Nail art #7 - Yummy yummy, for my tummy

Cupcake nails! Kind of fitting, since it's my birthday today :).

Polishes used:
Base - Ulta3 Waterlily
Cupcake base - OPI Here today...Aragon tomorrow
Icing - Ulta3 Lily white
Sprinkles - China Glaze Light as air, Ulta3 Spring shower & Spring fling
Cherry - An unknown red polish and China Glaze Re-Freshmint

These nails were extremely easy to do; possibly a fail-safe nail art design! I had been looking around on youtube for some tutorials and many opted to use dotting tools or toothpicks to draw their icing. I was being lazy on the night I did my nails though, and decided to simply apply the icing (white polish) straight on with the nail polish's brush. You can see some of my cupcakes turned out slightly sloppy looking, but I think that's fine since cupcakes in general don't look perfect (at least my ones don't!).

Every time I look at my nails, I feel a craving for cupcakes. Mmmm, icing... :D. I'm not doing much for my birthday since I'm lucky enough to have two tests in the following two days (sarcasm), but hopefully I'll be celebrating with my family on Friday night. I've been feeling like some lovely Beijing style Chinese for some time now :).

Ok, back to some more studying before I call it a night.

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~shazzii

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Jade, you are indeed the new black!

My goodness, I can't believe how amazing this polish is! I never really understood what all the rave was about over OPI's Jade is the new black, but now that I'm the (proud!) owner of it, I totally get it. It. is. Fabulous.

Indoors, with flash.

Shown is two coats of JITNB with a top coat. Just look at this glorious polish! Application-wise, it was only ok for me. I guess I'm just not used to OPI's pro wide brushes, I kept on getting polish all over my fingers! I love the formula though, the polish honestly glided onto my nails. I can't wait to try out the rest of my OPIs :D.

And again (not colour accurate here).

I know, the flower stickers were a really lame attempt at nail art. I'm just really swamped with Uni assignments and assessments right now, but I swear once next week is over, I'll have more time for some proper designs. Woohoo for my two weeks mid-sem break :).

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~shazzii

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Color Club - Fashion Addict

Obviously I had to try out my new polishes asap, so I immediately stripped my nails as soon as I got home from work XD. I had a hard time deciding which polish to try first from my haul, but finally chose Color Club's Fashion Addict. I just couldn't resist the holo-ness of this polish.

The polish is a gorgeous light purple, almost pink holo. Shown above is two coats and a top coat. It is so. much. LOVE. Need I say more? The third holo to join my polish stash and I'm lemming for a few more too! This is my first Color Club polish and if all CC polishes are like this, I definitely want more. Burlesque collection, hurry and be released so I can place my next order!


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~shazzii

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My order arrived!

I'm so terribly excited right now, it's probably a little embarrassing, lol. The postman just visited and dropped me a lovely early birthday present! Shipping took just under two weeks - 12 days - which isn't bad for international post I guess, but considering I had been reading around on the Vogue forums and other Australian polishers were saying it took them only a week, I had been getting worried ^^;;. Still, it's arrived now and all is well.

Woohoo, my first OPI and Color Club polishes! :DD I also bought the Poshe topcoat, since there a quite a few polish bloggers who recommend this so I thought I'd give it a try, and the Poshe thinner too. Anyway, here are the polish names:

OPI - Here today...Aragon tomorrow, Meet me on the star ferry, You don't know Jacques, Jade is the new black

Color Club - High society, Fashion addict

I'm really looking forward to wearing these polishes and I'd love to get started right now. Unfortunately, I have work in less than an hour so that's a bit of a bummer, lol. I'm also really tempted to place another order right now for some more Color Club polishes I'm lemming on the excuse that it can be my late birthday present, but I think I'll wait 'til OPI's Burlesque collection comes out. That looks like a rather yummy collection to look forward to (but rather bad for my wallet...)!

Thanks for dropping by.

~shazzii

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Nail art #6

Lamest title ever, but I really didn't know what to call this post :/.

I tried my hand at some nail art over the weekend and am pretty satisfied with the end result :). The design was inspired by this photo, but I decided to choose a lighter colour since I've been wearing some rather pigmented polishes lately.

Polishes used:

Sportsgirl - Baby Elephant
Glossyblossom Two-way nail art - #S08 (white) and #S03 (purple shimmer)

I applied two coats of Baby Elephant as a base for my third and fifth fingers. (I think my bottle is getting a bit old, the polish was noticeably thicker this time round compared to the last.) This polish is a lovely greyed out light purple, with shimmer throughout to give it an overall gorgeous look. You can see the amount of shimmer there is in the polish in the bottle! I then used my striper to apply the white stripes. For my first and fourth fingers, I freehanded a french tip with Baby Elephant (again, two coats), then added the purple strip to 'neaten' out the look. I made use of my dotting tools to apply the dots, again, using the white polish from the striper polish. I really love the end result :).

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~shazzii

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Nail art #5 - Second attempt at stamping

I tried some stamping again today, to see if my skills had improved from my previous (faily) attempt. And I'm proud to say that yes, it has! :D

Stamped with Rimmel's Your majesty.

Out of ten nails, only one nail (right fourth finger) came out smudged. Now that I seem to have acquired the basics to stamping, I'll have to work on position and transferring the whole image from the stamper to the nail, lol. You can see that my stars are all slightly different since I didn't get the full image onto the nail ^^;;.

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~shazzii

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China Glaze - Lasso my heart

I really didn't like my nails lol, so I decided to change them. I was at Uni today and kept on hoping people wouldn't notice my nails...not exactly the kind of response we polish lovers want from others, eh? ^^

And so I present to you, CG's Lasso my heart. What a gorgeous, gorgeous polish! *___* Normally, I avoid red/pink toned polish shades because I'm just not into them, but boy am I glad I picked this one up. Magnificent!

This has convinced me that red/pink toned polishes aren't that bad. Now I'm more than ready to try out my other red polishes! :D

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~shazzii

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