Whimsical peacock feather

I wanted something easy to do yet beautiful enough to look at before I go for my short trip to the big city. Time was pretty tight for me even though it was the holiday. So, all I think of was to have a manicure that doesn't require much time to do.

So I had some glitters over plain base and then had my accent nail painted with peacock feather. I learned the design via Instagram. Gotta get back with you on the Instagrammer who inspired me.

 

Colors used:
OPI Samoan Sand (base)
Essie A Cut Above glitter
Black acrylic paint

Gradient, gradient!

My nails are all very short at the moment. It will take at least a week or two to get them grow to a length that is just nice for nail painting. So, while mine are bare, I work my hands on others instead.

Sister in-law was in town last weekend and she was the perfect candidate to satisfy my fix for nail painting. And she opted for gradient. IMHO, gradient is one of the easiest nail art and the quickest to dry. I was more than happy to do gradient on her nails.

For her event, she wanted something bright. She personally had her eyes the OPI Niki Minaj collection and finally chose Did It On 'Em for her first nail art. I used another darker green from Oroloy since that is the only green shade I have that can mix well with Did It On 'Em's intense 'brightness'.



Colors used:
OPI Did It On 'Em as base
Oroloy Dark Green

For her second nail art, she wanted something subtle. Something that is easy at work, yet still catchy to the eyes. Again, she wanted gradient. So I did gradient on her nails leaving only the ring fingers as accent nail. On the accent nail, I painted poppy flowers (again!).





Colors used:
OPI Play The Peonies as base
OPI Brisbane Bronze
Acrylic paint for poppy flowers

She's happy.
I am happy too!
^__^

Poppy Love

I was thinking of doing flower nail art but since I've done daisies, gerberas and cherry blossoms...I need other flowers. Orchid came to mind. But just as I started to draft a design, poppy popped up.

And poppy it is!


It wasn't difficult to paint poppy flowers. All you need are dotting tool and a striping brush. That's all. ^^


Initially, I wanted to do lines water marble but my Sally Hansen Black Out didn't cooperate with me. At third dropping, the polish just didn't want to spread out properly. I only managed to drop a few polishes and created about 4-6 rings of colors, which is not enough.



Ah well, will try again with the lines water marble sooner. I've just got back from Sasa to re-stock my Eleanor nail polishes in various colors!

Colors used:
Revlon Red Hot Tamale 908 (water marble)
Sally Hansen Black Out (water marble)
OPI Play the peonies (accent nail base)
Acrylic paint

Vertical Gradient Blue

Earlier this year, a friend went to the US and I requested her help to buy my the OPI Nicki Minaj Spring 2012 collection. It's cheaper buying directly from OPI's hometown.

But I haven't got the chance to try out all the swatches. Today, I'm gonna start with OPI Fly.

The color looks more turquoise in real life and I'm loving it.

I realized how I love cream finish nail polish since using OPI Fly as well as OPI Did It On 'Em. Will try to look more of cream finish nail polishes soon.

Since I'm into gradient lately, I wanted to re-create Nailsaurus' nail art but with a slight tweak.

So what I did was using sponging technique to create gradient. I even used her tutorial on creating beautiful gradient effect via sponging. Love it! Love it!




Initially I wanted to 'bling-bling' all my nails. But remembering that I only wear this nail art until Sunday, I decided not. Save me my nail studs. ^_^

The thing about sponging vertically, the nail bed tend to be flooded with nail polishes and it's kinda hard for me to clean them even with brush. Note to self, vertical sponging; not cleaning-friendly.

Colors Used:
OPI Fly Nicki Minaj Spring 2012 collection as base
Revlon Midnight Affair
Sally Hansen Black Out
Studs from local store.

Next week, will try to do Galaxy Nails. It's been wanting to try that particular mani.

Till then!

Green Zumba Party nails

I'm just so excited to attend this Green Zumba charity party that I decided to paint my nails according to the theme..with Zumba logo and word on them!





Yours truly with one of the Zins who has actually painted her nails similar to mine. Zumba nail twins!



Colors used:
OPI Did It On 'Em
Elianto Racing Green
Black acrylic paint

Blue snake skin & marble

I just can't get enough of the snake skin nail art. And so I did it again on my nails. Only this time, I went for blue and did marble nail for my accent nail. It's kind of messy this time though.



Colors used:

Snake skin
- Revlon 791 Midnight Affair(base), sponged over loofah net with Elianto Alice Blue and Elianto Indigo Shine

Accent nail
- Faceshop white base
- OPI Fly
- CD 908 Tuxedo

Bienvenue 2012!

It's a new year already!!

Happy New Year!

Since I just had my nails cut short in preparation to going back to work, I thought of leaving them with just plain color. But, I got quite a bunch of new nail colors for my birthday and Christmas and feel it is such a waste to not try them.

So here's my New Year nails!




Base is Dior Exquis 611 (Christmas Edition)
Lines : OPI Muppettes series - Designer...de Better
Dots : OPI Muppettes series - Warm & Fozzie

By the way, I will not post up any theme for Friday Fingers this week. Kinda tight with the school re-opening. Will continue the week after.

*nail hug*