Green Tips This Christmas

French tips with mistletoe! :D This set of nails is pretty easy to create. Coat a layer of OPI Isn't That Precious, followed by a few coats of transparent minute gold shimmer. This would give it a slight shimmer under the light. Use CG Glittering Garland on the nail tips and use a stripper brush to draw a line across, below the green tips. Using a dotter, dot three red dots for the mistletoe. For the leaves, use a small brush to paint it on. And there you go! 

Christmas Nails!

Christmas is one of my favourite times of the year. There's something so festive and joyful about it. :)

Anyway, this year I had requests from my friends to do their nails for them, so I came up with a few rough designs, some with reference to online sources. 

This design is based on a snowy theme. There's a snowflake on the thumb, a snowman on the middle finger and icicles on the pinky. The alternate dark and light blue was my friend's idea, and it turned out really nice! I feel that the dark blue does give more contrast to the design. 

This set of nails was inspired by a photo of reindeer nails I saw online. I thought having the reindeer face on the nail was really cute. But I didn't want every nail to have a reindeer face, so I added the antlers. Initially, I left the middle nail a plain white, but my friend wanted the silver glitter stripes. Turned out it really looked more festive after adding the stripes. Both the pinky and thumb are just a plain brown (OPI Wooden Shoe Like To Know).

DAY 11: Polka Dots

It was my bestie's 21st birthday yesterday, and her theme was polka dots. So I did this set of nails, for her birthday and it falls in line with the theme for DAY 11 of the nail challenge.

I first painted two coats of OPI's Isn't That Precious?, followed by a blue polish from faceshop on the tips. Using a dotter, I used OPI's Mummy Knows Best to create the dots. With a stripper brush, I used OPI's Last Friday Night (Katy Perry Collection!!) to line the tips. And TA-DA!! Polka dotted tips are born!

Rilakkuma Nails

I have a few friends who are crazy about Rilakkuma and I thought it would look pretty cute on the nails. I've seen some shops selling files or notebooks with the Rilakkuma face like that and decided to try it out on my nails. I know many people have already done similar designs or maybe even the same, but I just couldn't resist trying it myself since my friends were so crazy about it.

The yellow polish is borrowed from my friend, Joanna, it's OPI Need Sunglasses?. The brown is OPI's Wooden Shoe Like To Know ? mixed with a little Need Sunglasses?. The cream colour is attained by mixing white polish with Need Sunglasses?. The orange is OPI He's My Boo.

I took the photo before I cleaned up the sides of the nails, so it is a little messy. The one below is taken after I cleaned up the sides and there you go. Rilakkuma nails!

This design actually looks better on shorter nails. For longer nails, I suggest drawing the faces horizontally instead of vertically. Else the faces would end up looking kinda long, which was the mistake I made. Who says short nails can't look pretty! :D

Halloween: Eerie Moonlight Nails

I wanted to create a look of the eerie moonlight so I used China Glaze's Bizarre Blurple, from this year's Halloween Collection, as a base colour. To get the moonlight glow, I mixed two colours together, a light yellow (from Etude House) and OPI's Let's See The Ring. Since the OPI colour is a pearl white, it gave this pearly yellow colour which is what I wanted for the glow. This was sponged onto my ring finger, which you can see is brighter than the rest of the nails. On the other nails, I sponged on a grey which I mixed by myself too. The same OPI colour plus black polish and I added a little drop of yellow. I intended to make a 'fog effect' but.... I guess it didn't turn out that well. I only drew the designs on after coating two coats of OPI's Zom-body To Love.

Ok. Here is my left thumb and my right thumb. On the left thumb is the sponged on yellow and the right is the grey. The yellow has a nicer eerie glow than the foggy grey.

Sorry about the drawings. I can't seem to paint the lines thinly, so the tree turned out kinda ugly. Maybe I should have used a stripper brush instead. And obviously I paint even worse with my left hand. :/
And once again, Happy Halloween!

Halloween: Pumpkin Nails!

Time for some Halloween fun! We don't have the tradition of celebrating Halloween with pumpkin craving or 'trick or treat'-ing in my country, but there are events around (Example, Sentosa's Halloween Horror Nights).   Just for the fun of it, I decided to try some pumpkin craving nails. I had major trouble controlling the brush with my left hand, hence the thick lines/drawings. And yes there are two smiley faces, which I won't deny, were drawn because I really ran out of ideas.

I used OPI Spookettes collection for this set of nails. The orange base is He's my Boo, black is I Only Date Werewolves and the light orange lines is a pastel orange colour from Etude House. I actually coated a layer of the glow-in-the-dark polish, Zom-body to Love but the glowing isn't really obvious! Its really faint and it only lasts for awhile.

My friend was saying that my pumpkin faces were all cute, even the scary ones. So I showed her this one on my left hand, which I drew using my right hand. With better control, I attained a scary face. Wahahaha!!!! Happy Halloween!

DAY 10: GRADIENT nails

Gradient nails! I decided to use an ocean-ish theme for the this set of gradient nails. The reason why there is only one lonely dolphin on my ring finger is because I actually dislike sticking 3D stuff on my nails. Firstly, I really doubt that this little dolphin is still gonna be there by tomorrow morning. Secondly, with 3D deco, washing my hair is a hassle!! It will get trapped and all when washing, plus the worry that it'll just fly off when I pull it through my hair.

I actually coated two coats of Zoya Maisie to give the nice fleck effect (ocean-ish look!), which isn't obvious in the first photo, but more obvious in this one. Its more obvious in actual. And here it is, gradient nails, wrapping up the 'colour segment' of the 31 Day Challenge.

Here is what I used.

From left to right: OPI Let's See The Ring, O2 Skin Nail Polish, 3 blue Faceshop Nail Polish and Zoya Maisie.