Back! With some watercolor nails!

Here's a new post after some time - tried out something new and thought I'd share it!
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The watercolor nails series!

So I did a share of the image on instagram and someone said it looked like paddle pop and I thought it looked the brand desigual's color. All in all, it uses some very striking color. And the reason why I choose this design was because people kept giving me nail polish and I hadn't had time to try them all! Might as well do that all in one go, ha!

Presenting to you the colors used! All the OPI ones are given
by my beloved girl friends, thank you for the love ♥

Very important items - the basic coat and top coat!

All you need to do is to get a facial sponge (no need for super
smooth types, the kind you use for foundation)

Initially I thought I might have used too
many colors but it blended yummily

As usual, a shot with the keyboard. Colors look remarkably striking!

All in all I'm happy with the results, and you can learn more about
making water color effects on youtube if you're new to the idea.
It's fairly simple!

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!

The awesome world of nail colors!

I'm on a search to ways of getting a bigger range of nail polish colors and I'm beginning to feel the limits of FaceShop's range of nail polish. So I went on the mighty world wide web to "window-shop" for nail colors that thrills the mind.

And then I stumbled upon The Dutch Nail Blog and I fall in love with a handful of colors found on the blog. And I think I spotted Espirit Nail Polish! If only these polish are available in a shopping mall near me, I'd go ballistic I would!

Of course there are online blogs that catering to polish shopping, such as TheNailphile which also carries beautiful Konad nail stamps. Maybe it is time I do some online shopping!

How about you, where would you go to get your nail polish in tiny red dot named Singapore?

Specials of the week - rainbow nails

Step 1: Base coat first and then dot a "cloudy" french tip

Step 2: After you have it on all the fingers, choose
4 colors of the rainbow

Tip: Irregular shapes make cuter clouds :)

Step 3: Paint one color stripe at a time

Step 4: After all the colors are up, use white and cover the
edges with "cloudy" bits again

Step 5: Top coat for protection and you're done!

What are these nails good for?
Simple, and sweet without blocking all the essential sunlight from your nails!

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!

Summer Toenails in 5 minutes

Nails of Nature

After staring at work panels constantly pinning the colors of blue, pink, yellow and green on my screen and into my brain, I became hopeless infected. The brain starts to tick that way, and the colors take over every shred of common sense left until nothing remains.

So I decided to give myself a treat during the weekends and wanted to paint the town, I mean the nails red. Or the colors picked out below -

That's right! Those colors are haunting me! But I only realized it after finishing a 40 minutes nail-painting session.

What you need-
- Deep blue, Hot Pink and Sunny Yellow (all from FaceShop)
- Jade Green from Etude House
- Base Coat and Top Coat of your choice
- Cotton Sticks (ear-cleaning types)
- Nail polish Remover
- A4 Scrape Paper (except newspaper)



Beauty Regime:
1. Coat nail with 2 layers of Base Coat
2. Color the nails green, evenly
3. Add a French Twist of blue at the edge of the nails
4. Dab a swash of yellow on the paper and pick up some with the cotton stick
5. Dot the nails, at random positions for each nail to point where you would paint flowers
6. Dab another swash of pink and pick up some with the cotton stick
7. Using it like a brush, dab pink onto the nails to create the design of a flower
8. Don't wait too long before the green dries properly, or step 5-7 would prove to be difficult
9. Finish with 2 layers of Top Coat for each nail
10. You can refresh with another Top Coat after every three days if you wish to keep these nails for a longer period of time



And you're done! More photos here

Colors of the world

These are all the colors stashed up in my little box of nail polishes!



And I'd be topping the box with moooooore!