Although Chinese New Year is over already about 2 weeks, but my inspiration of painting mandarin oranges nail only hit recently.

Don’t ask me why!

Tools I used:

1. OPI base and top coat
2. 2 shades of orange from Elianto
3. White polish
4. Dotting tool and a unwanted CD

Alternate the colors between each nail to create the tone, when polish is dry, dot on the white polish with the dotting tool.

TIP: It is easier to dot some white polish onto the CD first, then only pick up the color with the tool. In this case, your dots will be more even.

continue reading "NOTD: Mandarin Oranges Nail & Launch of Clarins Everlasting Foundation SPF 15"

Morning everyone! I am happy to announce that I only have to work for 3.5 days this week. *weeeee*

Today I am going to show my nails using 3D nail stuff.

Items that I used:
Base & top coat, white polish, french tips and a box of nail stuff.

Put the french tip in the middle of nails to create a larger partition.

Before the polish dries up, quickly pick up a stick-on and place it on top.

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This will be my last nail art for Valentine’s, and also for Chinese New Year perhaps. Time to start feasting tomorrow!

Tools I used:

Base & top coat, baby blue and pink polishes from Etude House, Konad white polish & top coat and a dotting tool.

I alternate the blue and pink on each finger. It is really hard to work with milky color as they don’t spread really well.

I suggest layering 2 thin coats to get an even coating, then let try.

If you think it is boring, you can do some simple nail art

continue reading "Valentine’s Nail 101 - Take me out baby"

Valentine’s Day is coming! And on the first day of Chinese New Year. It is special because I will spend it with my family. And with loads of love too!

Fancy some Hershey’s Kisses for Valentines?

Prepare base coat, top coat, and 2 colors of polish. Here I used Stage 01-Innocent and 12-Astounding.

Color the base with darker shade and use the white shimmery polish to draw a line across diagonally. This will be easier for you to divide the nail into half.

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Valentine’s is near…chinese new year is near…and I haven’t painted my nails in a while! Anyone misses my nails? ^_^

So, you are going on a Valentine’s date and you only have 20 mins to spare? Don’t worry, you can whip out a set of good nails too!

You need:

- Base & top coat
- A sweet nail color
- Glitter nail color
- A long strip of nail sticker ( Thanks Lisa to send me this )
- Tweezer, scissors

Since it is a sweet date, pick a sweet and mellow color (pink, shades of pink, red, gold). Here, I am using Revlon Tropical Temptation in 914.

Color a tip along your nail bed. Don’t worry about the line not being perfect. You see, the reason of why I am doing a thick tip is to cover the imperfections, plus it is much easier to draw a thick line.

Then, use the tweezer to lift the sticker up and try to roll it along the line of your polish.

See? The imperfections can be under cover!

Then use a scissors to cut the excess.

continue reading "Valentine’s Nail 101: Sweet Heart Nails in 20 mins"

Finally it is holiday for me!!! I have taken 4 days off and now enjoying a long stretch of 10 days holidays!

I have worked so hard through out 2009 (don’t doubt me) and I definitely deserve a break right?

No Christmas nails this year, but I am so lazy, I just colored a light pink and added some shimmery tip, then only stickers. Stickers are big time saviour when you can’t draw perfectly.

And guess what? Today will be my last day of singlehood (sort of)….

Ahh I wonder what is it like for me in future…