Monica's Nails

 

Daisies on nude! Never gets old, pretty much as timeless as French Manis. These are Monica's nails! and I love her nail polish! The base coat is hers, and it's peel-able. We were joking around and she said that if she can somehow peel a whole entire piece off, she'll send me a pic! It would be pretty cool if it worked.. and knowing me, I'd go out immediately to buy some peel-able polish to try it out myself. 

Okay back to the mani. As you can see, not all the daisies are white! There are yellow ones, peach ones, glitter ones, and red ones, because making them all white for every nail would be a little overdrawn, so by splitting up the colors, it looks more delicate and intricate I guess?

And here's Monica! I worked with her for a large part of my internship, and she always made these super neat diagrams that made understanding so much easier. As a scribbler who always writes extra extra notes on the side of everything, I aspire to one day be as neat as her!

Zi Hui's Nails

Aw I love this :). Zi Hui and Apple chose the colors together I think, so the next day, I just painted on the daisies! Her nail shape is so adorbs and the white flowers are so innocent and cute on top!

Here's Zi Hui! Told you the nails fits her look :)

French + Cartoon Nails

One of the highlights of my 2 weeks of interning was bringing in nail polish to do everyone's nails! It's great practice for me, since they're all so creative, with colors and designs, so it kind of pushes me to the max in concentrating and keeping my brush steady. Plus, proportions are not my thing.
For April, she asked for something cute and cartoony to show her nieces and nephews. So of course, the optimum choices are Spongebob and Adventure Time! However, she's starting a new job in a few days, so for her dominant hand, we did a glittery french mani, so when she shakes someone's hand or takes out a pen to write something, her nails won't be so conspicuous! :)

 Similar to the Skinny French Nails I did earlier this month. I really love this base color because it's the perfect color for any skin tone, plus glitter makes everything betterrrrrrr.


The cartoons part! Spongebob was so much harder than I thought! I had to first draw big black dots for the eyes, then white on top, then blue for the pupils and black again for the center. So 7 layers of polish in all for the eyes... it looked like they were popping out!!
Patrick's a bit small, so when I tried drawing the eyes, I realized that there wasn't enough room, so poor Patrick has no mouth!
Finn and Jake were fun to draw, although I don't think I improved much from painting this on Winnie's nails here.

Closeup for Spongebob

Hi April (:

The Hello Kitty Sticker Experiment Nails

The reason for this being an "experiment" is that I never use stickers and I don't really like Hello Kitty. However, the stickers were too cute and they glow in the dark! And the rose the ROSE. Adorable. 

I felt like using too much pink would take attention away from the stickers and using too much glitter would be overwhelming in cuteness. But maybe it would look better with other colors. Any suggestions?

Skinny French Nails

I personally think this looks better, especially if you're doing a French mani on your natural nails. The thin white tip makes your nails look longer and it looks quite elegant :) Plus, it's a lot easier to paint on!

Please comment if you would like the polish names! The white's from OPI, but the nude glitter is hidden somewhere in my little freezer box.

In Celebration of Going to Club Med Bintan

How do you prep for something that you know will be absolutely amazing? I channel my excitement to nail polish :) If I didn't, I'd just be a hyperactive bouncy ball.

Initially, I ended my nail art with a few beachy oceany and safari-ish gradients with an elephant split on two nails.

Here's a closeup. The elephant outline was harder than I thought... but I like how the green gradient turned out. It isn't perfectly smooth, so it kind of looks like you're staring out into the forest without your glasses.

Closeup on the elephant. Is it hard to tell that it's an elephant? Btw, we didn't go ride elephants, because we didn't want to leave the resort. That's how nice the resort was :) Also the trip out to the elephant park was pretty pricey and insurance didn't cover us.

  

The gradients looked like it was missing something, so I used a shiny white from The Face Shop to draw some subtle decorative swirls on it.

A few photos of our trip :) I went with 5 other friends. I didn't go alone on my senior trip =__= but these are only of me because I didn't ask for their permission to put up photos of them.

See my nails? Bars everywhere. Mocktails ftw.

Trapeze! Highlight of the trip, seriously. It was so scary but exciting at the same time, and oh look there's Danny, one of my favorite GOs hanging out in the back (:

The massage room. Honeymoon suite with my wifey ;) 

And the view from the massage room. Yeah. Be jealous. 

My happy after-massage face :D After the massage, they brought us to this outdoors room and gave us tea to let us relax before we left! 

The beautiful beautiful private beach.

On our last night, there was a trapeze show, and all of the tables and food were moved outside for us to enjoy dinner at the pool while watching the show. The perfect ending.

We couldn't stand leaving, so we stopped by the beach the next morning.

Sighh just looking at these photos make me want to go back!

Adventure Time Nails

I REGRET NOT TAKING MORE PHOTOS. But I painted this right after I left Taiwan to go on my senior trip to Bintan Island (it was beautiful, wonderful, amazing, all of those good words) and so I didn't have much time to camwhore my sister's nails. So all I have is this slightly blurry photo with Princess smackdab in the front and poor Jake and Finn and the snail that appears every episode looking shaky. Also, just keep in mind that this was before I cleaned all the excess polish on the cuticles/edges of fingers off!

Thumb: Rainbow

Index: Princess Bubblegum

Middle: Jake

Ring: Finn

Pinky: Snail