Rainbow Branches

This design was inspired by Robin Moses. She originally did a design with blended colours on the tip of her nails, and painted tree branches and birds on top. I've always wanted to do art with a ROYGBIV colour palette, and thought this design would be perfect! Here are the polishes I used for the rainbow colours.

This is the -before- look. I roughly blended the colours with a dotting tool, the same way I did the needle marble design on a previous post. The pictures are a bit smaller than usual cause they were taken with Beefy, my iPhone 4; I must've forgotten to take photos with Ryan, my Nikon camera.

I painted branches and love birds with a black polish above the blended colours, then applied top coat. Here is the -after- look! Robin Moses is a great inspiration and I adore her artwork incredibly!

20th Birthday

If I had to summarize my 20th birthday with one verb.. It would be eating! March 1st, 2013 consisted of me eating with different groups of friends throughout the day!

At midnight, my family gave me this chocolate brown Fossil watch, which had everything I wanted in a watch! The sparkly rim and the colour.

For breakfast that morning, I went with my younger sister and her friends to Denny's! Denny's gives free breakfast to birthday celebrants =) Then I went to uni for one class, and spent the rest of my time there with these three. We had drinks from Starbucks and food from OPA.

My friend since the 6th grade bought me a cake pop from Starbucks! It's so cute!

Then I met up with my dearest friend who brings out the silly in me. We coincidentally matched colours with our outfit and nails! We went off to watch Jack the Giant Slayer and bought tons of popcorn cause that is our weakness.

These are what she gave me: the cutest case I have ever seen and OPI Stay the Night Liquid Sand! Honestly, how bowful does Beefy look?!

Then we picked up our other friend and attempted to vlog.. but didn't work out very well cause no one was listening to anyone haha the three of us together get pretty crazy!

I asked my younger sister about 8 months in advance to bake me a rainbow cake for my birthday, and she pulled through! She divided the batter, used food colouring and placed the layers accordingly!

Time to make a wish!

It was the best cake I've ever had! The rest of my friends from earlier came over for some cake as well!

The cake looked prettier the next day cause the layers were able to cool in place overnight.

To thank my family for helping me prepare my birthday celebration, I decided to make breakfast!

I found a recipe online of Strawberry Shortcake Pancakes! Luckily, we had all the ingredients, and it tasted magnificent!

Then my family and I went to a restaurant for a fancy belated birthday dinner. That concludes the day I got rid of my favourite suffix -teen from my age.

I turned 20!!!

Holy smokes, I feel like I'm growing up so fast! My 20th birthday was on March 1st, so yes, this photo is 3 months old..

But anywaaaaay... I wanted to do a design that highlighted my teenage years, since I painted this on my last day of being a teenager. I wanted to be more creative than doing pretty sparkly birthday nails, so since I love reflecting back to old memories, I thought, why not paint them? 

Unfortunately, it's not as easy to understand without a description: 

• Index represents high school with the lockers in a hallway. 
• Middle represents school dances and banquets with the dj booth, balloons and dance floor. 
• Ring represents recess! My friends and I took plenty of pictures of our shoes during recess, haha
• Pinky represents sleepovers with all the pillows.

Essie Haul

I would like to introduce you all to my wonderful camera, Ryan Gosling (of course)! He's a Nikon J1, which I like to call as a half digital and half professional camera. This is what I use for my blog photos and YouTube videos; I use my iPhone 4 (named BeefnCheese Burrito for hunger reasons - nicknamed Beefy) for my Instagram.

HAUL-A! During my shopping, I picked up four Essie polishes and included swatches of those polishes below. The first is Where's My Chauffeur, a rich and lavish turquoise from the Winter 2013 collection. This colour is very close to the iconic Tiffany blue, which is why it's so popular and difficult to get a hold of.

Fortunately, my cousin works at London Drugs and was able to put this on hold for me cause it sold out fast! It's a really beautiful colour and I love the name! This is a description from the Essie website that I found amusing, "the nail colour that never fails to pick you up." Here's a bottle shot and my right hand.

The next two polishes, Sand Tropez and Bikini So Teeny, are painted together, cause I love browns and blues together! Just from hearing both their names, they sounded like a match-made-in-a-beach haha, I kid. I do get a sense of a Summer breeze in a beach with these two colours. 

The last polish is Lady Like, a sophisticated and elegant mauve. Lady Like and Bikini So Teeny were included in a sort of renewed collection, since these polishes and many more (like Butler Please and Mint Candy Apple) were so popular from their first launch, Essie decided to bring them back! Which was great cause my mini Bikini So Teeny was running low. But back to Lady Like, this photo was taken with a flash to show the flowers clearly.


The flowers were done the same way as I did the Polkadots and Florals design (previous post); swirling the colours with a small dotting tool lightly.

This polish is one of those colours that are soo pretty that I couldn't do an excessive design on top. A simple accent on both hands, and I like to make each hand a little different, so I often do an accent on my left ring finger and right index finger.