Nail Art - M&M's

Hey lovelies! How's everyone? It's been such a long time since I last created a blog post. I've been missing this big time. I'm still struggling to manage my time so I can post regularly again. But for the mean time, I got some nail art for you all.

Last month, I joined a contest held by Caronia Philippines. Caronia has been one of the leading brands of nail polish and nail care products for as long as I can remember. Last month’s theme is to create a chocolate inspired nail design. And this is what I came up with.

M&M's on my hands

M&M's nail art

I already did this design previously on a friend’s nail. But I think I drew this better this time. I used different Caronia nail polishes as base color and drew in the M&M’s face. I drew different expression to add some character.

M&M's nail art with flash

I really believe that I did well on this design since I got quite some compliments from my co-workers with my nails – And without me showing them my nails. I really loved the attention my nails got during that day.

It’s been easier for me to do this since my first try, considering that I did these on my own nails. Here’s a closer look on my two fat m&m’s. J

M&M's on my thumb

Caronia usually requires a beauty shot of the designs showing your face. Although, last month, it was not requires, I still sent them a picture showing my face, and I liked how it looks. This is my entry.

Although I did not win, I am happy with my experience on doing this nails as well as the result. Also, I do not mind losing especially if the winners are deserving of their price. And they are very worth all the prizes they receive.

M&M's  beauty shot

That’s it for today’s post. I really hope to get back on track soon. I’m still active online, it’s just that I was not able to post much here. Feel free to contact me on any of my online accounts: Facebook, Tumblr and you can also follow me on my new Pinterest account.

As always, feel free to leave a comment. Keep rockin’ girls. 

Colors used:
Caronia Simply Red
Caronia Sapphire
Caronia Kiwi
Caronia Sun Kissed
Caronia Sweet Surprise
Caronia Summer Fling
Sassy Nail Art Pen White
Sassy Nail Art Pen Black

Day 28 - Inspired by a Flag

Hi guys! I'm back with the 28^th day of the challenge. And for this post I have some nails Inspired by a Flag. I did think of doing a Philippine Flag for this since it’s my country. But I opted to choose another flag that does not represent a country or a state.

I decided to do something simple yet a little unique.

These nails are inspired by a Semaphore Flag.

Semaphore Flags are used to communicate between ships and the port. I am not exactly sure how this works, but I thought the design is pretty simple.

I used Caronia Sweet Surprise as the base color and then “swiped” on the red using Sally Hansen Cardinal.

I loved how simple this has become. I know you won’t easily recognize this at first glance, but it’s worth the try.

Tell me what you think. ;)

Day 27 – Inspired by an Artwork

Hey guys! Today is one of the days I am very excited about. This post will show you Day 27 of the challenge which is Inspired by an Artwork.

I celebrated my last birthday at Madame Tussauds in Amsterdam. I saw a lot of wax statues and famous things in the museum. One of them is what inspired me for this design. I’ve been wanting to try this on my nails but didn’t get the time to do it.

Piet Mondrian is famous for his geometric paintings. Here is a sample of his work.

The design looks simple although would take a lot of time to do especially for a person like me that have a shaky hand. But the results are totally worth it.

I decided to “divide” parts of the artwork on each of my nails since I don’t think it would fit on just one nail. It also gives a fun look since no nail is identical.

I started painting all of my nails white as base color before drawing the other shapes. With the help of a nail art pen and a nail art brush, I was able to draw lines on and parallelograms on my nails. As you might have notices, those lines are not as crisp and straight, as I’ve mentioned, I really have a shaky hand.

I love the overall look of this design. It’s very simple but still catchy.

Tell me what you think.

Colors used

Essence Perfectly True

Elianto Novy

Sassy Nail Art Brush Black

Sassy Nail Art Brush Yellow

BNC 2way Nail Art Pen Red

Day 17 – Glitters

Hi guys! I can’t believe I went this far on this challenge. Can you believe that I’m already on the 17^th day? For today I will be showing you some Glitter nails.

For today’s challenge, I let my 8 year old nephew choose what color should I use. He chose Elianto Yellow. I really love the yellow shade but the application is really a pain in the neck. You’ll need 3 medium coats to make it opaque but yet, it’s still streaky. you would need a top coat to at least even it out.

After putting on 2 coats of Essence Space Queen, the streaks are not anymore visible. Space Queen have small multicolored glitters on a clear base. But I feel that the polish is so thick that I would have to wait till tomorrow to let it dry. (of course, I’m exaggerating). Here’s a closer look.

Those “sparklies” are the glitters. I actually like those glitters, maybe its just the color combination. I’m not really satisfied with how this turned out. It’s like I wanna remove this and change it with another one. But its too late for me to do that now. Before I wrap things up, let me show you how it looks in the bottle.

Lesson learned: not to use Space Queen over Yellow. Anyway, I have few more hours to have this changed.

Colors used:

Elianto Yellow

Essence Space Queen

Day 12 – Stripes

Hello guys! Today is the 12^th day of this challenge. And for today, the challenge will be Stripes.

I wanted to do some tape mani for the stripes, but I wanted this day to be simpler and better. I opted for a free handed stripes since I’m not really comfortable in using tape on my nails.

I used Jean Michelle Passionate Plum as base color. It’s a violet polish that’s more in the red tone. The red in it really showed more when I added the pink stripes. Unfortunately, after putting on the stripes, the base color is not that visible anymore. I used pink and yellow striping polish to create the thin and thick lines. I like how those little bottles of nail art brush are available here at a very reasonable and cheap price. Although they don’t really come in a wide variety of colors. But at least they do have the basics.

I’m satisfied on how this turned out. I know there are a lot of room for improvement for my free hand designs, but I like how this turned out.

How do you guys like it?

Day 9 - Rainbow

At the end of the rainbow there is a pot of gold, I will be there and the gold will be mine.

Hi guys! Before anything else, I would like to apologize for the blurry pictures. I didn't realize it till now that I am posting it.

Today's challenge is the Rainbow Nails.

I decided to use my fan brush for the first time since I got it last year. As you would notice I really need more (and I really mean more) practice on this one. But I liked how each of the colors blend in the middle. I’m not really sure if it’s with my polish, the brush or my application skills

I use white as base color before applying the other colors. It went pretty smooth at first but as the polish thickens, the application becomes pain in the neck.

I am just planning to put in the colors on the nails as it is, but my sister suggested that I add something gold (because of the quote I mentioned on the beginning of this post). I tried to draw a “pot of gold” but didn’t turn out the way I liked. My nephew even said it looks like a garbage bag. Haha!

So I decided to paint on the rainbow colors on my thumb and add on gold glitters instead. And I’m happy on how it turned out.

Do you really think there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

Colors used:

Bobbie Vamp

Bobbie Salmon

Caronia Sweet Surprise

Bobbie Lush

SanSan Warm Blue

SanSan Violet Glam

LA Colors Art Deco Violet

Sassy Nail Art Brush Red

LA Colors Art Deco Yellow

Neon Blue

En Vue

Day 3 – Yellow

We’re now on to the third day of the challenge. Today, is the Yellow day. And I’m going to show you something I haven’t used before.

Bobbie Piña Colada

This is Bobbie Piña Colada. And this is literally the first time I used this polish. Piña Colada is a shimmer polish. Although the color and formula is good, I’m quite disappointed that I have to use four coats to get full opacity. I am a person with very little patience in waiting for a polish to dry. That’s why I would prefer a polish that are opaque in two coats. Nonetheless, I still like the polish. Maybe I’ll try to put on a white polish first next time.

Bobbie Piña Colada

I love the very micro glitters that make the polish very shimmery. I wish the camera can capture the shine.

Bobbie Piña Colada

Yellow reminds me of sunrise and sunshine. But no, that’s not what I did for the accent. I honestly cannot figure out how I can capture and put into my nails how amazing the sunshine is. So I asked my eight year old nephew what he thinks when he hears the word “yellow”. But of course, he also said sunshine. So I asked him for another one.

He said pencil. I decided to draw the end part of the pencil as my accent nails. I’m not sure if that’s the way pencils are in other countries. The most popular pencil here is “Mongol” with numbers 1, 2 and 3. I decided I’d just use Mongol number 1.

Although I’m quite sad that he was not able to recognize that it is a pencil’s end, I still love how it turned out.

I suddenly miss going to school. So what do you guys think?

Colors used:

Bobbie Piña Colada

Sassy Pink (Nail Art Brush)

Essence Got a Secret

Pikachu

I previously said that I’m going to show you another nail design I did for my ex-boyfriend, so here it is. This one is the one I did before the Haunted House and Cats. I already did a couple more designs in his nails way back’ but this one is more recent.

When he went to visit me then, I wanted to paint his nails. I’m thinking of something easy to do. While I’m browsing through some nail tutorials that I can do, I thought of doing a tribal nail design. But he saw Pikachu and said he wanted that. So I checked out cutepolish’s tutorial. And since it was easy to follow, I decided to give it a shot.

And here’s how it turned out.

Pikachu

It’s kind of hard to actually position his hands in a way that it would be easy for people to distinguish that it was Pikachu.

Here’s another attempt in positioning the hands.

Pikachu

I’m not sure if it is recognizable, but with the red cheeks, pointed nose and zigzag mouth, I think it is.

What can you say about Pikachu?

Colors Used:

Caronia Sweet Surprise

Sally Hansen Cardinal

Essence Fabuless

Neon Skittles

While I was in Holland, I met a Surinamese. She’s a friend of my mom. She’s very kind and friendly. She let me come with her during her badminton games and we also went to couple of museums together. Before I left, I decided to pay her a visit. My plan is to paint her nails. Nanay (translation: mother) said she also loves cosmetics and painting her nails. (I might post picture of her nails too). So I brought all my polishes with me, so I can do nail art. When she saw my collection, she remembered one polish set that she have that she do not use. And she gave it to me.

It’s a set of bright neon colors. Unfortunately, it does not have any brand or label. I guess its just a cheap polish. But I don’t really care with the price as long as I get what I want.

It was just last week when I tried it out. And its as good as any polish that I own. I love how easy it is to apply on nails. I also love its bright neon colors. I’m not really fond of neons since most of the time, it’s painful to the eyes to look at them. But this polish is just an exemption. Despite it being bright, it’s not harmful to the eyes to look at.

This is how it looks like on my nails.

Neon Skittles

I decided to use five colors (excluding orange) on all my fingers. This polish is somewhat glazed but doesn’t sparkle that much. I still think it looks like a regular crème polish on my nails. But what’s good in it is with just two coats, you get a good opaque color on your nails.

I don’t want to have same color on same fingers so I decided to move colors a bit.

Here’s how my left hand looks like.

Neon Skittles - Left Hand

And this is my right hand.

Neon Skittles - Right Hand

Notice how the colors changed from one finger to the other.

I would also want to show you how it looks close up, but or some strange reasons while I’m looking at the files, a close up of my ring finger is missing, so I will only be able to show you the other four fingers on my right.

I used purple for my thumb.

Thumb

It somehow looks a little pinkish / fuchsia on picture but its purple in real life. Although, I had a hard time achieving this opacity because the brush for this polish is not as good as the rest. (I ruined some of the tips though)

I used green on my index.

Index Finger

I know I already used this specific color when my mom tried painting my nails. I like the shade of this green.

I painted my middle finger blue.

Middle Finger

I like how this finger turned out. It looks velvety to me. One day I might try putting this on with a matte top coat.

As I’ve mentioned, I don’t have a photo of my ring finger,  (I used yellow for that), so I’ll move on to my pinky.

My pinky wears a pink polish.

Pinky Finger

With sunlight, it somewhat look a bit orange. I also tried to use this for a striped mani with another pink polish, and it looked more orange.

In general, I love how this colors look on my nails. Unlike some other shades, I think they don’t make my fingers look darker.

Neon Skittles

What do you guys think?

Caronia Sweet Surprise

Hello everyone! Today, I decided to show you a post summer-colored polish. I know I'm waaay too late for this, especially in our country since summer is every March till May.

Caronia Sweet Surprise is one out of their 6 nail polishes from their summer collection.

Caronia Sweet Surprise

I've been looking for this shade that is not glazed for so long. When I got back from my vacation, I bought this together with the other color First Crush.

Sweet Surprise is a glazed bright yellow polish. It's also pigmented enough that I got this opacity with just two coats.And for just P31 (approx. US$0.72), it's worth every penny.

Honestly, I really thought that this is just a regular polish. I can barely see the usual shimmer that other Caronia glaze polishes have. What you see in the bottle, is exactly what you will get on your nails, no disappointments. The bright yellow is really suitable for summer look. Although based on my observation on my skin tone, bright yellow make my hands look darker than it normally is, but it won't stop me from wearing this. This is definitely a must-have for people with fair complexions.

This is how it looks like on a regular top coat.

Caronia Sweet Surprise

Caronia Sweet Surprise (Regular Top Coat)

Caronia Sweet Surprise

I also tried to use a gel top coat I purchased from Essence. To my disappointment, it's looks a lot like a regular top coat.

Caronia Sweet Surprise with Gel Top Coat

And as a personal favorite, I also tried to put on a matte finish.

Caronia Sweet Surprise Mattefied

Caronia Sweet Surprise Mattefied

Caronia Sweet Surprise Mattefied

It does not really look very different on the photos. But in real life, it's matte finish is just so elegant and can be worn even at the office. Even with its bold and bright color, the matte made it a little subtle.

I hope you guys like it. Leave a comment below for any reactions. :)