Resort World Part II

Happy CNY everyone! Hope you already collected enough angpaos to fund your future purchases!

I did up my nails a while back with a coral polish from Rubi and Essie Turquoise and Caicos (T&C)! I wanted to have rad nails while playing the guitar but I was initially hesitant to paint them because I know they'll chipped pretty fast with all the chord changing and strumming. Then, I saw Orianthi on youtube and she always had pretty painted nails so I figured why not! Plus I was still on my school vacation when I painted my nails so I had time to repaint them if they chipped!

This colour combi is similar to the one I showed you in the Resort World post, which is why this post has been aptly named Resort World Part II. I love these two colours together because they remind me of some island resort of the Maldives! I can already picture myself there chilling! The two colours also manage to look so chill, yet so cheery at the same time so I really like this combination a lot.

Picture time!

This was taken in sunlight.

And this one was with flash.

Pardon the mess on my cuticles because I did my nails at 2am and I was too lazy to clean them up before sleeping. Oh, and big mistake painting my nails before sleeping because I woke up with smeared nails, even though I waited almost an hour after painting before sleeping! I would have thought one hour would be sufficient for them to dry but apparently not. Hence, I layered a coat of Poshe on top those smeared nails.  

For T&C, I used 2 thin coats and 1 thicker coat and for the coral Rubi one, I used 2-3 coats ranging from nail to nail. T&C was surprisingly manageable and not as frightening as I had imagined. Perhaps it was because I had time to patiently wait for each coat to dry fully before painting the next one on (I was watching How to Train Your Dragon while painting my nails).  

Hope you like this colour combi! I also realise that I now find it boring to simply have one uniform colour on all my nails! It's so much more fun to have an accent nail! (: 

PS: The coral colour lasted almost 3 days (with a Sally Hansen top coat) and T&C is still going strong (with Poshe Fast Drying Topcoat). Essie usually wears like iron for me so I guess that's something good about it. I hate their thin brushes so at least I get some reward for my effort!