Add a ribbon!

Sorry that I've been out of action for awhile! Getting married soon and the preparation is just keeping me on the toes, busy busy busy bee! Here's a design I tried out while thinking of how to work the nails!

Next up! Gonna upload some bridal nail ideas :)

Spring is here

Hi gals! Sorry for my short MIA, well the good news is I've moved into a comfortable, cozy new place and have my own nail corner now ^o^

This week, I'm presenting nails titled 'Spring is blooming'

It is fairly easy to create this look, which looks like colourful flowers
blooming in the lustrous green

And here are the colours I've selected for this design. I picked the most
striking green because I want the hues of the opposite colour spectrum t
really stand out. So from left, green, coral, blood orange, peach and purple.

I'm missing a shot here with the black lines drawn on first, but
in words, you first add some curvy lines for the branch. Then
you use a dotting tool of your choice and dot the colours on

The beauty is really how the dots work in random shades, so
don't worry. Let your mood lead you and dot the shades

And you'd end up with ten lovely nails simple and modern, yet with such a cheerful
vibe that work will feel brilliantly cheerful too!

Hope you enjoyed the post! And I promise to catch up with more nail displays! Next up - Valentines Day!

Recap of palette series, Envy

 
       

Visions of Love, Envy VII & VIII

The final pieces of Envy.

I think for me, sometimes I see envy show in people differently. For those who know Envy like a map and know their way around it extremely well, I always feel them trying their greatest might to earn Envy from the people around them. Perhaps that is why Slytherins from Harry Potter are represented by green.

And now I present to you, the green Envy in all its mighty glory.

For the right, I used Jade Green once more and for
the left, I decided to use luminous blue

Envy Strikes - in darkness, Envy will find
its way of through loneliness

Peacock Eyes - Blue patterns of the peacock
feather are jewelled with envious gems

Blind Spots - When engulfed by envy, how
many of us can clear our vision and see
only the best in everything?

On the left: Blind SpotsMiddle: Peacock EyesOn the right: Envy Strikes

Do also check out:
Visions of Love, Passion

Visions of Love, Envy V & VI

More on our Envy Green series, the next two are abstract nail arts, purely experimental :)

Complicated Feelings: Using lime green, yellow,
maroon and white, I created a nail piece using the
design of mosaic tiles.

Rain and Crescent: It isn't difficult to associate loneliness
with Envy. Most of the time in fiction stories, the protagonist
of Envy is suffering from bouts of loneliness. And what better
mood than a rainy night with a half-complete moon?

To create the rain-washed effects, use a flat brush and pick up
the nail polish. Scrape some on paper to test out its effect and
then slowly sweep down the nails.

Start from the top always to create a gradient fill. Use
white and sweep bottom-up to create a tinge of french tip.
Then using the small brushes, paint in the crescent

Left: Complicated Feelings
Right: Rain and Crescent

Which imagery of Envy do you love the most?

Do also check out:
Visions of Love, Passion

Visions of Love, Envy III & IV

Envy, or jealousy, is a green-eyed monster.

Which explains why my series of Envy nail-art uses largely of green, like the ones below:

On the left, we have jade green while the right presents
a bright lime green close to the color of foliage

On jade green: Broken Heart
In plum-red, I painted a heart disintegrating. Who has not
suffered a broken heart when consumed by jealousy?

On lime green: Winged Green
A beautiful design I've gotten from the web,
recreating it for the series just seemed right,
though I need to mark up my skills a little and
thin those lines. But butterflies, have always
represented envy, to me at least. A small caterpillar
changing to become a beautiful winged creature?

Left: Broken Heart
Right: Winged Green

Which imagery of Envy do you love the most?

Do also check out:
Visions of Love, Passion

* Kudos and credits to designer for butterfly print, it didn't direct me to who it was on the web but I liked the design very much :) Thanks for inspiring

Visions of Love, Envy I & II

And to begin with part 1 of the series, are two nail art designs using green as the basis.

First, I coat the nails with the base colors -

On the right, I coat the nail with a gradient sort of green,
and on the left,  a jade-green with a coat of translucent green glitter

Black Widow - Which always evoked a fearful feeling,
showing me this woman with contempt for mortality. In reality,
I feel that she is just envious of women happily-in-love.

(Wanted to create a more intricate web design, but could not
find the material. Let me know if you come across a web-texture
I can paint over)

Bought this gem from Daiso, at only $2! Reason why I have not ventured
into 3D nail art is because it is expensive and I do not believe in pricey nail art
that is temporary. So this, solves everything!

They've also got small nail art brushes now, Daiso is plain brilliant!

Took a couple pieces of gems that I would use, a big blue gem,
2 pearls and a few small gems

Using nail polish to flatten out the brush (hardened nail polish
keeps it flattened) I pick up some of the glitter polish used previously

To fix the gems onto the nail, you need to coat it with a thick
layer of glitter polish which will act like glue. Then using the brush
prepared earlier, I'd pick up the gems and fix them on.

I'd name this, Glamorous Envy. The over-sized gem is like envy sized
up by ambition, and it looks beautifully adorned to illicit envy

A final look at the 2 nail arts, Black Window and Glamorous Envy

Visions of Love, Passion [click to view it]

P.s. I'd be including the photos of all the nail polish colors used for this series in the Main post, click [here] to access it now

Visions of Love, Envy

Ahh, I finally got about doing this! Apologies all, for the short hiatus. I've been getting busy with whatever is happening in my circle, painting houses and singing sessions and home planning and running off to the airport and what's not. But I'm back now, with a new series.

Throughout next week, I'd share my series of palette named Envy. Why does it take a week now? This is to keep each post short and easy for reading, and also to get you tuned in the entire week of course! ;)

Here's a first look of the palette, Envy

Envy, commonly perceived on a color scale of emotions as green, is the vice of love and all other relationships. It takes away what is good. It eats into the positive and it requires constant glorification.

Please stay tuned for the first two nail-arts tomorrow :)

Pirates of the sea, unite!

Inspired, of course by Sparrow and his trail of parrots, ayeeee grrrrr! This is something simple, but pirate-themed if you've caught the pirates fever too.

Nail polish for yerr scurvy dogs. L to R: midnight blue, metallic blue, sky blue, green glitter, white

Very lovely metallic sea blue, put some of it onto a sponge

Sponge off to the mid-point of the nails

Paint the middle finger black (Ho yeahh!)

Take sea blue, and hold it at the angle shown above

Dot rough patches of blue like this

Take the metallic sea blue again and swipe at 45 degrees like this

On the thumb, add a sea-wavy french tip with midnight blue

Using the tool brush, pick up some white

And dot rough patches of white to create waves

Try and keep it patchy and disperse else it'd start looking like white blocks instead

Add a yolk sun on the thumb

On the black nail, draw an oval with two black spots like this

Draw in the mouth, and other details

Gloss the nails with glitter green, excluding the black nail

As I'm a right hander, I can't detail a skull on my right hand. So instead I drew a sketchy heart like this

And you're done!

Hope you liked that! Let me know what you'd improve or what you like because I think this can be better! :)

There is also a poll on the right to find out what's the hottest nail color so take your vote and put it in today!