Faking it....acrylic nails and me

Three weeks ago I looked down at my hands and decided I could no longer bear to see them without full on white tipped nails. Porn nails as I like to call them. Or dirty acrylics.

I had gone a year without giving into this particular vice of mine. The last time I had acrylics...post Vegas 10 - my nails were so damaged it took almost 5 months for them to recover via Nailtiques 2. Once they recovered I bought dozens of gorgeous OPI nail polishes to encourage me not to slip back to my dirty ways.

But I was in a dark place last month and I needed to fake it til I could make it so I popped off to my local nail salon and committed to having my white tips glued back on. I can't lie they did look amazing. All pristine and Real Housewives of the OC. However after a week they just looked a bit....well...fake. And after 2 weeks they just looked a bit...scraggy. So this morning I could bear it no longer - the acrylics came off and I went back to my old favourite OPI's Lincoln Park after Dark on my natural nails.

Until I next give in to temptation of course!

until next time....xo