Fall/Winter Nail Inspirations

Winter has arrived a lot earlier in Sydney this year. In addition to making my jackets and blazers more accessible in my room (i.e. piling them up on a single chair), I have also been playing around with my growing collection of nail polishes and dreaming up of colours to wear on my nails for winter. 


Unfortunately, as I have mentioned before, I don't really have the chance to wear nail polish for a large part of the year because of the nature of my course. Of course, people in my course still wear nail polish but my Asian mentality/upbringing makes me believe that wearing nail polish is not very professional. Anyway, the point is that I actually love wearing nail polish. If I could, I would even wear a different colour every week. 


When I bought an OPI Shatter nail polish during a sale a few days ago, I decided to test it with various nail colours that I have in my stash and... decided to come up with a Fall/Winter nail colour palette as well! So here are the colours that I wish I could wear this winter...

Fall/Winter Nail Palette 2012 

1. Citrus, Ulta
2. Siw, Make Up Store ($1, thrifted = win!)
3. Random Korean nail colour
4. Midnight Fever, Ulta
5. Silver Glitter, Ulta
6. Earl Grey, Ulta
7. Twilight Fever, Ulta
8. Precious, Ulta


I mostly only buy Ulta nail polishes because they're cheap. Just to be clear, the picture above doesn't really do justice to the colours because I took the picture under the light in my room. 


Here's the colours with OPI Shatter nail polish on top. This tiny experiment has allowed me to come to the conclusion that black shatter nail polish only looks good with glittery or bright neon colours underneath. Like, duh huh?

Surprisingly, black shatter nail polish doesn't look great with holographic nail polish...

My favourite combination

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DIY: Polka Dot Nails

I was instantly inspired when I saw this tutorial here a few days ago. This DIY nail design is so easy to do! My polka dots are rather large as I used a plastic knitting needles... That was the nearest thing to me when I wanted to get the 'dotting' done. 


By the way, how lovely is that shade of robin egg blue? 


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bowed down

Doing nail art is fast becoming a quick and easy for me to relax and de-stress. With a bottle of nail polish at an affordable $2 and a mere 5-minute walk from home, I am not surprised that this is the second bottle of nail polish that I've bought in a short span of 2 weeks. 


I need help.

Materials:
Nude nail polish
Clear nail polish
Permanent market


Steps:
1. Apply appropriate layers of nude nail polish.
2. Draw cute little bows using permanent marker. Wait for it to dry.
3. Apply a layer of clear nail polish to seal the ink from the marker.


Oh wait. There's just one problem: I can't draw neat little bows on the nails on my right hand. >_<

The sea, the sea

As school has started, I won't be painting my nails for a long time.

It looks like I scratched a star with my nails

But it's really just manicure.


Note: Please do not follow my blog if you ONLY like the nail art posts because I don't do nail art very often!


Another craft post on Sunday! It's NOT going to be nail art.

Neo Leopard Print Nail

Yes, I am still alive. I haven't been doing much knitting and other crafting lately.


However, I have this recent new obsession with nail art! It all started when I had a sleepover at my friend's and we played with nail polish and nail stickers. The moment that nail sticker was laid on my nail, something in my brain went 'click'. Before I knew it, I have been playing around with different nail designs.

This is the Neo Leopard Print design that I did a week ago. It's really easy to do with this great tutorial here. My friends were not impressed because they felt that I should have used the original colours: brown and beige. But I still like it anyway. :)


Oh, I didn't do it for all my nails because I got lazy after doing 4 of them. I thought this looks good enough to me too. And as you can tell from the pictures above, I am not very neat when painting my nails.