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It has so many lovely things, so many beautiful crafts and small projects it inspires me to get adventurous and do more.
Pinterest is directly responsible for my renewed interest in sewing, fancy up-dos, and nail polish (see picture).
So this is The Pinterest Experiment. Ideas from Pinterest, come to life. The inspiration for this nail treatment came from this pin, and I followed this tutorial. It was as easy as described. I've only done it once and the result is pretty good. Full disclosure - the four nails pictured above are the ones that came out best. The rest of them I didn't manage to get the tips as dark as I wanted them, but that was my left hand trying a new technique on the right hand. I believe in my left hand's learning curve. It will get better and I still have some pretty fancy nails for today.
When I was a kid, my brother and I loved to play with a copy we had of the Animals volume of a children's encyclopedia. We'd flip pages and we had to quickly touch the image of the animal and scream "mío!"(mine). Whoever managed to touch it first claimed ownership of the pictured animal. If it was a cute one the winner had a right to be smug until we flipped to the next page and the loser would be jealous. If it was an ugly one, there would be "guácala!" (ew!) and mocking. We had the whole book memorized but we tried beating it by trying to flip pages at random.
We used to spend what felt like hours doing this.
Pinterest is a non-competitive version of the same game but even better. There are almost no ugly pictures - maybe only not as pretty - and with a click of a pin you can claim ownership of anything. And you don't just claim it, you get to keep it on your board. It's surprising how satisfying that is.
And if you're feeling enterprising you can end up eating healthier meals, exercising more, and looking better all the way to your nails.
