hey there teedle teedle!

it's been so long! i feel bad that this is the last thing i've updated. i finally finished answering questions on YT, FB, Twitter, Instagram... anywhere else? i can't remember lol. so for those that only check here and have a lot of Qs about how life has been, i do have several vids up on my vlog channel, PlasmaSpeedos talking about boot camp and A school. i plan to do a lot more.
i did get my hands on the third bundle monster set, might buy 5 or so polishes while i'm here just so i can do a teensy bit of nail art here and there.. get my fix when i'm on liberty. i'm looking to get a pretty nude .. perhaps a coral-ish nude (that might be pushing it) to wear in uniform. it depends on which MTI sees you, i've seen some females here walk around with some nasty, pink, frosted, chipped-off nails and no one has said anything to them. *shrugs* i'd say about 50% of these females have the basic french-tip acrylics too (which seems to be widely accepted in the navy.. maybe not for certain jobs.. but they are considered ''natural'' so no one says anything. tho i have grown quite fond of the natural nail.. acrylics look a bit tacky to me now. i can't judge tho, i went hard on the acrylics for 10 years hehehe so i don't hate.
how is everyone's fourth of july going? i'm on watch... well.. i mean i was hahaha. it's my ''duty day'' so i have to stand watch and muster and clean all day, can't go anywhere so i'll be missing the firework shows. it's all good, i feel honored to stand watch on this particular day!
so seeing as how i've got the new bundle monster set i plan on uploading pics of the plates.... heck i should try that today or tomorrow.
things are busy, i'm trying to transition into life after boot camp, still have a ton of stuff to handle tho regarding my schooling and status and career before i enter the fleet- but i'm super excited to do so. i haven't had a taste of the ''real navy'' just yet.. just prepping for it. forgive my absence as i don't make this a top priority at the moment, tho i hope to be in a balanced schedule soon where i'll be able to manage my time more appropriately and hang out here ;)
just wanted to touch base.. i see a few questions on some previous blog posts and i will get to those questions soon... not a priority tho because most of what anyone asked has already been mentioned by me in a video lol. i don't expect everyone to view all my vids tho, so i'll answer the Qs at a leisurely pace. i figure if the question askers want to know badly enough they can search my vids themselves. hee hee hee
ok, talk to you soon! hope to post some more pics.. here. lots of pics up on FB tho; if you aren't my friend or don't have a FB i will post some pics here soon
take care, talk to you soon!
-andrea aka plasma ;)

See ya later gators!

So i leave tomorrow morning to drive up to MEPS a few hours away. I will stay the night in a hotel, then process thru MEPs in the morning, (long long day) and then i will land at boot camp Wednesday night the 11th.
I will be taking my cell phone with me to update mom along the way so i will try my best to make use of the blogger app on my iphone to make updates, tell you how the flight was, lol.. hopefully all the way up until the bus arrives at O'Hare airport to whisk us away until about the middle of June.
I read all of your comments, i have comments set on pending approval- so don't be frightened if you don't see your comment right away lol
i will be able to read them.. not sure if i can approve them... but in due time. just know i am seeing everything you write and i will approve all the comments as soon as i get to a real computer.. probably july.
God bless all of you and hope to update you soon here in the next 48 hours.. periodically :)
-andrea

Plasma Plays in 21 Ways

So here I am, sick... can't exercise, can't do much of anything but sit around. I am bored... which hasn't happened in a long time! So I decided to come up with a nail polish tag. This tag can last as long as you like it to, you can wear your designs for consecutive days, or change daily. I don't have much time here left at the house, So I'll have to change it up more often than not in order to complete my own tag game before I go.
I hope anybody that wants to play along, does. Idk how to tag people from my blog? ... hmm.. so I know I want to tag pretty much everyone, even the cuties on instagram ;)

Forgive me if this is super cheesy, I'm on DayQuil. I am, however, going to commit! So stay tuned to see how I decided I'm going to rock this list



Have y'all seen the 31 day challenge of 31 consecutive nail art? I feel like the pressure of changing your polish daily isn't for most people; especially since if you end up loving the design, you'll have to remove it in order to do the design for the following day. Which is exactly why I haven't tackled this 31 day challenge.
Well I'd like to propose ''Plasma Plays in 21 Ways''
You can do each of these daily or stretch it out as long as you like! I like to recycle manicures so you will see that a lot on this list. (a solid color one day, adding a stamp or something to it when you get tired of it a couple days later)
I find it hard to decide how to paint my nails. There are so many options and when you have as many colors as I do, the choice can be overwhelming.

Hopefully this fun list can help inspire you guys to get into your nail polish and enjoy it!

sorry about longest intro ever, i'm new to this lol

Plasma Plays in 21 Ways

1 Rock a Nude Shade
2 Add a Layer of Shimmer/Glitter/Anything You Choose, To That Nude
3 Polka Dots (get creative, do multi colors, do it over the nude from before or change your base color, go monochromatic) So many options!
4 Execute a half moon manicure!
5 Go dark
6 Stamp some metallic polish over that dark with the image plate of your choice!
7 Do a gradient of 2 colors or more (check YT for different kinds of techniques)
8 Get your stripe on. Vertical, horizontal, diagonal, one, two, seven?! oh what to do!
9 Ruffian! Example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaEdVmxjtbE 
10 Ombre nails
11 Pick a color you've never worn (I'm hoping I'm not the only one with untrieds) lol
12 Pick a green
13 Add a layer of polish over that green that you think doesn't go with it! (orange glitter?) be creative! Get ugly! 
14 Today, we will wear blues!
15 Grab a straw and do some paint splatters over that blue! One color, multicolored, whichever you please! If you don't know what I'm talking about, see this tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqiCfnXWw9Y
16 Wear a pink
17 Add flowers to that pink *stamps, one-stroke, dotted flowers* you choose!
18 Wear a purple
19 Add a chevron (those triangles) to your purple! Use scotch tape if you need help! http://www.nailnerd.com/chevron-nails/
20 Go yellow
21 Finally, add a black stamp to that yellow

Essie ''Navigate Her'' and a design

Essie ''Navigate Her'' the application, for me, was a nightmare. not as bad as essie ''a crewed interest'' from this collection, but it gave me some problems. SUCH a pretty color tho

indoors

how pretty is this? i made it with an iphone app. it was the most expensive app i've ever purchased at a whopping $2.99 i think? that's expensive to me anyway lolllll
the app is called PhotoShake!  kinda complicated but so fun, how neat was this collage? and i didn't even have to leave my iphone

so i decided to add some stamping since people talmbout ''i miss your stamping days''
i used plate 224 from the ''new'' *not so new anymore* bundle monster set. got the plates from bundlemonster.com

stamped with konad special polish in white, i heard insta-dry from sally hansen works  (the white) but idk how it acts comparatively as i've never tried it

it looked  a lil poo so i added blobs of pink *i say blobs bc my dots are horrible lol* with Essie Van D'Go

Snow Angel!

So it snowed the other day, then was sunny, now it's cold and dark outside again. I decided to match the wintery spring with my nails!

Lynnderella ''Snow Angel'' in a gradient from the bottom of the nail, up. It's on top of Essie, ''Moon Struck''. This particular Essie is one of my fave whites. Usually when looking for a white they're too stark, crap application, too iridescent, too shimmery... Moon Struck has THEE perfect amount of pearl, in my opinion! Painting it on in thin layers, three makes it perfect!

So here are a bunch of pictures of the same manicure because i'm obsessed lol

thank you so much CW <3

it's even pretty inside the house!

Cleaning My Car!

So this is a repeat for those on twitter or instagram... but I thought I'd share, here! 

Bought some stuff at walmart to clean my car. forgot to buy wax! was thinking of detailing the inside, now i'm thinking of doing the outside. i need to google some remedies to get some rust off of my brakes *you can see them thru my rims* and the rust looks terrible! anyone know any tricks? 

so it took me 15 minutes just to find a stinking extension cord, untangle it from the gate/fence to the backyard, then i had to throw the cord thru the window of my room *u can see the orange extension cord if you look carefully, omg, you can even see me! hee hee hee* and that's the wall all my polish is leaned against, so i knocked over a couple of those during this process. it was a headache lol. but as soon as i got the vacuum going i was on a roll

so i stuck the hose under the driver's seat and it made this TTTTHHWWWOPPPTTHHHSSSSSSSSSSSSS sound like something got sucked n stuck. i pulled the hose out and there was a konad plate, plugging it perfectly. it was just wide enough that it didn't get sucked thru, thank goodness. #nailpolishaddictproblems why in sam hill are my plates in my car?? i don't remember ever having loose plates in my car like that lol! i found my missing BM plate from the new BM collection tho. I kept flipping past the empty space in my holder and wondering where it could have gone. i thought i would find it when i switched rooms because i cleaned everything out so thoroughly, but it was in my car! along with a pretty necklace. i mentioned on instagram that i was thankful it sucked the plate before it got to the necklace. 

then i get to the front, passenger side; since finding random treasures i was careful to look before i stuck the hose anywhere for fear i'd suck up something valuable hahaha, so i look waaay up under the dash and see a lil something shiny...

what in the...

omg, it's my ring! my friend ebony bought it for me when i was in sacramento in 2010. i love this ring! i think the ring flew up there when i slammed on my brakes and my purse flew forward, and ... it wasn't zipped close of course. i had all kinds of things on the passenger-side floor.
i vaguely remember some asshole TOTALLY turning left, he was oncoming, so he was going across my lane. here i am.. approx 60 *in like a 45 mph zone, but that's just how i do* and he decides to cut across the road into a parking lot. i HONESTLY don't even think he realized how fast i was going *so it was prob my fault* i'm guessing he made this turn often, and saw my distance and estimated the time it'd take me to get there based on my going 45. i wasn't. lol. still tho, even if i was traveling at slower speeds, it was cutting it close. he TOTALLY cut me off. i slammed on my brakes SOOOO hard i thought my airbags were going to go off. my tires skid.. skidded? skid... skid.. whatever... i could smell my burnt rubber. we were SO close that i could see him straight in the eye, and omg he was so scared lmaaoooo! the look on my face was more like, ''REALLY? really right now, really??" hahaha totally unamused at his turn across my lane as i was oncoming. Tho i didn't feel or hear anything metal touch, i swore we did. as soon as i parked i ran around to the front of my car to see if we exchanged paint. nope! it was one of the closest calls i've ever had. God is watching over me! ok so just before anybody tries to lecture me on my speeding... lollll
since joining the navy, i've had to be on my best behavior. simply because of the amount of traffic violations i've had.. *grins* i can't get any more. no, seriously, i was a street racer. and while in the DEP program you are to report ANY police involvement *including tickets* and i just don't want that. i got my latest speeding ticket from feb 2011 put into deferment  so i went to the judge and had to explain that i was joining the military and before i processed thru MEPS in december of 2011 i couldn't have any pending court.. dates or.. stipulations, tickets in state of deferral or whatevs. This ticket that i've had sitting in deferral *look that up if you're curious, all my american drivers should know what that means* and it wouldn't be off my record until feb 2012... BLAH BLAH OMG long story short i got it thrown out so i've been driving the speed limit ever since. *looks around* yup.

back to cleaning! GAWL DARN THAT'S A SHINY DOOR. or shiney, as they spell in Europe, which i've recently discovered. :p *waves* hiiiii!!!

oh em gee, is she pretty or what? is she pretty? i can't believe i tried to sell her. i think God knew i needed a car.  I def think He knew my heart more than I did. I was thinking of the short-run and not really weighing the whole situation. They stopped making RX-8's this year, so this will be a rarity.. in... 30 years lolllll. I hope to have her that long! look at my racing pedals, i'm such a nerd lol lol lol
back in my day i was a pretend street racer. i mean, i raced... but...
you know, out in the country what do you do? find a great stretch and do a 1/4 mile race with your friends! lol
my lil dodge neon beat out my best friend and first roommate's Mitsubishi Eclipse. GO DODGE! hahahaha
so now i'm off to find some energy to shower ... hell.. i prob won't shower, i won't even lie. i'm just going to walmart and i'll fit right in without a shower there. i need to get some wax so i can give her a good washin' on the outside. when i was in LA for some period of time in 2010 i still have some yellow jet-fuel *yeah that shit falls from the sky in LA lollll who knew* and it stained my car. i've got some stuff that will get it out. we also have these little gold dots on our cars up here, sap? idk.. we don't really have trees... but all over my car there are eeny tiny iittty bitty, prob wouldn't even notice orange specks that are hard to get off. when i detail my car, i detail this baby. i will be outside with a toothpick *bc the soft wood won't' damage my paint* and i will be picking off these little specks, one by one.. and prob spend 3 hours washing my car, no lie. i do this every spring. idek why i'm doing it right now tho, since i'll be leaving her in less than 3 weeks. where she's going to be staying tho, is in a pimpin' 3 car garage next to a beautiful cadillac and idk what else. she will be protected so ima treat her good while i have her.
OK OFF TO BE PRODUCTIVE :)

I wish this neon showed up!

Essie ''Borrowed & Blue''
China Glaze ''Lemon Fizz''
both soft pastels, completely contrast and complement the neon pink stripe, China Glaze ''Shocking Pink (NEON)''
If I could only depict this accurately, so so so neat in real life. Probably my most favorite color combination thus far. I woke up this morning with it flashing across my brain and I HAD to execute it!