Sunday, November 28, 2010

Creating Christmas nail art is very easy and fun too

Creating Christmas nail art is very easy and fun too. The most popular nail designs for this holiday are Christmas tree, bells, wreaths, gift bows, candy canes, snowflakes and Santa clause face. All these designs are perfect to express spiritual feelings and add a festive flare to any beautiful outfit.



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Use of glitzy stones, sparkling crystals, colorful pearls, with bright nail colors is also a hot trend. This ultimate art is known as embellished nail art. Embellished nail art is always on top of the list when it comes to most popular nail art trends.

Nail art design gives the perfect finishing to any holiday outfit. With Christmas festival fast approaching, women are looking out for some exclusive nail designs. Best way to jazz up nails for Christmas day is to use characters that are associated with this fun holiday. In fact, there are lots of options available in terms of design and colors in Christmas nail art trend.

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A walking Christmas tree! A set of Christmas nail chips in a strong festive red. Look at those tiny, delicate frost patterns!

This one is red with bells, something you can do on your wedding day

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This one has a sort of Christmas feel to it.

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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Sooooo psyched

I'm really sick of studying and worrying about my exam tomorrow, so I decided to take another break and blog :P. Today's post is another notd from the vault - I've been dabbling back into nail art the past couple of days and found my skills have deteriorated greatly. I got so annoyed at my failed attempts I just slapped some polish on, hated it, removed it, found my stained nails a sore to look at, and slapped another polish on. In summary, the past few days have not been good polish days. Hence a notd from the vault. Anyway, enough ranting ^^.

I found this polish quite appropriate since it reflects my mood. I am extremely excited for my exams to finally be over and so here is Essie's Sew Psyched. Ok, bad pun :P.
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Shown is two coats of Sew Psyched. I love that this is yet another dusty, muted green shade. I'm not great at identifying greens, so I'll just take the description Essie provides, the polish is a "Cashmere-soft sage pewter". This polish if from their Fall Collection 2010 and I'm absolutely in love with it. I'm loving these muted shades and just can't get enough of them.

If you haven't already, check out my giveaway here!

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Absence

Hi everyone,

i've been really busy lately that i didn't manage to create any post at all. i'm so sorry. i've also been experiencing that thing that they call as Artist block. my mood in doing nail art isn't present yet. i'm very very very sorry but with enough rest and relaxation, i'll be back in motion soon. love yah guys muah

Monday, November 22, 2010

Parlez-vous OPI?

I was in a crème mood when choosing a nail polish for my last manicure, so I decided to try out my latest OPI purchase. Parlez-vous OPI? is everything a polish should be - pretty much opaque in one coat and an absolute pleasure to apply. Not only is the polish a beauty to behold, it also applied really, really well. For a purple lover, this is pure purple bliss; this is definitely now my go-to-purple-polish :D. I adore the dusty purple shade a lot. I'm also now on a mission to find more dusty shades for my collection. Currently, I own two - Sinful Colors' Vela and this one ^^.

This beauty is two coats; two smooth, brilliant coats.
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Despite the beautiful shade though, I found the crème a tad boring after a day, so I decided to layer on a coat of Nubar 2010. First photo is in the sun while the second one is taken indoors under natural light. Mmm, flakies!
parlez-vous opi with Nubar 2010 (sunlight)

parlez-vous opi with Nubar 2010 (indoors, natural light)
And a macro shot of it.
parlez-vous opi with Nubar 2010 (macro)
Don't forget to check out my giveaway here!

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Glorious Gloria

Lame title, but I like alliterations :P.

Today's NOTD is a wonderful polish from Zoya's recent Flame Collection. I'm really in love with this polish and it's such a beauty, especially under the sun ^^. Gloria is a pretty, medium red jelly polish with gold flecks suspended in it. Prepare for some pic spamming! :P

Here are two coats of Zoya Gloria with non chip top coat under the sun. Look at the beautiful gold flecks peeking through the polish!
Gloria - sun
In the photos below, you can have a better look at the brilliant gold flecks in the polish. I'm in love with it, I am ♥.
Gloria - bottle pic

Gloria - macro
I also realise that I haven't done much nail art recently and believe me, I'm itching for it. Unfortunately, I still have two more exams to go and I feel guilty enough already when I turn to polishing my nails (and blogging!) for procrastination ^^;;. My last exam's on the 27th though, so I'll be delving back into nail art shortly! Oh, and check out my giveaway here, if you haven't done so already!

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Friday, November 19, 2010

Giveaway win ^^

Just a quick post before I hit the books again - I'm currently in the middle of exams and really shouldn't be blogging, but hey, procrastination strikes and here I am :P.

I was recently informed that I won a giveaway over at Gilded Nails' blog ^^. These sort of things never happen to me, I never win any contests or raffles or anything in real life, so I was pretty over the moon when I received my package.

 Left to right:
China Glaze - Mummy may I?
Nubar - Nubar 2010
Orly - Fiesta
BYS - Cracked finish red, Fatal attraction
Ulta3 - Wild berrry
le beauty - #76
Alrighty, now I need to return to my study hole :(. Don't forget to enter my giveaway here.

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Ulta3 - Watermelon

Taking a break from polish received in the mail and coming back to good old Aussie polish :). I have today a NOTD from last week, which was extremely hot and summer like btw, and influenced my choice of nail polish :P.

Ulta3's Watermelon is a salmon-y coral shade and totally ideal for a summer manicure. Shown is two coats plus Non-chip top coat.
While Watermelon was nice to apply to begin with, I found that it grew more and more gluggy over time. I'm not sure if it was because it was such a hot day and it affected the polish or what. Still, it's a lovely shade and I'm willing to tackle the thicker formula again for another summery manicure haha.

Don't forget to enter my giveaway here!

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Harlow + top coat = ....

You get a glorious, fan-spanking-tastic result. I decided last minute to see what Harlow would look like with a top coat on it and I'm not regretting that decision at all. (You can see the original matte polish here.) Absolutely yummy. Can you see that shimmer or what?!
So what do you think, matte or glossy? Honestly, despite how the polish just comes to life with the top coat, I'm leaning more to the matte side. Mostly because I find it matches my skin tone better :).

Don't forget to enter my giveaway here if you haven't already.

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Aniverasry Manicure

Hello My Sweet Nail-Art Lovers
Here is my recent hand painted manicure that i did for our 3 years aniversary. Oh, what a wondeful day we had yesterday . In the morning we went to the SPA salon to get a massage, pedicure and facial for me. And after somerest late rin evening went out for dinner to papadaux.
I hope you ll like manicure, ad also a picture from the dinner.

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Trend Manicure For a Week

Hello My Sweet Nail-Art Lovers
JUst a quick post to share manicure i amde today for next work week. I would give it a 4 out of 5, but i think it still looks nice.
I promiss to make more stamping manis, i know i didnt stamp in a long while, but just cold not quit playing with my new paint.
So anyway let me know whta do you think about this manicure and be prepared for big event - a nice holiday contest is comming up here- at my Nail Art world blog, as soon as i get the prizes in my mail. Have a great week. Your L.
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Trend Coppery Fall

Trend Coppery Fall
Apologies for disappearing, fellow nail art lovers. October kind of got away from me in a big way, and I dropped the ball here. But things are back to normal now, more or less and should be from here on out. Ready for more nail art? Me too. :-)

Trend Coppery Fall
Last week after all the Halloween hoopla, I decided a lighter fall manicure was in order. I started off with two coats of Zoya "Penny" over Zoya's Anchor base coat (above). Then I went over the tips with Zoya "Kalima", which is a gorgeous bright orange copper color. I really love these two polishes together...

Trend Coppery FallYou know I can't resist bling...so I dug out some yellow rhinestones, and outlined the smile line with them on my thumb, plus added one more to the tip. I decided the smile line was too much, so I just placed one stone in the point of the other nails. All stones were set in one coat Zoya Armor top coat.

Trend Coppery FallThen I sealed it with two more coats of top coat, which you may note bubbled a bit. My top coat is old...I sense a nail supply order in my near future...

Monday, November 15, 2010

My first Zoya!

Since it was such a cloudy day yesterday, I decided to play safe and chose a matte polish to try first. And it was no disappointment at all! :D Behold, Zoya's Harlow.
Unfortunately, my camera wasn't able to capture this shade properly so I had to edit the photo a bit to show this wonderful magenta/berry polish. Shown is two coats of Harlow and obviously no top coat. I did find the polish dried really quickly and I guess that's both a pro and con depending on how you look at it, but I think once I get used to it, it won't be too much of a problem. Now I can't wait to try out my other Zoyas :P.

Don't forget to enter my giveaway here.

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Nail mail!

And who doesn't love them? :P

A little over a week ago, I went on an ebay shopping spree and the polishes finally arrived today. I'm exaggerating slightly though, shipping only took a week ^^;;. On the spree, I decided to kill a few of my Zoya lemmings and also got myself a hold of a flakey polish. Yes, flakey!!! I was super excited for this package to arrive :).

The first photo is taken in natural light indoors and the following two with flash - apparently the sun will not be hanging around much this week :(.
ebay haul

Essie - Sew Psyched
Nubar - Nubar 2010
OPI - Parlez-vous OPI? and  Lincoln Park after dark suede
ebay haul2

Zoya - Harlow, Crystal, Valerie, Tiffany, Gloria, Edyta
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I can't wait to try these polishes out, but I think I may wait for the sun to reappear so I can wear these in their fullest glory! :D

If you haven't already, enter my giveaway here :).

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Saturday, November 13, 2010

My entry for Tara's Nailart Contest

Hi everyone,

i joined Tara's nailart contest, well actually it's a giveaway but to break the ice she made it a nail art contest and 3 lucky winners will be chosen after a week. if you think i'm worthy enough to win please do vote for be but you must be a follower first so that your votes will be counted. here's my entry
i call it "SANTA TURNS GRAY"

Friday, November 12, 2010

Nail art #19 - Lights go on again

It's really been awhile since I've done some nail art - I blame this mostly on hectic Uni business, but I've also be really, really uninspired. However, the Korean boy band B2ST recently released a music video called 'Lights go on again' and I absolutely adore the smartly dressed suit concept ♥. Of course I had to do a mani on that, hehe.
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I started off with three coats of Ulta3's Lily white as the base for my thumb, third and fourth fingers. I then used Maybelline NY's Electric blue for the heart and outlined it with Ulta3's Snazzle. For the suit jackets and bowties I used Ulta3's Black satin and Snazzle for the buttons. On my index and pinky I applied two coats of an Arezia polish which is nameless. It's a black base saturated with yellow glitter particles. I bought this polish in Hong Kong earlier this year and is also the cause of my infatuation with nail polish :P.

The Arezia polish represents the lights and obviously the suits are straight from their concept. Midnight blue happens to be their balloon colour, hence the blue heart <3.

The image which inspired my nails (screen shot of the mv which you can watch here)~
And a macro shot of the Arezia polish
Don't forget to enter my giveaway here!

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Candy Apple

Ugh, I'm still in the middle of finishing an assignment. Again, taking a break to post some glorious red polish :). I am gradually starting to like red polishes more and more. I have for you today Maybelline NY's Candy Apple and have been wearing it for the past couple of days.
Shown is two coats of Candy Apple and a top coat. This deep red jelly polish was surprisingly opaque in one coat, but I went with two coats out of habit.

Check out my giveaway here, if you haven't already.

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Monday, November 8, 2010

Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend


Hey Y'all! This design is an entry to Mr.NailDude's Moulin Rouge nail art contest. It is inspired by the costume Nicole Kidman wore in her 1st performance. I tried to make it as close to the original costume as possible.

To create the look I used black acrylic mixed with black glitter, silver holographic glitter mix acrylic, silver holographic starts, black tulle and silver mini beads. Hope you enjoy the design!