Different Ways To Wear Multichrome Polish

Hey y'all! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I tried out the dry brush method the other day with my oil spill nails and that inspired me to come up with a post on some different ways to wear multichrome polish, besides the usual few coats over black.

In this post, I used Ozotic 502, 504 and 505, as well as Girly Bits Cosmetics Hiss & Lear over black and these are just a few more creative ways to wear multichromes. I took some shots underwater too, to bring out the full effect of the colour shifts so as a general guideline, the pictures with black backgrounds are shots taken on dry land and the pictures with the white backgrounds were taken underwater. 

Here's a shot with the four designs I decided to recreate - the braid, the tribal, the dry brush and the fan brush. I've included links to the various tutorials I referred to so you guys can join in the fun too!

I took so pictures designs from different angles so that you can see the colour shifts. Here, they're all on the warm side and as we go down, the colours will shift towards a cooler spectrum.

Here are some underwater shots. Gosh, I just love how water brings out so much more of the chrome shifts!

Now for some close up shots. This first one is the braid. It's relatively simple to do but here's a good tutorial I found. 

This next one is the tribal. I had higher expectations for this design but it seems the chromes do not really shift as much. It did look pretty rad still. Here's a link to the tribal tutorial I used.  

Here's the dry brush. This one is similar to the oil spill look and my suggestion is to leave sufficient black space in the background so you can still see the different polish used. You can experiment with longer/shorter brush strokes depending on your nail length. 

This last one is the fan brush. SimpleNailArtDesigns has a really good video tutorial that you can watch and this was a really simple and fun look. It reminds me of dragons beard, a type of candy we get here in Singapore! 

I also tried out the same technique with a vertical pattern instead of a horizontal one and the colour shift is more evident though I still think the horizontal pattern looks nicer. 

So there you go - four new ways to wear your multichromes. They're super simple to do and they're such a great way to spice up your manicure! Drop me a comment if you have any other ideas/suggestions on more ways to play with multichromes! Till next time! (:

Multichrome Oil Spill Nails

Hey y'all! I came across this amazing oil spill nails post by Nail Loopy a while back using some ILNP multichrome polish and I could not get it out of my head so I decided to try and recreate the look with some of the multichromes I have.

I used Ozotic 502 and 504, as well as Girly Bits Hiss & Lear for this look. I first painted a black base and when that was completely dry, I used the dry brush method and painted the various multichromes using random strokes. These pictures were taken underwater to bring out the oil spill effect even better! 

I love that this look was soooo beyond easy to recreate and the effect was just...WOW. Seriously, you guys got to try this out! :)

Holographic Watercolour Nails

Hey y'all! If you've followed me on Instagram, you'd know that I managed to get some time off the other night (FINALLY!) and decided to spend some time on my nails. I've wanted to try out the watercolour nail trend for a while now but I thought, hey go holo or go home! HA!

So I started out with Color Club Harp On It. This is three thin coats.

I then proceeded to dab a little of all the Halo Hues (minus Harp On It) randomly to create the watercolour effect. 

Here's a closer look! This reminds me of Wall's Paddle Pop so much. It's a really cool look! 

One last picture for the road because it's just too gorgeous!

Till next time! :)

Halloween Nails

Hey guys!

Sorry I haven't been blogging as frequent as I promised. Work has taken over my life once again and my weekends were just spent sleeping or catching up with friends so I haven't been painting my nails as much. 

But but but...I have a treat for you today. Or maybe it's a trick? Well, it's the Halloween nail art I did a couple days ago. I really wanted to do some nice nail art cuz I've been slacking off so much. I wanted to see if I could still do some kickass nail art!

I really love the Dia de Muertos skull in particular but all the nail art was pretty simple so that's good! 

Till next time! 

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Monochrome Madness

Hey y'all! I just got back from Bangkok yesterday and during my trip there, I went a little crazy with all the monochrome clothes there - polka dots, tribal, floral, stripes and everything you can think of!

When it was time to do my mani, there was still some residual monochrome madness so this was what I came up with.

I used China Glaze White On White for the base and Beadstreet S79 for the black details. It didn't quite turn out as neat as I wanted it to be but it's my first nail art in a long time so I'm still pretty pleased with this.

Hope you guys dig the nail art! :)

National Day Mani

Happy National Day to my peeps in Singapore!

This year's nail art idea came from my colleague. We were talking during lunch and she suggested painting the Merlion so I found the eaisest Merlion outline and viola!

After last year's national flag with the crazy small stars, this year I decided to go simple with a glitter polish. I'm wearing one coat of HARE polish Leap Light Year painted over a base of OPI Vodka and Caviar. It's the perfect patriotic red shade!

Here's a close up bottle shot of Leap Light Year.

On my thumb, I'm wearing two coats of piCture pOlish White Wedding  and I used a red nail art polish from Daiso.

Hope you're having a great long weekend! :)

Polish Days: Vintage

I must admit, I have been a naughty girl. I haven't participated in the recent Polish Days events because of my horrible work schedule and the lack of inspiration but I"M BACK!



Today's Polish Days theme is Vintage and as much as I wanted to show you some vintage (OPI black label) polish or the first polish I bought, I thought I should jazz this day up - with Essie Jazz!

This is two coats of Essie Jazz that I started with.



Jazz is a nice and opaque nude shade that is extremely work appropriate.



And no, I haven't forgotten about the Vintage theme. No no, Essie Jazz isn't the end product. I wanted to try out the whole saran wrap trend with sepia tones (my Vintage link) so I used OPI Over The Taupe for the top layer.



Just a quick tip, be sure that the bottom layer is dry before painting on the top layer! I used a quick dry top coat to speed things up.



I'm loving how pretty the subtle marbled effect looks and man, this was such an easy nail art to do! I was initially a little scared I wouldn't be able to do this saran wrap thing but seriously, it was so little effort for such a pretty end product.

Remember to check out all the other Vintage manicures!

#SGSwatchFest: Spring Nails

Hey lovelies! Couple weeks ago, a few of us came together for our first #SGSwatchFest with Femme Fatale Cosmetics Winter Hyacinth and it was such a hit, we're now planning for many more #SGSwatchFests to come.

Today, a couple of us were supposed to meet and show off our latest Spring themed nails and I was really excited to finally meet some of the girls I've come to know in our local polish scene. Unfortunately, during my lunch, just hours before our meeting, I suddenly came down with serious abdominal pains and I started throwing up so I had to take a rain check. :(

I did my spring nails last night though, in anticipation of the meetup and here they are!



This was actually the inspiration behind the mani:



I saw this mani article in yesterday's Urban newspaper and I it was such a fit for this #SGSwatchFest so I decided to paint my nails like that too!





According to the article, they used Butter London Cuppa (nude base), Trout Pout (pinkie), Artful Dodger (ring), Kerfuffle (middle), Jasper (index) and Molly-Coddled (thumb).

For my version, I used Essie Sand Tropez for my base colour, China Glaze Lemon Fizz (thumb), Essie A Crewed Interest (index), OPI Done Out In Deco (middle), Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau (ring) and Essie Navigate Her (pinkie).



I haven't done *any* form of nail art in a very long time and with the whole glitter indie craze, I got lazy but this mani was so easy to do and it's a great way to break into the whole nail art thing again!





Loving this spring mani so much! Looking forward to the next #SGSwatchFest! :)

Christmas Eve Nails

HEYHEY!

It's Christmas Eve today and my company gave us the day off. That's probably why I sound so happy! :) This morning, I woke up and decided to do some Christmas nails for the Christmas party I'm going to tonight! 

This is two coats of Winter Holly. The first coat went on pretty sparse so I'm actually surprised it managed to become opaque in two coats.



I love how fuzzy Winter Holly looks sans topcoat, really looks like a Christmas tree!



With a topcoat on, the gold holographic bits start shining through.



Winter Holly is such a festive polish! Perfect shade for Christmas!



Here's a close up shot. Pretty pretty pretty!



I decided to add an accent nail to spice things up with piCture pOlish White Wedding and China Glaze Ruby Pumps with a striping brush.



Here's a close up of White Wedding. I'm loving how the tiny irridescent flakies make the polish so much more delicate, instead of a boring flat white polish.



The glitter in Ruby Pumps reminds me of cranberry bits in some turkey sauce! It looks so delicious! 



That's all for my Christmas Eve mani! Hope you guys have jolly plans for Christmas!