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Heyah!

Today's manicure is pretty intense... I spent about three hours on this manicure. This is called the GRADIENTCEPTION by Christine from Simplynailogical. She does crazy funny videos and this is just one of 'em!

This manicure requires four layers of gradient plus top coat, it is a lot of work. Not to mention that each gradient needs a few coats to get opacity! I chose this design because it's stripes day for Glam Nails Challenge May today! I sure did make it a challenge for myself to do this design :P I even changed up the original design a bit by changing the direction of the stripes!

I must say that with patience it is do-able. I chose to do just two colors and used the following polishes. Essie "Bikini So Teeny", Nails Inc "Baker Street", Essie "Fiij" and Essie "Cute As A Button". Also I used my all time trust worthy Glisten & Glow "HK Girl Top Coat".

Was this manicure worth the time? I'd say yes! I am particularly very satisfied with the blue gradient on my middle nail :) I'm pretty proud of myself to do this nail art look!

When I was in America for my holiday, no doubt there was a lot of shopping and a lot of damage to the wallet... But today, this Fossil watch was a gift from my Dad *beams* I saw this watch and fell in love with it! I think it's mainly because it looks classy :P I really liked it so much I decided to do a mani inspired by this watch.

The numbers on the watch is rose gold and so I decided to use the oh-so-famous ILNP "Juliette" rose gold flakie nail polish as the base for my nails. For the details I used the colors of the second and minute hands of the watch, which are white and mint.

On my accent nails, I did a very simple design by creating three stripes down the middle of my nail. I used Sinful Colors "Be Happy" and "Snow Me White" together with the skinniest striping tape from Nail Vinyls. I then decided to matte the whole manicure so that the flakies stand out more and make the look more subtle and chic.

I thoroughly enjoyed creating this look to match my new favourite watch! Lemme know what you think of them :)

Well hello there!

Today I have a cute stamping design to share with you :D I did this stamping over Dollish Polish - Penny... Penny... Penny... using Sinful Colors - Black on Black and Bornprettystore.com's stamping plate number 53.

Here is what my mani looks like :)

I used my Creative Stamper that I got from BeautySoFly. I love love looooove this stamper. It has been highly raved by a lot of nail artists that was why I wanted to try it for myself. Sure enough, it was really really great.

You just need to pull some tips out from reviews by bloggers and YouTubers to know how best to use it! Here are a list of tips I have gathered and practiced:

I washed the stamper head with soap when I couldn't pick up image on first try
Roll the stamper on the stamping plate
Transfer image to nail by pressing nail onto the stamper head (see video tutorial)
Clean stamper head using scotch tape only (no polish removers!)

Moving on, you can see that the accent nail I did was some simple black stripes I did using my straight nail vinyls. Now time for some macro shots of my stamping.

I have a video tutorial which you can see what I mean about the tips above! Enjoy the short 15 seconds video~

A video posted by 🐢Nice Things To List🐷 (@nailsbykarise) on Jun 4, 2015 at 5:53am PDT

Howdy reader!

I have a mani that I recreated from IG@foofynails that I came across on Instagram. I followed her design very closely and this was how mine turned out!

I used Charlie's Rad Lacuqer - Dreamy Lilac as the base, then the dark purple holo polish is none other than my favourite Cirque - Fascination Street.

For the roses, I used Rimmel - Suduce a dark purple creme, then I used Miss Sporty - 471 a medium purple and Chloe and Bella - White out to highlight the flowers. I used a small detailed brush to do create those roses.

For the leaves I used Revlon - Trendy and Miss Sporty - 468 for highlighting.

I do like this mani in general! What do you think? :D

Hey guys!

Here is another inspired-by post! I did one recently inspired by my H&M top and I liked the idea of getting inspiration from things around me. So, here is another mani that was inspired by Kikki K pencil case which was a birthday gift from my Aunt a year or two ago.

I actually just recently used it as a cosmetic pouch (because I needed the space to store my Bliss Kiss Pure Nail Oil Pen LOL). The pencil case has pastel colored cute pink, light green, mint and blue stripes and I really do like it, hence I made this mani!

I started off with OPI - My Boyfriend Scales Walls as the base and letting it dry for a good 30 minutes. I then cut out my striping tape and I used five strips per nail. Following the design on my pouch, the colors are alternated with white but there is a double pink color.

I followed the colors closely and picked out the following polishes (in order, L-R): Sinful Colors - Island Coral, China Glaze - For Audrey, L.A Colors - 63, Ruby Wings - Gypsy. I then topped off the whole design with Glisten & Glow's HK Girl Top Coat.

I was happy with this mani as I am usually not really a striping tape kinda of person LOL, there were some imperfections, but it's okay!

Do you guys want to see more inspired-by manis?

Product was sent for review

Hello all!

Today I have another BornPrettyStore review! As mentioned in previous reviews (here & here) BPS provides an array of nail art essentials for you with FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING. Now, I present to you this 12-colored rectangle rhinestones/studs!

(Product link)

Initially I was afraid that the rectangles are gonna be too big, but no, I can manage four studs down the middle of my nail (except thumb). There are a ton of studs here and the best part is that you could re-use them! I tried lightly wiping with a polish remover to get rid of the top coat and I could easily remove them without destroying it. So, reuse of studs = PLUS POINT(Y)!

Also, there are 12 colors for you. TWELVE. Do you want me to name them? Okay I will. Yellow, light pink, royal purple, light blue, gold, red, light green, black, dark green, magenta, royal blue and silver (as shown below in sequence).

Now moving on to the nail art that I came up with for this review!

Basically for this manicure, I made use of the rectangle studs and aligned them vertically to show a change of pattern. Read below for the step-by-step how-to for this look!

Paint all nails with a base color and apply top coat. Let dry.
Pointer & Middle: Place chevron stickers and apply second color. Remove sticker using tweezers IMMEDIATELY after application.
Pointer & Middle: Touch up mistakes and ooopsies by using a small brush with the base color and cover up. Let dry. Apply topcoat.
Ring: Get tape and remove stickiness by placing several times on your hand. Tape off half of your nail vertically. Place chevron stickers and apply second color as per point 2.
Ring: Draw a thick line next to the chevron you created. Let dry.
Ring: Apply topcoat. Quickly place the light pink rectangle stud vertically down your nail. Let dry. Apply topcoat again.
Pinky: Using a nail art liner brush, draw two thick stripes across the entire nail. Let dry. Apply topcoat.

What I used:

Base Coat: Sally Hansen Smooth and Strong
Base Color: Revlon Apricot Nectar
Second Color: OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls
Top Coat: Glisten & Glow's HK Girl
Chevron stickers from NailVinyls.com (reviewed here)
Tweezers

Hmmmmm... Not a fan of words? Or maybe you can't understand my steps above? FRET NOT! I have a YouTube video tutorial on how you can recreate this manicure!!!

Before ending this post, let me do a conclusion about this product. You get to be really creative and really do any crazy design you want! I have been thinking of doing a whole nail just with the rhinestons :P But we'll see about that in the future!

For 12 colors and so so many in one for US$3.75 to spice up your manicure is a good deal. Besides, you get free shipping. Oh, plus you can also get a 10% discount code from ME!

Yes, simply use my code "LSTX31" upon checkout to get this discount!

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Hello readers! Carrying on with the challenge... it's the day for STUDS! I was actually excited to do this challenge but the result didn't turn out as I wanted it too.

I suspect it is because I etiher did not put two coats of orange base or the colors were not too matchy? I don't know... But anyway, here it is!