New Year Fitness Challenge

My sister posted this on Facebook and I think I'm going to try it. Who's in?

Wait, the squats START at 30?!

Update: Day three and so far I am doing well. The pushups are kind of tough, so I am doing them with my knees on the ground. I was kind of sore the first day, though!

2014 Year in Review

At this time of year I usually do a year in review post about the best of this blog. However, I guess I only posted twice this whole year and they were both about nail polish. So, I thought I would share my favorite nail polish brand of the year!

Essie polish is available in most drugstores (I get mine from Rite Aid) and costs $8-9 per bottle. I have 8 of them:

Most of them are pretty great, but I really like the reddish color called "e-nuf is e-nuf" which looks like this:

And the light purple called "go ginza:"

I have to say, though, that I tried using the light pink color called "ballet slippers" three different times and it was always too streaky. I'm giving up on that one. If you can do one very thin coat it makes an OK kind of transparent look, though.

Ombré Nails

I tried ombré nails from this Buzzfeed post:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/32-easy-nail-art-hacks-for-the-perfect-manicure

and it actually kind of worked.

I used Maybelline Color Show nail lacquer in Pink Shock and Porcelain Party.

Maybelline Color Show Nail Lacquer: Audacious Asphalt

I love the colors in this line and the price is right, but some of these are better than others. Green with Envy is the perfect Tiffany blue, for example. But I don't see as many people wearing that color anymore. It was more of a spring color.

They have a new selection of purple colors, but I felt like I should try some of the ones I already bought but never  wore first.

I have had this gray color for a while. It's number 390. I've tried to wear it three times but it was either too transparent or It took forever to dry, got smudged, and I had to remove it. So, I never actually got to wear it in public.

I like the idea of gray polish, so I am trying again today, this time with no basecoat or topcoat just two thin layers.

Here is what it looks like:

I was wondering how long you should really wait until your nails are dry so I looked it up on Google. It said you had to wait two hours! So I'm going to do my best not to mess it up until then. So far it's been 15 minutes.

It's been two and a half hours and my nails still look pretty good. Check it out:

So far there are no chips even though I walked my dog and went to a car show. The one weird thing about this color is that I kind of feel like it is what you would wear for a zombie Halloween costume, but I'm still going to wear it to work tomorrow.

Jedidiah Atkinson For the Win!

The segment on last night's SNL Weekend Update (November  16, 2013) featuring Gettysburg Address speech reviewer Jedidiah Atkinson (Terran Killam) was the funniest thing I have seen in a while. It was definitely the best thing so far this season.

You can see it on SNL's website.

Project Runway Season 12 Episode 9 Live Blog

It's the Bell challenge. Here we go!

"Helen's gown is like the 60s threw up." - Alexander

So the designers must create a day or night look For the modern southern woman. They get to start out by having brunch, but soon Tim arrives and they head off to Mood.

Bradon Is worried because he and Alexander both got plaid fabric. He doesn't want another Miranda plaid pants fiasco.

Several of the designers got silk prints.

COMMERCIAL #1

Helen is making a sunflower yellow dress with lace. She asks, "what southern woman wouldn't want" this dress. It does not look good.

Alexandria also has a plaid fabric but it does not look good either.

Tim's tie looks like Braden's print.

Tim comes in to see how everyone's doing. Some people are doing well and others (like Alexandria) need a lot of help. She has this Bohemian thing going on. It's not exactly the modern southern woman.

COMMERCIAL #2

Is it me or does this episode seem to be going really fast?

Ken takes a moment to talk to his mom about his anger issues, etc. is this supposed to make us think he is getting auf'd tonight? Based on the dresses so far, I would say it should be Helen leaving, but then she has won three times, so the judges must know something I don't.

Everyone is talking about how much work they still have to do in the morning.

Wait, did the third commercial break already happen?

It's makeup and hair time everyone rushes to the runway.

COMMERCIAL #3/4?

The celebrity guest judge is Stacy Keibler. Also, I forgot to mention that the winning design will be sold on Belk.com.

Runway Time!

First up is Ken. As a modern southern man, he figures he's a lock:

Helen's hippy sunflower frock is next. Heidi doesn't look impressed.

Justin's is a little too simple:

I like Alexander's look, but it doesn't look very southern:

Alexandria's is see through and awkward:

Bradon's look. A lot of them look the same.

Dom's model actually looks southern to me, but I do not like this dress:

Jeremy's model looks like the modern southern grandmother of the bride:

Kate's print is a little too bold. I can't get a good picture, but the big bright print, the length, and the volume of the skirt make it look very much like a doll dress. The styling is good, though. Very southern.

The three safe designers are Alexandria (really?), Justin, and Helen. Helen is pissed that she is not in the top.

COMMERCIAL #?

The three top designers are Bradon, Kate (but Heidi thought the model looked pregnant), and Alexander.

The bottom three are Jeremy, Ken (who gives Heidi a mean look, she calls him on it, and he says literally nothing), and Dom. Weird that Dom and Ken, who are from the South, are both in the bottom.

Look, we all saw in the preview that Heidi sends at least some of the designers back to the workroom for the "first time in PR history," so is it just going to be for the bottom three or what? Well, yes.

COMMERCIAL 

So the winner is Bradon. Let's all go to Belk.com (but I do not look good in a shirt dress, so no thanks).

Jeremy, Ken, and Dom are sent back to the workroom and given one hour, a fellow designer to help, and access to any fabric in the workroom! Fun! Start over with Helen's yellow fabric if you can!

Ken is changing his original dress by making it shorter, while Dom and Jeremy completely start over. Does this bode ill for Ken?

The new dresses are...

KEN

DOM

JEREMY

Heidi loves Dom's dress and says if she saw it in a Belk store, she would buy it. Posen says she would have won if she showed this dress first. Can they make Bradon's AND Dom's?

So who will get kicked off?

COMMERCIAL 

They're going to sell Dom's dress, too!! Yay! Does that count as another win for Helen (since she was Dom's assistant)?

Jeremy is out (I would have auf'd Ken for his attitude).

Next week's show looks so cute! They are designing for eight super fans of the show! Why wasn't I invited??

Project Runway Live Blog

I'm under the weather today, so I'm just going to enjoy this week's PR and not do a live blog. Sorry. I will say, though, that this happened: