#NailArtApr Challenge Day 1 : Flowers NOTD + Tutorial

Hey everyone!

I've seen lots of nail bloggers and artists do nail art challenges. And the one that caught my eye is the one made by Californails. Here's my Day 1 to Nail Art April Challenge (I'm a few days late, sorry!) which is Flowers!

 I've put together a little tutorial for you guys, and here's what you need:

  

From Right to Left:

• Etude House Help My Finger Sunshine Whitener as basecoat;
• Etude House Jewelade RD201;
• Etude House Look at My Cotton Candy Nails COR202;
• The Face Shop Lovely Me: EX Nails YL702;
•  Etude House Look at My Cotton Candy Nails CWH901;
• Skin Food Nail Vita BL512;
• Pokari for Stroberi 6190 Metallic Green;
• and Revlon Super Top Speed Top Coat as top coat.

The steps:

1. Paint your nails the base color you wanted.
2. Using a darker color of what you wanted for your roses, draw a not perfect circle. Fill it in.
3. Draw another circle with the lighter color.
4. Start making a dot in the middle of your circle and create the 'petals' by making a half-moon shape using the lighter color. Let it dry.
5. Do the 4th step with darker color on the other circle.
6. Using white, draw half-moon shape on both circles, not overlapping the colors you've created.
7. Draw little triangles coming out of the flower using a green polish or acrylic paint.
8. Highlight the leaves with a lighter shade of green in the middle of the triangle.
9. Top coat to seal it off and you're done!

The tools I used in this mani is my trusty old Cotman 0000 brush.

It's a little crooked on the edges because I don't rotate it often enough! :p

If you have any questions, comment below or mention me on twitter or Instagram.

Hope you guys enjoy my post, and see you soon!

Eternally High Color Nail Polish 837 Swatch & Review

Hello again everyone! Today I have another nail polish from my vault I want to show you. It's called Eternally High Color Nail Polish 837 (such a long name!). Today, April 2, is Autism Awareness Day, which is why I choose to show you a blue polish. I wanted to make some nail art on 837, but I didn't have the time due to exams and assignments from my school that I still have to finish. 

Anyway, let's get to the pictures!

Eternally High Color Nail Polish 837 under my table lamp

The bottle & my nails

With flash

In these pictures I used 3 coats and topcoat. The topcoat I used is Revlon Top Speed Top Coat. Formula wise, I don't think this one is the best out there. After a few times of using it, it starts to get thick & lumpy, and hard to get it to even out, even at 3 coats. But for stamping, because of the thickness of the formula, it's awesome. I'll show you sometime how this polish looks like for stamping. 

I bought this at Mall Taman Anggrek in Jakarta, Indonesia at Rp33.000 (about 3USD). So, what does your Autism Awareness Day mani looks like? :)

NOTD: Easter Bunny & Eggs Nails

Happy Easter Sunday everyone! For this occasion I made a bunny inspired by The Nail Trail's instagram photo of her own easter bunny. Of course, mine looks more like a sociopath bunny while hers look adorable!  Pics below:

Products used:

• Etude House Help My Finger Sunshine Whitener as basecoat;
• Innisfree Eco Nail Color #9;
• Etude House Look at My Cotton Candy Nails PWH901;
•  Etude House Look at My Cotton Candy Nails COR202;
• Elianto Nail Colour S04;
• Eternally High Color Nail Polish 837;
• Reeves Acrylic Paint in Titanium White;
• Simbalion Acrylic Paint in Black; and
• Revlon High Speed Top Coat as topcoat.

Tools I used to create this mani:

• Cotman 0000 Brush; and
• Dotting tools for the dots.

Happy Sunday! 

NOTD: Spring Pastel Tribal Nails

Hi again everyone!

Today I have a recent manicure (read: mani) that I created for spring.  I used to make tribals with 2 or 3 colors, but I'm trying to expand my abilities and came up with this! :D

Sorry for the glare! >.<

Products used: 

•  Etude House Help My Finger Sunshine Whitener as base coat;
• Innisfree Eco Nail Colors #9;
• Etude House Look at My Cotton Candy Nails CPP501;
• Etude House Look at My Cotton Candy Nails COR202;
• The Face Shop Lovely Me EX: Nails GR501;
• Simbalion Acrylic Paint in 08 Black;
• Revlon Super Top Speed as top coat.

Tools I used:

• Cotman  0000 Brush (I got this from my local bookstore for about IDR36.000
• Striper Brush (I got mine from here.)

SO, what do you think? Easter is right around the corner, and I've prepared a nail art inspired by one of the bloggers. See you soon!