Follow Your Heart ... Especially with Fun Heart-Shaped Sunnies

Disclaimer: This is going to be a different kind of post than you normally find on The Beauty of Life. It's an OOTD of sorts -- but with a wider message.

What makes you happy? This is a question I've been asking myself for a long time -- and, frankly, until I moved to LA, I really wasn't sure how to answer it. But these past two and a half years have proven to me, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that when you really work on making yourself happy and healthy, you can achieve anything.

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#ManiMonday: Nails Inc. Self-Made Mermaid Nail Polish Duo

I have a secret wish -- and that's to be a mermaid. I mean, really, I'd like to be some sort of unicorn/mermaid hybrid, but I've ALWAYS wanted to be a mermaid. Ever since I first saw the movie Splash back in the early 80s, I've wished to be just like Daryl Hannah in that movie! (Confession: I used to swim the way she did in that movie to try and be more mermaid-like.) And, of course, I was absolutely obsessed with The Little Mermaid and probably sang "Part Of Your World" about four hundred million times during junior high and high school -- and I actually performed it during a Disney revue in 8th grade. (The video of that is somewhere in my mom's house.)

So when I laid eyes on the Nails Inc. Self-Made Mermaid Nail Polish Duo, it's like my secret prayers had been answered!

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