Teaser: LEOPARDIZED

After a long while, I finally had the adequate time and the perfect mood to paint some nail art again. A friend is requesting for me to paint leopard prints on her nails. I have never tried doing leopard before, so I practiced on my own nails first. Realized it was easier than I thought!

I'll be posting an EASY PHOTO TUTORIAL for this (when I have more time to splurge), so I hope you wait for it, read it, try it, and share with me a photo of your leopard nails, too! I'll be preparing a prize for the best one. ;)

That's all for now.
Hope you like it, 'cause I do. A lot! Hehe :D

Share me your thoughts!


Love,

Minions On My Nails. BANANAAAA!

Hello, sweeties!

I've been M.I.A. lately because of school; I'm trying to control and discipline myself especially when it comes to Facebook-ing and basically anything in the cyberworld. You know how it is, guys, right? The web is a black hole that sucks you deep in -- without you even noticing. So yeah, I super-minimize my internet use on weekdays and just catch-up on weekends.

Anyways, that's the reason why this post is already two weeks late. I made & wore this nail design two weeks ago when I was kind of in a need to relieve some stress and thinkings. I was originally planning to try to make a creative and uncommon French Manicure, but I decided to do this instead. 

Come and sing with me now. 5-6-7-8!

BA-BA-BA BA-BANANA,  BA-BA-BA BA-BANANA

BANANAAAAAAAAAA! POTATO-NAAAAAAAA!

They really served their purpose -- relieve me of stress. Everytime I look at my nails, there would be this certain explosion of fun and happiness, so it really helped. Plus, I got a lot of compliments from my friends and even from strangers! Guards, fastfood cashier, registration assistants, and basically just anyone! I bet my nails loved all the attention they got. :))

Moving on, I know this is just tooooo cute so I would like to share with you a quick tutorial on how to do it. Sorry if I couldn't manage to do video tutorials yet, but I'd try to make time for it, okay? ;)

STEP 1:

Clean your nails & shape them any way you want. I shaped my nails squoval since I thought it would be best for the minions' body. Afterwards, apply a base coat/nail hardener (NOTE: this is important to avoid having your nails stained, and of course so you could protect them). 

STEP 2:

Apply a bright lemon yellow polish. I, however, didn't have such color of nail polish so I just used an acrylic paint of the same hue.

STEP 3:

Paint the tips with blue polish or acrylic paint, and then stripe some black paint across (to serve as the goggles' strap).

STEP 4:

Draw the details! :D

Sorry if I wasn't able to take photos of the nitty-gritty details -- I FORGOT! I was so focused on drawing 'em, that's why. I was just using a standard watercolor brush because I don't have nail art brushes yet, so it's really hard especially when drawing small details such as the teeth and stuff.

STEP 5:

FLAUNT YOUR NAILS AND MAKE EVERYONE SING BANANAAA! :)

Here are more photos (because I just couldn't get enough of 'em):

Like it? :)
Let me know when you get to try your own Minions Nails, okay?


Love lots,

Manicure Mondays: UNION JACK (with a girly twist!)

Hello, sweeties! I'm back with a Nail Art Post!

Still can't get enough of my new BornPrettyStore Acrylic Colour Set, so I tried out a new nail design immediately after removing my Flores de Mayo-inspired Nails! I wanted some fun & girly blues and pinks, and this is what I came up with.

Here are some photos while I was doing the nail design:

So what do you think? ;)
Btw, classes are soon to resume so I hope I can still find time to make nail arts and post them here. Heehee.

Love lots,

REVIEW: Born Pretty Store Acrylic Colour Set

Acrylic Colour Set from Born Pretty Store. View it here:
http://www.bornprettystore.com/tubes-nail-paint-acrylic-color-paints-pigment-p-3446.html

Born Pretty Store is an international manufacturer and seller of nail art products at very affordable prices. They also offer Cosmetic Products, Jewelry & Accessories, Toys, and a lot more. They offer FREE Worldwide Shipping and they have lots of discounts, freebies, and promos, too!


They shipped this 12-Color Nail Acrylic Paint Set out to me last April 26, and they told me that it would reach me after 2-4 weeks. I was able to get the package by May 15 (that's roughly 3 weeks after BPS shipped it out), although the slip from the Central Post Office tells me that it arrived there on May 10 (that's 2 weeks after!). So yes, I could say that they are prompt when it comes to shipping. I'm used to waiting for two weeks (or more) for international deliveries, but this one has been the fastest international transaction I had so far. 


Moving on to the review, let me show you some more photos first. :)