Gold On Gold On Gold

I recently purchased what I thought were gold stickers from ebay, but they're more like really thin metal pieces.  They are attached to an adhesive sheet instead of being loose in a jar.  You kind of have to smoosh them down so that they'll adhere to your nail better, but some edges still don't lie flat.  Can be a bit annoying, but it's OK.

Started off with two coats of Etude House LUCIDarling Fantastic Nails 01 Sparkling Royal Gold.  Then I placed the metal bits and smoothed them down with a nail buffer which sort of made the residual glue on the metal bits turn dark and hard to remove sometimes.  Lastly a coat of Ardene Disco Ball which isn't really noticeable in the pictures, but does make the nails more sparkly.

Santa + Reindeers Stamped

I used images from SHANY plates, the flying reindeer from SH13 and the Santa face from SH03.  I'm not sure if it's suppose to be Santa's face or just a bearded old man's face.  I thought it was going to turn out smaller, but it filled up most of my shorter pinky nail.

Two coats Etude House LUCIDarling 04 Indigo Blue, stamped with Konad white and added a little bit of Color Club Beyond the Mistletoe to add some sparkle.

Liberty Charm

My friend who gifted me the polishes from Europe also gave me a teaspoon and butter spreader from Sabre Paris.  The butter spreader is a floral Liberty print and I thought it would be fun to try to replicate the print on my nails.

I didn't do a base colour, but maybe I should have, I dunno.  I was going to be doing super layered stamping so I thought a base colour wasn't needed  I used Wet N Wild Craze Mad-Styles, Etude House WH709 and WH708 to stamp on my nails multiple times until the the design was opaque.  I used my large plate, but the images I used can be found on Konad plates m60 and m64, the grid style images. I didn't count how many times I stamped on my nails, but quite a bit.  I wanted to achieve a woven fabric look, and I think it looks quite nice, though it turned out a bit dark.  The grey I used turned out darker than I thought it would when stamped.  The flowers were done using acrylic paint.  They look OK, but this style is not my forte. 

Little Roses Again.

More floral nails.  This time taupe with red roses.

Two coats Etude House BR309 with acrylic paints for the roses with Etude House RD106 to added a bit of sparkle to the roses.  I don’t think you can really see shimmer from the red polish, it is super sheer and I only put a small dab on each rose.

Colourful Waves

Lots of colours used for this.  Two coats of KleanColor White as the base then I used the lighter colours to make a sort of wave or off centred top of heart on the nails.  Once that was dried I did same thing with the darker colours, but made it off centred to the other side of the nail.  Lastly added a rhinestone where the colour dips.

Colours from thumb
Light Colours - KleanColor Pastel Teal, Etude House PP903, Color Club Vintage Couture, KleanColor Pastel Yellow and Color Club Twiggie.

Dark Colours - Color Club Chelsea Girl, Color Club Pucci-licious, Color Club Poptastic, Color Club Wham! Pow! and American Apparel Malibu Green.

The colours in my pictures are a bit off for the pinks.  They’re actually brighter in real life, I don’t know why they photographed so light.

Trying Out Windows Live Writer

I hope this works out.



Thought I would do something super girly so stripes with some lacy-ish bows.  It’s a bit messy looking, but I’m okay with that.  It’s a lot better looking than my right hand.  I did three coats Etude House PP903 and acrylic paints for the bows.

Now hopefully this will get published properly without having me to actually sign on to blogger.

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Still need to log in to put labels on posts.

Dress Inspired

This manicure was inspired by a dress that I picked up from the Indian Bazaar/Little India after dinner one night.

My interpretation of the dress on my nails.

I really like the nails with the flowers.  I think I’m going to do my nails with just the flowers sometime.  The flowers were done with acrylic paint.  I basically just blobbed on the pink with the toothpick that I used to mix white and red acrylic paint, then lined the flower with red, made some dots with blue acrylic paint and leaves with green acrylic paint.

Here are the polishes that I used.

Both hands - KleanColor Black and White, Cosline 004 White Sparkle (not pictured)
Right hand - Dabo RD440, Etude House WH709, Hello Kitty PK04
Left hand - American Apparel Cameo Blue and Palm Springs, Innisfree GR06

Wedding Nails

I’m not getting married nor did I have a wedding to attend, but I do enjoy watching shows like Rich Bride, Poor Bride, Bridezillas and My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.  More for the ridiculousness of the people on those shows than the weddings.

Base colour is KleanColor White with Etude House VIP Girl Pink PK011 as the stripes.  The hearts, ring and bow were scrap booking rub on transfers that I found at a dollar store.

Quilted Argyle

Didn't keep the leopard so I changed it up this afternoon.  Quite liked this.  I rarely use my half pearls, but thought they would be better to use than rhinestones.  Colours used for thumb and ring Sally Hansen Insta-dri in Whirlwind White, joe Mint and Powder Blue for the other fingers and the argyle pattern along with Etude House Dear Darling WH002 Bling Bling Silver as the stripes.

Lipstick Leopard

Did this because I wasn’t sure what to do, saw my Hope Girl lipstick and decided to stamp the leopard pattern on to my nails.  Two coats Etude House LUCIDarling Fantastic Nails 01 Sparkling Royal Gold, stamped with Konad special polish in black using plate Konad plate m57.  I used an Orly Matte top coat over the ring finger to see if I liked it matte.  The difference wasn't really too noticeable so I just left it.

Lots o'Hearts

Was inspired to do this design from the spring issue of Nail Venus.

Mine isn’t so blingy and also kind of messy looking.  I don’t think I can handle having that much bling on top of the already busy looking hearts.

Base Colours - One coat each of  Etude House VIP Girl PK012 and Etude House LUCIDarling Fantastic Nails 01 Sequins Pink Topaz

Hearts - joe - Fuchsia and Kiss, Innisfree BL04 and GR06, Sally Hansen Extreme-wear White On, The Face Shop - GR501 and VOV Nail Care It Girl’s 1420A, outlined with black acrylic paint.

I used a dotting tool to draw on the hearts, to outline I used the nail art pen.

S'more BundleMonster + Sliders

Here's some more images from the new BundleMonster plates. I didn't go in order. The images from plate BM-202 weren't really that exciting to me so I decided to try some images that I liked from other plates.


Sort of a floral tapestry design from plate BM-225. Quite liked this. Two coats of Cosline - 608, stamped with pastel purple Konad special polish.


This one didn't turn out like how I imagined it to be, but still nice. Image from plate BM-214. Two coats Etude House BL501, stamped with black Konad special polish.



Really loved the shoes when I saw them from the previews. Thought it would be too busy on all nails so I just stamped it as an accent on my ring finger. Image from plate BM-213, two coats Etude House PK006, one coat Etude House LUCIDarling something 01 something and stamped with ENAS black stamping polish.

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Next up, MINI BURGERS!



Made these for my older brother's birthday yesterday. Baked the buns, ground the meat and pickled the cucumbers myself. Burgers were topped with swiss and cheddar cheeses and thousand island dressing.

H&M Scarf Inspired

Hellos, here's something that was inspired by a scarf gifted to me for my birthday not too long ago. The stripes are a bit sloppy since I didn't use any nail guides or tape. Quite liked it, but the stripes kinda killed it for me. Should have done them properly or maybe incorporate those colours in a different way.

Base colour = Ardene - Barely There
Stripes = Color Club - Vintage Couture, Etude House - PP903 and American Apparel - Cameo Blue
Stamping colours = Sally Hansen Insta Dri - Lively Lilac and Snappy Sorbet and American Apparel - Cameo Blue
Stamping plate = E05

I did this mani because I found the birds on the E05 plate otherwise I probably wouldn't have done it. Might have drawn super large birds if I was doing it freehand.

FOPI minis + Etude House

Went out shopping last Monday at Pacific Mall/Market Village. Bought some cream puffs (ate them before I could take a photo of them) and these faux OPI minis.


They were just in large tubs with a bunch of other mini polishes with no names or labels. The bottles themselves have some scratches or improper printing on the bottle. The bottoms have labels with a number and some words in Korean. They also smelled pretty bad. Here's a glittery gradient I did with the polishes above.


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This is Etude House from I believe the Dear Darling line - WH020 Extreme Jewel.


I couldn't really capture it well on my nails, but it's mostly a silver glitter with purple, green, blue and red glitters thrown in too. This didn't stay on my nails too long. I think it peeled off the my index fingers the the second day of wear, which was the Monday that I went shopping. I walked around with polish on half my nails all day.

Tiger Stripes + First Polish Comparison

Two coats Etude House - WH012 Extreme Black as the base stamped with a franken of the silver Konad special polish with some silver pigment. The tiger stripes from Konad plate M57. I haven't Konaded in so long, I was kinda rusty. More stamping manis will be forthcoming. I quite like this polish, but it did remind me of Eyeko Cosmic Polish so I did a comparison photo with it and also added in L.A. Colors - NP263 Rainbow glitter



1 - Two coats Sally Hansen - Black Out with two coats L.A. Colors Rainbow Glitter over top
2 - Two coats Eyeko Cosmic Polish
3 - Two coats Etude House Extreme Black

All three are quite similar with slight differences in the amount of glitter coming through.

Owls

Nails are currently stubs. Had a break whilst shopping so I had to get 'em all down to stubs since the difference in length was too great.


This is VOV Nail Cone It Girl's polish in 1408A Fantastic Moon. It's like a dark purple-y blue. Had it just plain for a day and then I added some owls and glitter to my nails.



For some strange reason the blue from underneath sort of seeped through to the surface. I dunno what was happening. Picture from the night before on the left, you can clearly see the yellow of the moon and the whites of the owls aren't bluish in tint. Weirdness. Polishes used for owls:
American Apparel - Factory Grey (ring finger)
Dabo - GR910 (thumb)
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - White On
Etude House LUCIDarling - Something 02
Innisfree - YE07
L.A. Girls - Pineapple (also used for the moon)
Rimmel Lasting Finish Pro - Black Satin
Dabo WH903.

Pink Glitter Gradient

Love gradient nails. Did one coat of Etude House PK006 (the bottle with the light pink cap) then used a sponge with stripes of the base colour, then PK012 (bright pink cap, from the Etude House VIP Girl line) and then PK002 (purple cap from the Etude House HD nails line). Topped it off with a frankened glitter polish of just iridescent white glitters.

Nails from this past week.

Misplaced the usb cable for the camera so I couldn't upload any pictures, but it has been found now so here are nail pics from this past week.

Pink leopard to go with my pink leopard fleece blanket. Frankened pink as base and Konad pastel pink as stamping polish, Konad plate m57 used for the leopard print.


American Apparel - Palm Springs with Etude House LUCIDarling Gold polish on the ring finger. Not really loving Palm Springs. Looks more peachy on my nails than it does in the bottle. I don't think it goes go well with my skin tone.


Sally Hansen Xtreme-wear in Turquoise as the base colour, stamped over with Konad special polish in white. Plate used was Konad m79. I really like this. Have been sporting this for a few days.

Bows Dots Stripes

The original design (top right corner) is from the Nail Up!: National Nail Order Book 2011 that I downloaded from tokyo_jam. Changed the colours a bit and used fimo bows. This took a while to do and I really thought about giving up on it 'cause I really wasn't liking how it was turning out. But I kept at it and put some glitter on. Quite like it now, looks like a bunch of ribbons going across my nails. Two coats of Sally Hansen Xtreme-wear White On. For the stripes I used Etude House LUCIDarling polishes in colours I'm not too sure of 05 and 06, the names are probably something like shimmery mint and shimmery hot pink. LA Colors Art Deco polish in silver glitter for the glittery stripes.

Polka Dots

Simple polka dot mani for the week with my stubby nails. Used the light pink from the All About Color set from Color club, Etude House LuciDarling 05, and Sally Insta-Dri Whirlwind. I always go for polka dots whenever I have short nails. The heart kinda stuck itself on and I couldn't remove it. I was trying out using a hole punch with dried polish that I saw on another blog, put the heart on to see how big it would be on my nail and then couldn't get off afterward.