Choi's nails

I had to think twice before posting this one because things just didn't feel right. I eventually decided on posting it because I liked the design stamped on top.

For so long I've wanted to do a swirly stamping design on a dark base so I went ahead with it after seeing some awesome swirls on the Moyou Suki collection plate No.7. Before doing so I did a test design on my thumb nail where I sponged the tips with a white and stamped the design in both gold and silver. The silver and white combined made things look quite frosty and cool, the effect looked good but to be on the safe side I ended up stamping everything in gold. I couldn't help thinking back at the silver on gradient try out so after taking this off I used the base colour again just to do the design on every nail. My nails ended up looking like duck nails in the photos so here's the gold version only. I will give that design another go though.

One other thing that really got me was the base colour. Essie's Garden variety is a teal shade and it's a stainer! I didn't notice my nail colour the first time I removed it but after the second I found my nails were no longer yellow from too much polishing but instead they had turned green. For those thinking of giving this polish a go I'd say invest in a good base coat and still prepare yourself for some staining.

Look here! This post is a girly glittery one. Do excuse this manicure though because I had some air bubble problems going on . Here's Nails Inc's Bow street layered over just a basic white because it was nice to let the colours stand out on a simple base. 

Bow street is full of  pink, light pink and purple hexagon glitters in what seems like a lightly tinted pink base because the white didn't look as crisp after applying it over.

I think this is one of them polishes that looks much prettier in the bottle. I expected a bit too much from this one, it's not bad though. Application needed a bit more effort with having to manually position the glitter after applying each stroke unless you're happy with keeping things a bit patchy. The colour combination of the glitters look perfect though, that was definitely what got me most excited to try it out.

When my base coat ran out I had a good reason to start shopping for one. I purchased some extra polishes on the side to keep myself happy too. One of the brands that was in my delivery was this Morgan Taylor polish. This is actually my first time trying out this brand after coming across it a few times here and there and it's quite good.

The colour to start off with was lovely to look at. In person it's more of a bright orangey coral very befitting for when summer comes around. I do feel my photos are a little disappointing here though because the colour isn't looking as summery as you would see it more in person. 

Application was good at two coats and formula was quite like the average. No problems here to be mentioned.

This post I'll keep sweet and short. Posting two blogs in one day one after the other is already a surprise for me. 

This is Nails Inc's Marylebone Road which is like an apple green. I'm indifferent to this colour. Never really been much of a green fan particularly this type of shade but it's not in my hate list either.

This only took about two coats and to take some attention away from the whole green I added a bit of silver stamping to the base using the Moyou Mother nature plate no.2.

From start to finish I really didn't know how I wanted this manicure to turn out which is why it became a mix and match in the end. I wasn't sure how to title this manicure so I named it after the nail that had a bit more detail, the galaxy striping design.

This post is not much of an exciting one but I sure do like the shade I'll be talking about. I do own quite a few nudes but only a few I would say look great against my skin tone and here is another one that does.

This is Nails Inc's Colville mews. A cool toned nude looking good at two coats. There's nothing to pick about the formula, application and cleanup process because they were pretty easy to work through.

After going through so much colours it does feel nice to put on a nude shade once in a while.

Here's another post on a Nails Inc polish and there's a few more to come.

This one is Nails Inc's The little boltons which is pretty much a teal blue. Before putting this one on the nails I already knew this one had to go with some nail art. I'm not quite sure why the colour is how it is from the bottle but as I was painting the first coat the colour did come out a little uneven like so. After two everything ended up looking normal.

Today's post is one I'm quite eager to go ahead with and that's unlike the usual me just because this manicure is a splatter mani. This sort of design feels like it hasn't made an appearance on my blog for quite a while already.

Remember in my last post I mentioned my friend came back from Japan with some nail polish souvenirs for me? Well here's another one I tried and it's actually from the brand Sanrio. Any childhood memories of Hello Kitty, Miffy and the rest coming out anyone? It may not come as a surprise to some people but being so distant from everything Sanrio now I didn't even know they made nail polish! I can't seem to figure out what name this polish was given so throughout I might just have to refer to it as 'the Sanrio polish'.

Not so long ago my friend recently visited Japan and as souvenirs he bought me back some Japanese branded nail polishes. Yes he's a he and he did quite a good job with this polish.

Looking from the bottle the shade looks pretty much like a dark midnight blue glitter but turns out the base is pretty sheer. It did turn out a few shades lighter than the bottle but I do think these sort of blue glitters look nice.

Because of the sheer base you do need at least 2-3 coats and unlike most other glitters the clean up process was a lot easier. Usually there'd be random specks of glitter sitting around my cuticles but I didn't seem to notice any.

For this manicure I settled with one of Barry M's Hi shine gelly nail paints because I got sick of deciding which polish to go for. My nails are polished so much that it just feels like days ago that I just wore each polish but really it's been more than a while.

Here I have Barry M's Greenberry with some stamping from my new Moyou stamping plates. The images didn't come out exactly crisp because I had lost my scraper during that time and my alternative was a very old mobile top up card.

It actually bugs me a little that the photo for this post is pretty much unedited apart from having my watermarks pasted here and there. Usually I'd play around with the settings to make things look a little better but if I had done it to this one you totally won't see how much of a barbie pink this is.

This is Models Own's Radiant pink at two to three coats. Smooth application, easy clean up and very girly.

This is a bit too much of a barbie pink to wear as a full manicure but I think I wouldn't mind it for some nail art.

I did a dry water marble manicure not long ago but the results weren't as good as these ones. At least I didn't mess up any part of the design this time round.