[Just Colour] Red Sandwich Technique

This manicure was done right before I left Canada, so that was like 2-3 months ago.

[Nail Arts] Purple X Gold Dropping

It supposed to be my Halloween manicure, but it turns out in another way.

[Stamping] Lime Candy

Vancouver is getting hotter those days, and I cannot wait to enjoy the summer!

[Nail Arts] Colour Cluster X Silver Tape!

An extremely challenge manicure for people without patience !

[Nail Arts] Tropical Oranges

Vancouver is getting hotter, I am really for summer!

[Nail Arts] Bejewelled Russian Navy Blue

Something simple and easy?

[Nail Arts] St. Patty's Day Nails

 I always wonder what St. Patrick's day is about, and people answer me "It's an Irish thing!", yes, but why St. Patrick's? Why we celebrate that in Canada?

Anyway, even though I don't really celebrate St. Patty's day, I still make a nail art for it! Just to get into a festive mode!

[Nail Arts] First Attempt for Nail Tapes

I ordered some nail tapes/strips in e-bay back in December as my Christmas gift to myself.  I have seen many other great bloggers did their nail strips. They are absolutely eye-catching!!!  I learned fast enough that this is only applied if you DID IT CORRECTLY lol.

I didn't expect the strips are so hard to work with. It is very easy to catch on hairs! It's not easy to cut the length that fits your nail perfectly.  It is also very easy to mess up!

I ended up doing something looks very simple, but took a long time for me to do this!

The colour is Ciate Headliner from my mini calender set.  I was thinking to create something TIFFANY-LIKE.  I didn't own any colour close enough to that famous Tiffany blue tho! (Later on I discovered I actually did.  I traded with a girl and I had Julep-Daphne, it's too late! such a bad owner!).


Anyway, it's the result:

I have to say, headliner is very very pretty by itself! I love a lot of Ciate colours!

Don't underestimate this simple nail art, it took me a long time and I wasted a lot of tapes!

I love this nail art a lot! Simple and elegant!

I am very sad that this only lasts for a day. I didn't apply the tapes properly, the ends pop up the very next day. This lesson teaches me that strips have to be done with caution, otherwise it won't look good and last long!

What do you think? I am wondering if anyone purchase the ciate minis too! They are sosososososo pretty!  I will never pay for their regular nail polishes, so expensive! But some minis will last me for a decade!

[Nail Arts] Purple Snow Flakes

Christmas past already, but I am just started to be in the mood.  I have been cooking too much recently without time and energy to do nails.  Augh, my school is going to start in few days and I don't feel I am ready for it yet.  Who's vacation is ever long enough tho? Haha

Anyway, I try to do a more unusual colour design for Christmas manicures, because I am so tried of red/green/silver combos.  I am also eager to try the new Essie I just recently received :D !!

Here is what I used:

Essie-Where's My Chauffeur?

Ciate Mini-Ladylike Luxe

 3 coats of Where's My Chauffeur?. I know my cuticle looks very bad, it was caused by intensive cooking and housework. I know that they look bad :(

I would say that this colour itself is not very Christmasy, probably more suit for the summer.

I used Ladylike Luxe doing some random touches!

 I actually prefers that gold sparkles to be little bit sheer, but it is ok.

Here is the final product. I used purple acrylic paint to do some snowflakes.  Originally I was going to use white, but I noticed that I haven't opened the purple tube in the set and would like to see the colour :) Sigh, this is not the best snowflakes tho.

I recently ordered a much better nail art brushes and paints, I hope that they will arrive soon!

If the purple can be lighter, it will stands out more for sure!

Well, I haven't used Essie for a while and I did make some mistakes when applying the nail polish.  I ashamed to say that this simple manicure took me about 2.5 hours to do just because I mess up.  Other than that, I enjoyed it.

What do you think about it?

[Nail Arts] Newspaper Prints

I long to try this technique for a long time, but I also have other endless designs on my "next-try" list! I saw this on a YouTube half year ago. I think it is a very cute idea AS LONG AS you can find a 'right colour' for the base. I guess that this won't look good with a bright pink base colour for sure.

I am using my new Ciate mini bottle from the advent calender set, the colour is called 'Cookies and Cream' ! A light gray creme colour which does not catch my eye in the first place. But this is really nice tho!
WARNING: This set is super adorable! Though I did not follow the numbers on the advent set at all.
I bet that I cannot test all of them before Christmas.

I did not do a prefect job on transferring the newspaper print onto the nails. But it won't look too terrible since newspaper is always a little bit "messy".

I run into a little bit trouble when applying Ciate's cookies and cream. The bottle  got a shaky brush. But I do not have this problem with other Ciate minis so far. Weird.

Also, my Seche topcoat is getting sticky. I need a new one soon! 

Overall, I am still quite satisfied!

What do you think?