Tactile Tuesday - you gotta get your hands on this!

So optimistically I'd like to update once a week with awesome things that I'm currently in love with, realistically I know that isn't going to happen so the name of this will change depending on what day it is but it will still be the same premise.

I declare today Tactile Tuesday!

As I mentioned earlier I'm in the nail tech program, this means I play with nail polish a lot. I just got a color that I am absolutely in love with. The strange thing is that I hate red, it's my least favorite color but this nail polish is absolutely beautiful. I typically don't wear red or pink on my nails because I find them predictable and boring so finding a red and actually loving it and wanting to wear it (over all my typical awesome greens and blacks and blues) is really saying something. The color is called "Color So Hot It Berns" and it's from the OPI Swiss Collection for Fall 2010. This red is bright and unlike any other red I've ever found. I love the intensity of the color. My original plan was to use this color for my candy cane nails for Christmas but it's so pretty by itself that I just can't bring myself to stripe the white over it.


Here is the bottle. If you Google you can see how it looks on nails. It's absolutely gorgeous.

Along with the rest of the world I've been crushing on Jenny Lewis for years. She's talented, adorable, and she was in THE WIZARD! Her music has helped me through some rough times. Imagine how excited I was when I saw that Portions for Foxes by her band Rilo Kiley was on Rockband 3! I've been rocking out to that one on bass singing into our new mic stand. It's not my favorite Rilo Kiley song but I DO love it and it's fun to sing. Anyway what I really wanted to talk about is Jenny & Johnny, Jenny's newest project with her adorable boyfriend Johnathon Rice. Their debut album "I'm Having Fun Now" is hands down my favorite CD from 2010. Here's a video of Jenny & Johnny performing on Conan the other night. Give them a listen if you haven't yet and if you don't already listen to Rilo Kiley & Jenny's solo albums you should check those out as well.



I watched Black Swan last night and it absolutely lived up to all of the hype that has been surrounding it. It was thrilling and moving despite figuring it out very early on. I was not disappointed for even a millisecond while watching it. It was perfectly done (which is kind of ironic wording if you've seen it). I've always loved Natalie, Mila, and Winona and maybe I'm going out on a limb here but I think this is all of their best work to date. I won't say anything else because I know I get pissy when some a-hole on the internet ruins a movie for me by saying just one small thing. GO SEE THIS MOVIE.


That's it for Tactile Tuesday. I hope you enjoy these things as much as I am.