Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 

Or in my case, Happy Lantern/Mooncake Festival! =)

In conjunction with the event, here's a lantern mani using Moyou London's Zodiac plate!!!

I actually wanted stamp with a green polish over Miss Ashleigh's Midnight Shadows but it didn't really work out so I went the other way. 

I painted 3 layers of green OPI tint and stamped using Mundodeunas black. The design came out quite nice! 

That's it for this post! 
Cheers!

P/S: Eat more mooncakes!

I'm The Corny Kind!

Hey guys! 

I've got another inspired mani for you guys and I'm pretty sure most of you know the person I got the inspiration from!

Just in case you dont, let me introduce Lindy from BubzBeauty. She is a beauty blogger and also a vlogger. I love watching her vlogs! 

Recently, she is currently hosting an online donation drive by selling a sweater with her original design on it. All sales proceeds will be used to fund fully functional schools in Laos. 

(PC: BubzBeauty)

She previously had a similar drive with her 'I'm A Unicorn' tank top which is back on sale btw! Can you guess the design for this drive yet? 

Introducing the 'I'm The Corny Kind' Sweater! 

(PC: BubzBeauty)

Yup, poop! That's what I painted! 

It's actually quite cute no? Colours used :

Base coat - Essence Ultra Strong Nail Hardener
Grey - Miss Ashleigh A Clean Slate 
Design - Acrylic Paint
Top Coat - Glisten & Glow HK Girl 

If any of you are interested in purchasing the sweater, click here. 

On the other hand, if you would just like to donate then click here. 

That's it for this post!
Cheers! 

Birdie Blues

Happy Monday all,

*yawnnnn*

Yup, that's sounds like the normal Monday morning response. Le boyfriend suggested painting my nails blue because you know...Monday blues...hahahahhaha

Well I take anything that sounds good. So, I did a blue with white french gradient tips. It reminded me of clouds and how fluffy they are and how nice it would be to sleep on them...

*yawnnnnn*

This post is making me sleepy...but gradients to be are a bit boring now so I did some stamping. Making use of my Moyou London Zodiac Plate, I stamped on a bird on a branch. =) 

Looks really good with the gradient. Like looking up from under a tree with a bird perched on a branch and the cloudy blue sky as the background.  

Colours used:

Base coat - Essence Ultra Strong Nail Hardener

White - OPI Alpine Snow

Blue - Miss Ashleigh Baby's Got The Blues

Black - Mundodeunas 

Top Coat - Glisten & Glow HK Girl 

That's it for this post! 

Cheers! 

Paper Towns | Get Lost To Get Found

Hi all! 

About a week ago, I entered an insta contest hosted by Warner Music Malaysia and won two tickets to the premiere of Paper Towns. I have not watched The Fault In Our Stars yet but I've heard good things. So, coming from the same author it was expected to be a good movie. 

I was a tad bit disappointed with how Warner Music managed the competition especially when winners wanted to collect their tickets. We got our tickets 10 minutes before the movie started and I admit that I was worried that we would be late but we weren't. All's good that ends well. 

Anyway, with my tendency to paint designs based on events - here's a Paper Towns inspired one. 

Colours used:

Base coat - Essence Ultra Strong Nail Hardener
White - OPI Alpine Snow & Acrylic Paint
Black - Laval & Acrylic Paint
Top Coat - Miss Ashleigh Matte Hatter

As for my review on the movie, it didn't turn out to be a regular romcom but I liked how the story flowed. There was laughing and crying involved but John Green paints a pretty realistic view on knowing oneself and unrequited love as well as friendship. I would give it a 6/10. Thanks Warner Music Malaysia for the tickets! 

That's it for this post!
Cheers!

A Japanese Chinese New Year!

Hi Nailies!! 

I'm now in the land of the rising sun! So incredibly happy right now but as promised, here is my Japan mani for CNY!

I had already decided to wear a thermal polish to Japan since I can't really see the transition in Malaysia due to the constant humid weather. Then, I thought it's still CNY so why don't I add a little CNY to it and just on time did my new MoYou London Zodiac plate arrive! I just HAD to order it because I am a ram/goat/sheep and it just felt like it was MY plate you know...

I used the reverse stamping method to get the designs onto my nails and I have to say that Mundodeunas stamping polishes are my all time favourite now as they are opaque, stamp well and do not smudge. The only downside is the smell cause man! is it potent!! 

I am really happy with this mani and hopefully it lasts a few days although I did bring a few bottles to touch up with. Such mix feelings me has right now. ;_;

Colours Used:

Thermal Polish - Miss Ashleigh Pa Rum Pum Plum 
Black - Mundodeunas Black
Base Coat - Essie Nail Hardener
Top Coat - Glisten & Glow HK Girl

Well, that's it for this post! If you want to see snipbits of my Japan trip then follow my instagram account @chronosz. Btw, great service by the flight attendant on airasia for being so thoughtful when le boyfriend was having motion sickness. Double thumbs up!!

Cheers!

Love Birds

Hey peeps!

So I just posted a NOTD on instagram and thought "I better write this blog post before I get lazy!"

Yup! That's me...anyway...I haven't painted birds before me thinks...I wanted to do an owl mani that day but all the googled owls didn't appeal to me...Darn me for not screen shoting the nice owl mani!

Back to the point, I saw this wedding invitation on FB that my friend posted (was not his wedding) and thought "Well, that's cute! I should paint that!" So, I did with a little change in scenery of course hahaha

Here's the original.

And here's the mani!

Colours used:
Base coat - Essence Ultra Strong Nail Hardener
Base - Miss Ashleigh Experi-mint & Baby's Got The Blues Ombre (I did this ombre using a brush technique I saw @yagala do on insta...check her out! I think this technique blends better than sponge!)
Others - Acrylic Paint
Top Coat - Glisten & Glow HK Girl

That's it for this post! 

Cheers!

Classy French Tips - Minty-fied!

Hi Guys!

Here's my NOTD (Nails of the day) featuring a classy mint lace french tips.

I'm not the type that really likes french tips especially since my nail beds are so incredibly short but this mani is so YES! Plus who would say no to lace and mint?!?

Shorter nail beds = Longer french tips

Anyway, here are the colours I used for the mani.

Base coat - Essence Ultra Strong Nail Hardener
Mint - Miss Ashleigh Experi-mint
Black - Mundodeunas Stamping Polish
Top Coat - Glisten & Glow HK Girl
Nail Vinyls - Teismom

That's it for this post!
Cheers!

Elle Girl No.86 Swatch

Hello everyone!

Here's a swatch of Elle Girl No. 86 polish. It is a Korean brand polish my friend got me as a souvenir. 

86 is a sheer creme white polish with glitter chunks is them! Including snowflakes and stars, there are also multi coloured hexagonal and round glitters. I suggest painting a layer of white polish before applying for a more opaque look. The photos show 3 layers of the polish. 

*Photos are at the bottom of the post because I'm using the Blogger app. 

I didn't want to just remove the polish so I did a bit of reverse stamping. :) 

Using Bundle Monster plate BM-407 I stamped some trees using Laval black and topped with Glisten & Glows HK Girl Top Coat. 

The next day I matted the mani with Miss Ashleighs Matte Hatter and I must say that the matte version is so much prettier! 

That's it for this post.

Cheers.

Tribal Winter

Hey peeps!

I totally did not notice that this post didn't go up! So here it is!

In the meantime, here's another mani using one of Miss Ashleighs polishes!

I used 'And it was all yellow' from her neon collection for the base, black polish from The Faceshop and the design using acrylic paint.

Chrismas manis are popping up on instagram and I'm no stranger! The green and red was a MUST! :)

That's it for this post! See you all really soon!

Cheers!

Snow in Santorini

Hey all!

I've got a lot of swatches for you and I can't wait to share them! I'm still editing the photos so please be a little more patient k! :)

For now how about my NOTD featuring Miss Ashleighs new texture polish See You In Santorini! 

Some negative space and snow sounded really good so I painted it! I painted the snowflakes with white acrylic paint using a detailing brush from Faburnails and the negative space using nail vinyls from teismom! Do check them out! 

When I did the swatch for See You In Santorini, I liked it a lot better matted. In this mani, I matted the pointer finger.

What do you guys think? Matte or gloss?

That's it for this post! Stay tuned for the swatches!

Cheers!

Pusheen Love Emoji

Bonjour mon amis!!

Trying to use different ways to say hi!

Things have been complicated lately and my friend keeps sending me this really adorable Pusheen Emoji on Facebook to cheer me up!

Cute rite!!!

<3

Was so grateful for this so decided to paint it on my nail! 

It kinda smudge when I put the topcoat on ><

Close up on Pusheen. 

BEFORE it smudged!

Insta pic

The filter makes it seem more cute in a way. 

This is dedicated to my babe who has been by be through good times and bad!

Thanks dear! 

You know who you are! 

Cheers!
^^

#HalloweenChallenge2013 Day 5 - Zombie

Hello all!

More challenge manis!

So October 5th's theme is zombie...

gwahhhhhhhhhhhh

(did you just think the gwahhhhhh in a zombie voice?)

=P

As you can see, I am terrible at drawing zombies...thus only the hand it visible! XD

I was going for a gory look for the framed nails...I think it looks good =)

This is the pic with the instagram filter.

I think it looks more gory! Which is awesome! XD

That's it for this post!

The next theme is witches which I am quite excited about!

I've got some designs prepared and might be using some konad stamps as well 

Till next time!

Cheers!

^^

#Nailartsep 28 - Animal Print

Hey nail art peeps!

It is the 1st of October and this post is late I know...kinda got confused over something. 

The last theme on @californails #nailartsep challenge is on the 31ST of September...which does not exist...

I thought there was a 31st until today turned out to be the 1st of October! XD 

Anyway, this is for the 28th of September and the theme is ANIMAL PRINT!

I seriously had a lot of fun making this mani.

Why?

Because all of the animal prints on this mani is from 5 different konad and bundle monster stamping plates! XD

What I have learnt from stamping with normal nail polish is that the patter will always come out very light. To make it look better, I coloured the patterns in like a little kid XD 

I think this is my best mani for the challenge! ^^

Regarding the ghostly 31st of September, I didn't paint anything in plaid but I'm wearing a plaid skirt!

I deem this acceptable!

@californails #nailartsep challenge 

COMPLETED! 

Look forward to the next challenge!

Bwhahahahhah!

Cheers!

^^

Miss Ashleigh Thermal Polish Kryptonite Swatch

I've got a good one for you guys! 

Remember Miss Ashleigh's Thermal Polish Thermal Polish Supernova?

Yup! This awesome thermal polish chocked full of glitter!

Well! I got another one from her recently!

Kryptonite!

From the name, one can already tell that the polish is green in colour.

Unless you haven't heard of Superman

Like all Miss Ashleigh polishes, you get a beautiful opaque shade with 2 layers. 

It doesn't chip as fast as other nail polish and it's healthier than other store bought polishes. 

Enough talk! Here comes the photos!

Kryptonite is a green based polish with a slight shimmer. It is dark green when cold and bright green when hot. As usual, my body temperature is so hot that I usually get a nice french looking mani as can be seen on the bottom left of the collage above. French mani in bottle! Cool rite! XD 

I was also playing around with studs since I haven't used them much and this is what came out of it!

Seriously amazing how I can have so many different types of manis with one polish!

I absolutely love it! I could stare at my nails all day and I did!

Check out her polishes at

www.missashleigh.com.au

Cheers for now!

^^

#Nailartsep 19 - Feathers

'Even though it hurts, I can't slow down

Walls are closing in and I hit the ground

Whispers of tomorrow echo in my mind

Just one last time~~~'

Sorry for the singing hello but I'm seriously addicted to David Guetta's song Just One Last Time at the moment. Oh yes and I am late once again with posting. Gonna get hectic with the end of my final semester but I'll pull through. I CAN and I WILL!

For the 19th of September, the theme was feathers. 

I did a really nice feather design before coupled with a dream catcher...I think...It was so hard to find the photo in my phone gallery!

Remembering that mani kinda made my head swell and in the end was wayyyyyyy too confident with drawing the feathers and it ended up super crappy. =(

The final result!

 As you can see, I am still super curious about konad. There was a feather design on one of the plates so tried it out. Was going for a 'leaves falling in Autumn' kind of feel. The colour was so light that you can't really see the feathers but it's the better compared to the free hand feathers. The yellow feather is the worst! It looks like a durian now...

I realize that I am getting very lazy in my designs. I have to admit that assignments are piling up but nail art is way for me to relax. Doesn't really help when the design comes out bad but @californails nail art challenge gives me something to paint. If I had to think of my own themes to paint then I think I would be stressed out of my mind by now! 

A lot more posts are coming your way people! 

Get prepared!

Cheers!

^^

#Nailartsep 16 - Fav. Flower

Hello all!

Today is Malaysia Day and I'm a Malaysian NOT in Malaysia...

Oh well!

So for @californails #nailartsep Day 16, the theme is my favorite flower. 

And what is my favorite flower?

It is...

A SUNFLOWER!

This................ISN'T 

my favorite mani and I have to say that I am so sad for my favorite flower for painting it so badly...=(

I used China Glaze Happy-Go-Lucky for the flowers with was sunny enough but it was really hard to tell where the petals ended. So, I used China Glaze Solar Power which is a darker gold shimmer polish to outline the petals which did not work so well. =(

It became worse when I added the gold stud...

I outlined the petals with black polish this the morning after just to see if this would look better. 

I could only do one nail since I had to rush for class. 

I do think that it looks so much better after the black outline was added.

I think the yellow only petals would work with acrylic which I wish I have but don't. ><

I guess that's it for this post! 

Can't wait to do the next theme!

Cheers!

^^

Konad noob in the house!

Yo!

Konad noob here!

Ha ha ha ! 

Hey guys!

I got a whole bunch of konad plates from bornprettystore.com and is super into trying to stamp stuff on my nails now!

^^

This is my nail mail from that day! Konad plates, studs, brushes and was surprised to find an extra hello kitty nail decal as a gift!

SCORE!

ANYWAY!

Here's my NOTD!

This is actually NOT my first time using konad plates.

I tried it out when I firstly started doing nail art...which was around 3 years ago...

WOW...how fast do the years past!

I wasn't all that good at it back then and I don't think that I'm any good at it now either.

I do think that this came out pretty nicely! =)

For the base, I used Dotti Light Blue!

I just grabbed this off the store counter because it was so pretty and absolutely NO regrets whatsoever! Light blue is a great polish which is easy to apply, opaque and even in 2 coats, and does not stain!

The pattern is from the konad plate M65.

I couldn't help myself from trying out the plates as soon as I could.

Behind the scenes notes; while I had the football mani on my left hand, I had a different mani on my right!

Kinda hard to see the clouds. Mostly because it wasn't stamped well and there isn't much of a contrast between the colours. I just thought it would match and it would look cute! ^^

I used this plate for this mani.

Sorry for the unrefined edges of the plates.

Been experimenting with Photoshop which obviously did not come out well.

><

Oh well! Live and let learn!

If you guys haven't tried out konad then I suggest you do! 

It's pretty fun and simple to use. 

That's it for this post!
Cheers!

^^

P/S: I've already painted the next mani for @californails #Nailartsep 13!

Look forward to it! 

Miss Ashleigh Supernova Swatch

Yo everyone! 

So this is FINALLY happening!

A swatch on a super cool thermal polish by Miss Ashleigh!
And it's called...

SUPERNOVA!

The polish is deep purple polish with silver glitter and chucks of pink and silver hexagonal glitter pieces WHEN IT'S COLD!

The polish turns blue when the temperature increases. 

Be it from the surrounding temperature or your own body heat!

This is the polish when it is transitioning from one colour to the other.

Here's a collage of the whole thermal polish process!

^^

Here's a video from my instragram @chronosz of the transition.

I seriously love this polish! 

It's so pretty, it doesn't chip like other polishes, it's easy application with the exception of trying to get the glitter onto the nail! 

Besides, it's super fun to look down once in a while to see what colour they are!
Mine are usual blue since I have high body temperature! =P

That's it for this post! 

Cheers!

Nyannnnnnnnnnn

Hello nail art lovers! 
I am back in Melbourne and have access to ALL my polishes now! XD 
What is the first nail art that I did? 
If the title didn't give it away then the mani will do the thick! =P

My friend actually challenged me to do this mani! 
Then I went all Barney Stinson and said, "Challenge Accepted!"
LOL

This was a really fun mani to paint although I did get the proportions wrong again ><
That's it for this mani! Technically this isn't the mani I started the semester with. I painted my favorite Green Apple Mint from Essie topped with Nubar's Black Polkadots! 

Happy Back to School/Uni/College! 
Cheers!
^^ 




Here's the video for fun!! 

Miss Ashleigh Baby's Got Blues Swatch

Hey all!

A bit outdated but better now than never XD
So I won Miss Ashleigh's repost competition on instagram!!

My prize was 20% off all products from her webstore!

http://www.missashleigh.com.au/ 

Check it out!

She's got a lot of nice colours!

I only bought one bottle cause I already went wayyyy over my nail polish budget for the month TT

*sobs*

It was a hard decision to make but I chose Baby's Got Blues in the end!

=)

This shade of blue gives me the light and fluffy feel! 

This is 2 coats btw.

I can't wait till her thermal polishes come out! ^^

Cheers!

P/S: Miss Ashleigh only ships within Australia right now.