Arrival in NZ

After 13 hours of sweet movies, video games and sleeping we finally made it to NZ! Got in at 5:30am and got picked up by Glen’s mom and bro. Pretty weird coming from hot, sunny weather to foggy cold stuff! But it ended up clearing so we went for a drive…

sketchy driving on opposite side again...

Glen took me to Murawai Beach which reminded me a bit of Long Beach in Tofino… it was so beautiful and warm out (winter?).  There were some surfers out in the water and lots of families since it’s Sunday…

hokey pokey ice cream from Sand Dunz

Experienced a NZ pie for the first time and it definitely wont be the last… it was AMAZING!

Not sure what is in store for the next little while but I'm excited... stay posted!

Product Review: Sally Hansen Real Nail Polish Strips

These things are awesome!!! Yeah they cost $9.99 at most stores but I mean... a manicure will cost you $20 and up anyways and they don't usually have sweet patterns like these do!!

Super easy to apply (on both fingernails and toenails!) and seemingly chip resistant, I prefer these waaaayy over traditional nail polish. I thought they would take a while to apply, but honestly... 5 minutes total.

What I did to apply them was to have a pair of scissors and nail clippers handy, hold the strip in the centre, apply the strip to match the roundness of your cuticle, press down on the strip to the tip of your nail, and use the scissors to roughly cut the strip so there's a little extra on your nail. I then used the nail clippers that have a rounded edge that matches the shape of my nail and just cut around it to fit the shape! Then just pressed down so that the strip was secure, filed it a little, and voila! Adding a topcoat is appearing to help my nail strips from chipping. I was able to do two fingernails with one strip since I used the scissors to cut the strip in half when applying. Did pretty much the same thing with my toenails but could usually fit 3 nails per strip which was sweet... the package comes with 16 strips and I only used 8 and that's both fingernails and toes :)

Rawr

So... the final verdict:

Positive
-super fast/easy to apply
-awesome colors and patterns 
-I used one pack for my fingernails AND my toenails! and the kit comes with 2 packs woot woot!

Negative:
-$9.99... I think they're worth the price but others might be turned off by it
-hard to find!!! I had to go to a bunch of different Shoppers Drug Marts/London Drugs/Walmart before I ended up finding them at the Shoppers in Lynn Valley Mall.

Five Stars! ***** Try them out!