OPI Euro Centrale Collection

I'm really in love with the Euro Centrale collection. So crazily in love with this four bottles that I bought them all. At once. haha!! this is my first time buying four bottles from the same collection. And what's worse, at one shot. 

From left to right: Polka.com, Suzi's Hungary Again, You're Such A Budapest, Can't Find My Czechbook

 I haven't the time to try out the other two polishes yet, but here are You're Such A Budapest and Can't Find My Czechbook.

And finally! the other two colours!

Polka.com on Isn't That Precious (looks really sweet. designed by my bf. haha!)

DAY 13: Animal Prints

Leopard print nails inspired by my leopard print dog! Haha! OPI Can't Find My Czechbook (bought it from Nail Deck) as the base colour, then coat one layer of OPI Last Friday Night. Using a pink polish, draw dots or patches. Using a small brush, outline portions of the perimeters of the dots using OPI Wooden Shoe Like To Know?. Coat a layer of OPI Teenage Dream and apply topcoat.

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! 

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: 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.

DAY 9: RAINBOW NAILS

Yeah! Finally I had the time to do my rainbow nails. I used OPI's Let's See The Ring as a base colour and sponged on 6 pastel shades. Pink, blue, orange, yellow, green and purple. Topcoat it and here it is! Kinda reminds me of the paddle pop ice cream...

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!! 

OPI: Wooden Shoe Like To Know?

I couldn't resist and bought a bottle of nail polish. This bottle of polish has been on my wishlist for quite awhile and today it's fulfilled! :D [shall take it as a post-exam gift to myself] Hope to try it out soon!!

Simple and Sweet Dotted Nails

I decided to try something simple and sweet. Dots were simple and fast to do (as I'm still studying for my upcoming exams, its difficult to spend more time on my nails). Lighter pink shade is OPI Isn't That Precious and darker pink shade is Japanese Rose Garden. I used a dotter to dot on white polish. Apply top coat and done. :)

Chinese New Year 2012

It's Chinese New Year tomorrow! I did my nails just yesterday and didn't have the time to do for anyone else. Sorry to those who asked me and I couldn't do for you this year!

I normally do my nails to suit the clothes I wear. This year I'll be wearing a cream coloured dress with flora prints, so I didn't want any strong colours. I decided to do a light shade for my nails with more feminine touch.

I used OPI Isn't That Precious as a base and layered gold glitter polish on certain portions where I was going stamp the designs on, I added on gold 3D stickers too.

Christmas

Christmas is around the corner and I thought I'll spend some time to think up of some Christmas nails ideas. I was just trying out OPI's Teenage Dream on Skin Food's Red Polish and I believe it has a some what Christmasy feel about it. For a more dramatic look, you could add on some jewels. I don't really use jewels because I find it troublesome to go about doing my daily chores with them on my nails. But I would recommend jewels for this set of nails.

For those who would prefer a lighter shade of nails, you can try this look. OPI's Teenage Dream layered over OPI's Isn't That Precious? .

I'll be doing my best to come up with more ideas for Christmas. So do check back again. :)