This week I'm watching Halloween and painting pineapples on my nails.
I spent Spring Break in the Dominican Republic and I'm really missing the 85 degree weather so I think it's time for an inappropriately summery manicure. Also the horrible food poisoning that I got in the DR has made me only want to eat pineapples for the past 5 days. Spring break was fun though! I went with the Quaker Notes. There was lots of chillin, a little bit of singing and lots of me old-ladying out by the pool, listening to my NPR quiz shows and doing my crossword puzzles. But also lots of me vomiting everywhere and being convinced that my body has a terrible parasite. I get really nervous when I'm sick that I'm going to die, so I'm pretty convinced that I currently have a tapeworm and my tapeworm has e coli. So now that I'm eating for two, I hope you like pineapples little tapeworm because that's all you're gonna get... and gallons of mandarin flavored seltzer water. You're welcome.
My Colors
(from left to right) Speedy Sunburst by Sally Hansen, Lightening by Sally Hansen, Don't Tell Mama by Deborah Lippmann & Pretty Edgy by Essie
First paint your nails with an obnoxiously bright summer color and let it dry.
Speedy Sunburst by Sally Hansen
After your nails are dry, it's pineapple time!
Lightening by Sally Hansen
Start by painting a yellow circle on your thumb. I simply rotated the nail polish brush in a small circle and luckily this happened!
Whaddup!
Next paint the stem.
Pretty Edgy by Essie
To make the stem put green polish on a toothpick and paint a straight line. Think of the toothpick like a stamp and simply press it against the nail.
Then take the toothpick and press some small diagonal lines coming off of the stem.
Now it's time to paint details on the pineapple.
Don't Tell Mama by Deborah Lippmann
Apply black polish to a toothpick. Start with three or four diagonal lines all in one direction.
Then do the other direction.
YAY PINEAPPLE!
Pineapple manicure complete!
Halloween time!
So Halloween is a slasher film made in 1978. Slasher means that some crazy guy stalks and kills a bunch of people in sequence using a knife, also there's lots of gore and random nudity. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is another example. Many of these slasher films have a strong female protagonist who fights the killer in the end. So some feminists are like "slasher films, so liberating". While other feminists are like: "why are there boobs everywhere?, so not liberating".
In Halloween Jamie Lee Curtis is the strong female character. She teaches women everywhere a few simple steps to surviving an escaped psychopath who is really into knives:
1. wear hideous turtleneck sweaters 2. be an amazing babysitter 3. don't kiss boys ever and claim that boys just don't like you because you are smart and boys don't like smart girls (no girl it was probably the turtlenecks).
Seriously Jamie Lee Curtis, what is this?
As a female protagonist Jamie is pretty awesome in comparison to the other female characters I have studied (aka stupid Barbara from Night of the Living Dead) 1. She has the ability of running 2. she makes a stabbing instrument out of a hanger which is pretty badass and 3. she actually fights the monster and doesn't just fall down and writhe around like a helpless idiot. However, Jamie Lee Curtis also exhibits many traditionally feminine traits, acting like a wannabe mother and spending much of the movie wearing an apron and watching after children. However, her character successfully mixes 50s era Stepford housewife with powerful, female fighting machine. This is evidenced in her methods of defense. In many slasher films the killer wields a knife, representing a phallic object. Jamie Lee Curtis defends herself by stabbing the killer in the neck with a knitting needle. The knitting needle is like the female version of the phallic killing object. Her repressed sexuality and identification with the pre-Women's Liberation Movement female are actually the traits that keep her alive while her sexually liberated and independent friends are the women who die.
