PCFSC: #35; Ticker Tape Parade

You would NOT believe the amount of new words and events that I have learn during the Purple Crumpet Spring Challenge. This was another thing that I had absolutely no clue on - I am so glad that we have google in our modern world.

I would really love to be in one of these parades one day, they look so fun!

PCFSC: #14; Pastel Skittles

Skittles, yay!

I really love this NOTD except for the green finger - I wish I picked a more yellow-green pastel or that Kleancolour had, had released a darker green (which would still be good if they did that now). I couldn't find a good spring glitter that suited all these colours and I just can't leave them look plain so I HAD to stamp them with something flowery, hehe.

PCFSC: #9; Favourite Spring Lilac

My favourite lilac has one of the cliché-ish but cutest name ever, Lilac Dream. This is not only a favourite for spring but all year round too, I think it's prefect, not too blue nor too red. Whenever I play with this lilac, I cant help but want to Jelly Sandwich it or at least glitter bomb it - today is no different, lol.

Day Thirty : Inspired by a Tutorial

There are soooo many good tutorials out there for nail art but one person stood out the most for me and that's Kayla from Kaylashevonne.com - her art AND nails are always so prefect. The Retro Polka Dot manicure amazes me; how does one make it look so flat, smooth but still look like dots with all those dollop of polishes on top?  Kayla can in her tutorial.

Retro Polka Dots

by Kayla Shevonne

I had none of the polishes that she recommended and the green that I had to substitute with did not like Skull & Glossbones AT ALL. (Also I thought my right hand may like at least one photo in this challenge, probably sick of Lefty taking up all the spotlight)

Day Twenty-Five: Inspired by Fashion

Today's nails are inspired by Nicki Minaj's tights from the Victoria Secret runway where Orlando Bloom proudly cheered for his wife, Miranda Kerr. Nicki Minaj is very famous for her quirky outfits but this one stood out the most for me.. it's soo bold and brightly coloured.

Nicki Minaj 

on the Victoria Secret Runway

I didn't notice that there was a contest that is being held by O.P.I for the release of the Nicki Minaj Collection when I was painting until I started seeing a huge hoard of them being posted on everyone's blog. You can look at the entries here and I'm so sorry that this is another Nicki inspired manicure - I bet you're sick of seeing them! 

Day Twenty-Three: Inspired by a Movie

The first ever movie that I've ever watched was when I was 7 years old. Pokemon had been quite popular at the time, I mean it's still popular but this was when the first generation was released and every kid was oogling over how cool they were. I was basically in the same bandwagon along with my 3 brothers. This manicure is inspired by the original 4 pokeballs before all those weird ones starting poping up in later generations like the cherish ball.

It was the first pokemon movie EVER (there's 14ish now) and it played along with a shorter film based on Pikachu and the rest of Ash's pokemons but it look a while to get to New Zealand as there wasn't really an audience for it at the time of it being released.

Mewtwo Strikes Back
+ Pikachu's Vacation

(I hate how the purple kept smudging all over the other colours no matter how much I let it dry or try to avoid those areas with the topcoat D:)

Day Twenty-Two: Inspired by a Song

There is one person that always makes me happy again after listening to his happy, energetic but abstract songs - Adam Randall from Owl City. I am seriously a HUGE fan of his. I picked one of his top hits and it luckily did not have a too much of a weird but cute name *coughStrawberry Avalanchecough*.

Fireflies. 

... and inspired by these lines:

"'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs as they tried to teach me how to dance"
 and
 "A disco ball is just hanging by a thread"

AND these photos of Japanese fireflies

Day Nineteen: Galaxy Nails

Originally I was going to do something like Emerald Sparkle's Galaxy Nails but even with her easy-to-understand tutorial... mine didn't have the same results. After 4 retries, the sponges that I have been using went too hard for these finer details so I ended up picking a couple of colours to go on top of the white nebula instead. People who can actually do these galaxy manicures are my envies, it's definitely a lot harder than it looks and even more harder than it sounds, hahahaa.

Day Fifteen: Delicate Print Nails

I didn't really have a clue on what today's challenge really meant.... I mean what is a "Delicate Print" ? After googling past challengers of Day Fifteen (Can you believe that I'm half way already?) and seeing a lot of lacey/lingere-ish nails... it sort of kinda makes sense.

So here's my take on Delicate Print, inspired by this cute blue babydoll.

Day Ten : Gradient Nails

My boyfriend means the world to me and lately he's been getting semi involved with my nailpolish addiction although... it is a little out of hand. His favourite colours are red AND black - not red by itself or black by itself; They have to be together. I decided to go gradient on his favourite colours with glitter on top and the outcome was this vampy looking manicure.

Day Six : Violet Nails

Two words. JELLY SANDWICH.

I had so many purpley shades of glitters in jelly that I had to try this manicure technique. Okay... honestly, I have no idea if I did this correctly or not... I googled it after reading about it everywhere on MUA and got a couple of different answers on what I had to layer to get the Jelly Sandwich look but I knew it was 3 polishes and one of them had to have a jelly base. I ended up following the advice of Wan from I Love Nail Polish in her post explaining a Jelly Sandwich and well, quite happy with the results. Base colour, Glitter, Jelly Polish and BAM, you have a Jelly Sandwich!

Day Four : Green Nails

Green is my favourite colour... and so when this concept showed up for the 31 Day Nail Art Challenge, I didn't know which of my greens to use since I had so many favourites. I ended up creating a splatter manicure using those greens and it well created a pretty cute NOTD with an interesting texture underneath all the coats of topcoats.

This was the first time that I've used this nail art technique and let me tell you... it's rather disgusting sucking the polish into the straw (I thought it was done in the same method as splattering with paint when we were in kindergarten) and I don't think that you're meant to do that anyways. In the end I found a straw that was small enough to fit in the polish hole but big enough to grab on some polish as it was placed in the bottle and blew that onto my nails. It look a couple of tries per finger because I kept missing, ahahaha, and created a big mess over my hands and the tissue it was on but it's fun.

Day Three : Yellow Nails

When I think of yellow... I think of golden glitters and my favourite shape in the entire world. Stars.

Unfortunately, what I intended to do in my head did not have the same outcome on my nails because... I'm a horrible stamper, hahaa. Either way, it still looks pretty fun and and we can pretend those fail golden stars are meant to be gold leaves, lol.