Musical Nailtips

For the creative musicians out there singing to their own tunes

Text: Ravenclaw musicians often attracted to classical range, will pick up
an instrument or join the orchestra to pursue their passion. Though music
is not offered at Hogwarts, Professor Flitwick often puts an extra effort to
get support for students with these interests.

Harmony Ballet

For the peace-lovers who believe in fairness and equality.

Text: House rivalry is intense at times at Hogwarts, but there are always
peace-lover and some of them belong to Ravenclaw. They possess an
intelligence and know that unity is strength. Thus, they choose to wear
the colors of all houses on their nails as a pledge for peace.

Midnight Secrets

For the mysterious, intelligent girls in love with the secrets of the galaxy.

Text: In every Ravenclaw girl lies an innate ability to shine differntly
from the other girls. And some girls, just love their secrets more than
others. Mysterious, secretive and eternally in love with the stars, you'd
sometimes find them on Ravenclaw tower star-gazing.

Ravenclaw nails series!

Think you're a Ravenclaw? Or perhaps you simply love the color blue? Hopefully you'd find something from the palette, posted over this week, that represents your personality.

Go claws!

V nails - the V French!

The range used - Sally Hansen's Double Duty Top Coat,
Face Shop Base Coat, DearFace Blue, DearFace Grey,
White Nail Art pen

Apply the light blue polish and try to roughly make a V-shape
It's not looking pretty now, but it will in awhile, you'd see

Using grey, draw a V shape roughly with the brush of your
choice. Still not very pretty, but wait for it :)

Fill in from the bottom of the grey V line and the V cut
will start to look very solid

It still looks a little plain at the moment

So using the white art pen, draw distinct V lines and add
in details 

On the thumb, I added a cross shape and some dots

On the middle finger (oops) add a heart and
dots on the other nails

You can choose to have them plain too if you prefer
simplicity. But I preferred romantic details

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

It's a girl thing

Got myself some new nails, the red nails are pretty and all but the polish from Rubi wasn't good at all :(

Here's a short review of the red Rubi nail polish:
1. Too translucent, you'd need at least 5 coats or something before it looks opaque
2. It peels. Literally. From the ends you can see the nail polish un-rolling itself off the nails
3. It washes away easily, the sides of the nails started to lose the red coat after a while
4. It's sticky. I'm particular about how the nail feels, and with Rubi it just feels like it'd stick on to my skin when I touch it
5. It's a really pretty red though, with a highlighter tinge. Very striking.

And here are my new nails. It's so girly!





Here's a small tip: To clean the cuticle skin from nail polish, you may wish to cut the top of your cotton sticks in half, producing a sharp tip. The plastic tip in the cotton stick will be revealed once the cotton is chipped off and you can use it to clean those hard-to-reach corners :)



Here's my flickr showreel with the nail work done over the past two months :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62721683@N08/show/

Newly updated: What's up, nails?

New section to share what's on my nails and the story behind each

These are my new work nails, say hoola!

Sea blue, midnight blue and pale green glitter

More pictures available @ here.

New work day, new work nails :)

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!