X'Mas '12 - Prezzies

Hey nail art lovers! ^^

Are you all done with your Christmas shopping yet?

I bet you aren't!! =P

Do you wrap your presents in bright green wrapping paper and tie it with a bright red ribbon? Maybe some of you do and some of you don't. 

Christmas colours are definitely red and green to me. 

Classic never gets old. How ironic.

Here's my Prezzie mani.

I really like this mani! 

I wish I would get a Christmas present wrapped like this XD

Wouldn't it be awesome?! 

Somehow...these days...I've been thinking of doing manis for other people but so far I've only done manis for friends and family. The main reason I don't what to do it to strangers is because I usually take a long time to paint depending on the design. Wouldn't it be so embarrassing to make your customer sit for like 4 hours straight while I paint her nails? Doing my own nails is one thing since I actually enjoy it but sitting down and doing nothing is just frustrating >< 

Sorry about the small rant peeps.

Needed the let out! 

^^

Happy Holidays All!

Cheers!

^^

P/S: Just in case you guys didn't know, I started making accessories and are selling them on etsy.com. XD If you haven't heard of etsy well I suggest you go to www.etsy.com right NOW! =D

Here's one my best sellers!

Antique Silver Infinity Pluggy w/o Chain

One of my buyers told me that she bought this for her best friend as a Christmas present!

I was so happy when she shared it with me though the reason she started a convo with me in the first place was because her package hadn't arrived yet. In the end, the package was at the post office waiting to be collected =P 

If you guys haven't found a present yet for anyone.

If anyone at all, then how about this?

It makes me happy when you guys and everyone else out there likes my nail art designs and the accessories that I make!

^^

| Click the link below to go to my shop on etsy |

CRAccessories

Christmas is here a year later!

Hello nail art lovers!! 

I haven't blogged since the end of November it seems.

Have you guys been following my instagram @chronosz ? 

If you haven't then shame on you! Why?

Because all the Christmas designs are coming out!! XD

Any of you were following my blog last Christmas? 

If you were, you would know that I did the 

12 Days of Christmas Challenge.

Here's a recap of all the mani's I did last Christmas!

I'll include the links for all of them too ^^

Snowflakes & Gifts 

Sweet Candy Canes

Hot X'Tree

Sparkling Poinsettias

Merry Christmas Jack

The Grinch

Snow Love

X'Mas Mani Fever

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Story

Santa & Rudolf

Phew!! That was a lot of links! XP

So anywayz...for this Christmas I thought I would do a 

Christmas Nail Wheel!! Weeeeeee

I painted the designs that I had already painted on my nails first ^^

This is just a preview for you guys cause I would rather have different posts for each mani! XD

See you guys in the next X'Mas post!! 

Cheers!

^^

Better late then never 21st

Hey guys! 

If you follow my instagram @chronosz, then you'll know that I just had my 21st birthday on the 11th of November XD I didn't really know what to paint for my special day but I think anything would be good since no mani can express the happiness I felt that day =)

Happy 21st Birthday to me! 

XD

I've know for months now that I have so many pending manis to share with all you nail lovers and I always thought a post a day would do the trick but I don't think that'll work anymore so I'm just going to post as many as I want whenever I want! 

^^

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!

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!

X'Mas Mani 07 - Snow Love

I know I've been slow with updates...><"

I was having a Boys Over Flowers marathon! =P

Anywayz...my friend Huey Shan...do you guys remember her?

She was in my first post!

Yeah! This girl! XD

She had a X'Mas Eve wedding to attend and asked me to paint her nails for her! ^^

After a bit of googling we decided on snowflakes and snowmen! =)

She took this photo while I was painting her nails! 

Great composition! =)

Finished product! 

Snowflakes and...

Snowmen!! 

My hand shook when I was painting the thumb so it ended up being a vampire snowman! =P

I had fun painting the snowmen for her so I picked snowmen for the next design! ^^

Ignore my awful cuticles please >< 

I've been looking for a good brand of cuticle oil...

This photo was taken under my reading lamp...

I'll upload a better photo tomorrow...

I just really wanted to make it for Christmas XD

Snow people in love =) 

Didn't really know how to draw a female snow person though =S

Till the next design!


Merry Christmas All! 

Cheers!


P/S: Here's the clearer photo I was talking about earlier! =)

This was taken in sunlight!


Oh! Here's a close up on the middle finger design! =)

Can someone recommend a good brand of cuticle oil?
Uber need it as you can see ><


Cheers!

X'Mas Mani 06 - The Grinch

Ok Ok! Back to X'Mas Manis!

If you checked my 12 Days of X'Mas Mani's Checklist 

then you'd know that the next mani is...

THE GRINCH!

I didn't want to leave any nails blank so I incorporated some of the Jim Carrey's How the Grinch Stole Christmas Movie!

There's Cindy Lou Who, The Grinch of course, the x'mas lights Betty Lou Who was hanging on her house and the x'mas tree from when the Grinch was trying to steal it from Cindy's house! ^^

I also tried out Jane from Nailside's Abstract Tree design! XD

Do check her blog out! She's got really cool designs and tutorials! ^^

Here's a closer look at the design!

Cindy Lou's ribbon smudged =(

Here's a closer look at The Grinch!

Please ignore my horrendous cuticle...=(

The Grinch came out pretty well! 

I think this is the most intricate design I've done so far! =)

Quite proud of myself at the moment! ^^

See you at the next mani!

Cheers!

P/S: Should I list the colours that I've used after each mani? What do you think?

Happy Winter Solstice

Hi Everyone! I know I'm kinda slow with updates now but at least I'm still updating! =P

Anywayz...today is the WINTER SOLSTICE!!!

As a chinese we celebrate today with dinner with family and tong yuen!! =)

As you all know by now that I like painting my nails according to occasion so...

Ta-da!!! I got the inspiration by the bowls we used for the tong yuen! =)

Oh! You're all probably wondering what 'tong yuen' is rite!! XD

Literally translated it would be...sugar round?...my mum says sugar balls tho =P

This is tong yuen!! XD Uber yummy~~

And here's the mani that goes with it!

As usual my right hand has posing issues

I tried painting tong yuen but it didn't come out so well ><

I had fun with this mani so...NO REGRETS! XD

This is my fav photo among it all! =)

Happy Winter Solstice everyone! 

Cheers!

X'Mas Mani 03 - Hot X'Tree

I got invites to Hot Magazine's Christmas party held at Porto Romano!

As you can see from my previous posts that I like to paint my nails according to the event so....

Christmas Tree!!! 

with a side of ornaments and candy canes =D

I got the idea from the poster!

The tree was so cute I couldn't resist!! 

Well this also counts as one of the 12 Days of X'Mas Manis! 

Crossing it off the list! 

Christmas Tree

Till the next design! 

Cheers!

X'Mas Mani 02 - Sweet Candy Canes

Welcome back to X'Mas Manis!

This time I decided on candy canes!

I wish I had one now...

As you can see I did some water marbling for this design!

This is the second time I've attempted water marbling 

and am quite proud of myself right now =)

I got the idea after a friend of mine posted 

a tutorial by cutepolish on my facebook!

I thought candy canes were the perfect excuse to do it 

but it didn't come out as I wanted but still AWESOME! XD

I painted a coat of OPI's Alpine Snow on all my nails beforehand.

I used Sally Hansen's Emerald Green and Elianto's Chili Red to do the marbling.

For the other nails, I painted a coat of Sasatine's G683 for the x'mas glitter! 

Then I painted the stripes using the same colours for the marbling!

I had to do the marbling a few times before I got a pattern I liked! 

Marbling is hard...I guess that means I need more practice! =P

What design shall I attempt next?

Keep following and find out!

Cheers!

X'Mas Mani 01 - Snowflakes & GIfts

I did this mani before I found the challenge!
It fits perfectly for 2 of the manis! =)

Sorry it's so dark >< 

I drew white snowflakes on my thumb and fourth finger nail

and golden ribbons on the rest! =)

Colours Used:

Red - Elianto Chili Red 

White - OPI Alpine Snow

Glitter - Sasatine G683

Gold glitter - Etude house BR304

There'll be another post at 12.01AM tomorrow!

Look out for it!

Cheers!

School Nails 2

OK! I gave a preview so here's the full image! =)

Colours Used:

Black - The Faceshop BK901

White - OPI Alpine Snow

Silver - China Glaze Millennium

Red - Elianto Chili Red

Yellow - China Glaze Happy Go Lucky

Brown - OPI Over the Taupe

Blue - Sasatine Q22

Green (thumb) - Sally Hansen Emerald City

I know the pencils are super fugly! >< 

I guess I should have left it as a plain yellow pencil...

I like the scribbles under the pens!! 

The chalkboard (thumb) came out pretty well too! =)

ITTV is the product I'm promoting at my part-time job now FYI

You can check them out on their facebook page.

Keep checking for more designs!
I'm on a design streak!! XD

Cheers!

SASA

Sasa is another cosmetics brand.

I love going to Sasa! The brands they sell are quite good!

They also have their own brand which is Sasatine.

Sasatine Q22 - 3 coats

This is a kind of jelly polish I would say cause I wouldn't consider it as a sheer polish.

It took me 3 coats to get the same shade of blue as the bottle!

I love the colour and another thing I like about it is that it doesn't stain!

I have another dark blue polish from etude house and it is opaque in 1 coat.

BUT it stains my nails so badly! =(

With this in my collection now I'll be able to do navy themed nail art! XD

Color Combos CBL101 - 3 coats

Unlike Q22, this a sheer polish but is opaque in 2 coats.

I bought this because it's a sky blue colour and frankly...

I just wanted to try out the brand! =)

Quite nice I must say! Although painting so many coats annoys me

since it would take some time to dry before I can draw anything on it...

Sally Hansen Green with Envy - 2 coats

Sally Hansen polishes usually is really thick and so is this polish.

The reason why I put on 2 coats is because it was uneven with 1 coat.

It looks absolutely fabulous though! KIWI GREEN!

Perfect shade for kiwi nails! 

*adds to to-do list*

That's all for the first nail polish spree!

Look forward to more...and I mean MOREEEE!

Cheers!

School & Work

OK So I've got work tomorrow so I decided to do school themed nails!

Left Hand

Colours Used:

Base - OPI Alpine Snow

Blue - Color Combos CBL101

Red - Elianto Chili Red

Black - OPI I Only Date Werewolves

I saw this design in tumblr a few times and I've always wanted to try it out so I finally have a reason to! XD 

Right Hand

Colours Used:

Base - OPI Alpine Snow

Blue stripes - Color Combos CBL101

Red - Elianto Chili Red

Blue Splats - Sasatine Q22

I was kinda lazy to do my right hand so I just opted for ink splats!

The nails on my right hand broke so please forgive the uneven nails...

I'm really bad at taking photos with my left hand too so please forgive the quality of the photo too! ><

Well...I can check this off the To-Do List! XD

Cheers!

Nail Polish Spree 01

So....I've been on a rather CRAZY wonderful

nail polish spree! =D

This was my spree of the day!

From left: 2 Faceshop polishes, 1 Color Combos polish, 

1 Sasatine Blue polish, Sally Hansen Green with Envy,

& one of my favs...Seche Vite Fast Dry Top Coat

I'll be doing individual posts on the polishes soon! =)

Cheers!