First off, the very basics: I'm 25 years old and a (VERY) full-time college student in Texas. I'm on campus from about 9am every morning until about 5-5:30 every evening. Then I come home and do homework. For those who are curious, I'm majoring in Anthropology with a minor in Linguistics. Every weekend, I stay with my boyfriend at his apartment. He lives about an hour away from me, so those are the only times we really get to spend much time together.
As far as nail polish goes, if you had told me even a month ago that I would be starting a blog about this, I'd have laughed in your face. I've never been very into the more girly things like hair and makeup and nails, and the last time I owned more than two bottles of polish at one time, I was in the 7th grade and only painted my nails at sleep-overs.
Recently, though, I've been getting more interested in delving into my more feminine side, and started doing makeup now and then, wearing dresses and heels when I go out somewhere special, and sometimes I do more with my hair than tie it up into a quick ponytail.
Then, my sister-in-law started her blog, Dancing Phalanges, and I started buying polishes for her. The more I got for her, the more I was hooked.
I've built up quite a starter collection for myself, so we've got a lot of posts coming, but they will be fairly far between. Because of my daily schedule, I don't have much time for painting my nails and removing the polish on a regular basis. Mostly, I just do my nails and leave it be until it is all kinds of chipped off. This does have its benefits, though!
Since I will be going with my usual polish routine of letting it live its natural life on my nails (lol), I will make a point of letting you all know in each post how long the polish lasted before it started chipping. If it doesn't look too bad, I might do one hand with top coat and one hand without, to compare the life expectancy of each.
Other things you can expect from each of my posts:
- A note of where I bought the polish and/or how much it cost (if I remember; some of these, I may not). Hopefully this will be useful to others for reference if they would like to keep a lookout for that polish, or would like to compare prices between other places they have seen it for sale.
- Once I have posted, a clickable swatch will appear next to the polish's name on my Collections page; the link will take you directly to that particular polish's review in the blog archives.
If you read through all of this, you are awesome! I hope you will enjoy reading Felix Phalanx (which, since some of you may be wondering, essentially means "Happy Finger") as much as I know I will enjoy posting for you! If you have any questions or comments, of course feel free to leave a comment on an individual post or to send me an email at felix.phalanx @ gmail.com.
