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Preparation for Exam!

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A little update: my manicure exam is next weekend!!!! I’m almost done with my homework and I’m pretty satisfied about it. Once I get it completed; I’ll do a post about it ^^

Oh and more pics of the manicure: http://varnishingrainbows.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/byshonamentalforpolish/ , taken from Ann’s blog! She does very awesome flower corsages and bouquets; take a look!

Anyway, about a week ago, I sought for help in nail models for the exam day and lovely Ann volunteered to be mine, yay! As usual, I practiced on french and red nails that is required for the exam during a self-practice session last Thursday!

Sigh, my light pink polish is still so streaky!!! :(

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Ann did something that made me squealed from my heart! She made me a personalised goodie bag from my blog banner and she filled it with lots of edible goodness! She is so kind and thoughtful, she was actually afraid that I might scold her for using my blog banner w/o my permission, silly!! :D

And then she said let’s pose with the bag then I do not have to watermark them, lol!!!

Ann also told me she wanted China Glaze For Audrey to be the french tip with a red base and initially I find it unmatching! After doing the entire manicure, I realised its a good combination! Ann has good taste! Also, she even brought her own gold glitter striper for me to use :)

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Part 1: Nail Art Lesson!

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Finally… a new module!!!! Advancing into NA1! These are my art works after 6 hours last Saturday… What’s missing is the zebra and leopard print ones which I’ve forgotten to take pictures of!

Omg and another assignment to complete for this module as well! Luckily it isn’t too difficult; just 10 tips with nail art :D

I really liked how my checkered, cherries and ribbon design looked but I’m going to redo them for my assignment!

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Oh… a demoralising thing happened the following morning! I bought 5 new Angel Pro gel polishes from my school and kept them in my bag when I got home. In the middle of the night, my bag dropped from the table (guess it was too heavy!) and one of my favourite pinks that I got broke…

Ah, I do remember my bag dropping during the night but I was too tired to care! I wish I did though, then I could possibly save that bottle by pouring the remains into another bottle. But it was too late in the morning when I found out! Only about 10% was left in the bottle, the rest got into the box in came with and smeared my other polishes too! >;:(

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Guess I need to be careful next time :/ Another good reason to buy more polishes ^^

Ribbons Galore!

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Hui Ru requested for this design from tumblr and we made a few changes! As she broke one of her nails; we changed the design into a half-moon instead; which makes her nails look longer!

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The colours used for the base was OPI Elephantastic Pink and OPI Alpine Snow! I also adorned the ribbons with a small crystal each; and it looks like a wrapped present! Hui Ru also wanted to try the lace stickers when she saw what I did with my own nails too! (will be up next!) I really like how her accent nail looks, so bridal!

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Haha and Hui Ru immediately took a photo of her nails and sent it to her boyfriend and he lavishly complimented the execution of the design. :D Happy customers makes me happy too!

Yet Another Self-Study: Paddle Pop Nails!

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Had another self-study session on Tuesday with Vicky as my nail model!

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Her nails are so beautiful!! Long nail bed and nails :) practiced polishing for my exam first; French and a red polish! French is still a disaster to me… should have made the tips thicker!

Afterwards, I removed it and did a brand new set of nail art for her! I forgot to bring alot of things yesterday so this nail art is lacking :(

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My classmates says this set looks like lollipop/paddle pop! The base is China Glaze Shooting Stars, with OPI Shorts Story and OPI Alpine Snow for the lollipop colours! I then embellished it with crystals! I could have done better by lining the colours with a silver glitter liner but my resources are very limited in school :(

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I’m so worried and nervous for my pedicure exam tomorrow, yikes! Hopefully I’m able to remember all the steps correctly and paint French well!

Pink Floral Nail Design

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Hey everyone, long time no talk, LOL.

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This was done pretty long ago, about 2 weeks back when I went to interview at Milly’s! I was wondering why I didn’t post it up and I must have forgotten about this! My flowers smudged because I remember doing it in the wee hours of the morning before going to bed!

Quality of photos isn’t its best, I apologise :( anyway, I did gelish at my workplace today so check my twitter for pics of it :D I love it, it has lace and 3D flowers and its done by Tina! :D

So I can’t really post that much manis now since I’m doing gelish but I can ensure you by next week I’ll have something new on my nails! ^^ Its just that now I can’t polish my nails cause I’m serving customers everyday so normal polish gets ruined VERY QUICKLY! :/

School starts next week, OHMYGOD so fast!!!!! But the good thing is my boyfriend gets back from China this Sunday!!!!!!!! *___* :D

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Have a nice day everyone!!!! <3

Summer Stripes and Floral Nail Design

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Hello everyone! I’m back to the nail art business!!!!!! :D I copied this design off Nail Up magazine from the July issue. I did my own variation so I hope you like it :) A Summer design even though its almost over haha!

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I used OPI Alpine Snow and Essie Lapis of Luxury as my bases! I used my nail art stripers for my pointy, middle and little finger and a dotting tool for the flowers. It was pretty simple to re-create this, I like the look of layering flowers on top of one another so I might do another variation for this :> Colours not mentioned can be found under the tags section as usual ;) I added rhinestones to my middle finger as a little accent because the stripes were a little plain for me. (I always want a little sparkle in my life, lol)

I shall let you feast on the pictures instead!

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Lefty :D Not very satisfied with the lines I made because it was kinda slanted.
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I went to Kim’s place today to do my gel nails and she’s so friendly and pretty! Love her pink hair haha! I’ll post up pics of my gelish mani tomorrow :)

Happy 46th Birthday, Singapore!!

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Today’s is 9th August and its the birthday of my home country! :) I didn’t draw any crescent moon or 5 stars on my mani, I kept it simple by doing a side-swipe of red and white.

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I am a big fail… I tried to do a plait design on my ring finger as an accent nail and after I’m done with it and showed it to my boyfriend, he asked me why did I paint England’s flag on my middle nail. LOL…. I AM SUCH A FAILURE. When I was drawing it… I didn’t even have England on my mind lol.

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Haha I did a red shatter on my middle finger on my right hand and I think it looks so much appropriate! I’m such a muddle-head, geez! :/

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Anyway for some fun, here are my top 10 reasons on why I love Singapore!!

1. I can walk along the streets of Singapore way past midnight without being afraid of getting robbed. Our safety in this country is excellent!
2. We have the biggest variety of local food available at the cheapest prices! From Hainanese Chicken Rice to Laksa to Rojak to Lor Mee to Mee Siam to Roti Prata… we have it all from different races!
3. A conversation by Singaporeans can have a mix of English, Singlish, Chinese, Malay and other dialects such as Hokkien and Cantonese! We are so versatile at our languages!
4. Our corruption and crime rates are so low.
5. No worries about earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tsunami etc.
6. Our Changi International Airport is one of the best around the world! Since its opening in 1981, our airport has won over 360 awards for being the best in cleanliness and customer service!
7. We drink our own pee. That’s right… we have this NEWater system that takes water from our drains and pipes and turns ‘dirty’ water into ‘clean’ ones for our consumption.
8. You will never get cheated or over charged in our cabs. EVER.
9. WE LOVE DURIANS!!!!
10. Haha… last one… we love complaining! LOL

I’m kinda sad that its our President S.R. Nathan last national day parade with us. He has been with us for 11 long years :) I’m currently watching the NDP now so see yaaaa all :)

even Google celebrated it with us :D

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HAPPY NATIONAL DAY, SINGAPORE!!!!

Polka Dot with Swirling Roses Nail Design

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Hey all! I promised a nail art post so here it is ;) the sun was scorching hot this afternoon when I woke up so hence the super bright pics! ^^

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I’m not a very original person so I can’t help it by doing another rose design! I did it by using a different technique and I have to say that it didn’t turn out well. :/ it doesn’t even look like roses anymore, just spots of blobby mess! I definitely need to find a super sharp and thin pointer that I can use for the swirling. My smallest dotting tool was still too big for this.

Polishes that I used are listed at the end of the post under tags. I used acrylic paint with the roses.

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I think my right hand turned out better than my left!! The roses looked more proportionate lol.

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I hope these designs of mine didn’t bore you to death. I am still experimenting! Haha, recently I learnt yet another technique to draw flowers so I’m gonna try it out very soon! Expect a nail art post this weekend or the next!

Have a lovely day ahead! <3

Roses Nail Design

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Hello everyone!!! It’s August already… can you believe it?? :O

Today, I have another roses nail design AGAIN and this is what I was sporting on my nails for the weekend. This time… I used a different technique to draw roses! I used acrylic paint and I had to use a very precise and thin brush to draw the petals! I almost gave up halfway but luckily I didn’t because it looked amazing! I received lots of compliments from the new friends that I made at Halloween Horrors camp this weekend, haha! It’s like something to talk about to break the ice lol. Anyway… the past 2 days had been awesome and tiring at the same time! My team won 3rd for Amazing Race but we won the enthu group cheer woohoo!!! So proud of my team ;) We actually mixed popular songs and changed the lyrics to suit our group’s name and it was H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S!

The weather in Singapore has been up and down lately… I always can’t seem to take good swatch photos now :/

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I used China Glaze Below Deck and OPI Alpine Snow as my bases and then I used acrylic paint for the roses and highlights. I’ve been having CG Below Deck for awhile now and its my first time using it as my full mani! I love it! Its a musky dark purple with greyish tones.

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I’m getting better and better drawing/painting with my left hand, yay!
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Short post with overspamming of pics, hope you don’t mind! ;)

Another Leopard & Zebra Design…

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Hi all!! So tonight’s my last night of selling OPI at Clarke Quay so come on down alright? It’s near the pub area! Cross the bridge and walk straight! I’m near ‘Clinic’! It’s weird to see that pub with hospital beds and wheel chairs but I like their concept!! Their waitresses are in nurses uniform too I think, which might juz give the wrong sexual idea… LOL

Anyway, here’s our booth! It isn’t a full view of our booth cus there was some obstruction! Also, we have the full collection of Nice Stems!!! (spot the display set at a corner) $10 for Assorted OPI colours, $28 for sets and $14 for Nice Stems!
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We had quite a good response so it’s awesome! And lots of people complimented on my floral nails too :D <3 so for today's mani… I decided to do my signature leopard/zebra print in contrasting colours!

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I used OPI Glitzerland and CND Just Red for the bases :) there’s nothing much to say about this mani because I always alternate the base colours hahaha!

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Haha this photo was taken by my brother! Finally, a nice shot of both my hands!!!! Lol.

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I am starting work soon! See you :)