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!

Revlon Red: Raven Red

This is the last of the Revlon Reds, Raven Red. Today is my parents' wedding anniversary, so I decided to do something with hearts. This would make for Valentine's Day which I missed as it was during my prelims period.

I used a dotter and a small brush to draw the hearts, somehow I wasn't able to paint the hearts nicely with just the brush alone, so I had to use the dotter to help. The small dots were also made with the dotter.

Happy wedding anniversary Mum and Dad! :)

Revlon Reds: Cherry Berry

A really nice berry colour. A little like really dark pink yet reddish. Something different if you're tired of the usual reds. Application is really smooth too. Same as the Revlon Red, the colour is also strong with one coat. For better coverage, I used two coats.

Revlon Red

Prelims started this week! I squeezed out some time to paint my nails. Red for luck? haha.

Loving this red! I actually didn't expect to like it this much. Application is really smooth and the colour is pretty strong at the first coat. I applied a second coat for better coverage though.

Loving this.

Revlon Reds

I received a gift from my friend today. Its a box of Revlon nail enamels. 3 different shades of red. Revlon Red, Cherry Berry and Raven Red.

To be honest, I'm not really a fan of red and I don't really know how to appreciate the colour.

After opening the box, I think the reds look pretty intimidating to me. I've yet to try it out though.

Recently I'm not able to do more nail designs or even have my nails painted currently.

Firstly, the past week have been spent rushing assignments, studying for tests and doing tutorials. I just didn't have the time to paint my nails. Hence there were no new posts.

Secondly, I might not be painting my nails till another week or more. It may not be that obvious in the photo on the right, but my nails are currently very very yellow. So I think I might give it a rest for awhile.

My prelims are round the corner, so you might be hearing lesser from me for awhile. Sorry about that.