Garden gates and roses...

This is my new favourite manicure. I surprised myself with this attempt :)

My Seche Vite was thickening and gave me some evil bubbles. But meh, I dont care, I love this attempt anyway :) 

The colours are so stark that they look like a printed sheet of polish on my nails! If the background colour is softened to a light lilac pastel, for example, I'm sure it is more wearable with all sorts of flowy dresses or clothes!

Once again, I used my Born Pretty pearls to complete this feminine look!

Added a nice crystal one one of the fingers :P 

The flowers and leaves are achieved with the nail art pens I got from BeautyAsia 2011. Easy to use, just that I had sore hands at the end of the night squeezing the polish out of the needle tip LOL. 

Born Pretty Store - Radiant Pearl review

I find pearls to go very very well with palette cleansers* (aka nude, neutral or mellower colours). 

I have my dream come true with Born Pretty's wheel of pearls from various sizes!! Mine came in only one colour, the silvery pearl that looks so radiant under natural light :)

Knowing myself, I had to break out at least 2 colours with each or most of my manicures :P And this above photo shows Essie's Jazz with Daiso's white nail art enamel and Born Pretty's pearls :)

Essie's application was smooth and 2 coats was needed. 

I added Daiso's biege sheer colour for the added shimmer on Jazz.

This is The Faceshop's colour, BR802, a nude with silver glass fleck-y shimmer, very subtle and feminine. 3 coats to perfection in coverage. 

This seemed like a better mannequin hands colour on me than Jazz was. Jazz was a tad dirtier, with possible grey tones to it. BR802 seemed more peachy. 

Love this a lot!

Look at how the pearls shine. I love the different shapes of the pearls as they added very good variety to this manicure. 

This is the one I got:

http://www.bornprettystore.com/sizes-nail-pearl-rhinestone-decoration-wheel-p-287.html

3 different sizes, one colour. There's also the multi coloured one that you might want to check out :)

I might want to use these pearls on a card sometime ;) 

For those who are new to nail art,

you just have to gloss on a layer of clear varnish or even a normal top coat (no quick dry please!)

and then use a pair of tweezers to pick up the flat-back pearl and place it on your nail. 

Gently press down to secure the position but not too hard or u see the varnish pooling on the sides of the pearl :)

Then seal the whole nail with top coat (quick dry or not) to complete your manicure.

*Born Pretty Store provided me with this item for an honest review. The lacquers in this post are from my own collection, paid for by me. 

look what arrived in the mail!

4 packages reached me :D in one day! wheeeee~~

let's see...

Jessica from Born Pretty Store sent me these items to play with :D The gold chrome nails look sooooo good, now Im just waiting for a good day to wear 'em ;) I used the pearls already, in a gorgeous simple mani :D and the last item is a orange manicure soaking bowl :) ahhhh, full home spa treatment awaits ;)

Ordered these off a FB store with a special price of 4SGD a piece! Revlon Chrome polishes and Loreal Touch On Colour for eyes and cheeks :) 

Gonna try them out soon ;) 

I also won the BIG Giveaway from Kimberly at her 2010 year end Mini Massager give-away! :D The items arrived and I was SOOOO HAPPY:)

Its my second win from her in a span of a few months and she has remembered how i loved the Reese's and candies so she got me some more :D Im such a child. 

The Massager came into good use for me and my family. Although the initial jolt was pretty scary for me, the massage worked well to soothe pains and helped relax :) 

Thanks so much Kimberly!! <3

I also received some facial masks samples from Mei Mei Signatures, also a FB shop :) But this is with 3 crackle nail polishes I bought from her too! Really awesome crackle, I'll review it in a later post :D

I have gotten a burgundy shimmery shade, a dark brown shimmery shade and a black shatter dupe :) Dries matte, add a topcoat for gloss :) 

Cant wait to show you!

I have more haul posts to show... and my CNY manicure! HAHA :D