The Versatile Blogger Award

Just a quick post for you lovelies. :) I received this comment a while back but never got the chance to actually make a post for this.

I was nominated for "The Versatile Blogger Award". How Cool is that?

 So here's how it works:

• Nominate 15 fellow bloggers and inform them of their nomination.
• Share 7 random things about yourself
• Thank the blogger who nominated you

I follow a lot of bloggers especially on my personal blog, but since I received this on my nail blog, I decided that I will nominate nail bloggers and artist as well. :)

Here they are (Click on links to check their blogs)

• Simply Rins
• Wow Nails
• Diamondgay
• Janyses Nail Creations
• OPIAddiction
• GorjessNails
• Alex Fenn
• Illusionail
• Nail Crazy
• ChalkboardNails
• Nailside
• ProfessionalDQ
• Nail Stories
• The Nailpolishaholic
• Cutepolish

Random Facts about myself:

• I am a crybaby.
• I wanted to go on a short vacation with my best friend / sister that is far from home.
• I wanted to visit more countries in Europe.
• I prefer to sleep with the lights on.
• I dream of becoming a famous nail blogger.
• I don't know how to swim.
• I am a homebody. I prefer to stay home than chill out.

And for the last part, I would like to thank two lovely bloggers for nominating me this award. They are (insert drum roll here) Sha Does Shaweet Nails and Psychonails, Thank you so much for this wonderful recognition. You don't know how much this means to me. Keep Rockin' :)

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 26 – Inspired by a Pattern

Hey there! Today’s post is a continuation of the 31 day challenge. And today is the 26^th installment of it which is Inspired by a Pattern.

There are days in my nail painting life that I ran out of ideas and suck in doing the design. This is one of them. The patterns I saw from other nail bloggers who did this challenge makes me feel worse about what I did.

 I literally ran out of idea on what to do on my nails. I wanted something more elegant. But my mind just went blank. I decided to do something very simple – a checkered design. Since it’s still holidays when I did my nails, I opted to go for the holiday colors, green, red and gold. Well, I cheated, that’s not really gold. I used Art Club Bronze for the base color. Then added on some red and green checkered using BNC 2 way nail art pen. I need a lot of practice with this one.

I’m not exactly sure that checkered are patterns. But I want to claim that it is.

What do you guys think of the design?

Colors used:

Art Club Bronze

BNC 2 way nail art pen Red

BNC 2 way nail art pen Green

Day 25 – Inspired by Fashion

Hi there! I made a mistake in doing the challenge during the holiday season. As I’ve mentioned, I had a vacation and was not able to get in front of a computer. That’s why even though I was able to finish the challenge on time, it was only now that I am showing you guys everything. I will have everything scheduled for you so as not to flood you with the post. One post a day. :)

Moving on, this post will show you day 25 of the challenge, which is Inspired by Fashion. From the start of this challenge, I have been thinking what to do for this day. You see, I am not a fashionable girl. Dressing up is the least of my concern when going out. I wouldn’t be surprised if I will be caught by a fashion police one day. So this is a hard one for me. After a lot of thinking, I remembered a simple blouse my sister owns.

I thought that this would be easy for me to do since it has very simple design. Here’s how it turned out.

I started off with a base color from Elianto which is Novy. Too bad Elianto stopped selling polishes here, and I was only able to grab three colors from them. It was a bit late when I found out that they had a wide range of different colors. Moving on, I used the same technique on this design from my dots within dots, which is by the way inspired by Emerald Sparkled.

I used Elianto Yellow and Caronia Silver Platinum for the dots. This technique is easy since all you need are polish and a dotting tool.

I am satisfied with how this design went, although I was not able to clean up very small dirt on my skin. Sorry for that, I only get to see it now.

Here’s a closer look on the nails and the blouse.

                                                                                                                              

How do you guys like it?

Colors used

Elianto Novy

Elianto Yellow

Caronia Silver Platinum

Holiday Nails

Hi everyone! This post is a bit late for posting. But I went on a vacation during the holidays and was not able to get in front of a computer to have everything uploaded, that’s why I’m uploading it just now.

I know I’m still in the middle of the challenge. But I wanted to share with you my nails for Christmas day. Although I’ve said that I do not personally celebrate the Christmas season, it has been a family tradition to get together and have a small feast. They would also put up a Christmas tree at home.

In the middle of the challenge, before the clock strikes twelve, I decided to do some Holiday mani.

I used Bobbie Touch of Tan as base color so as not to overpower the trees. I then drew Christmas tree as accent nails on my thumb and ring finger. I drew the tree using BNC 2 way nail art pen in green. I used BNC 2 way nail art pen in red for the red Christmas balls and Caronia Silver Platinum and a dotting tool for the silver balls. For the strings (I’m not really sure what it’s called) I used Art Club Bronze.

I drew in the stars on top using neon yellow. Although the stars don’t really resemble a star, I still like how it turned out. Let’s take a closer look at my Christmas tree.

Too bad, I was only able to wear this for few hours since I had to remove in and continue on with the challenge. I liked how the Christmas tree turned out. I’m even planning to add some gifts, but due to time constraints, I was not able to do that.

What do you guys think?

Day 24 – Inspired by a Book

Hey there! We’re still working on this challenge as the holidays is approaching. And for today, what I have on my nails are something inspired by a book.

I was browsing thru the internet for some best selling books that are easy to do. Then I saw Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. I haven’t read the novel itself. But I remember reading it in a book when I was younger.

Let’s take a closer look.

This is the Cheshire cat’s grin. It was said to be left in the air even after he left. Alice even remarked that she has often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin without a cat.

I used Neon Purple as base color. Then I used a nail art brush to do the grin.

On my ring finger is the Queen of hearts who Alice met in the Wonderland. I used Essence Perfectly True as base color and used BNC two way nail art pen to draw the hearts and letter Q.

Evidently, this is Alice’s dress. I used SanSan Warm Blue and Essence Perfectly True for this one.

The White Rabbit that Alice followed has a pocket watch. So I decided to use it here. That’s Perfectly True on base again and Art Club Bronze for the watch’s outline.

And last but not the least is the bottle’s label that Alice drank that made her shrink. I used Essence Found my Love for the base color and LA Art Deco Violet.

So what do you guys think about my Alice in Wonderland’s nail?

Colors used:

Neon Purple

SanSan Warm Blue

Essence Perfectly True

Essence Found my Love

LA Art Deco Violet