Choi's nails

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.

I do love this base but it sometimes feel like a crime to leave bases like that empty. So I picked up CC's Something new which I haven't had the chance to try yet. I was looking forward to how this light glitter on dark base would look. These glitter actually look better in the bottle though. Just look at it, it's like snow in a bottle but overall everything together looks okay.



What do you think of these two polishes? Do you know of any other glitter polishes like so?

For this manicure:

• Apply one coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's protein base coat.)
• Apply two coats of Essie's Hubby for dessert.
• With Nails Inc's Floral street, sponge the top half of the nails for that lilac-white gradient.
• With a straw, dip one end into the polish and give one rapid blow from the other end. Watch the polish splatter your nails until you're happy with the whole look.
  The polishes used for the splatter are Color Club's Nail Robi - deep purple and Nails Inc's Floral street - white.
• After stamping seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use INM's Out the door top coat.)

What other splatter colour combinations would you like to see?

For this manicure:

• Apply one coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's protein base coat.)
• Apply two coats of a basic white. Here I used Models Own's White light.
• Add a layer of a fast drying top coat and wait until it becomes fully dry. If you don't want to apply a top coat you could just leave it to dry as it is but make sure it definitely is FULLY dry before approaching the next step otherwise you'll experience some polish lifting when removing your nail guides.
•  Line the nails with either nail vinyls or striping tape, whichever you feel works best for you. One you're ready paint the nails in turn with the following polishes:
  Color Club Blushing rose - Baby pink
  Color Club Blue-ming - Turquoise
• With Nails Inc's Willow place - gold glitter and a dotting tool apply 5 dots in the bottom right corner of the ring finger nail. With a toothpick pull the dot into the middle to give it a flower petal look.
• After stamping seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use INM's Out the door top coat.)

Save me the stress from thinking of the next colour combination. What would you like to see next?

For this manicure:

• Apply one coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's protein base coat.)
• Apply two coats of a white on the index, middle and pinkie finger nail. Here I used Nails Inc's Floral street..
• With a silver glitter, apply to the index and pinkie. For this step I used Nails Inc's Novello street. For this polish a thumbs up!
• Place striping tape on your nail in any specific way and dab 3-4 polishes onto a sponge and sponge over the taped nail. Remove the tape and tada, you're left with a galaxy like striping tape design. The following polishes used here were:
  - Nails Inc's Showfield street - A bit like a cornflower blue
  - Color Club's Nail-Rob - Dark eggplant purple
  - Essie's Garden variety - Teal
  - Essie's Hubby for dessert - Light lilac
• Apply Essie's Hubby for dessert on the whole nail on the ring finger.
• Seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use Misa's UV Bounceback.)

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Ciate mini's Underwear)
• Apply two coats of a plain white. Here I used Barry M's Matt white.
• A cup of water and with your choice of polishes drip each one in the order you like in the water.
• Here I used China glaze Light as air - light grey, purple and Essie's I Pink I can - light pink.
• With a toothpick draw any design.
• Wait about 10 until the polish has fully dried on the surface of the water. Slowly pick it up with some tweezers, position it on the nail and cut off the excess.
• Apply a shimmery top coat. I used Color Club's Million dollar listing.
• Seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use Misa's UV Bounceback)
  

I'm really liking this dry water marble method. It stops me from making a mess out of everything and keeps things dry. What other colours should I use next time?

The base is two coats of Barry M's matt white with Essie's Lilacism as the pastel lilac creme and China Glaze's Spontaneous being the darker purple. The leaves are painted with Essie's Going incognito.

I've been pretty fond of the Color club Million dollar listing gold shimmery top coat lately. It even sits on my desk top for close reach during a manicure session. It's showing up more subtle under the camera lens as I see less shimmer here than in person. I think zooming in a little gives you a better look at its pretty shimmers.



I keep wanting to recreate this in different shades, which colour should I do it in next? Blue? Green? ^^

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.