A little white flower saves the day

I got inspired by the works of cutepolish and decided to do something related to a white flower.

What you would need:
- Yellow, Green and white nail polish (see image 6)
- A dotter (I used a pen, see image 2)
- Cotton Sticks (see image 3)
- Paper
- Nail Polish Remover
- Base and top coat of your choice

Beauty Regime:
1. Prep your nails by cleaning the hands followed by a layer of base coat
2. Put some green nail polish on the paper
3. Using a pen or a dotter of your choice, create "cloud shapes" at the tip of the nails
4. Put some yellow on paper. Add a dot of yellow on each nail (see image 1)
5. Put some white on paper. Using the cotton sticks (as I need smaller, leaner petals) draw out the shape of petals. Cover some of the yellow to make the yellow dot look smaller (see image 3)
6. Add on a small dot of yellow to re-define the flower's pollen by angling the pen so you get a smaller dot
7. Add two layers of top coat when the paint has more or less dried up (see image 4, 5)

And you're done! P.s. I'm gonna start a new project, watch this space! :)

 

Summer Edge

It's insanely hot these days. Sometimes as I head back for the office post-lunch, I can literally feel my eyeballs boiling inside-out.

So I made some new nails! A close friend asked me how I managed to keep changing the nails. The answer is Youtube, filled with cute videos to inspire you. I'm not exactly showing you girls a good tutorial here, but most importantly if I can paint these nails so can you! It's not difficult, and practice is the key. And I will keep on adding to the palette for you to get inspired.

Summer nails for the summer days. Colorful, simple and sweet.



Initially I wanted to do a simple gloss French Tip. But, it was really boring, with the shimmery nude base and white tip. So I colored it, and unable to single out one color, I took on four shades.

Things you need:
- Deep blue, Sunny Yellow, Orangey from FaceShop
- Jade Green from Etude House
- Shimmery nude from FaceShop
- Base and Top Coat of your choice
- White from Chatmignon

Beauty Regime:
1. As always, prep nails with a good base coat
2. Fill in the nails with shimmery nude
3. Using white, sketch out a rough line on your nails of where the stripes begin
4. Mentally divide each nail into four lanes
5. Take one of the colors, and fill in the stripes at random lanes on every nail
6. Do the same for the other colors for all nails
7. When it has dried, finish it with a good top coat



And you're done!

For people with shorter nails - you can do it too!
I swim twice every week and I soon realize that the chlorine damages my nails extensively. Imagine if I didn't have the polish on, my nails will be inevitably brittle. It started eating into the edge:



I trimmed them all! It still looked great, so short nails can use this look too! :) For swimmers, always always have your top coat refreshed every few days!

Funky French Tips

I notice that nails would turn slightly yellowish when you leave the nail polishes on for too long. The supply of vitamin D usually provided by the sun is cut off thus, the nails start to change in color.

Then I thought about the French Tip technique, and decided to make it look a little more funky. Using a transparent coat for the nails, you continue to supply vitamin D to retain the pretty pink in your nails. But it's not boring due to the edgy stripes of blue right at the edge of the nails.

Here's what you need -
- Base coat and Top Coat of your choice
- White Nail Polish
- Colored Nail Polish of your choice (Mine is Deep Blue from FaceShop)
- Cotton Sticks (the type you use for cleaning ears)
- Nail polish remover

Beauty Regime:
1. Using the base coat, layer your nails with one light coat. This gives it a slight gloss without 'suffocating' your nails
2. Line the edge of your nails with white polish (use a really light dose of white to roughly paint it on before you fill in the colors. This prevents mistakes)
3. You may correct the extra smudges with a cotton stick and some nail polish remover
4. Before the white dries completely (mildly sticky), add stripes of your choice nail polish to create the above pattern
5. When all is done, coat the nails with a layer of top coat and double coat the pattern edges for a stronger coat

And you're done!

Nails Buddy love:
If your nails are really brittle you can opt for this because the polish helps to harden the nails as the new nails grow into place. It is also less obvious to spot the new grown nails when you use a transparent base. If you nails are severely discolored, stop all nail polish application immediately and have a good session of nail nourishing and cleaning. See here for more info