Winter nails

My Christmas mani-pedi, courtesy of my friends, Cheryl and Susan. I normally do not fancy glitter, but the gelish nails of friends make me crave for them. It's almost half gone by now, but loving it while it lasts.

Essie's Sand Tropez with bubbles in the nails. I read it's due to the temperature of the nails. We should soak them in warm waters before or perhaps there were bubbles in the polish?

I got the Three Beauties from John Little Sale, for that price they are better off than the other Taiwanese brand I got earlier which is a little smelly. The neon blue finishes off with a matte texture. There's another range that would glow in the dark but the colours are very bright and the formula is more translucent! The glitter is great too, just a hassle to remove! I had Wild N Wet on my fingers, one of the polishes I bought from USA earlier, but it was my first time using them. Very sweet peach coral color!

Nails can date too

A nail art date with Joy.

This is the leopard spots Joy done over my China Glaze's "For Audrey". She's getting really pro at doing the spots. Loving it!

This is Joy's monotone of yellow! A cheery add-on to her already cheerful disposition. She used 5 types of yellow from my collection. Yea, my collection is just growing!

New stuff

A color I tried recently and loving it. Orange-brown.

A design I did recently and looking quite neat ;) Checkered.

Gelish

Thanks to my buddy, Cyn, I got my first try on gelish nails. But yucksss, I hate it. Everyone says it would last 3 weeks but within a week, my nails chipped. In fact, on the second day, my nail art (made with acrylic paint) was already self-destroying. I admit I'm not very gentle usually with my fingers (HAHA), so it's better to have short nails most of the time! But while it lasted, here's a photo(mine's on the right, Cyn's on the left):

I chose the stained glass effect, it was lovely. The choice of colors was perfect as well! Given the choice, I would not opt for gelish again, the normal polish rocks!!! I can change colors whenever I feel like it :)

Starry night

I used to paint for mum, but she didn't fancy it recently. And the sister did! Hehe. I need to grow my nails a little longer before I get my colors out again.

Raspberry pink

Rumour: Glitter on the edge will prolong the manicure.

And so I tested it out. Not too bad, but its the other edge that's wearing off now after a week :P

By the way, this is one of the pinks I got from USA. Very good quality polish for only USD2!

My nail art projects

And so I unleashed my creativity on my nails...

Loving it dark

Orly Androgynie

Zoya Gem

Stick on

My nail foil experiment.All my friends love it. It's pretty easy to apply, less time needed than the normal painting. The owner of the shop where I got it from advised me to file the edges off, but for the side and top it was incredibly hard to do so. Also I watched a tutorial online before I started on it. It works better if you have something to brush it gently to get it all flattened, in this case I used a cotton bud. But still I got a little crease and bubble on some. They didn't last long too, I got the tips already scrapped off the following day. It's fun, but not lasting and looks pretty fake still. I still love painting because it's more theraupetic!

The recent hits

China Glaze's Make Some Noise

My first coral color, from the recent ElectroPop collection (Spring 2012), is a lovely red-orange-pink. It looks blood-orange on some days and on the others it goes towards the pinky side. The longer I wear it, the more pleasant it gets.

China Glaze's Lemon Fizz

I am wearing this now after removing the coral color. I have been wanting to get this for a long time, but because I have another pastel yellow, I had been holding it off... until one fine day, I couldn't resist it anymore! It's like the color of banana skin, while the other one I have is actually the color of banana flesh. I love both :)

Currently...

Sally Hansen's Fuchsia Power, Bourjois's Jaune Trendy,
China Glaze's For Audrey, topped with China Glaze's
Lighting Bolt & Black Mesh (both crackle)

China Glaze's Some like it Haute

18,880 hits

Thanks to all, my blog clocked 18,880 unique visits today since the day my blog moved here from blogcity a few years ago. An auspicious start to the year of Dragon! May all of us have a smooth-sailing year, blessed with good health and enough money to spend!

Here's the Chinese New Year manicure/pedicure for mum but unfortunately she has now ruined it with all the chores and cooking she did.

French nails

First time, french manicure. Of course, it's not on my own hands. Sister never painted her nails, but when I asked if she wanted me to paint for her. She requested "french manicure", I think it has to do with the word "french", she can never seem to get that out of her head. It's not perfect, but it's easier than I thought.

Using Sally Hansen colors.

On the side note, here are my colors. Please note that the painting is a little horrid as I did this after so much gift wrapping, my hands are tired :p

Cola - just the color of the drink, Cola

Cynthia - Teal blue, I call it Peacock blue

Christmas nails

Oh dear, oh dear... it definitely has been a while. What have I been so busy with!! Now I'm back for a little short entry, just to let you know I'm still here! ;)

Here's a little entry for the nails I did for Christmas :)

China Glaze - Ruby Pumps

China Glaze - It's Alive

Little bad heaven

And this is my latest spot, done a few hours ago. Not by myself, but I could almost paint as good as this. The color code is 333 for Chanel, it's dark chocolate. My colleague who is a pro definitely paints SO MUCH better than this salon!!

Got this off deal.com.sg and it was $38, not cheap at all but it was using Chanel colors, a brand I never tried before and thought it would be a new experience. The recent deals are going for $20 for a session of classic manicure plus pedicure or $50 for 3 sessions. How true is the deal? You will only find out when you get there. After this time, I really don't think I want to buy such services, if you are a regular customer and bought a package, the service would be ten times better!

So I went to Little Dot's Haven located at The Bencoolen. It took me a while to find it as it's up one of the stairways, you just need to try peeping into the few "holes". It was empty on a Friday afternoon, so I had the full attention, wonder if it was a good or bad thing as they could then say anything they could make up with? Like, I was asked to top up additional $8 to use the quick dry top and base coat. I thought that was a ridiculous request, you should be using that for your customers already! Do you expect to use "slow dry" when they are paying so much? Then they tried to add on a foot treatment or recommend the gelish nails for additional top up. I hate hard selling, so I insisted not doing them.

Just for your information, the boss of the salon happened to be painting my nails (fingers only of course). Her face seemed to change when I rejected doing the treatment or gelish nails. Why force someone when they do not want it? Anyhow, then she tried to sell me other services like brow waxing. I gave in after her constant "nagging" but that was indeed better than her nails service. I think she should just focus on that than painting my nails!! What a horrible job she has done! She ruined that beautiful color. I had to ask her staff to repaint one hand because it wasn't done properly, the edge was not painted! Geez... If you're going there, I hope you're not getting the boss's personal service!! Seriously... I can paint better.

Blue & yellow

I have been attracted to colors, pastel or bold, bright or dull. Last week I had the baby blue on (yes, one of the Chiang Mai polishes), and it attracted quite a lot of attention as I do not normally have such light colors on my nails. They were soft and mild, and as days passed by, they grew on me. I began to really like it till they started chipping. Not bad - it lasted me a week, the hawthorn color chipped even more quickly.

Yesterday, I was at the BHG's closed door sale and spotted this really catchy color off the Bourjois shelf. It's much cheaper than L'Oreal or the others. It was about S$9.8 before a whooping 30% off. Thanks to BHG for damaging my wallet! I know it's Christmas season but I have been spending far too often, I seem to have lost my self control. S$200 bucks gone this week - on shopping!!! Money is so hard to earn but so easily spent!!! Anyway, before I go off topic, yes, this is a really nice mustard color. It does seem closer to my skin color than what the photo really depicts. I hope it will grow on me because I do like mustard.

山楂之恋

I would never imagine myself being a big fan of painting nails. But right here, now I am. I used to think that it's a hassle and too difficult to do. I liked to keep my nails short and clean. Today ironically I am trying to keep them long, enjoying the painting (even painting for my mum) and even think it's theraupetic. I really think this phrase is true "Never say never" because some day you might just be so wrong!

I am in love with this color. There's no name or number, it's a brand from Thailand named Calar. I picked this up together with a few others (as below) in Chiang Mai in a tiny accessory shop. I will call it 山楂 or Hawthorn because it resembles the color of it, and is a color I had been looking for.

Crackling nails

Shimmering tomato red, topped with Nubar V-men matte coat and then China Glaze silver crackle.

Brrr.rrr.. make my toes glow!

I bought this during my birthday and decided to try it out. China Glaze's It's Alive on my toes. I also added the Ghoulish Glow that didn't seem to do anything :( No glowing toe nails!!! But I do like the green glitter, not a glitter fan nor fan of green color usually. I also love the Ruby Pumps. the red glitter a lot.

Now now, that gives me an idea.. what a nice combination for Christmas!

Red like ruby

How I love it! Glittery red is the way to go! I almost couldn't bear to take them off till they chipped quite badly... Very nice, I think I found my color ;)

China Glaze Ruby Pumps!