Magnetic Polish: China Glaze Get Charged

I received this bottle of magnetic polish (CG Get Charged) for my 22nd birthday. Its actually pretty simple to use. Paint the polish and hold the magnet above for 10secs. But there are some nails which didn't manage to get the pattern. I don't know why either. I'll have to try again another time, but overall its pretty easy to use. When you need quick fancy nails, this is it! :D

Vintage Flora Nails

Finally found the time to do my nails. I've bought this bottle of Essie some time ago but haven't the time to try it. I thought it would look beautiful for vintage nails and decided to give it a shot. First, apply Essie's Mint Candy Apple as the base coat (looks so refreshing!). Using a stripper brush and white polish, draw straight lines to create the stripes nails. For the roses, I used OPI's Japanese Rose Garden as the flower base colour and Revlon Red for the outlines. The leaves are CG's Glittering Garland.

I think you can easily find tutorials on how to draw the roses online. Its easier than it looks. 1) Use a dotter to draw patches of the lighter pink. 2) Using the red, outline the roses and draw some small curves in the centre for petals with a small brush. 3) Add on the leaves with a green. And there you go!

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! 

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!

DAY 8: METALLIC NAILS

Metallic nails! I used gold metallic and black polish (from faceshop) for the base, then used China Glaze's crackle polish, Black Mesh and Platinum Pieces.

Ribbon Nails for Elaine's 21st!

This coming Friday I'll be attending my friend's, Elaine, 21st birthday. Her theme is Ribbons & Bows. Pretty cute ya? I did these set of nails to suit that theme. Its a little messy as I had a really hard time controlling the brush, especially when drawing the outline of the bow.

I coated a layer of OPI's Isn't That Precious, then drew the green tips with China Glaze's Glittering Garland. Then came the difficult task of drawing those ribbons. And here is the final 'masterpiece'.

I tried the new Seche Vite quick dry top coat and it really dries fast!! 

My 21st Bday Nails!

I am officially 21! :D Not that it really makes that much of a difference to me..

Anyway, the theme for my party was white and blue, so I decided to do my nails with both colours, plus a little glitter for a nicer and complete look.

 I'm using China Glaze's Frostbite on pearly white polish with blue glitter on the tips.