The Value of Good Service

As a result of an internet outage at my house, I'm way behind on my blogging, YouTube video uploads, and blog surfing.

Remember when companies actually had good service? Apparently that time has passed for AT&T Local Phone Service and Earthlink. So has my time as their customer for home phone (who needs that anyway?) and DSL (since we are now switching to cable modem service, we don't need phone service). Note to big corporations. Stop wheeling and dealing and get you some customer service. Laissez-faire economics and capitalism means we have choices. The customer is always right. So long suckaz!

Turns out this is actually a pretty appropriate post for the week of Independence Day. Let me, everyone I know and love, and all of you lovely readers be free of the tyranny of bad business practices and companies that don't care about the customer experience.

Here are the products I used for my 4th of July manicure. Pictures, too!

I love my Julep America. It's so pretty and the stars are so cool. I also love the Nicole for OPI Kardasshian Courtney needs a Pedi red I used in this mani. It's so candy-like. Kind of jelly-ish and a bit sheer. But yummy with the 3 coats I gave it. I also adore the OPI designer color I used for the navy blue. It's like a soft sparkly paint you could maybe get on your Schwinn Stingray bike back in the 70s. And lots of folks have been admiring the Milani gold glitter polish I put on the end of the white.

Hope you enjoy!

I say long live competition and anti-trust laws. May we start enforcing them better soon in this country. Like, for instance, maybe individual companies shouldn't own local phone lines, since that is like water and other utilities, and is more of a public service.

God Bless America!

:)BeautyJones

July 4th Manicure and FOTD

Products to follow. Happy 4th, everybody!

<3BeautyJones

OPI Vintage Minnie Minis Nail Polish Set

Look what they had at the employee store! Yay! I love the slight shimmer in The Color of Minnie, and the warm pink called If You Moust You Moust, the deep Magenta Shimmer in I'm All Ears.

And since these are so very tiny they will be perfect to take on summer trips to do touch-ups, or even to do a whole new manicure!

The packaging is very cute!

Don't you want to buy yourself a set?

Love,

:)BeautyJones

OPI Holland - "I Have a Herring Problem"

I adore blue colors on my nails. I was one of the first at the office to rock the gray polish, too, when others (later to get on the gray polish train in a big way) termed it "interesting."

I love what a blue-gray-neutral does for the skin of my hands, bringing out the rosy and gold colors there. I have reasonably fair skin, with some visible veins in my wrists and the backs of my hands. The veins appear teal-ish.

I have to thank Southern California for turning my ivory complexion almost medium. Or it could be my Mom's olive skin has taken on and beaten my Dad's Irish rosy-pale complexion in my own genetics? No matter. Enter my new favorite early spring nail polish shade, OPI's "I Have a Herring Problem."

It's as if you took the shade of my Granny's Samsonite hatbox--a cool teal blue-gray--and combined it with a submarine paint gray, and then added bits of teal, silver and orange shimmer. Sounds crazy, but is so subtle. Is the skin you find on pickled herring their color inspiration? Neato! Here are my photos.

And if someone can find me a polish color that would match the Granny Smith apple I was holding in these photos, I will be very grateful!  And I'll wear it in a post, and give you credit!

Thanks for reading. Now go have fun!