Choi's nails

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's Protein base coat)
• Two coats of China Glaze's I'm not lion as the base. 
• 3 different shades of one colour. I couldn't think of any other I wanted to work with on top of this base apart from purple. It was also the easiest three I could get my hands on without have to rummage through everything. The polishes I chose from lightest to darkest were:
  CG's Light as air - Light grey lilac
  CG's Spontaneous - Purple creme
  CG's Urban night - Eggplant purple
• Chevron nail vinyls - There's so many nail vinyl sellers out there but I totally forgot where I got my ones from. Apply these vinyls on the nail and using a sponge, sponge all the polishes on the nails. Wait 10 seconds before peeling the vinyls.
• Seal with your preferred top coat (I used INM's Out the door top coat)

I actually like how this one came out. Could be better but I'm working on it.
What other ombre combinations would you like to see?

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's Protein base coat)
• A basic white polish. Paint two coats and let dry. The white I used was MO's White light.
• Apply the three pinks from light to dark on the sponge and sponge onto the nails.
  The polishes used here was:
  MO's Pink Veneer - Baby pink
  MO's Coral Glaze - Peachy coral
  MO's Cerise Shine - Bright fuchsia pink
• With the swirl design on Moyou London's Suki collection plate no.07 and a white polish, stamp the design on the whole nail.
• Seal with your preferred top coat (I used INM's Out the door top coat)

Ahh I do hate how some bright polishes make my skin look so yellow. Even the photo editing softwares can't help me much. Is it my lighting? Can anyone help with some advice on that?

Anyway, hope everyone enjoyed reading this post. Don't forget I'm also on

I didn't want to keep this one plain and the polish name just kept making me think of stars, stars and stars so that's what my ring finger nail design ended up with after two attempts.






The manicure looks a little 'dusty' and not as smooth because my INM Out the door top coat was thickening up and giving me a hard time. It did serve me well long enough but I think it's time for a polish haul :D

Think I'll keep this short and end it here because my body's telling me to HIT THE SHEETS. <3

I'm still trying to work this Nikon DSLR camera out but it randomly rotates my photos and made me realise the side pose doesn't look too bad. I've tried changing my hand poses and doing all that photo rotating myself but it just ends up with one word, awkward. The whole thing just looked awkward.




For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's Protein base coat)
• Two coats of a lilac base colour, here I used Essie's Lilacism. Two coats would be ideal but Essie's Lilacism really needed about 3 to keep it from looking obviously patchy.
• With a Barry M's Sugar apple which is a pastel minty green, on one side of the nail. Give it about 10-15 minutes before moving on.
• Using random parts of the design from Moyou London's Mother nature 02 plate, stamp all the nails. 
• Apply a thin layer of Color Club's Million dollar listing shimmery top coat.
• Seal with your preferred top coat (I used INM's Out the door top coat)

Hope everyone enjoyed reading this post. I hope to bring you guys more posts and designs once I get back into painting regularly.

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's Protein base coat)
• Two coats of Models Own's Lilac Sheen - Pastel purple
• With and black and gold polish, stamp the image from the Moyou Festive collection No 22 plate on the ring finger nail.
• Seal the nail with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use INM's Out the door.)

Hmm, I tried to do the whole two tone stamping technique but with the design lines being kind of thin and all it didn't quite work out. The two shades did mix a little but I didn't think it was much of a big deal overall I'm still quite happy with how it turned out.

What do you think of this manicure? What other colour combinations should I try for the two tone stamping techniques?

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's Protein base coat)
• Two coats of OPI's Ski Teal we drop.
• Using Barry M's Gold foil and the maple leaf design on the Bundle Monster BM04 plate, stamp the design randomly on the whole nail.
• With a dotting tool and the gold foil polish gently dot the empty spaces.
• Seal the nail with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use INM's Out the door.)

Simple right? The design unintentionally and thankfully looks a little festive to me. Given that I'm usually very bad at creating seasonal/themed designs I'm glad this can be pulled off as some sort of Christmas nails.

Well, thanks for reading! Hope everyone's having a good time with Christmas around the corner. 7 days! Where did time even go?!

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's Protein base coat)
• Apply two coats of Models Own's Strawberry tart, a pastel pink polish. One I do like to go back to once in a while. The photo above shows it as a full mani on it's own. This polish is part of MO's scented collection and the smell is still there for my one.
• Apply a layer of top coat on a nail stamper.
• With a design from the Moyou's Kaleidoscope collection plate 01 and the Konad white stamping polish, do as you'd normally do to transfer the image onto the scraper.
• With your choice of polish shades, colour in parts of the design whilst it is still sitting on the scraper. A dotting tool, toothpick or thin brush is recommended for this part especially if you're going to be painting the smaller/intricate parts.
  Here I simply used Misa's I will survive, a standard black and Barry M's Gold foil.
• Once the colouring is done, apply a layer of top coat over the design and wait 10 minutes for it to dry. 
• Using tweezers, gently remove the design from the stamper and place on the ring finger nail. If the design rips, you may need to leave it for a few extra minutes before attempting to remove it again. If the design still looks a bit 'wet' then I'd suggest doing so.
• Seal the whole nail one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use INM's Out the door.)

Have you tried the reverse stamping method yet? Well, you should! The process is a little time consuming with a bit of waiting here and there especially if you're going to go ahead with doing the full thing but the results are very satisfactory.

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's Protein base coat)
• Apply two coats Orly's Rapture.
• With a sponge gently dab a Orly's Flare - Gold shimmer and China Glaze's I'm not lion - Gold glitter at the tips of the nail.
• When you feel they've been sponged evenly and you're satisfied with what it looks like, seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use INM's Out the door.)

Does anyone have any tips and tricks when attempting these sort of designs?