Choi's nails

London calling being a little neon wasn't really what I was expecting from it so in the end I wasn't planning to keep it on for very long. If that's the case now's the right time to practice some nail art and here is the hairspray water marble technique. Well, for this one it's more like the perfume water marble technique. I'm not a hairspray user so there wasn't any around the house. I quite like the whole dark and light colour contrast so I purposely picked Models own's Turquoise gloss to be splattered on top.



I'm not very into the ending look so this definitely wasn't missed. Hopefully I'll make a better choice of colours next time.

If we can just forget the image for a second and look at home intense the base is. I don't wear oranges polish so often but this one is a good one. It's more of a red fiery orange but the shimmer and application was perfect and so clean ups went smooth too. I think I can show off a little and be like 'look at my clean cuticle line ^^'




The base is pretty fierce but now I look back I think it looked best without the stamping. Nevertheless they both look fine and I'm happy with it.

What do you think? With or without the stamping? What would you have done to this base?

You know, I've missed chevron nails very much but having to manually cut the tape with my zigzag scissors making sure they're just about the right size really does take a bit of time and effort. So I gave in. I bought them. NAIL VINYLS. From Shesellsseashells. I almost had trouble typing this out as I was saying it.


Using the relaxed chevron, Essie's Lilacism and China Glaze's All aboard I did the gradient sponge effect but since this was my first encounter with these nail vinyls I totally ignored the part where people mentioned that you should wait until it's FULLY dry. A part of the polish on the pinkie almost got dragged off.

With one of the nail art pens I received from my cousin I lined with chevron with some gold glitter but I prefer it without. In fact I did feel like these colours weren't really a great match so I'm not particularly feeling great about the chevrons but I do like the base.

The base is China Glaze's Well trained which is a dark teal creme. My camera really altered the shade to show up a shade closer to blue that I almost got confused as to what this one actually was now that I'm really slacking on my polish notes.

With a straw and lots of energy I gave these nails the splatter effect which worked nicely on some parts, very blotchy on others so in an attempt to save it I splatter CG's Well trained on top again only to realise nope, it's not going to work the way I want it. 


CG's Fairy dust is a great glitter top coat and though it feels like it wasn't really used wisely here I'm feeling it'll do well for some galaxy nails. Next manicure idea?



What do you think about these nails? 

I couldn't be more happier with the clean up and the formula was good to work with. Despite those I still wanted to add more and nothing felt easier than nail stamping. I do like to bring out my plates more than often even though I just have the two sets.

The design is from Bundle Monster's BM 203 stamped with just a plain black which darkened the look even more but it doesn't stop me from liking how neat it still looks.

The base is Essie's I pink I can from their Breast Cancer awareness 2014 collection. In fact I even purchased the other two from the set because they looked like awesome pinks to have but they've just not been tried as of yet.

I used 2-3 coats here with a thin runny formula. Maybe it's been too long since I've added a new Essie to my collection that I've forgotten how the formulas usually were but it is gorgeous though isn't it? ;)


For the leopard print I used Barry M's gold foil and using a dotting tool drew different patches over my nail almost forgetting that I had to add the black. With Misa's I will survive and a nail art brush I did some small lines/c shaped lines around the gold to make it more like the prints.