Hedgehog's secret project (mostly NailFail, though)

First out, MarchNailFail. Feel free to laugh. I know I am.

Thing is, every time I try to make myself cute and pretty, something goes wrong. Not always in the terribly, horribly wrong way, but always wrong in some fashion (pun intended. Que laughter).

This time it was my nails.
I have been biting my nails for as long as I can remember. (I have also always been insanely jealous of people with pretty nails. I even tried to bite off this one girls thumbnail when I was in elementary school, but that's a story for another time.)
I have also tried a huge slew of ways to stop biting my nails, from looking at bacteria cultures to using nasty tasting nail polish, and nothing works. It has gotten better, and now I only bite my nails when I get nervous and/or stressed. Some might argue that nail biting is healthier than pulling at the joints in my fingers, which is another lovely habit of mine, but I tend to disagree when my fingers are aching from exposed quicks and there's blood shed involved.

 Aren't they just wonderful?

Which leads me to last Friday's HulkRAGE and decision to try SodaCansTurnedFakeNails (link found here). The idea is amazing, but sadly, I did not consider that aluminium cans are FLIMSY.

So this is what I started out with. I ended up using the Burn Lemon Ice can, just to test it out. Oh, and get some acetone or fake nail remover before attempting this. Gluing aluminium to skin is a very bad idea. I did not have acetone or nail remover. Pain was abundant.

Two of each size and time to glue them on

My nails looked like this for about three minutes. Then I needed to go to the bathroom. Did I mention that aluminium (it's aluMINIUM, not aluMINUM. Stupid spell check) is flimsy? It bends very easily. And it's sharp. Nail glue does not bend, but it will take part of your nail with it if you're unlucky. Like I tend to be. I managed to break off or bend all the nails, save the pinky nail you see in the photo, on both hands in less than five minutes. It hurt. HURT, I tell you.

So I gave up and got some gel nails at the store.

And look. An almost-photo of Boy.

Speaking of fail, my poinsettias are just now turning red.

On to part two of this post - The Secret Project.

It has been launched and in a couple of days, I will be able to reveal what it is. I just don't want to get ahead of myself just yet. I am just so EXCITED!!!