nail polish and old movies

Fun fact about nursing programs- you can't wear nail polish when you have clinicals (which is when you're working in the hospital as a student nurse). The reason for this rule is that nail polish disguises dirty nails and keeps bacteria in the chips of polish so it's not allowed.
Back in the days before nursing, I used to always have nail polish on. Always. Like wearing the same polish until there's only 1 small fleck of polish left on a few nails kind of always. So I was sad when they told us no nail polish during clinicals.

Of course, now that I'm finished with clinicals for this semester, I decided to paint my nails. And I chose a lovely shade of red called red to tango. Just because it's cute, bright, and summery. Also because I've been on a Marilyn Monroe/old movie kick lately and they had the cutest red nails in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

I'm very excited about my red nails even though I cannot paint them to save my life. I have been painting my nails for years and years yet I still get polish everywhere, smudge my nails when they're wet, smear off entire nails, and imbed cat hair into the wet polish. It's really quite amusing. But I don't care because it's nice to have pretty colored nails for once (once all the excess polish comes off that is).

Exhibit A...the nails I painted with my dominant hand.
Hubby said it looks like I have dried blood on my hands. Thanks honey.

Score one for me.