I’m extremely busy right now with daily hangouts from my various group of friends. I’d probably get busier by September and don’t know when I’ll be able to post again. A few months back, I bought a lot of Etude House and The Face Shop Nail polishes. The colors are so unique that I opt ot make a swatch from each. Below are the swatches for the polishes in case you haven’t bought it yet. Also, I noticed that Etude Polishes have big thick brushes.
Products: Etude House LUCIDarling #3 – Shimmering Mocha Brown
Etude House LUCIDarling #4
The Face Shop PP409
Etude House LUCIDarling #4 – Shimmering Mocha Brown
Wonder Girls is my all time favorite kpop female idols. I know all of their songs except that I can’t sing it properly. I know how to read Korean but I still need more development in that area. Anyways, I found this cute french manicure on Lim’s twitter and thought of sharing it to you guys. ^_^
Two days out of the blue. I’m speeding up my uploaded videos for the meantime. I still got a lot of filmed tutorials yet to share with you guys. Yes, I’m in a hurry to post everything I have my on PC, I don’t know when I’ll be able to upload the moment I go to Manila. I’ll be staying there for 2 weeks and still don’t know what’ll happen next. I missed months uploading videos so I’m trying to catch up. ^_^
Among all the color variations, pastel is my favourite. It is made of light colors which I find cute, so baby-ish and girlish..lols.. Enjoy my pastel colored Nail Art tutorial with a zebra print.
LA Colors Art Deco-Gold Glitter II LA Colors Art Deco-Black Sparkles II Etude House VIP Girl GR605 II Etude House VIP Girl YL802 II Etude House CGR701 II Etude House COR202 II The Face Shop PK103 II The Face Shop PP401 II Caronia
LA Colors Art Deco-Gold Glitter II LA Colors Art Deco-Black Sparkles II Etude House VIP Girl GR605 II Etude House VIP Girl YL802 II Etude House CGR701 II Etude House COR202 II The Face Shop PK103 II The Face Shop PP401 II Caronia
Recently, 2NE1 came back with another hit “I love You” single. Kpop idols are known from their beautiful nails aside from their fashionable hairstyles. I always saw 2NE1 wearing a black nail polish especially their leader CL. Aside from that, they mostly wear 3D Nail Arts or fake nails. Luckily, Minzy wore a simple nail art anybody could make. She wore a black and red nails with white 3D flowers.
I haven’t used acrylic powders or UV gels and stuff so I substitute it with a white nail polish. Click on the video to learn more. ^_^
2NE1 Minzy “I love you” MV
Products Used: The Face Shop RD302 II The Face Shop BK901 II LA Colors Art Deco-Black Sparkles II LA Colors Art Deco-Gold Glitter II Etude House WH702 II Dotting Tool II Toothpick
The 2nd polish I’ll present is one of my fave polishes in my collection. I love the color pink especially if it’s paired with purple. I find pink and purple the best ombre combination. This one is from The Face Shop, a holographic shimmery hotpink color. As I apply it on my nails, it shows a purple glossy with small pink-ish glitters texture. I love how it reflects lights and shines…
I’ve been invited to a wedding last month with a royal blue theme. Everyone’s requested to wear something that has a touch of royal blue. I was excited since I have couple of royal blue nail polishes. I want to wear something simple and matches the bold royal blue color so I came up with a glitter gradient effect. Simplicity is beauty.
Ombre nails is a summer trend that I don’t think would die out soon. Ombre nails are created through the gradient effect which can be done in two ways. The first one is by sponge method where you dipped the sponge in the polish of your choice and slowly dub it on top of the existing polish on your nails of different color. The second one is simply using the nail art brush, gradually minimizing the area as you put in another coat. It’s doing the half of your nails, then 1/4th of your nails.
I’ll also be teaching or encouraging you rather to utilize the foil method in taking off glitters. Nothing is harder when it comes to nail art than removing hard-to-get glitters. Removing it with a regular nail polish remover might take you forever especially if it’s acetone free.
What is an acetone?
Acetone is a clear, harsh-smelling and highly flammable liquid. It’s a solvent, capable of disintegrating even plastic. This explains why it works so quickly breaking apart and removing your nail polish. Isopropyl alcohol is typically used in the making of acetone. – more here
Nail Polish with acetone is stronger in chemicals and easily gets off the polishes on your nails. Non-acetone is an acid free nail polish remover. It is a safer acid free alternative than acetone to remove nail polish while being gentler on the cuticle. There’s no negative effect on nails if you’re going to use pure acetone. Using non-acetone takes a lot more time than using the pure-acetone.
Personally, I only use Pure-acetone nail polish removers. I’ve tried the non-acetone one and it barely takes off the polish on my nails without doing it a few more times. Plus, it’s time consuming and wastes a lot of cottons. A pure acetone nail polish remover takes off polish easily but when it comes to glitters it loses its purpose. When I used the Foil method, I realized how hassle free it is. I’ll just have to wait around 5 mins. and the glitters are gone!
Products Used: Etude House Dear Darling Nails WH020 II The Face Shop BL607 II Etude House Wannabe Perfumed Syrup Nails-Sparkling Silver II Caronia
Step 1: Cut 10 pieces of square sized aluminum foil that fits your entire nails.
Step 2: Soak the cotton in acetone and place it on top of your whole nails. Ensure that all sides are covered.
Step 3: Wrap the foil around your finger with the cotton still on top of your nails. Wait for 5 mins and remove it. (tighten foil wrapped around your fingers so the glitters would stick on the cotton)
Step 4: Wash your nails, then moisturize. Acetone dries out your nails so you need to moisturize it.
In case there are still glitters left, I just rub them off with the remover. 98% of the glitters stick to the cotton so you need to clean it again. This method is not the quickest way but surely is the easiest way!
Done editing a video tutorial on nail art and removing glitters! I’m gonna spam my blog for now about my pinterest picks for the day. We’re just two weeks aways before September arrives and the whole town would be covered with Christmas Decors. It would be exciting to wander around the malls and streets at night seeing the beautiful christmas lights and listening to christmas songs.. oops, been talking a lot about christmas, sorry! Fall and winter fashion are slowly emerging on pinterest which only means Christmas Season is almost here. Meanwhile, enjoy my pinterest pics for today! (and the kimchi I cooked)
Kimchi fried rice with egg I cooked for dinner tonight!
My dream nail art collection
I LOVE the COLOR!! I wonder when I’d be able to sport this kind of hairstyle.. this is my dream haircolor!
getting ready for fall fashion
I want my hair to curl like this ^_^
I really need this right now. A quote for my dream
The nail art tutorial I posted today is inspired by Wonder Girl’s Yenny/Park Ye Eun. She’s one of the lead vocalist of famous Korean girl group Wonder Girls. Literally, I call myself a Wonderful, Wonder Girls fans since I never get to registered as an official member. I love Korean Pop music and every time I get a glimpse of Idol’s nails, I try my best to make it so that everyone out there can have it too!
Wonder Girls topped my list of favourite girl idol groups in Korea. I subbed to their youtube channel to keep updated, watch their live performances and sing their songs. I got extremely excited the moment I saw Yenny sporting a yellow with a black French manicure. It’s the first nail art I had since I started to grow out my nails. I’ve been into accent nails the past months because of my short nails. The tutorial is easy so hope everyone can do it!
Video where I saw her with the nail art:
Nail Art Tutorial
Products Used: Etude House – WH702 II Etude House VIP Girl – YL802 II The Face Shop-BK901 II Etude House Party Queen Gradation Nails-Dazzling Gold II Etude House Wannabe Perfumed Syrup nails-Sparkling Silver II Caronia
A quick post before I go to bed tonight. Spent the whole day updating my sites and catching up on fashion and Kpop news. Here’s a few photos from Pinterest that inspired me tonight.
Elegant Purple Dress for Fall!.
I love the turquoise fashion..
Ladies Night Outfit.. Rocks!
This made me laugh! I wonder why Kristen Stewart doesn’t smile a lot!
It’s been a while. It felt like the whole week passed in a snap of a finger! I’ve been gone everyday the whole day not because I’m busy but because I was in the hospital for days looking after my older sister. She’s fine now. I missed surfing around the web looking for inspirations and something to cheer me up. Because of natural disasters I wasn’t able to make my appointments which made me upset. Anyways, it’s Friday! That means weekend is here again! Gotta do another nail art on my nails which I’ll show to guys later. Meanwhile, here’s a few of the awesome photos I find in Pinterest today.
The prettiest ring for today. Reminds me of Games of Thrones series.
I wanna dye my hair like this. Lilac.
pretty colors!
The earrings rock the ring. It’s perfect for pastel colored fashion.
Random Makeup i liked! Sparkly smokey look!
Something to encourage everyone! ^__^ Funny how I liked this pic on pinterest and at the same time listening to Jessie J’s “Who you Are” Perfect pinspiration ^_^
XOXO
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