Saturday, June 22, 2013

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



Saturday, May 25, 2013

Stained Glass French Tip Nails

So this was a hard one to come up with a name for. My mom thought of a stained glass when she saw it, but the "stained glass" only appears on the tip, like a french tip, so there you go! This one isn't too hard, but you might want to practice drawing lines! (Yeah, I know, I need some practice too.)
The key to this design is really just choosing colors! I love teal, so I always go with teal, since I have the widest selection of blues and greens, and the white just made the colors pop a little. Enjoy the tutorial :)

1. Choose some base colors that match! Don't be afraid to take a risk, because you can MAKE the colors match by altering the french tip.. or maybe it'll look good clashy. Don't forget the base coat to protect your nails, then put on the base color, then draw some black lines across. If they're messy, it's okay, because  you get a second chance later when you go over them again in step 3.
2. Use the colors that you used for base colors + some other colors for the glass part of the "stained glass". I prefer using brighter colors, so I added in yellow and mint green.
3. Redraw the horizontal black line, try to be as straight as possible! And draw in vertical lines to straighten out the colors.
4. Draw a fun design on your ring finger! Of it you want to do stained glass tips for all of them, do that!
5. LET IT DRY, then use top coat. Sech Vite <3 smoothed out all the bumps. But I did it too early, so the black got smudged :( Guys, learn from my mistakes.


Please comment below if you want any specific names of polishes :)
hint hint: if your brush isn't thin enough, cut off some of the bristles on the side! 


Tiffy's Prom Nails

Somehow, we finished under 30 minutes! I used Revlon for the blue base and a silver polish I got at Watson's; a nice and simple to match Tiffany's dress and jewelry for prom. On each finger, there are 2 feathery lines and a silver flower with a blue glitter for the middle. the blue glitter is from The Face Shop. On the thumb, I put a little twist on it, as you can see (:.


Tiffy, your nails are so small so qq!

with the whole outfit :)
^ Allll creds to... ionno Tiff's mom? 

I just had to add this in, too cute, and credits to Daryl Tong! 

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Found this on 9gag

Gurl, Check out my nails.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Daisies on Nude and Gold Polish

My favorite flowers are blue daisies, but white daisies and pretty too! This is kind of a mature look, especially since the ruddish nude color + nude just produces that kind of feel to it, but the daisies bring them back to life! and all you need is a small dotter and some normal cheapo striper brushes. Hinthint-winkwink-nudgenudge: Try cutting some of the hairs off the brush to make it thinner, if you think it's too thick

Teal and Magenta set of fingernails and toenails

Simple, just a stripe but they're super cute! Makes you look twice and sort of go like wtf? My sister thought my nails cracked in half =__=

I love gradients.

Last Spring Fair

These are the nail art designs I prepared to paint for the kids at Spring Fair. Surprisingly, the biggest challenge was not keeping the still. It was finding a way to paint long bunny ears on tiny tiny nails!

So Cute B)

While the kids are waiting for you to paint the other hand, they might lean over and their heads might accidentally cover their nails. Or they might fidget and their other hand gets ruined. So genius Heejo told them to blow lightly on their nails!

I've had these customers every fair!! Love them :) They grew up so much!! The older sister had mint green with brown bears and the little sister had strawberries (again~)

Her twin is right behind her!!! This girl has the most beautiful eyes, I swear.

Look at this cute!!! How could you resist!!! She and the girl on the photo right before this are sisters!!! What a freaking beautiful family. I told their mom that her kids were beautiful hahaha don't know if she was creeped out or flattered...

Tina's first customer, I believe! Sososo cute, and of course, the nails turned out great because Tina is an awesome artist (+perfectionist!)

I'm going to miss Spring Fair so much!! Even though we're always swamped and many of my polishes and brushes are ruined by the end of the day, getting to interact with little kids and see them happily wave goodbye while protecting their freshly painted nails is ALL WORTH IT. Makes me want to open up a kiddie salon actually!