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This blog has been very quite. Is not because I want it to be this way, is just that I have not had much inspiration. It is that balance thing I spoke of before.

While I wait to get my mogo back, I have been spending a lot of time on my Tumblr page. Such an easy tool, all I need is my iPhone and Instagram and I can keep it up to date while I wonder about life.

So please do not give up on me, I will be back, I promise. In the meantime follow me at Tumblr and you can see what I am up to. Here are some of the things that I have posted recently:

Christmas in the Dominican Republic:

Shoes!!:

My most recent manicure:

Awesome records I was given by my dad:

Knitting adventures:

and lots more random stuff. I Hope to see you there!!

Ciao!! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl

Last Summer Manicure

With Fall fast approaching (September 23rd) this is may be my last summer manicure of the year. I do not paint my nails as often as I used to due to the horrible shape that they would be in from continuous use of nail polish and nail polish remover. I am wearing a nail polish by Essie, I do not know the name since the tag fell off the bottle. If you know it please let me know and I will update this post. The flower was made using Kiss Nail Art Stencils and Kiss Nail Art Polish.

Ignore my cuticals, lately nothing that I do seems to get them hydrated enough. Base coat bottom coat is the usual.

Ciao!! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl

Nail of the Week: Bare Nails

With Flash

With out Flash

It has been a while since my nails have been in this great a condition. I have no bite marks around my nails, dry cuticles, and my nail beds are not the ugly yellow color that comes from painting them.

I spent about 3 weeks babying my nails. Keeping them free of polish, moisturizing, applying cuticle oil, filing, buffing and keeping my teeth away from my fingers. I am very proud of myself an hope that I can keep them this way.

Now all I need to do is find the perfect base and top coat that will keep my nail polish from bubbling.

Ciao!! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl

Nail of the Week: Delce de Leche

I wanted this nail polish for a while. I kept seeing the nail polish pop up on other nail blogs, dangling in front of my eyes like a carrot.

I finally got it. My nails are a mess at the moment, so I have not been painting my nails as much, trying to give them some time to breath. But I got tired of looking at my plain nails so decided to do a manicure using the polish.

Sorry for the crappy picture. I really need to take some time out and learn how to use my camera properly.

Nail Polish: O.P.I Dulce de Leche (3 Coats)
Base: Nail Tek, Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Ciao! xoxo
~Dissolved Girl

Nail of The Week: My Valentine's Day Manicure

This is what I did as a Valentine's Day manicure. I wanted to do something that I would be able to live with all week. I knew that if I did the hearts and pastels I would have drove myself crazy. I like girlie things but I am not that girlie.

Nail Polish: O.P.I Black Onyx, China Glaze Heli-Yum (2 Coats)

Base: Nail Tek, Orly Bonder

Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

It is not my best manicure. I love OPI's Black Onyx nail polish. But it is always such a pain to work with for me because of the little air bubbles that always happen when I use it. Does anyone know how I can avoid this?

As for the pink color, I used Heli-Yum from the China Glaze Up and Away collection. It is a very pretty raspberry pink color. But as much as I liked the color this was the wrong polish to use on this manicure. It was pretty difficult to work with because it was really runny.

I will be trying this manicure again. But with different nail polish colors.

What do you think?

Nail of The Week: Dottie Tips

We got a record 30 inches of snow in the DC area over the weekend. The power went out last night in my neighborhood making everything very dark and very dangerous.

I wanted to work on my sewing projects again today. But after my breakdown yesterday, I was just not feeling it. I also need to get a new zipper for the skirt. But since we are currently in lockdown, I will not be getting a new one for a few days.

So I decided to turn it into a beauty day. I gave myself a pedicure and manicure and watched the Supernanny marathon on the Style Network.

Here is my nails for the week:

Nail Polish: O.P.I Big Apple Red, LA Colors Black and White Art Deco

Base: Nail Tek, Orly Bonder

Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

As a bonus here are some pictures I took from my balcony yesterday.

Look at how high the snow is!

I was just watching the news and the roads and highways are really bad. The metro bus is not running, the underground metro train is running on a limited schedule, but the above ground train is not running at all.

Our roads have not been cleaned out and today we tried to get the car out and couldn't. It is looking like we will be home bound for at least one more day.

Ciao!! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl

Nail of the Week: Raven

During Thanksgiving Zoya had a sale on their nail polishes. I had never used this brand of nail polish so I thought this was a good of time as any to try them out. Well, so far I am disappointed.

This is Raven:

Per the Zoya website Raven is described as:

"Black with subtle cool shimmer metallic"

Here is my manicure:
What is wrong with this picture?

There is no shimmer. It is BLACK. No shimmer, no glitter, not a hint of any sort of sparkle. Oh, and they state on their website that:

"Zoya is the longest wearing nail polish on natural nails"

Well, they are WRONG. At least this particular nail polish is not long wearing. I painted my nails a few hours before I went to bed one evening and by mid morning the following day while at work I noticed that it was already chipping. I should really be calling this nail of the day not week since it did not even last 24 hours.

See the Chips?
How disappointing. Hopefully the other Zoya polishes I got will be better quality.

Ciao!! xoxo
~Dissolved Girl

Nail of the Day: Mad As A Hatter

I got my Alice in Wonderland for O.P.I. nail polishes and as soon as I got the package and I took a look at the polishes I knew that the first one I had to try was Mad As A Hatter. I LOVE this polish. I tried to take a good picture of it, indoors, outdoors but nothing catches the beauty that is the glittery goodness. Is like a party on your nails. LOVE IT!

They only thing I did not like about the polish is that it was hard to apply. There was so much glitter that it made the polish very thick and made application very difficult. But small price to pay for wonderfully fun looking nails.

Here is the polish in natural light:


Here is the polish in indoor light:


Nail Polish: OPI Mad As A Hatter (2 Coats)
Base: Nail Tek III and Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

What do you think?

Tomorrow I will try out another color from the collection.

Ciao!! xoxo
~ Dissolved Girl

PS: Excuse my dry hands. It is so cold here that there is not enough lotion in this world to keep my hands moisturized.

Nail of the Week: You Don't Know Jacques! - Matte

I tried out the OPI Matte nail polish for my manicure of the week.

I do not know yet how I feel about it. What do you think?

Nail Polish Brand: OPI
Color: You Don't Know Jacques! - Matte (2 Coats)

Base: Orly Bonder
Top Coat: None

On other news, guess what came in the mail today?




Ciao! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl