PCFSC: #38; Spring Sunset

My Spring Sunset nails for today is a bit abstract; the golden lines are sun rays and the black is the starry sky eating up the light. I really love how this came out and I can say without a doubt, this has to be my favourite nails of the entire challenge!

PCFSC: #11; Pastel Patchwork

I'm not a big fan of the patchwork manicure because I'm just dreadful at making the black lines thin and patchworkish or I can not draw patches without placing them evenly around my fingers. I was meaning to stamp different patterns onto each patch with a corresponding darker colour but my stamping plates were already packed away for my trip to university.

PCFSC: #8; Blossom Trees

Straight from my own farm and inspired by a picture from google that I can no longer find (explains the purple centres), freshly bloomed White Plum Blossom Trees!

I really love it when these blossoms bloom in Spring, there's so many and they're very dainty. We have about 8 very mature adult trees on one side of our driveway; when they do come, our driveway is absolutely snowed with Petals! It's very pretty!

PCFSC: #3; Small Flowers/Flower Bed

These flowers turned out to look very similar to the flowers on Spongebob Squarepants; it was not intentional but I'm rather happy that they came out well. I was going to place little "pearls" in the middle of each flower but decided that it was fine; simple but elegant.

This manicure was inspired by a Japanese woman who made three beautiful white acrylic flowers and placed them on her nude nails like a glorified french manicure.

PCFSC: #2; Favourite Spring Pink

I didn't want to chose something cliché like a pastel pink so this is my Favourite Spring Pink, it's not very springish... more of summer pink but I like it a lot and plus, it's a gift from the boy so I think it's prefect to wear it around Valentines day :)

... and of course, I couldn't resist adding glitter on top!

Day Twenty-Nine: Inspired by the Supernatural

I've been looking forward to today's challenge! I'm not much of a supernatural girl... in fact, I'm quite opposite, almost anything supernatural scares me, Zombies on Minecraft? Dig a hole and wait for daylight to come. There is one ghost that I am very fond of, King Boo from the Mario series. He's so uber cute and the sound he makes when he's up to something mischievous makes me giggle inside as if I know what he's up to.

King Boo

As the years gone by, he's became less of an evil villain and more of a cheeky prankster who is always up to no good, I love him so much, haha. (For those who have asked me why I never show my thumb - it looks weird in photos but also I have a short thumb compared to the rest of my already short fingers and so it's rarely noticed therefore I just paint it plainly where someone else would put most of their nail art on it. Anyways, photo just for 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 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 Eighteen: Halfmoon Nails

I'm not really a big fan on halfmoons and french manicures because they look so crisp when others do it and mine? They're really wonky. I stumbled upon this manicure when I was playing with an app on the boyfriend's new iphone, it's called "Nailup" released by the Japanese nail magazine, it features a couple of pages full of manicure ideas and tutorials (but the downside with this app is that it does not update). Anyways, on one of the pages it featured a model wearing this delicate manicure:

... and I tried it for myself except it didn't turn out as dainty as the picture above.... everything looks IS thick and chunky - not very feminine.

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 Fourteen : Flowers Nails

Today, my bottle of actone has finally finished but I could not find a seller in time to purchase another bottle and so I'm back on nail polish remover which is basically watered down acetone. Gah.

BUT... on a happy note, I finished my Flower Nails for today's challenge and they make me feel quite proud, aside from the very messy clean up, especially since they're kinda cute. This is another first for me. It's the first time I've ever used nail decals stickers even though I have a HUGE collection of them - they're quite fun and pretty though they do pull apart really easily. These nails were inspired by a premade fake nail set from Etsy made by (and probably also designed by) Cel from Cel's Deconails.

Day Twelve : Stripe Nails

Last week I broke my arm and haven't really got used to it yet. I wanted to do a neat tape stripe manicure for this challenge but even when both my arms could freely move with a huge cast in the way... I sucked at tape manicures. Instead I resorted to freehand lines which I don't quite like - it reminds me of painting hard boiled eggs for easter ( and I was inspired by this springish background of stripes).

Also, the colour combination is something I didn't chose... It was the boyfriend's idea! He deliberately chose 5 colours that he thought would not go together just to troll me, *Shakes fist at him*

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 Eight : Metallic Nails

Another stamping failure, opps. I really need to learn how to scrap the polish off properly.

Anyways, this is inspired by metal fences. I live on a farm and everywhere I look is a metal wired fence to keep animals inside their field as well as to mark land boundary between neighbouring farms. The base colour isn't as "metallic" as I wanted it to be but it still gives a pretty cool effect in a shade of metal. And the glitter? Supposed to be sparks of electric that runs through our world famous New Zealand No.8 wires.

Day Five : Blue Nails

I've been seeing a lot of matted glitter manicures and wanted to try one for myself for my Blue Nails manicure because well... almost every glitter just suits this colour and it looks wonderful mattified. As for the glitters...  rainbow, hexagons, two different sizes and in a clear base what else is there to argue about? :)

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.

NYX : Runaway Collection - Catwalk

 

Brand: NYX Cosmetics

Collection: The Runway Collection (10 Colour Eyeshadow Pallet)
Price: $11USD
Contains: 14g (0.49Oz)

Ingredients: Mica, Talc, Zinc Stearate, Mineral Oil, 2-Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Tridecyl, Trimellitate, BHT, Methylparaben, Propylparaben. 

Place of purchase: Cherry Culture is the best place to purchase NYX Cosmetics because they're always in stock and on sale for $8.50USD. They can also be found on Nonpareil Boutique for $8.50USD as well as Crush Cometics for $14.95AUD.
Website: NYX Cosmetics
Location: Los Angeles, USA but made in People's Republic of China.

Animal Cruelty-Free: Yes.
Hypoallergenic: Yes.
Vegan: No.
Mineral: No.

Jebba's Star Rating: 

NYX : Runaway Collection - Romance

 

Brand: NYX Cosmetics

Collection: The Runway Collection (10 Colour Eyeshadow Pallet)
Price: $11USD 
Contains: 14g (0.49Oz)

Ingredients:
Mica, Talc, Zinc Stearate, Mineral Oil, 2-Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Tridecyl, Trimellitate, BHT, Methylparaben, Propylparaben.

Place of purchase: Cherry Culture is the best place to purchase NYX Cosmetics because they're always in stock and on sale for $8.50USD. They can also be found on Nonpareil Boutique for $8.50USD as well as Crush Cometicsfor $14.95AUD.
Website: NYX Cosmetics
Location: Los Angeles, USA but made in People's Republic of China.

Animal Cruelty-Free: Yes.
Hypoallergenic: Yes.
Vegan: No.
Mineral: No.

Jebba's Star Rating: