Latest works

So I've been lacking with some photos here of my works. So here are some of my latest works.

I need to REALLY finish the loads of video tutorials I have saved that just need the voice over... -_-

And there are many more on my Glitzy Nails Facebook Page, check it out, Like and Share my page :D

Plastic Surgery controversy

This subject affects mostly famous and popular people, and in here I will refer to three girls, two of them are Youtube Makeup gurus (one I think didn't submit to cirgury, but people say she does... which, seriously...why do they care???) and one of the most famous blogger. I'm talking about Xiaxue (Wendy, she submited to some plastic surgeries to alter her nose and her eyes if I'm not mistaken), JLovesMac1 (Jarmaine, she did breast augmentation) and Michelle Phan (now, here I think this ain't true... and even if it is, she looks gorgeous. People say she did something to her chin... I personally think she just got thinner and her makeup skills help a lot... although it does look longer).

The point I'm trying to make here is... I really couldn't care less... I mean... It's THEIR body, their life and money. They show themselves to us, they inspire us to be pretty and to be ourselves. Being ourselves doesn't always and just mean to never change something about you. It means that if you FEEL that you can improve something about you (may it be your nose, eyes, breasts, butt, legs, weight, hair color, etc..) and if you can do it, DO IT! I'm a supporter of change when it's about feeling good with ourselves. If you change because people say you should change, then I do not approve. I've done that my whole life... I've molded myself to the patterns that people made out of me... People around me want me to be fully natural and just accept what life gives me... Well, to me, life is about accepting what we get indeed, but also make something out of that that will please us. I recently started changing my nails to a style that most people think it's ugly or witch like, and I don't care. There are people who hate it and are mean and unpleasant about it, and there are the curious people that I actually find funny, and the people like me that LOVE these nails, but for some reason don't do them themselves... Then I started tattooing my body to my liking. I made a design of two wings I wanted to tattoo on my shoulder blades when I was 16, but I never got either the money or the guts to do them... And this past January I found the money and the guts, and a really good friend of mine to do them. She nailed them just like I wanted them! Then I started my second and third tatoo this month. The third tattoo that was a really small one is already finished, and the other is still in process. I'm doing this because I want it, and because I love how I feel with these changes. I feel like myself now... And THEN I dyed my deep dark brown hair into a baby pink color. I feel like a doll! I feel like myself...
And let me tell you... If I had the money like Michelle, Jarmaine and Wendy to make some plastic surgery on my, I would do it! I would change my nose (make it smaller and with a nice cute curved bridge instead of the crooked one that I have), I would change probably my maxillar bones to be more slender and feminine, and would shorten my chin a bit. And I would definetly alter my body slightly.
All this rambling for what? Simply for the fact that I don't get WHY people get so upset if Youtube Gurus, Bloggers, famous people get plastic surgery... We use makeup to enhance natural beauty and also to hide things we dislike about ourselves...
Altering how we look like comes from WAY back before us... Remember the Victorian dresses? They reshapped women's figure completely, they would shave their heads to wear silly white wigs! They would pamper their faces white! Even men did that!!! I mean... It's natural human behaviour to want to look nice, to look to certain standards...
Some people want to look like models... Other people want to look like dolls... Let them BE! It's WHO they are!!!!
Why get so upset about that? Why rage about it and attack or mock or even bully because of that! Everyone's different. We're individuals. We're FREE! Free to do what we want with ourselves. If it does not affect your life, why bother getting angry about it??? Seriously...
I just don't get it... -_-

Lack of work...don't you just hate it?

I mean, if you have a contract with someone and you get to receive your payment with or without work to do, it may be fine... boring but fine... Now when you work by self employment like I do (I'm a Nail Tech/Stylist and Makeup Artist) it's a whole different story...
Especially when throughout your years of work, most people you've co-worked with made your life a living hell, made you lose clients, money... I mean... It's not easy like this... Through these past 3 years and a half that I've been working as a self employed Nail Tech and Makeup Artist in salons getting paid by commission, I've crossed some salons where I just could nt fit in... For some reason, even though my work was good, no client would complain (on the contrary, they would compliment my work), the owners would want a higher percentage from my work, while I gave my time, fuel and my equipment and products. I gave them a 30% of my total income each day, without them doing NOTHING. Meaning, that while I worked and they didn't, they still would get 30% of what I got... and they wanted 50%!!! Like, HELL NO! You want that, you PAY the products, you get the equipment for me to work with... If you don't accept that, then it's 30% and I'm doing you a favour!
Then when I finally found a nice place, it shut down due to lack of clients...
THEN I went out of city, by my own cost, to a company that promised good income, a contract and commissions over the contract, and after almost a month (where I spent all my money on transports and food, and luckily I had a friend that let me stay at her house), they just gave me the commissions, and no other help, nor the contract they said they would give me... and let me tell you... I received two day commissions... Meaning, I spent more than the double than the income I got... And when I confronted them, they argued I was a horrible professional and got me off of the boat... This taught me to never EVER trust anyone...
Recently I found a salon at my hometown that accepted my requirements of work, but even though it's well situated, it seems that the finance crisis is really bad around here, because I have close to no clients.. So Im here, at the salon I've been for the past week and a couple days, doing this blog post, because, REALLY, I have nothing else better to do here...
Also I made a promotion sale of my work, doing the 1st aplication with extentions for the price of the maintenance (meaning that instead of making the nails for the minimum of 35€ I'm doing them for 15€... less than half of the price. I know I'm losing a hell load of money for a lot of work, but I'm hoping this will call the clients eyes). And still... no clients... -_-' This is sad, frustrating...and boring as hell... (I've been say "hell" a lot on this post... damn I'm frustrated...)

The other thing that is also getting me frustrated is that a friend of mine that hasn't seen me in almost a year, told me I'm too fat... -_- Now I'm frustrated... Like, yes, I know I'm 10kg heavier than I should... And yes, I know I need to workout and eat healthy... I started with the healthy eating already... I just need to feel the strengh in me to start the workouts... And I should walk more, and leave the car on it's place... I know, I know... I'm actually VERY lazy, and I shouldn't be... I WILL workout, just dunno when, but hopefully it will be soon enough ^^; hopefully... ^^;
Right now, due to my tattoo on my tighs I can't force my leg too much (besides the pain of stretching the skin, it can damage the tattoo and the skin), but in a week, I think, I'll be ready to do normal exercise with no pain, and without damaging either the skin nor the tattoo.

God damnit... I really got to put myself together and workout like a beast if I want to look like a beauty. I was never skinny to begin with, although I always envied my skinny perfect friends... And GOD how I hated when they would go like: "I'm so fat..." or "I'm so ugly..." in front of me. Seriously!!! You want/need people to tell you you're pretty and skinny when you already know that or do you have such bad vision it distorts you???? You KNOW you're skinny, and you KNOW you're pretty... Why do you say you're not???? >.<'
Anyways...
I hope I don't be like that once I lose (at least) these 10kg...

Wish me luck guys!!! :D