Dollar Store Pedicure

  

The latest cheap thrill that I have found at the Dollar Tree were these Donna Michelle Salon Basics Nail Polish Stickers. They seemed a little too cheesy for my fingers. But I love the way they look on my toes! They were surprisingly easy to use. They were like stickers for the nails. The first thing I did was peel them off and apply them to the nails. 

 

 Then tore off the excess

 

Then folded the the ends around the nail

   

 Then filed the excess to the right shape

   

 Tada!

 

Introductions

I am currently working on my PhD in Sociology at the University of New Mexico. My non-academic interests are food, fashion, and music. My academic interests are health and medicine, geospatial analysis, and culture. Through this blog I hope to develop a quasi-academic voice where I use my social scientist lens to analyze the things I love.

Ay Celia!

It doesn't need to be said how fabulous the Cuban Queen is in her flamenco style dress white turban and caramel skin singing one of her most iconic songs. Critics of the song where indignant about the contradiction of an established singer, considered privileged, stating that life was a carnival. She seemed to them to be a latin American Marie Antoinette -stating that despite the issues of the world there was no reason to cry, life was a carnival. After her passing, the profoundness of her words silenced her critics. Especially since her husband publicly stated that she wrote the song after discovering that she was diagnosed with cancer. A secret she kept until she could keep it no longer.