Red Nails; Seventeen - Dark Heart

Hi there you lot, I have a swatch today. As I say, there are only so many red polishes you need i.e. one. But My mind has been slowly swaying, like I love light orangey tone reds. But today's polish is your run-of-the-mill red, but everyone should have one. It's a nail art staple and sometimes you want to be classy. The shade is slightly different from my other reds but when it comes to red I think it makes no difference. I hope you guys have a good safe New Year's Eve, I'll probably be staying at home and despairing at how soon school is coming, trust me I'm despairing. Why are holidays never long enough???

To be honest it does look nice, I think red suits me much better than other colours but Dark Heart is still just a red creme polish. Do you agree? Do you think when you have one red you have them all?

I think Dark Heart is an interesting name for a polish that isn't a dark red, that's what I'd expect at least. But I still think Seventeen are doing a very good job with all their polishes.

The formula was very good, 2 coats and I'm pretty sure it was completely opaque and it was easy to apply. That's a better formula than some of my other reds so kudos. Lol I don't know what kudos means.

Thanks for reading and I hope you have a great day!! :)

Red Glam Snowflake Nails

Hey there guys, oops about the posts. It's 2 days before Christmas and we're getting our first Christmas nail art look :/ I've been busy, this is my standard thing now. I'm in charge of the Christmas ballot meaning I have to wrap nearly 50 presents and um I haven't done that yet. Also I've really taken to knitting, I've knitted 2 scarves in 4 days, I've basically binge knitted like 8 hours a day. I'm not good with balance, I've been knitting so much I haven't been playing Pokemon and trust me that's saying something . Anyway I always do snowflake nail art every year so this is what we're getting. Though I do think this is my best one yet.

So I think a red base is classy. I've also been obsessed with matte again but I'll talk about the demerits of that even though I do think matte is totally worth it. So they're just snowflakes but they're neater than ever before and ALL THE GLITTER. I think I should've done one less coat of the base glitter to let the red come through but these are minor things.
I loved wearing this look, oh yeah with matte the manicure chips a million times more easily and my index chipped clean off and I had to redo it creating the tons of bubbles cause I didn't give it enough time to dry -_- I also accidentally used a different red from the other nails, but it proves all reds are the same haha.

So after my glitter base I got my toothpick and did an uneven X then did a line through it. Add the small lines and you have snowflakes, I'm glad I did one per nail basically cause it's so much less crowded. Then I did blobs for snow then I added all the big chunky glitter for glam and glitter, you can't have enough glitter.

Red: Seventeen - Dark Heart (and M&S - Poppy for my index haha)
Gold Glitter: Seventeen - Winter Coat
White: Barry M - Cotton
Chunky Glitter: Illamasqua - Blizzard, Barry M - Hologram Hexograms and Barry M - Starlight

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a great time prepping for Christmas!!

Red Nails: Barry M - Turbo Charged

Hey there guys!! I'm on holiday now in Asia and it's been so nice seeing family and eating forever and shopping and general great holiday stuff. As usual I find myself busier than I expect cause I've been volunteering in a nursing home and nails as usual have been taking the backseat. Trying to catch up now but expect gaps, but that's just a standard thing we expect now. The nursing home has been a really good experience for me and I enjoyed it.
Today I have a swatch of a relatively new polish, my first one from the new Speedy range, obviously I knew when the range got released I was going to get some, this is Barry after all.

Turbo Charged is a corally red with silvery shimmer/flakes, the flakes make this gorgeous. They're so gorgeous!! I love the colour of this polish too, so it's already become a favourite. Red has become a thing for me.

The Speedy range claims to dry faster (as you would guess) but I don't really notice or care about things like that. But if it gets me more great Barry M polish then I agree. They're going for all these speed names and while I don't think they're the best I don't mind them. Turbo Charged was in the 2nd "wave" of the Speedy polishes (the shimmer ones are yes) and I have 1 from the 1st wave which I'll be showing soon.

Of course the formula was great like standard Barry, opaque and super easy to apply. I reckon this is 2 coats (uh it was a while since I did this swatch?) but 3 if you've got long nails. Not as smooth as a creme but pretty dang close.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)

Red Nails: OPI - Dutch Tulips

Hey there guys!! So close to finishing my swatching (ok I say this and I totally bought more polishes adding to my swatch list so I'll probably never be fully swatched lol) and this is a nice red to show. I don't know why this took me so long to swatch. This was actually my 2nd ever OPI that I got in Paris, how snazzy right?

Dutch Tulips is a blue-toned darkish red creme. I really like this shade of red, ok I think there's definitely a limit of red polishes a gal needs (it's different with like blue and pink) but I think there are differences in shades and this one is really nice. The blue tone is lovely. So sophisticated.

I'm sure this was in some old OPI collection, I like the name, it's simple and sweet. As punny as OPI names can be sometimes they're a bit wordy. Did you hear about that speak in colour thing? I think it's relatively cool.
Oo one thing though I think OPI can chill with all the red cremes, like bring out some other colours I think 1 OPI red per person is more than enough rather than 20 in one collection.

You know what OPI formula is like, ok my bottle is old and running out but the formula is still great. Ok right now it's a bit on the thick side but guys this was 1 coat right here!! You can forgive that for 1 coat, so opaque and fine to apply. It's good stuff.

Thanks for reading and I hope you have a nice day!! :)

Red Nails: Barry M - Starlet

Hello there guys!! I hope you're having a sweet day, also Happy Chinese New Year to those celebrating!! I know I'm pretty late and my chinese new year design probably won't be up for a while cause turnaround is slow here haha. So today I have a Barry M Glitterati polish cause they're pretty fab. This is the other polish I bought with Malibu cause when things are on offer I think I literally can't say no :P

Starlet is a pinky red glitter with I reckon opalescent glitter and then some holographic glitter sprinkled in like the other polishes in the collection. Depending on the lighting it was lean very pink or like orangey red. I'm reluctant to call this coral though, the shade of colour is a big deal. It's a nice polish, I think it'd be fun for a party or something (not like I have time to go to parties haha) and I think the opalescent glitter adds good depth.

I was intrigued by the colour, and considering how great the other Glitterati polishes are I wanted to try this one out, and like all the colours lol. You know Barry never disappoints, I excited to try the new Gelly polishes and like everything, I'll probably initially write it off then way after everyone else I try it and am amazed.

This was a definite 3 coater, but it built really well. It was pretty sheer on the 1st coat (like the others) but it was completely opaque in 3 coats. The formula is pretty thick but not difficult to apply. You just have to make sure it's applied evenly and it looks pretty sweet.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a great day!! :)

Red Nails: Body Collection - Red (no name)

Hey guys!! You know I'm here to swatch all the polish, even those random no name ones that you'd get in a random set. That's what this polish is today, but it's better than I thought it was going to be, not gonna lie. You know not all polish is branded and I'm here to represent them :P

This red polish is darker than what the photos make it out to be, with more orange tones but there's definitely a red shimmer running throughout. It's a pretty shade of red, I've been rocking red this year and this one is so nice!! 

Yeah this came in a little set (I'm yet to swatch the others in the set), it has no name and I don't feel like I have the right to give it one. My friends gave it to me for Christmas last year, and it only took me a year to get round to swatching it. My friends know I'm a nail polish fiend haha.

The cut is real, I'm so sorry, I was bored during english and my cuticle paid for it :/

The formula wasn't too bad, I thought it was going to take like 7 coats but I only needed 3 and while there seems to be a hint of visible nail line that only comes through in the pictures. The formula was very smooth too and I had no issues with it. I think it may take a bit longer to dry cause it's a bit runny but that's the extent of the issues and that isn't that bad.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a sweet day!! :)

Red Nails: Essie - Sunday Funday

Hi you!! It's another swatch day, and I found the elusive Sunday Funday after saying it was the one I want. As you can imagine it was a TK Maxx find. Red has been a great colour for me this year, but I think that's where this polish fell for me.

I suppose I thought this would be more coral which is the attraction for me. It's somewhat pinky but not enough. Sunday Funday is a red-y coral (mostly red) creme with a subtle green/pink shimmer (Essie uses this shimmer a lot but I really like it). It's nice don't get me wrong, but not spectacular you know.

Again from the Essie Summer 2013 collection, I've already said that I liked all the colours in that collection. They were pretty and bright, that's what I'm about polish wise. The name of this is so fun!!

Formula wasn't all that great, at 3 coats it was still streaky and I used 5 coats for some nails. It's good that the coats were thin, but they were quite runny. It meant that I got bed sheet print on my nails :/ I think the multiple coats were partially because of my long nails and it could just be my bottle.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a nice day!! :)

Red/Blue Blossom Nails

Hey there guys!! It's a nail art day and I love floral nail art and my problem has always been that I'm not very good at it :( Again it's another hit and miss thing for me, except I think with floral nail art when I hit, I HIT!! I'm very happy with this one, elegant flowers are the shizz.

I was trying to be artsy and when I do that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. When I don't try really hard it tends to work and vice versa (reverse psychology?), and artsiness is me in this design.
With the peach base, I thought some pinky red and blue flowers would go really nice on top. I think I managed to do the shading ok too. The black dots really helped the design an thankfully I didn't mess it up!! I felt so elegant with this design on ;)

For the artsiness, I got my toothpick and actually just went mental making loose flower shapes. Seriously mental, there was no set shape going on (I think that's my downfall) and I avoided outlines this time round. The leaves were more structured also I didn't want them all over the place so they're very orderly. For the bits of glitter I did a little bit of fishing, not tough fishing though if you know what I mean?

Base: Paris Collection - Brown Beaute

Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips

Pink (hard to see): Models Own - Radiant Pink

Dark blue: H&M - Blue My Mind

Light blue: Models Own - Asscher Blue

Black: M&S - Petrol

Green: Illamasqua - Melange

Green glitter: Orly - Go Deeper

Thanks very much for reading and I hope you have a great day!! :)

Red Nails: M&S - Poppy

Hello!! Red nail polish here and I have been quite a red girl recently. This is such a nice one (though I still believe a girl only needs so many red cremes ;)), and I'm really proud of my swatches this time.

Poppy is a medium red creme polish. It's not ground-breaking but a good one to have. It's pretty similar to other red polishes I have but it does get used over other red polishes I own. I don't really know why, it just works well for nail art.

My close pal-ios gave this to me as a birthday present (along with 11 other polishes) and I didn't know how much I'd use it but it has been one of my most used of the set. It's an M&S polish which are very legit and I have been impressed by it generally. Now when I go to M&S I make sure I check out the polish. I'm sure it has brilliant alternatives for certain colours that would cost over double the price of M&S polish. Pro tip?

The formula of this is really nice, I think 2 thick coats are sufficient but I used 3 thin coats cause that's generally what I do. It was very flowy so it was easy to apply and the brush was a really good shape for my nails, that's a nice bonus.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)

Red Nails: Essie - E-nuff is E-nuff (Reswatched)

Hi there guys!! I have an old polish to show you today. I got it a while ago and it came from quite an old collection. But this is a really great one. In nail art it's easily becoming my go-to red cause it's fab.

'Pologies for the cuticles :/

E-nuff Is E-nuff is a light red creme with orange tones. I sometimes think of it as a tomato red. But otherwise there's not much to say apart from that it's a really nice shade.

I think this was from a Winter collection in 2010(?) but I found it in TK Maxx (that said I need to go to TK Maxx :P). I've always thought Essie was great and that regard still holds cause I love their particular shades and nice formulas.

Speaking of nice formulas, E-nuff is E-nuff definitely has one. It's an easy 2 coater that glides and is smooth and the thickness is probably perfect to most people.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a nice day!! :)

Red Nails: Barry M - Carousel

Hey guys!! I have an absolutely GORGEOUS polish today. What's happened to me? I am such a red gal lately and I don't even know why. I think I've been lucky enough to get a bunch of awesome reds and this one is the cherry. But not literally, this polish is very much not cherry coloured. But it's beautiful and I'm glad I snatched it up. Also the name, adorable!!

The colour of this just melts my heart. It is simply stunning, like I could just look at this colour and be happy. It's amazing.
Carousel is a beautiful light orange-y red polish with a very very subtle golden shimmer (which I really don't mind it not showing up, it's kind of like Barry M Blue Moon that way). I wonder when my eyes decided they loved red, it's weird but I love it. This is much more orange toned than any red I own and I think it's unique. I thought it could be a not textured OPI Jinx, but it's very different. And beautiful in it's own way!! :3

Part of this year's summer limited editions, I always snatch these up whenever they come out. And I think this year Boots has won the competition, as usually I think Superdrug has. I think what Superdrug has is nice, but Boots has super pretty cremes (especially this one!!) which are better. The names are also existing and are really good!! I'm glad they listened to my request ;) I'm so glad Barry M does these, cause they're special and more polish for me haha!! Oo and oh my goodness the lid has little hearts and it's the cutest thing ever!! :D

The formula was so perfect, 2 coats for full opacity. From seeing the bottle I thought this would be quite sheer but it was the very opposite and it glided and was smooth and generally perfect. If there are any bubbles as usual that's my fault for not waiting long enough. Another note is that the formula is quite thick and is the kind that if you don't apply quickly enough, the flaws in application will show. If you get me.

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)

Dolce & Gabbana Blossom Nail Art

Hello there guys, good to see you!! Nail art!! Whey!! So I saw this super gorgeous red with blossoms Dolce and Gabbana bag in a magazine (and guess why I was reading this magazine, cause there was free nail polish with it and coincidentally this polish was perfect for this design) and I just had to do the design on my nails. I used a wonderful Robin Moses tutorial for this, her neutral cherry blossoms which was so perfect. I also love how causal her tutorials are too. Man I just love the look.

I just feel the more "brushstroky" look is what I really like. I really like the artsy look, while most of the time I fail that criteria, I think I got it this time!! :D
The tan flowers are also just lovely (thank you Robin Moses). I especially love it with the red base (and let's not even start talking about that red base cause I could go on for a while and I will once I write my post on it ;)); and there are also peaks of glittery dark red which I loved and wished I hadn't covered up so much. The pink flowers kind of just happened with a bunch of blending; it didn't turn out the way I wanted but I ended up liking it. I just loved looking at this design cause I think it's cutesy and elegant :P and flowers, I think floral designs are fantastic.

Me being me I had to slam on some glitter before the design and I just got the brush of the polish and went wild, as you do. I then got my toothpick with the dark brown and tried to go wild, but sometimes I can't let go of control and this is how the artsy doesn't happen. But the branches were covered with some leaves then some flowers which once again I did the toothpick thing. 

The pink flowers were unplanned, but I got a tiny amount of polish on the toothpick and lightly dragged it on the desired part of the flower. I really tried to explain that all fancy-like but I failed haha. So yeah I used toothpicks like usual and went about my nail art :)

Base: Barry M - Carousel

Glitter polishes: Barry M - Princess, Essie - Leading Lady (which was great in this design) and Barry M - Superdrug Xmas LE 2012 B

Dark Brown: w7 - Brownie

Green: Barry M - Kiwi

Tan: Nails Inc - Sao Paulo Streets (I'll have a post about this one soon too, like why did I pick the neutral polish?)

White: Barry M - Matt White

Pinks: Barry M - Superdrug Summer LE 2013 A, The Face Shop - PK105, OPI - Charged Up Cherry, Barry M - Boots Xmas LE 2012 B and Barry M - Strawberry Ice Cream

Brown: Paris Collection - Mauve Melody with w7 - Golden Sands and occasionally Topshop - Naked underneath the brown until I changed my mind

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a fantastic day!! :)

Red Nails: Essie - Leading Lady

Hi guys, my exams are starting tomorrow and oh gall this is the real deal, this is actually happening, I'm kind of procrastinating but will be going back to my work and oh man this is real, like serious real man exams. I do have a bunch of posts scheduled cause I'm not joking when I say I'm behind, like you'll find out how much soon. Nails have obviously taken the backseat :( but I cannot describe how ecstatic I am for these exams to be over, I cannot describe!! I should have posts, but there may be a point where I run out, but not for long, anyway I know I mostly really post for myself. Hopefully I'll be back properly with good stuff (and good polish :P). Probs see you all on the flipside when my blogaversary comes woohoo!!
Anyway this is the other polish I got with Shine of the Times and I have good things to say. And like Shine of the Times I went out looking for this, not specially this polish but I thought TK Maxx might have the Winter 2012 collection (at that time), so I could get Butler Please (i.e. my guilt free Baker Street which I own another version anyway) but this one too if I could. And that fateful day I got it more than a year later, but I'm still pumped :)

Leading Lady is a dark red base filled with small red glitter and it's gorgeous!! Like I love it!! I am not a red polish girl but this is stunning. The red glitter in it makes it amazing amazing amazing. It glows from within, I don't like dark red but with that glitter it is seriously amazing. I loved Nails Inc Regents Park too, maybe I'm changing into a red polish kind of gal, and I would not mind. Red is mad sophisticated.

I really liked the Essie Winter 2012 collection, I genuinely liked all the polishes in it (though I could've done without the identical red cremes, in my mind there are only so many red cremes a girl needs) and that's why I was looking out for it in TK Maxx cause I was not going to pay full price for it. It wasn't that special. Essie is one of my favourite brands and I'm glad TK Maxx gives me a way to get some for a good price, TK Maxx is my love, I have mentioned this a lot before.

I used 3 coats for this swatch but 2 is definitely enough, I actually preferred wearing this with 2 coats cause the red is lighter and more pink-toned which I preferred but it's sparklier with 3 coats so it's give and take. I did the 3 coats for parts of nail that weren't completely glitter packed (cause I'm all about glitter packed) and the tip wear was bad.
So that leads to my one complaint for this polish, the wear time, after a day I got really bad chips and the whole thing peeled off really easily, also I tend to not get chips in general. And I had nail art so I wasn't unable to take pictures and you'll never get to see it :( (but it wasn't very special, it was just a leopard print) so bad wear time. But I totally forgive Leading Lady because of how gorgeous it is, I can forgive all gorgeous polish.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a really great day!! :)

Gimme Glitter: Nails Inc - Regents Park

Hi there guys!! I hope you're having a nice day, I'm kind of excited about this post cause not only is it a Gimme Glitter but also because this polish is FREAKIN' AWESOME. This is another polish from the Nails Inc Best Dressed Nails set (and by the way I loved the box they came in, it was black sparkly glitter and it's so pretty) and this is one of ones that swayed me to get this and I wasn't even sure about it, I saw "Sprinkles" and needed it. I was ready to give it away, now there's NO WAY that I will.

THIS IS THE EDGIEST POLISH I HAVE EVER SEEN AND I LOVE EDGINESS AND THIS IS INCREDIBLE AND I LOVE IT. No lies. The moment I put this on I knew this was going to be something special, and it's too special. Again the edginess, it's wonderful.
Regents Parks is a red (jelly?) base with small and medium hex black, red and silver glitter. It's a beautiful thing. The black and red is the epitome of edge, and you know I love it. A red polish, who knew I could be so in love with one?

Yeah the sprinkles thing on the label got my attention and that was a great thing cause I love this polish. Cause I loved Sweets Way too, though it is rather different than Regents Park, it has no medium hexes. Either way I don't mind I love polishes with the little glitter, like the w7 ones too. But Regents Park? Why no sweets related name? This is the Sprinkles collection right?

Sorry about the dry cuticles :(

On my thumb I used 3 coats of Regents Park by itself, so it can definitely be used by itself, but for my other nails I used 2 coats on top on Essie E-Nuff Is E-Nuff. I prefer it layered cause I save polish, the red is just stronger and it's more opaque. The glitter did need a little provoking, but only a little, otherwise the distribution was very even and great. It's a glitter so removal isn't the easiest but it could be worse honestly.

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a lovely day!!! :)

Red + Yellow Circle Flowers + Teal Sparkly Base

Hi there guys. I think the title sums up this design pretty well. I saw this design on a purse in TK Maxx. I should've taken a picture but I didn't want to look like a weirdo, it was a really nice purse. Reminds me that I really want to go to TK Maxx. And just shopping in general. Yeah. I just want to say that this manicure looked WAY better in real life, and it looked mad elegant from a distance, I loved having this on.

Does what it says on the tin. Red and yellow flowers on a teal base. Doesn't look teal in pictures, my camera doesn't like teal. Putting it out there the combination of Barry M Guava and OPI Get Your Number is mad gorgeous. Really. I mean it. Get Your Number made the polish more blue but still it was teal, camera was disagreeing though. But those flowers were simple and fun, looked better in real life, but red and yellow is a nice combo.

As usual I had a white base, then I painted the colours on with the brushes and some toothpicks. The pale yellow took a couple of coats and quite clearly I'm addicted to black outlines.

Base: Barry M - Guava and OPI - Get Your Number
Pale Yellow: Ciate - Loop The Loop
Red: Essie - E-Nuff Is E-Nuff
Mustard Yellow: Topshop - Naked
Green: OPI - Jade Is The New Black
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a great day!! :D

Red Nails: Barry M - Raspberry

Hi there guys!! Oh man, I cannot describe how busy I've been for the last month (hopefully begin to things ease up). All because of my school's production, last night was the last night (:'() and honestly I think all the nights went great. We did Grease and I managed to get a part in it, hahaha the teacher, but it was incredibly fun to play. Really it was so great, I do miss it though it gave me no free time (to do my homework...such is my life).
This is the first post I haven't scheduled in a while, I've had a influx of posts due to the holidays (hallejulah) and I still do, you'll see them soon. Some are v exciting. Anyway me being me I had to have nails to go with my character :P I looked up nail trends of the 50's and I don't think I painted my nails according to the trends then but I wanted to try out this polish. It's a Barry M after all. By the way I added something on top of this for the performance and then for the last night I peeled polish off (bad me haha) :P

I failed to get this polish colour accurate in my pictures :( In real life this polish is WAY darker and WAY browner (if that's a word :/). So Raspberry is a dark, maroon-y red, this was a nice gift from my friend for my birthday. Took me a while to try it out but I did. The colour is too dark for me to love, and in general red isn't my colour. But when Raspberry looked like it did in my pictures (in bright natural light) it was lovely. And look at how shiny!!

Many people rave about Raspberry but it's just not my colour, though I do like it. Might as well add that I really like raspberries. But I have other Barry M's that I love WAY more. Barry M is fabulous we know this. He can do no wrong.

Raspberry was very opaque and so shiny. 2 coats and I was done, maybe short nails could do 1 coat. I always say that but you could. The formula was great, this shouldn't be surprising due to Barry M's stellar formula.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a great weekend!! :)

31DC2013: Day 1 - Red Nails

Hello there guys!! This is happening, the 31 day challenge, this is happening because I have poor discernment haha :/ I've done this before in June last year and I would've loved to do it then but I had a lot of exam craziness. So it's happening now, when most people do the challenge. But, I won't be painting everyday cause simply it's crazy and I don't think I'll have enough time. So this'll be a side project that could last for a while. For I'm excited all the prompts as they are always fun (almost always ;)).

Lovely picture from Chalkboard Nails

I guess if you want to see my last 31 Day Challenge, I have my recap post, I'm proud of what I painted last year but I'll definitely be working to get much better as I have been since. I'm already 1 up-ing myself (you'll see how this relates to this post) as my photography and nail care is MUCH better, seriously I'm sorry for my cuticles in the past, they were a mess.

Ok I ramble, for red nails this year I have some Mario Mushrooms (not 1 ups but they're related), the standard ones that make Mario bigger and give you an extra hit. I love Mario games, but I don't think this is new. 

This is a happy vibes manicure, whilst painting I thought it was going to turn out wrong. But hallelujah for that not happening!! Black outlines are everything, I'm an avid supporter.

I paired Berry Ice Cream and Indian Ocean and I can't believe I didn't notice this before but the pink shimmer from Indian Ocean on pale purple is SO GORGEOUS, I'd move my hand around just for that shimmer. In alternate lighting the shimmer looks goldish, I picked Indian Ocean cause as much as I wanted to use glitter I realised that I've paired pale purple with virtually every glitter I own so I should take a break from that haha. I've done a post on the combo before but I didn't take in the awesomeness and my pictures weren't very good.

Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips
White: Lovely Me:Ex - White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Peach: w7 - Linen
Purple: Barry M - Berry Ice Cream and Models Own - Indian Ocean

Thank you very much for reading the beginning of this marathon and I hope you have a spectacular day!! :)