Welcome to my blog!
You can call me Libby. I’m a working gal in NYC and an evening grad school student. I live with my boyfriend and my bunny, or rather they live with me. It’s a new day and I hold down the fort, yeah feminism and whatnot! Actually, we both hold down the fort and if I could I’d put that bunny to work too, life is expensive out here. Anyway I’m a busy young lady interested in the same things many of us are. I am constantly trying to find some balance between career, personal wellbeing, my home, relationships with loved ones, leisure and just plain fun. Ah, the hamster wheel of life…
So about this blog – out of all the things I can manage to keep up, doing my nails beats all. I haven’t stuck to a diet, a workout routine, a salon, nothing! As nice as a spa or salon may sound they can give me unreasonable amounts of anxiety. I’m a curly haired girl and have had one too many disappointing or self esteem hurting hair salon experiences. I’ve also almost always struggled with my weight but I know so many of us do so I’ll just leave it at that. In short I’m all brains no brawn. I’m all for learning something new everyday but being nerdy can be a lot of work. Of all things not bookish I do for myself, doing my nails at home once a week or biweekly is here to stay.
Lets call it a hobby. And boy have I had some “ah-hah!” moments with this hobby. Have you ever felt like you must be doing something the wrong way all your life? And then maybe you got your act together and figured it out and you wish you knew back then what you know now? No?!? It’s ok I’m still lost regarding most of life’s little secrets too, but manicures are not one of them. I’m finally happy with my own at home manicure.
So where did “MiniGoody” come from? Well it all started when I decided, this is it, I’m doing it, I’m taking the plunge. I was on a mission to try every nail art look ever and then I quickly realized, geez you have to buy a whole lot of little trinkets in excessive, wasteful quantities if you want to sample every style you can find lol. And then I had nostalgic flashbacks of how much money I used to blow at Sephora in college because my tuition + room and board was paid for (cough, barely) for a whole semester at a time and working part-time was strictly for feeding myself and feeding my girly desires. Oh how foolish was I? But it was awesome and I’m glad I did it because I would not otherwise understand how much of a boring adult work zombie I’ve become. MiniGoody was born of that nostalgia. All of those little indulgences I took for granted. Next I decided there had to be an easier way to get all my nail art trinkets and I found there really wasn’t, so the least I could do is gather it all and make it available for others. But alas Libby nor MiniGoody is a major brand so let’s start smaller.
Allow me to reintroduce myself, I’m Libby and THIS (jazz hands around imaginary blog bubble) is MiniGoody. I’m going to share what I’ve learned about manicures and nail art at-home and maybe a few other random mini secrets if I think you might care to know. Feel free to share your savvy as well.
MINIGOODY 