All I Want For Christmas are........

Happy Christmas everyone! hohoho

Sorry for this very late post (i really really planned to do this post a couple days before xmas but i need to finish some task so i can finish all of my work before holiday). And anyway, I really am glad that we can feel the joy again this year. I hope all of you have a merry christmas wherever you are. I hope all of us surrounded by the people we love :)

So, what you have on your nails this years? I think i'm started being very boring. Every year i do my christmas nailart, i always do the same things: santa, rudolf, xmas tree, bla bla.. I always want to do something different but i always ended up drawing the same one, maybe because i really love it soooo much :p
First, i always feel like there has to be santa! And rudolf is also a must, and the xmas tree, how can you have anything else but no tree? So, here they are.... My xmas nails this year!

1. Rudolf And The Christmas Tree

For me, basically i like christmas nails dominated by red, green, and white colour. so, for this Rudolf and the tree, i do it as simple as i can with my favorite color on it. For the RED i use Revlon - Fire, for the GREEN i use Revlon - Emerald, White i'm using OPI - Alpen Snow, Yellow using Revlon - Electric, and for the Rudolf brown head i'm using OPI - Dulche de Leche. For the antlers i'm using The FaceShop black dotting pen. And Voila! it's done! I think this nails is quiet simple and all of you can do it. No need any nailtorial for this nailart, right? ;)

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2. Santa Minions

Hellooo! This is one of my favorite, i do it exactly at December 25th morning, hohoho.. Minions are totally catching my heart. The combination between red, white, and yellow are just too lovely <3
There are also so many versions of Santa Minions on the internet. So which one is your favorite? Do you also have one on your nails this year? :D

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3. Christmas Present

i think christmas is also identical with present. Even how old you are, you will always wanted something special wrapped with beautiful paper and tied with a giant bow, right?
so this year, i tried to tied my nails with the bows and make it a special present for myself.. :)
to do this nails, i spent a quiet long time about 30-45 minutes and about 15 minutes to make sure that they're dried already so i can do a normal activity. Because i think it's quiet hard (or maybe need a lil more patient to do it), so i do the nailtorial for you guysss.. here they are:

Xmas Gift Nailtorial :
1 - apply the base color, for this time i'm using white (like what i've said, white is my fave for christmas)
2 - draw the circle in the middle of the nail with the dotting pen
3 - 4 - 5 - draw the bow pattern step by step
6 - apply the bow color after you draw the bow pattern, this is to make the coloring easier
7 - after you apply the color, re-draw the bow with the dotting pen to make the pattern clearer
DONE!

For addition, you can do a lil sparkles on the bow, just in case you want a blinking bows for your xmas nails. I recommend you OPI - Glow Up Already! for the blink effects.

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So that's all i want for christmas : Rudolf, Santa, Minions, and a beautiful Present. And i dont need to really have it literally, because i already have them on my nails ;)

Happy holiday and have a merry christmas!

xoxo

Halloween (Part 2) : The (Eye) Monsters Manicure

It's November 12th and i'm still so into Halloween since it's my favorite holiday for the whole year hoho. For me Halloween is not only about wearing costumes, collecting chocolates and candies, or even being scary or scared. Halloween is a moment when everyone celebrating a day with the devils and monsters. It sounds scary and doesn't right i think, but let me put it this way: it's a holiday that considered you that you're not alone in this world. That human is not the only one who has this world. We live together them and share the place and time with them too. So, this time i'll show you how a monster can look funny and cute!

A one eye monster like Mike Swazovski in Monster Inc is my inspiration for this manicure. So, my mani this time consist of three parts: the colorful skin, an eye, and a mouth/lips. To make it not scary (because i'm soooo done with people scary with monsters, please, they can be cute in some ways :p) i put colorful color as a base for their skins and cute facial expressions for each monster on each nail that illustrated by cute-lips-expressions.

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1. choose a color to be the skin of the monster, for this example i choose my favorite, pink. And this pretty pink polish is Revlon Top Speed - Candy.
2. Still with the same polish with the monster's skin, with dotting tools, make the horn of the monster on the edge of your nails and your skins.
3. to do the eye, use white color. This time i'm using white polish from Trendy Nails by The FaceShop.
4. enhance the eye with the dotting pen to make a perfect circle. I'm using The FaceShop Dotting Pen.
5. to do the lips use dotting pen in black color. I'm using The FaceShop Dotting Pen - black.
6. inside the white base for the eye, use green/blue as the pupil of the eye. You can use the dotting tools to do it.
7. inside the pupil, use dotting pen again to make the black part of the pupil.
8. to create the effect of light reflection in the eye, use the white dotting pen again. Make a dot on the black pupils for the effects.

Voila, and......... DONE!
I'll be very happy to see your version of one eye-cute-monsters on your nails :D

Happy (Late) Halloween!
Still wanna trick or treat? ;)

Maybelline Color Show Nail Polish - Review

Hello! It's been 5 months since my last post and finally today i can make my time to do another post. Pfft life just being so rush lately. I'm sorry that i've been neglecting my blog and you my lovely readers for a very long time. My time was so taken up to finish my office's project and tadaa! One of my project is now finished (almost done 100% actually) so i can make time to fondling my blog hahahaha

Anyway, today for my comeback i specially present this post for Maybelline Color Show. Because.... i really in looooove with their polishes! I bought it about 5 months ago and they're now up already, so i need to buy another bottle tho :p

This product is a little bit (maybe bery different but for me they are quiet close) the same with Revlon Top Speed Nail Polish. Even the bottle, the packaging, and the colors are different but they both offer the same excellence, it's that both of them are dry fast. I dont need more than 3 minutes to wait them dry after i applied em on my nails. Super love!

What makes them really different is (i think) the packaging, i mean the bottle. For me, i prefer Maybelline Color Show. The packaging is so simple and what do i call it.... fashionable, perhaps? hahaha maybe you can judge it by yourself after see the packaging, so here they are.. My 3 first Maybelline Collor Show Nail Polish!

So, what do you think? Quiet cute right? I love how they make it like a cute tiny little tube with black cap on it. Dashing <3

Anyway, couple months ago when i bought them at Matahari Department Store, i got a prom so when i bought Maybelline product with Color Show items with it and they cost more than IDR 150.000, i'll get 1 free pretty purse. I picked the pink one as my gift <3

Let me introduce you my 3 favorite first collection from this product, actually the colors are pink-salmon, deep green, and icy-blue. They are Coral Craze, Tenacious Teal, and Blueberry Ice. My favorite of these three? Can't find one because i love them all :D

Coral Craze (211) - it is a very very very beautiful pink-salmon color! I've once have a salmon color but not this pink, so since pink is my favorite color, so this is my best salmon color i've ever had! And btw, this polish is quiet gel so i dont need to apply it twice or thrice, but once i applied it on the nails, it stick perfectly.

Tenacious Teal (301) - is a deep green color which is not really dark but it's deep already. It makes this color match with any other color so it's not hard to combine it with other color also outfit. For formal or casual event, this color also match enough, i think :)

Blueberry Ice (403) - is as icy as its name! The fresh blue color i very pretty that makes me who dont like blue, choose it and love to wear it on my nails :p This blue is not really blue, somehow in outdoor it looks so light so it looks quiet white. But in indoor, it looks fabulous!

And this is how i combine these 3 fabulous color on my nails..

like i said before, these color are accidentally match each other, so what color will you grab for your Color Show collection? Make sure you have more than 1 so you can mix and match them on your nails like what i did. Just an idea, maybe it's gonna be great to make a water-marble since they're dry fast. So, dare to try? ;)

BURBERRY Manicure

Hello ladies, it's been a few weeks since my last post. I've been so busy but luckily this week i have extra holiday because here in Indonesia we have Nyepi (hindus feast) so in this long weekend i'm trying a new nailart which i've always wanted to try on my nails for a long time. It's BURBERRY pattern manicure.

Burberry has a unique pattern which is easily recognizable, so i thought to make nailart patterned like this brand.

And come examples i got online from google, flickr, pinterest, and some youtube tutorials really help me to make this manicure. Here's some example that i got on the internet (really sorry that i dont remember where i got it, i've searched it for so long time ago, just tell me if you own there pictures i got below)

And from these pictures above, i think i need to make some differences. First, the pattern looks like need an extra concentrate and patience which i really bad in it hahaha. So i try to combine between 'complicated' and 'easy'. I mean, i wanna try to combine between 'the pattern' and 'the colour'.

Second, if i do all of my nails with the pattern, it's gonna be look kinda 'crowded' on the five nails. So i think it's better if i have 2 nails as 'balancer' of the pattern. I will apply just a plain mani with one colour. But the colour needs to be strong enough to balance the pattern in the 3 other nails.

So, here's my version of Burberry manicure...

The nail polishes i need to make this manicure are (from left to right) :

+ Sheer Rose - Revlon

+ White colour - The FaceShop

+ Black dotting pen - The FaceShop

+ Fire - Revlon (applied by the tiny brush i got from KS Nailart)

And how to do it is very simple and i'm 100% sure that everyone of you can do it by yourself!

p.s. what you need is just the polishes, the tools, and patience, trust me ;)

This is the step by step how i do mine :

1. Apply the base-colour (Sheer Rose-Revlon) and make the cross pattern on it with the white polish (The FaceShop)

2. Make the black line with black dotting pen (The FaceShop). It's 3 horizontal and 3 vertical lines.

3. Last, make the red line by the fire polish from Revlon. Make 1 horizontal and vertical line each and make it until it looks like what i do on mine on the picture (crossing line)

So, dare to make one?
I'll so glad to see your version of this manicure. Make sure you do it with patience, ok?
Good luck! xoxo -

Happy Happy Happy New Year 2014

Happy new year guys! Wow it's now 2014 already! My favorite question to all of you is:
what's your nails looked at the eve? You did your nails for the party, didn't you? :D

I really had a great time with my second family, they're my best friends and some college friends at the NY-Eve. We spent the night at a guest house in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It's so traditional and heritage. The architect who design the guest house itself is my uncle and also the father of one of my best friends hehehe
and the point is, the eve was great because the place was awesome too!

Back to my nails, i do a black-gold and it's kinda inspired by the sparkling stars and fireworks at the new year eve. How about yours? Let me show you mine first anyway... here they are.....

For the base coat i'm using The FaceShop base coat polish. And the base color, the black one, i'm using 'Mistletoe' by Revlon Top Speed Nail Enamel. And to do the golden splash in the corner, i draw the pattern first by white polish and a tiny brush then cover it with gold polish.
The white polish i used was 'Alpine Snow' by O.P.I. and the gold one was 'GoldenEye' by O.P.I.
And for the final touch i did it with The FaceShop sparkling polish (the code was SL211), it makes the black looks more sparkling and looks like the sky with thousand stars, doesn't it?

To make it clear, i think it's not enough with just words and sentences, here they are the step by step illustrations, have a try and good luck!

And anyway, just like what i said before, i spent the new year eve with some friends at an adorable traditional heritage guest house, here are some pictures from the guest house.
p.s. you might love it so much and want to visit it by yourself so please just come! :D

2014 please be nice.. Hope we all will have a great year ahead.
And of course, i hope we all will love our nails more and more and also be more creative.
Just keep calm, creative, and do nailart ;)

xoxo