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Hello there!
I've been MIA these past few months because I am on Internship at Digimind (as some of you might have seen on my Instagram post). Now, I have decided to take more effort into doing my nails and posting more nail art.
I had one mission today - use polish I have not worn before. Quickly, I knew what I wanted and grabbed Wet Seal "Mint Liqueur" and MODI "70". Greens are not usual colors but I shall make it a challenge! Doing a simple gradient seemed fit for this mint and army green, and so I begun 😄

Hello all! Time for some Stamping Saturdays!

Today I have a gradient stamping which I haven't done in a while. I had on a base of white and then did a gradient with Revlon "African Tea Rose" and "Apricot Nectar". It did get me a couple of coats of sponging to get to the opacity that I liked.

Next I used Bundle Monster BM712: Flowers For Brains stamping plate and Konad white stamping polish to stamp on the design.

After that I decided to sprinkle some sparkle so I added a layer of INM Nails "Silver Holographic Top Coat" to all of my nails. You could totally see that sparkly dust on my nails in the macro shots below :)

Look out for the others who did SS this week!

An InLinkz Link-up

Hi all!

To be completely honest, I did wanted to join last months HPB link up but time totally got a hold of me! So, this month I made it a point to participate :) For those still a little lost, HPB is a Facebook group of nail addict bloggers who get together and discuss about polish. I must also admit that I have not been active there... Ooops, but well at least I'm here to join the link-up for May!

The theme was Neutrals & Neons. I chose to work with Butter London "Cuppa" and Orly "Beach Cruiser". I swear the life of me that the pink is neon, it's just that the camera didn't pick that out well! Believe me, it's really NEON, Google it okay? :D

I first applied one ocat of Cuppa and then did a gradient with these two shades. I would've stopped there but felt something was missing and went ahead to choose a stamping plate. I went with BP-50 plate from BornPrettyStore (use LSTX31 for 10% off!!) and stamped on the leafy design with Konad white stamping polish.

And then... I added my recently bought holo top coat, INM "Northern Lights" in silver. It is similar to China Glaze "Fairy Dust" but more sparse which is great to see the design beneath. For my other nails I painted a solid colors and ten added the holo top coat!

View all the other bloggers' manicures in the link-up below!

An InLinkz Link-up

Whoop whoop! Here's by far my most favourite nail look from all the Stamping Saturdays that I've done *grins*

First off I had one coat of Barry M "Spring Green". Then I created a gradient/ombre using a damp cosmetic sponge with Sinful Colors "Snow Me White" and Barry M "Spring Green". I tried to concentrate the white near the tips of my nails.

Then I added a top coat to blend the colors and prep it for stamping. After letting it dry for 15 minutes, I stamped on a floral pattern image using BP68 stamping plate from BornPrettyStore.com and Konad's White stamping polish.

So the image blends into the white tips which I think was pretty cool! I really did love this look very much :D

Here's my humble macro shot for viewing pleasure *winks*

I feel that this mani is rather easy to recreate and you should really try it out with different colors and stamping images, share it with me if you do try them out :) Here's what the other stamp ladies have done:

An InLinkz Link-up

Continuing on the challenge! Today is butterflies, a truly amazing and beautiful creature that somehow many girls/guys are afraid of (mostly insects!) but I just adore butterflies, and sometimes I hold my hand out hoping this creature can just land on my finger LOL.

So, for today's mani I started off with a pastel ombre using all Barry M polishes in Berry I/C, Strawbetter I/C and Blue Moon. After which I added one layer of China Glaze - Fairy Dust to girly-fy the whole look hehe.

Next, I prepared some 'decals' by using the reverse stamping method. I used Born Pretty Store plate QA66 and BP48. Then I added some dots to show the flow of the butterfly.
Tell me what you think about this one! :) Have a good day reader!

Here's the next challenge... SUNSET!

I was pretty excited about this one because it's been a long time since I did a sponge on gradient. So, for today's prompt I added some city skylines and a house (actually in Singapore it's called the HDB). Take a look at what I did and I'll explain more in a while :D

I started off with one coat of white polish base using Sinful Colors Snow Me White. I then used a sponge and painted on three colors, yellow orange and pink. I ditched my neons and went with creme polishes instead. I used OPI - I Can;t Cope-acabana, Sally Hansen - Fired Up and Sally Hansen - Bubblegum Pink. I did the sponging around 5 times to gain opacity. Then I used a topcoat to smooth out the design. I then used black and white acrylic paints and my Pure Color No 10 brush to draw on the buildings and the windows using a dotting tool. For my accent nail I drew on some telephone lines which I see in foreign countries, Singapore is far too small to have space for those LOL. And for my middle finger, if you couldn't figure out, the stick coming out is actually the bamboo rod that we use to dry our clothes from our flats. I know Hong Kong does the same but I am not sure of other countries.. Tell with me in the comments if your country does the same LOL it'll be fun to share anyway :D Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Whoo! It's already day 10?! Today's gradient themed nails is something new and fun... reciprocal gradient. I followed My Simple Little Pleasures YouTube tutorial. I did a base of white - light blue - dark blue gradient (from cuticle to tip). Then, I placed three striping tape down my nail. Then, I changed the order of the colors to dark blue - light blue - white.

You can see the video tutorial that I linked above and watch the tutorial, I think it'll be easier for you to understand. In any case, I feel that reciprocal gradients are awesome. They turned out easier than I thought and it does give the WOW effect, lookie at the macro shot!

Nails by Karise

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Hello friends!

This by far is one of the trickiest and challenging nail art everrrrr but it was all worth the time because it is soooooo gorgeous. The inspiration for mine and Mia's (IG@nailsbymiawrrr) bestie twin nails is SimplyNailogical's crazy scaled gradients that (see below!!) she did. She also created YouTube videos showing how to do them, which was really useful for me (:

(IG@SimplyNailogical)

And this is our finished results!! I really had a lotttt of fun doing it especially when it came out better than I thought!

Here's a solo shot of my nails (: I used OPI Dating A Royal and Flormar 423.

Nails by Karise

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Hello my dear friends! Today I have a nail art that includes my favorite color, BLUE! Well, for today's manicure I used only OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, an off-white and OPI Dating A Roya, a navy blue polish.

I simple created an ombre of blue and white using a make up sponge which I dabbed and rolled over the nail. I needed 4 coats of the sponging (some even more) to build up the opacity. And for the accent ring finger, I created a simple water marble design using the same polishes. I do love how this turned out!

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Hello everyone! Today I have for you dotted ombre! I saw on Instagram @newlypolished post and I was eager to recreate them! Loved how they turned out (except for the imperfect white dots!)