Hello my beloved readers,

for my birthday I always like to have nails in colors I feel connected to. The choice this time was a dark-magician-nail-art. Find out what it is here.

This nail-art is dedicated to my birthday that is why I want to take up this topic. Birthdays, you can either love them or hate them or feel nothing about them as some also do for other kinds of anniversaries. What we can probably all agree to is that birthdays are a controversial topic. While some are excited not only about their birthday but also birthdays of their loved ones others feel pressure about anniversaries like that and furthermore think that anniversaries should not be the reason someone remembers (to be kind to) you. It should come by heart. That is why among others they would not mind others to forget their birthday. However I am thinking if we would not have anniversaries or special occasions like birthdays why, when and how would some people remember to contact you? Sometimes this is all that we would have had left as bond of our relationship to some people and what is if once this is gone, too?

I must admit with all that is going on I am also not a saint to remember and honor every birthday as it would be worthy. While in my younger days I was too much focused on myself and too less considerate about what might be going on with people I meanwhile learnt to cherish and focus on the attention I get instead of the one I do not get and try not to overinterpret it as much. However I do keep this question on my mind: what is value does a relationship have when we do not even talk on birthdays? They say they cherish you and will honor you visibly and noticeably regardless from events but when will that be? Once in ten years at weddings and (God spare us) funerals with a slight hug as greeting? I have been through this and this topic is way bigger than the minimum that a SEO-optimized article asks as amount of words. So in order to conclude it for now: I agree with those that see the bigger meaning beyond events. Of course every day people should treat each other special and show them that they are cherished. But I feel the necessity for those who take that as cheap excuse not to get up even then and miss it the whole year as a “just-like-that” and “out-of-heart-act”. Stay tuned to tear this topic into more pieces.

New Nail-Studio: Hanny Beautiful Nails

My nail-art in magenta which I had presented you last month here was the last one I made at Thanh Nails. Do not get me wrong, there was nothing necessarily bad about Thanh Nails especially because her new colleague [whose name I do not want to write down in order to avoid spelling errors J. Let us say I called her Weng] was more than cute and had an amazing talkative energy. But by this time we, me and my family already knew that we would move to another neighborhood. Thus still being close to the city center of Hamburg, even though the children have been growing so that it would not be necessary for me to be at home for the children all the time (because I luckily have a husband who is as well a dreamlike father and even though it would approximately take the same amount of time to get to Thanh Nails by subway I had in mind that Hanny Beautiful Nails from the Lübecker Straße had their headquarter in our new neighborhood.

I still remembered their good quality, high standard and continuous effort on every kind of customer. No matter how long you have been a customer they still treat you well and work with love towards the detail. On top I can do shopping for our home afterwards and walk home completely without (the necessity of a public transport which I try to avoid anyway). Sadly the more I stayed at Thanh Nails the more I felt like I was taken for granted (especially because it seemed like there was no real benefit to get from me (which was not true anyway since I pretty much advertised them for free). Also considering the costs I realized that for me the costs at Thanh Nails became invisible I payed what I was told to without seeing what was behind it especially because the prizes at Hanny Beautiful Nails did not lift up as much.

Visit them in Barmbek-North at Fuhlsbüttler Straße 167.

Love, Johanna