a child in need. The salon that I went too, Edge Hair Design in Canton, Ohio. My stylist Ashley and the owner Patty were so nice! They measured the hair and next thing I know, my hair was cut!!! 9" was cut from my hair and they were going to send away for donation.



2 hours later, I was done. I had a new color, a new style and a uplifting feeling in my heart. I was able to give a child something that I had. It is a great feeling.


Thursday, January 12, 2012

Pinterest

Has anyone else been on this site? Oh! My! Goodness! I am addicted!

I came across Pinterest because my cousin posted something on her Facebook page about a different way to fold clothes in your drawers. After looking at that, I found so much more stuff! And, now I'm hooked.

I have a section on my page that is for DIY things. I am a fairly craft person, or so I always thought I was. But some of the craft ideas on this site, make me look like an amature. And some of the home organizing tips are unbelievable.

So far, my 2 favorite things are the spice rack turned into nail polish holder:

And the curtain used as a Canopy for your bed:

I have also found some tattoo ideas and even some new nail art that I want to try. The design I have on my nails now came from Pinterest:

Well back to pinning I go!


Monday, January 9, 2012

Purple Rain

I am currently listening to the song Purple Rain by Prince. What a great song!!!

Speaking of Purple, I never really considered myself to be a "purple person". No, not a one eyed, one horn flying purple people eater, but a person who liked the color purple. Purple, to me, is a very girly color and I am not a girly girl. But as I think back about how much I have incorporated the color purple into my life, it appears that I might be a purple person.

I am currently in the middle of redecorating my bedroom. When I originally moved, the colors of my bedroom were teal, black and lime green. I found a comforter that I fell in love so I had to change everything. The new comforter was white and gray and it needed some other color to go wih it. Never in a million years would I think that purple would be the color. Purple and gray actually go well together, but to me, they never did. I went to IKEA this weekend (that is where I bought the comforter to begin with) and they had it on display and to my surprise, they paired it with purple! So I guess this non-girly girl is going purple!

Friday, January 6, 2012

The Beginning....

It was very hard for me to sit down and figure out what I wanted to write about. There are so many things that I would enjoy writing about, so picking one single topic was something that I just couldn't do. So, I will write about them all.

The idea for the blog started at the office. Working for a marketing company, I have access to many different marketing tools and I have the oppurtunity to learn about different aspects of marketing. Our most recent marketing tool that we are offering is blogging. While sitting in training on Monday, my wheels started turning. I've blogged before (I actually have an online diary), but I wanted a place that I can talk about the things that I'm passionate about. Everything from sports to doing my nails. I was talking to my coworkers and mentioned to them that I should start a blog. We were thinking about a few different ideas and one of us said that I should call the blog "That's What She Said".

After thinking about that (and laughing), we realized that this title will fit perfectly. Not only is it one of the phrases that I (and we at the office) use a lot in response to others, but this blog is based off of what I have to say. So the title fits my personality in more ways than one. Yes, when the title was mentioned, it was to go along with a joke, but it ended up being a perfect fit.