Gong Xi Fa Cai

恭喜发财

身体健康

Happy Chinese New Year Everyone! ^^

I was pretty busy with CNY preparations yesterday 

so I could only do a simple design 

I also painted my aunt's nails for CNY...I'll show you that mani some other time!

For now...NOTD!!

I did a gold and silver gradient using Essie Silken Cord, Glitter Gal Bronze and Glitter Gal Silver!
The chinese character on my thumb nail is 福。

It means happiness or good fortune =)

福

A closer look!!

On an unrelated post!

Here's my outfit for the first day of CNY! ^^

-Please ignore all plushies and soft toys in the background! XD-

I totally love this outfit I got from Singapore!!

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!! 

Have a happy and prosperous new year!!

Cheers!

The giving never stops~

Elo!

I've been experimenting with cherry blossom designs for Chinese New Year!

I'll be posting up a video tutorial for them soon! =)

Gonna be my first video tutorial so I'm pretty excited! 

I hope I can finish and upload it before CNY ends! ^^

For now...let me share with you guys more GIVEAWAYS!
Yes! I said it! More giveaways!

It's not my fault I keep stumbling onto them! =P
I swear I found them all by coincidence! 

There are no extra points for me for blogging these giveaways 

but I thought I'd share them anyway! =)

1. The Nailasaurus Mini Giveaway

Sammy is having a mini giveaway to celebrate her 2500 followers! =)

Congratz girl! 

The prizes?

Left to right:

NYC Prince Street (see it here)

NYC Pier 17 (see it here)

Rimmel Purple Reign (see it here)

NYC Top Coat

(All brand new)

The deadline is 9th February 2012!!

ENTER HERE NOW!! 

2. The Polish Perfectionist New Year Giveaway

Amy is having a giveaway to celebrate the new year! XD

Sadly...I can't enter her giveaway since I live in one of the

 'might not receive package' countries =)

The prize?

Hits No Olimpo collection (from left to right): Hermes, Artemis, Poseidon, Hera, Apolo, Zeus, Hefesto (top coat), Atena, Hestia, Dionísio, Afrodite, Ares & Demeter. The bottles pictured are mine, the winner will receive brand new unopened bottles.

The deadline is on the 28th of January!

GET GOING!!

ENTER HERE!! 

Good Luck to All!

^^

Cheers!

Giveaway Happiness! XD

Hey Everyone!! ^^

I got my parcel from Linda yesterday!! 

Linda from Copythatcopycat had her 700 follower giveaway a while back 

and I won the fourth prize!!! XD

My prize was 3 glitter gals polishes!!! 

I'm super happy and excited since this is the first time I've won a giveaway and I can't get glitter gal where I'm from! >=D

Well! Enough with the words!! 

Let's see some photos!! 

Front view

Back View

2nd Layer

And finally the polishes!! ^^

From left: Bronze, Copper, & Silver

Sooooooo can't wait to try them out!! 

Thank you so much Linda!! 

The pretty glitters will have to wait a while since I've got 

Chinese New Year designs to get to! XD

Cheers!

Tribal Archers

Hey Nail-Addicts! =P
So...I went to the archery range with my friend yesterday! XD

Naturally I did my nails according to the occasion! 

At first, I wanted to do a bow and arrow design but it was an epic failure ><"

so decided to something with the colours of the bullseye! XD

I'm quite happy with how it turned out in the end! 

I had an AWESOME time!! ^^

Although...I was so bad at it that the arrows were flying EVERYWHERE! =P

More reviews and swatches from 

Nail Polish Spree 02 

coming up! 

So stay tuned! 

Cheers!

Essie Winter Mini Collection 2010

你好吗？

Hey peeps!! ^^

As promised! Here are the swatches for the 

Essie Winter Mini Collection 2010 polishes!!

Front View

Side View

Top View

From left: SIlken Cord, Masquerade Belle, Hot Coco, Going Incognito

NOW ON TO THE SWATCHES!!!! XD

First up comes Silken Cord! 

When I first saw the bottle I thought it would be a deep striking red BUT

when I applied it...it turned out to be more of a cherry sort of red! 

The polish is a little darker IRL (in real life)...

In the photo is looks red but with a tint of orange in it! ^^

But it really is a more cherry shade IRL! XD

Next up is Masquerade Belle!

This polish a dark maroon polish! 

This is an absolutely beautiful colour! 

Reminds me of a really ripe cherry! ^^

Hot Coco is a normal taupe polish!

The polish is lighter IRL...

(I'm not sure what else to write since I'm still new at polish reviews...)

The last polish in the Essie Winter Mini Collection 2010 is

Going Incognito!

This is a dark green polish. 

Actually the whole reason I bought the collection was for this polish! 

I had hoped to use this in my Christmas manis but since it wouldn't arrive in time I opted for Sally Hansen's Emerald Green which is a more shimmer type of dark green polish.

You gotta love this polish! ^^

That's the end of the review!! XD

After purchasing the mini set I don't think 

I want to get the normal sized bottles anymore! =P
This is more worth the money but not all the shades 

that I want would be a mini so it really does depend! ^^

More to come! So stay tuned!

Cheers!

Did I miss the giveaway memo or something?

Seriously??!!!
I found ANOTHER giveaway!!! XD

There are so many giveaways now that I have decided to add a giveaway page! XD

Check out it so you guys can enter the giveaways too!! 

The giveaway I found this time is by 

BUNNY NAILS!

She's having the giveaway to celebrate her blog reaching 60+ followers!!! XD

Congratz girl!!! ^^

All the giveaways are making me want to have one too!! ><

She's got nice nails and great free style and konad-ing skills...O.O...

me jealous

Anywayz!! What are you waiting for??!! 

ENTER HER GIVEAWAY NOW!!

HERE!!

Good Luck to All!

Cheers!

Nail Polish Spree 02

Hey guys!!

So! I just got my shipment of nail polish!!! XD

Here's a photo of the polishes!! ^^

From left: Essie Winter Collection 2010, China Glaze First Mate, Wet 'n' Wild Black Creme, Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat, and Seche Restore Nail Polish Thinner! 

I'll be posting up the reviews and swatches for the polishes soon!

o(THIS)o

AND ALSO!

a set of Christmas Polishes from Topshop from my 

Singapore Shopping Trip! =)

From left: Awol, Moonshine, & Remember My Name

Remember to check CRNailz for new posts!! ^^

Cheers!

Burt's Bees Cuticle Balm Review

Hey All!

I've a review for you guys this time! 

Remember how I always say that I need cuticle oil really badly?

WELL I FINALLY GOT ONE!

I surveyed a lot of cuticle oils and balms...and I mean

A LOT!!

I tried L'occitane, Body Shop, Evelyn&Crabtree 

and let's not forget the Mavala cuticle oil!

All of them were either too oily, too smelly or BOTH! 

Then...I finally found THE ONE...

BURT'S BEES CUTICLE BALM

This cuticle balm smells like lemons because it is

LEMON BUTTER CUTICLE CREAM!

It is also not as oily as the other balms =) 

HERE ARE THE EFFECTS!

 A CLOSER LOOK!

It looks so much better right?! ^^

My opinion?

GREAT! 

Definitely recommend it! ^^

To my knowledge it is around RM37 and S$12!

That's all for now!

Cheers!

Surprise Giveaway!

*Beeeeeepppppppp*

If you thought I was the one having the giveaway then you were 

WRONG! XD

After finding Polishology's Giveaway...

I FOUND ANOTHER GIVEAWAY!!!

Nicole from NailPolishWars is having her

250 FOLLOWERS GIVEAWAY!!!

CONGRATULATIONS DEAR!! ^^

She's giving out a ton of awesome stuff!!! XD

The giveaway ends on the 29th of January!!

What are you waiting for??!! 

ENTER HERE NOW!!! 

Cheers!

Mavala Nail Polish Remover Review

A good nail polish remover is a nailpolishaholic's best friend!
My friend recommended this brand to me a couple of years ago 

and I've been using it ever since! XD

Introducing...

MAVALA NAIL POLISH REMOVER!!

There are 2 types of Mavala Nail Polish...

The pink bottle is without acetone while the other is with acetone!

Obviously I like the blue one better since it removes the nail polish more easily!

^^

I would rate this nail polish remover...

9/10!

The minus 1 is because it doesn't really remove glitter that well but

not many removers can...when I find that one that CAN then I'll rate it

10/10!

Actually I ran out of mavala a while ago and when I went to restock...

The horror started! D8

All the stores that I went to were OUT OF STOCK! =(

In the end, I got a couple of bottles during my Singapore trip! XD

It was slightly more expensive but so worth it! 

Phewww! Look out for the next review! ^^

Cheers!

Polishology Giveaway!

There's another giveaway going on!!! 

Jenny from Polishology is having a giveaway for the new year!! ^^


She does awesome swatches and design! Do check her blog out!! XD


The prize is a set of Holiday Glitters from Nicole by OPI!!! XD

The last day to enter is the 20th of JANUARY!!

So hurry up and enter if you haven't done it yet!!! ^^

Good luck to all!

Cheers!

Singapore

Hey everyone!!! I'm finally back to posting after my Singapore shopping trip! 

I got some polishes from Singapore and shall be doing the swatches SOON!

Other than that...MY NAIL POLISH ORDER ARRIVED!! ^^

That means I have MORE colours to swatch for you guys 

and MORE designs to try out! 

There is also the fact that Chinese New Year is coming up!!

I've already got a few designs I'm planning on doing for the occasion!! XD

*excited*

Anywayzzz...I didn't want to go to Singapore with bare nails so I painted something I THOUGHT would last me the week...

it didn't even last 2 days in the end cause of my itchy fingers...=(

Decided to do a blue gradient! =)

Gradients usually last a long while because 

of the glitter unless you do it without glitter XD

I've done a red gradient before...

There it is! XD 

Nails were shorter then! 

Turned out pretty nice especially since I had the shades to do it! XD

Well! That's it for this post! MORE to come!! ^^

Cheers!

Mr. Taxi Taxi Taxi

Hi everyone! XD

So...I went to cheong-K a.k.a. karaoke with my friends that day 

and my friend chose Girl's Generation's Mr. Taxi!

I was inspired from watching the MV so I wanted to try out a Mr. Taxi inspired mani! 

^^

This is the scene I took the first design from

HERE ARE MY NAILS!

I was quite disappointed with this design =(

The only deisgn I liked was on the 4th nail =S

HERE'S THE SECOND DESIGN!

I thought of this design from the first one but....

In the end...I still only liked 1 design and this time it's on my thumb nails 

=(

That's it for this design! 

I'll be in Singapore next week for 5 days so you guys will be post-less till then..

.=(

I plan on visiting Holika Holika when I'm there so look forward to nail polish swatches!! 

There's also Chinese New Year designs to look forward too!!

So bear with this one week ok! ^^

Cheers!

Sleepy~~

This is one of the manis on my 'to-do list' =D

I really wanted to do this mani because i like the 

sleeping Zzzz you always see in cartoons! XD

As for inspiration, I googled of course! ^^

This is my inspiration~~

And here are my nails!! 

A sleepy girl and flower wallpaper

I painted dark blue flowers at first but it didn't seem right to me 

so I painted white highlights onto them! XD

My friend says it looks like pajamas =P

A closer look at the girl!

I really enjoy drawing cartoons now! =)

Check one of the to-do list! XD

Cheers!