I ramble, don't I?

[impy]

I think my hormones are out of whack. I say this because I went from being a little grumpy and hungry to being on the verge of tears and I don't know why. WHY. Well, I know it happened when I realized that ohmyglob, everyone is hanging out without me while I was, I dunno, at work. Fuck you, people on Facebook being all "teehee, at the mall which sucks!" and "beach time!" and I'm at work where the following happened:

Less than five minutes after walking in the door, I see a line at register one so I hop on reg 2 where the second person I ring up is threatening to kick someone else's ass. Loudly. To the point that later a child and his sister came up and he was traumatized by the language this dipshit was throwing around. An hour after that another damn near fight breaks out when I'm ringing up a regular, who is chatting (as regulars do) and we realize she's forgotten to use her coupon. The woman behind her, who has been in line for maybe a minute and a half and I'm being generous here, sighs like THE WORLD IS ENDING. The world's biggest sigh. To which I immedately call J to ring her up on reg 2 because I know NOTHING GOOD will come of this sigh.

Sure enough this happens:
Regular: What's the matter? (she's not being rude at this point.)
Our Lady of Perpetual Sighs: I've been waiting here forever. Waiting here, behind you, for a long time.
Regular: Really? Behind me? No, I don't think so.
Sighs: Yes, yes really. You're taking too long.
Regular: This is business. I was asking a question. She's who I'm supposed to be asking. You haven't been waiting that long.
J: I can-
Sighs: I have! You're just chitchatting away and some of us-
J: I CAN-
Regular: You can just go over there and shut up.
Me: Ohjesus.

It got worse from there. I just don't understand the level of rudeness people feel entitled to dish out. The woman who sighed was clearly not waiting that long and when it became apparent that this was going to be more than a slightly longer than "what cigs can I get for you, that'll be, have a nice day" thing, I called for someone else but she was too busy defending her right to be a right royal bitch to, I dunno, move her ass over and get her cancer sticks.

Meanwhile it took forever and a bloody day to fix the coupon problem (goddammit, American Spirits, code your fucking coupons properly!) and I had to run over to cosmetics to ring another lady up, but she's one of my favorites because you can tell this woman works her arse off but she is the sweetest lady. I swear, one of these days I'm going to have some extra money and buy her a giftcard and just say, "no, ma'am, I've got this one. You just keep this card and use it up, maybe buy yourself something totally unnecessary if you'd like."

Oddly, I feel better now. I'd forgotten the slight amusement in the fight. What I neglected to mention was our new security guard was there for the almost catfight and he... did nothing. *head tilt* Nothing.

Ah well.

luxken27 is a terrible influence on me. I have developed a terrible nail polish habit since she started her (mostly) weekly polish updates. Which is a step up, I think, from my terrible mascara buying addiction. At least I wear my nail polish. o_O
  A few weeks ago I had to cut/rip/accept that my nails were dying, so I quit painting them for awhile. They'd gotten to that point where they were peeling and it was just ick, so I'd like to say I cut them down to a short length and let them be, but I really bit most of them or snagged them on something. I know. I KNOW. The point is, they're now really short (except my pinkie on my left hand which is about to be properly cut down) and not cutely short, either.

   Thing is, I saw this Revlon display a week or two ago. I think it's one of their summer displays? Haute Tropics is apparently its cutesy little name. Whatever the case may be, there is a fangtastic seafomy/mint green in the group and I fell in love. IN LOVE. But my phone was all "this product does not exist on the internet, what are you talking about?" so I was forced to decide whether to buy it and risk it or not. I did, and immediately the universe said "HERE IT IS!" Bastards.

It's been about two weeks since I bought it, and the display is so ransacked that all we have left is Cabana Queen (both bottles), Plunge Pool (both), and one bottle (I think) of Hello, Bali. Someone snagged the other bottle of Coast is Clear immediately after I did, which is a shame for anyone who came through my line and loved my nails. A shame.


I love this color. This is a week later, through truck night (which chipped my right index finger) and everything else. Woo?

I'm wondering how it would look with the gold polish I bought last week. This is a sickness, I tell you. But I'm getting better. I just have to actually compile my polishes into one area and I'll be okay.

Now, I'm off to wait for my damn pizza (why is it that every time I order from this one place, it's always an exceptionally long wait? ALWAYS.) and clean up a bit, possibly also take pictures of my MH fiends as promised.

So many plans, so little urge to do anything other than read.

Comments

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, I gotcha. I've found that since you went all terrible influence on me most of my polishes stay about a week, with chipping likely on truck night no matter which company I'm using. Well, Sinful Colors will turn my nails all kinds of special colors if I think 'meh, too lazy for basecoat.' I suck at cleaning them up as I go, so I basically pray that when I wash my hands with Dawn it'll say "off the skin, stay on the nail!"

My color standards are low when you throw glitter (not huge chunky glitter, though. That's just not something I can usually pull off.) and shimmer in a bottle and have it be free or 99 cents. But I can see why the color selection in general would be meh. I tend to catch sight of them out of the corner of my eye and think "shiny!" only to realize it's the same colors catching my eye each time. Which is unfortunate when it turns out that there's one color I keep thinking "bought it" and haven't.

Ah, Revlon. It appears I have many words to say about your polish. Which is fine because Revlon and I don't really play with other makeup.

[luxken27]

I tend to catch sight of them out of the corner of my eye and think "shiny!" only to realize it's the same colors catching my eye each time.

Have you seen my teal polish collection? LOL. I hate this, because I end up with way too many of one color and feel like I need more variety to compensate. It's an addiction :P

I don't tend to boycott many companies, but Sinful Colors & China Glaze I will never, ever buy from because of how they've treated beauty bloggers and artists (ripping off both without credit). Since Revlon owns Sinful Colors, that's another reason why I'm sorta "meh" about them. I also refuse to set foot in Walmart more than is strictly necessary (like, once a year, max) so I won't buy the Hard Candy line or Drew Barrymore's anytime soon. And I cannot convince myself to spend more than $9 on a bottle of polish. Just - what? o.O

I'll just stick with my WnW for now :P

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

For about five years I didn't buy a ton of nail polish (so... maybe the first couple of years of working here and three prior?) but every damn time I did, it was the same color just packaged differently. (I am a sucker, it seems, for anything similar to Revlon's Ocean.) I feel your teal love, I do.

I've mostly stayed with the "no, SC bad and not just because they turned my nails green for three months!" way of thinking, though I did fall off the wagon once. But only once! China Glaze though. *side eyes*

I aim to limit my Walmart visits and have done exceptionally well these last two years. I do wonder how Drew's line is doing. I suppose I should look that up in a bit.

I don't get the people buying $8+ polishes regularly for full, non-sale prices. Sure, splurge on the Essie or whatever if you've got a coupon or you just want to try it. But there's one lady who comes in and she blows $200 on nail polish every month. Some of it I'm sure she does give away but otherwise, ma'am, I think you now own the entirerty of the Essie display and all of the L'Oreals we currently sell on a regular basis. Whyyyyyyyyyyyy.

[luxken27]

Yeah, China Glaze, WTF - http://janey-jane.deviantart.com/journal/Signal-Boost-China-Glaze-Art-Theft-331681584

AND

http://www.vampyvarnish.com/2013/02/tale-large-companies-small-bloggers-copyright-infringement

But there's one lady who comes in and she blows $200 on nail polish every month. Some of it I'm sure she does give away but otherwise, ma'am, I think you now own the entirerty of the Essie display and all of the L'Oreals we currently sell on a regular basis. Whyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Sounds like you have a beauty blogger in your midst! Does she also take pictures of the displays before she cleans them out, LOL? :P

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

I have yet to see any picture taking. Hrmm. Next time I see her I shall have to keep an eye on her. But I never really notice any of the stuff she's buying as being the newer or LE stuff.

I'd read the second China Glaze thing but somehow missed the first aside from a mention elsewhere that it happened. For shame, guys. For shame. :/