Choi's nails

Happy St. Patrick's day!

Oopsie poopsie! I said to myself I should try and post at least once every two days if I can't do everyday but seems like I just missed the time again. Lucky there's still two hours before Sunday ends so I can still say Happy St. Patrick's day. I don't celebrate this event but it reminds me of a friend who currently studies in Ireland so I thought it'd be a good chance to do my first PADDY-cure :D

Products used:

Thumb: China Glaze's Glittering garland

Index: Misa's Good to be green as base
Saran wrapped with glittering garland
Essie's Going incognito, Blanc and Barry M's Satsuma for the flag

Middle: Going incognito as base
Clover image on plate BM03 stamped with Konad white and then traced with Essie's Blanc
Layered with Zoya's Opal flakie after

Ring: Blanc as base
Water marbled with Going incognito and Good to be green

Pinkie: Glittering garland sponged with Zoya's flare and China Glaze's Solar flare on tips

Not really happy with every part of this manicure but some did come out how I expected like the accent nail and pinkie. The stamping on the middle finger did turn out to be a fail though.

I had to crop and resize all the photos to remove all the weird bits and make my hand look normal. Panicked a bit since I felt my hand position looked weird which would be horrible since all the photos waiting for me to edit has the same hand pose.

This is a short post because I'm dying to go out and start nom-ing on a muffin with a cup of tea!

Did you do a St. Paddy's day manicure? What do you think of mine?

Sunday, March 17, 2013
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NOTD: Purple roses

China Glaze

I was thinking of doing a stamping design but I didn't quite like how big the rose image was so I decided to attempt the roses freehand. Practice makes perfect so hopefully I'll end up doing more freehand nail art in future.

I used Essie's Lilacism which is your light lilac pastel crème as the base but can't quite remember how many coats I applied, most probably about three coats though.

For the roses I used China Glaze's Urban night, a vampy eggplant purple and using a toothpick I did small short lines going around in a circle to resemble a rose. It’s not the prettiest rose but it looks close to one. At least one of my male friends was able to tell what it was.

I wanted to add something extra to the accent nail just to make it a little different from the rest so using Nicole by OPI's one less lonely glitter and a dotting tool, I added a bit of purple glitter to the middle of each rose. Maybe because the glitter polish isn't so dense, my dotting tool picked up more clear polish than it did with the glitter so in person it's hardly noticeable. Surprised that my camera even picked up that little bit I had on my nails.

Applying the top coat is the part where I had to be careful especially with a nail design because it tends to smudge which explains why the roses look a little blurry. Looking at it from afar in person, I couldn’t help but think it looked a little like a turtles shell. Overall I was quite satisfied with how this came out.

What's your favourite lilac/purple? What do you think of my NOTD?

Thursday, March 14, 2013
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Some nail freebies

Image stamping

I really need to write more often, after going back into study; it feels like my writing skills have become terrible. My last post was about Valentines so it’s been a while hasn’t it?

These are some of the items I received from my Points2shop account that I wanted to show you. I decided to pick up some Konad stamping polishes just to see how well they work compared to normal polish. I got the basic colours, the ones that I knew I'd definitely get more uses out of which is the black, white and royal purple. I also chose the Konad M59 nail plate because it had some cute images.

The rest are non-nail related but I still decided to throw it in this post just so they don't feel left out. I really like burning candles in my room. It feels nice to fall back on your nice comfy chair or sit on your bed with your laptop, a hot drink by your side with a lovely candle scent waffling in the background. The only thing I'm afraid of is getting too comfy and falling asleep with a candle burning.

I got a Yankee votive sampler in the scent Christmas rose around December. I wanted my room to smell 'Christmas-sy' but it didn't smell that great. It just has that rosy scent I'm not too fond of but just alright with.

I also ordered some Yankee wax tarts in the scents red velvet which smells delicious, French vanilla and vanilla cupcake which was a wrong item sent to me. It was originally supposed to be Christmas cupcake but I guess there might not have been a big difference between the two. It still smells nice anyway. The funny thing is I don't even have a tart burner yet. I’m looking to get one except I always end up thinking I don't need it yet and end up buying something else.