Nail Art: Birthday Nails for the Birthday Girl

First post for 2013. I turned 20 guys! I went on many food adventures that I spent with my favorite people.

What a better way to spend a snippet of my birthday than painting birthday nails?

I stuck to a bit of pastel and light colours.

Now without further adieu, I will show you how I did it!

Step 1:

 One strip of color half way down your nail

Step 2: The wick

With a stripper brush, a piece of hair, what ever works for ya, I dipped into my liquid liner (I know.. it worked though okay...) and made a little strip.

Step 3: The flame

Make a little tear drop thing

Step 4: Making the flame look more like a flame

 Now a yellow mini tear drop thing!

Step 5: Candy stripes 

White stripes across each little block of colour and a clear coat on top. I was admiring my nails at dinner at Chefs Gallery.

And those are my birthday nails. After my birthday week, I scraped off the flames. Hehe.

Check out my food blog if you please - Meet and Eats.

Nails: Tutorial - White Weaves on Rimmel's Misty Jade

Hi!

I've always thought Rim's Misty Jade as a bit dark... Looking to brighten it up with some white here and there did just the trick!

Method:

1.

Two coats of Rimmel's Misty Jade

2. 

With a white stripper brush, or whatever you have, make lines as so:

Repeat with the rest of your nails.

And voila!

Instagrammed pic^ hehe

I hope you enjoyed this short post and you all enjoy the rest of your day! 

Swatches + Review: Rimmel's Lasting Finish Nail Polish in Apricot Punch, Lovely Lilac and Misty Jade

I purchased these polishes a few months back when Big W was having this massive sale... And I was able to pick up these babies for about $2 each!

Rimmel's Lasting Finish Nail Polishes...

 L>R: Apricot Punch, Lovely Lilac and Misty Jade

 Sweetest colours!

The brush.. way too small

Swatches of the bunch:

 L>R: Apricot Punch, Lovely Lilac and Misty Jade

I chipped away the middle and ring finger. This is after 7 days of wear. It would have lasted a lot longer if I didn't get sick of the shade.

Why I love it...

*Gorgeous shades

*Lasts a week!

Ehhh...

*Takes a bit longer to dry

*Stubby nail polish brush

My verdict:

This nail polish is fantastic! Lasts incredibly long, it just takes double the time to dry.... I've never came across any nail polish with a formula such as this.

Look: Halloween 2012

Oh boy.... Last October I had this awesome plan that next October I would come up with a halloween makeup look for the end of each week... That did not go through.

This morning, writing the date, I realised.... It's the last day of October. I rushed home after work (procrastinated with a few minecraft vids...) then got to work! Thirty minutes of daylight to spare before my pictures won't look as great.... -my flash on my camera stopped working :( boo hoo.

I was going to do a quick video tutorial on this but my camera battery was close to dead, nothing goes right for me...

Thirty minutes later, and this is what I came up with!

I'm not even sure what look I'm going for, I just wanted something dark and a bit dreary...

 Fighting against time.

 Bare face arsy

Makeup face arsy

Ombre lips going on

Black swept beneath my cheekbones for depth

hi

Products used:

Daiso liquid liner in Black

NYX jumbo eye pencil in Milk

Manly 120 eyeshadow palette

LA Colours Lippy in Black

ELES Micro Bubble Lippy in Microcranberry

NYX Single eyeshadows in Black and Root beer

I've made a food blog by the way, would love if you could check it out! 

Click the pic below :D

Colour Me In: Wrap Up!

This Colour Me In series is a collection of posts where your beloved bloggers, Tram, Amanda, Tezza and myself will be posting about the selected shade from whatever we're able to gather from our beauty stash!

For the past 11 Thursdays we have been bringing you a new post featuring a shade every week!

Red: Glammin' Up OPI's Big Apple Red

Pink: Sportsgirl's Beauty Bombshell...

Orange: Sportsgirl's Fruit Tingle

Nude: Nude - A wearable nude! Revlon's Soft Nude

Yellow: Yellow - Steps into Creating Sunset Gradient Nails

Green: Tutorial: Rainforest Inspired Eyeshadow Look

Blue: Eyeshadow Tutorial

Purple: Rimmel Lasting Finish in #04

Brown: My everyday, barely there eyeshadow look

Black: My (once) HG Liquid Liner - Revlon Colorstay Liquid LIner

White: NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk

Check out the other girls (shnazzier looking) wrap up posts for their collection on this series!