Smurfs for you?

This is my very first attempt to paint with acrylic colours on my nails! It isnt perfect but it certainly is very fun to do!

I painted with my Kleancolor Concrete Gray as a base.

It does not lean to blue as much as China Glaze Metro collection's Concrete Catwalk. I should do a grey comparison soon! Applies nicely, 2 coats for a good finish, if not one can make it too... Just be careful.

Sigh, I filed my toes one evening and clumsy me filed some nails here. Hence the marks. 

Still not too careful with my brush! The black lines got a little too thick that what I needed and I also diluted the white too much on one instance!

The grey coincided a bit with the black. I could have chosen a brighter base and maybe even enlarging the drawings too! After I was done I googled to see how others have interpreted the Smurfs on their nails and boy, I felt a little ashamed HAHA!

More practise is needed! Any suggestions on what to paint next? :D

<3

Faux gel nails for you?

Nope, I am not jumping on the gel nails band wagon yet. But I do get compliments that my nails look like gel nails sometimes.

I figured, if you would want your nails to be mistaken like mine, try this:

1. Grow them long and thick. I was blessed with thick nails so I havent had to succumb to nail treatments :P

2. Shape them as you like. For me, the choice is obvious! Squoval! ;)

3. Do a good base coat to protect them.

4. Cover your nails in a healthy sheen of French manicure base colour. A jellyish beige or pink will be nice. This is especially good for nails like mine which are actually yellowing from excessive use of polish!

5. Apply silver glittery polish like Mei Mei Signature's Suesha series on the white tip of your nails. (Or yellow tips, for me).

6. Use a multi glitter striper, like the one I have from Precision or a dark blue nail enamel pen from Daiso and doddle some stripes on the tips.

7. When they dry well, coat the whole nail with Seche Vite for a thick glossy shine or even Out the Door Northern Lights Silver or Gold Holographic Top Coat.

8. Do clean-ups if you like! And enjoy your faux gel nails.

Disclaimer: These are not meant to last as long as 21 days like Gelish does. But I am sure these add glamour to any outfit and make you feel feminine ;)

I graduated!

Last Friday was my Convocation Ceremony. It was a tiring affair and I had my 'entourage' consisting of my parents and my boyfriend who followed me wherever I went, except up on the stage :P

Here are my special nails for the event!

CLASS OF 2011

My sash is crimson while the rest of the robe is blue, more navy that what I chose. 

I wanted the contrast of red and blue to stand out so I chose China Glaze's Mommy Kissing Santa and OPI's Swimsuit... Nailed It! and a white acrylic colour for the letters and numbers :)

Added blue, red and transparent hexagon plastic bits on the respective lacquered parts of the nail. This added more texture to the nail, as if there are confetti thrown over them :P 

This set of nails isnt' perfect, like all of my others, :) but I thought it was much fun! It garnered quite a bit of attention from my mates, both male and female!!!! :D It was a great day, being in the company of my dear friends and batch mates... 

I didnt manage to catch some close up shots :P But it was a fun try with my acrylic paint after my first try at writing my name on my nails :) 

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Hello world!

I'm so excited to be writing my first blog post here!

Been deliberating over the name of this blog for a fairly long time and I just cannot wait to be part of this community ;)

I am not so prepared to start posting as I am in the midst of my exams... But I am gonna just post some (unflattering) photos of the pedicure I did for myself (to help me get through this period of time)

I have forgotten to take photos of the nail polish! :/ But it is from a Korean brand, SKINFOOD. This photo is taken without flash in midday sunlight... Looks like a dark cherry red to me most of the time... which is a pity because there are nice silver glitter in this jelly-like red colour!

So under flash.. it looks like this:

Looks better eh? This is done in 2 coats, no top coat! and the silver line is actually more of a white shiny glitter from SKINFOOD as well! I will post photos of what I have used thus far!

I am sorry for the not-so-good on the eye pedicure photos :P Probably no more! Since my fingernails are getting better from the staining that happened way back in February... :(

Have a great day ahead :D