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

Rio, Amigo!

I did this in less than 15 minutes.

Mainly because I'm too lazy a person to do any manicurial stuff on my stubby toe nails :(

This is my Rio-palette, inspired by that parrot movie


Deep blue, Bright Yellow and Highlighter Pink, all from FaceShop.

Here's how you do it:
1. Apply yellow over the entire toenail, as it is the lightest color of the three
2. Make a mental note to divide the nail's surface area into three segments
3. Apply pink on either segment on each nail, randomly
4. Apply blue on either of the remaining segments, randomly
5. Finish with 2 layers of top-coat


And done!