All The Things I Can't Live Without...

You know you're a hardcore nail polish addict when the first thing you do after exams is to sit down and paint your nails while watching Korean dramas. Ha ha, I did this to celebrate the end of my exams, may the bling bling gold bring me luck for the results! Huat arh!!!

Here's a close-up in natural lighting:

Holographic yumminess~

In my room, where the lighting is a little yellower:

And the holographic effect under strong artificial (table lamp) lighting:

You can probably tell I'm into painting my ring finger a different colour, I think it's kinda cool. Get to try out different nail polishes also, kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

The gold polish is Etude House's LuciDarling Glitter Polish; honestly, they do good glitter holographic polishes but their other shimmer and cremes tend to be streaky and not so nice to use. Underneath the gold glitter, I used China Glaze's holographic polish in "FYI", to give it a base colour.

The polish on my ring finger is Orly's "Space Cadet" over China Glaze's "Emerald Sparkle". I was trying to bring out the yellow-green duochrome more, but I think the pink duochrome became more obvious instead. -__- Nonetheless, it's still one of my favourite polishes because of its awesome duochrome effect!

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Ha ha, that took quite a while, but let's continue with my CNY LOTDs!

Actually, there's only 1 more but I've got some cute doggie pictures which I can't resist not putting up.

Day 7's LOTD

(cos I finished up my visiting on that day while I slaved away in school on the other days)

Wait... Ha ha, you probably can't see the eye makeup with all my fringe in the way right? xD That's the problem with sporting heavy bangs, the makeup is all lost in the hair. =3=

Close-up of the eye:

It's a super simple look, cos I was in a hurry. Just used a glittery loose eye shadow all over the lids, some highlighting at the tear duct and brow, liquid eyeliner and Silkygirl's purple pencil eyeliner for the bottom lash line!

Here's a better pic, probably you can see the purple tinge more.

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Anyway, here comes the cute doggy pics! I wore the above look to a relative's place who had Bubbles, the cute tiny short-haired Chi Hua Hua!!!

Ha ha, she kept going round and round in a tizzy fit whenever I stepped into the kitchen, so it was really difficult to snap a cleat shot of her! I had to sit down and wait for a few minutes before she calmed down.

After which, she came snuggling up to me~

(aww.. bulbous eyes, how cute!)

And the epitome of the fondness we had for each other.

I pushed her away cos I didn't want her consuming all my BB cream and loose powder, but she seems to have taken a liking to the taste of cosmetics?

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Ha ha, last but not least, the nail colours I was sporting for that CNY week:

ORLY's "Space Cadet" on my fingers, and a bronzey-olive nail polish from Skin Food on my toes.

I love it when "Space Cadet" changes its colour to kinda match my toe nails. It's quite amusing, though it makes me look retarded (kept staring at my nails).

I'm trying my best to keep the posts coming despite my heavy school workload, but thanks for popping by and viewing this entry!

I seriously do not know what my title is trying to say but it's the best concisive thing I could think of.

First up, gonna show you guys my (in Xiaxue's terms) "zhhnng-ed" troll toes. :)

The bling on my big toe..

...and the flowers of the little ones. :)

Ha ha, I feel embarrassed for exhibiting such girly adornments on such ugly toes! I change the nail polish on my toes on a monthly basis, and I think I kinda overdid it this time. Festive season coming soon mah! Oh btw, the red polish is OPI's "The Show Must Go On".

On top of that, I did a French mani for my fingers!

My left hand...

..and my right hand.

Yeah, I swapped around the colours to make things more interesting. And notice the teo diagonal dotted lines on my index and middle fingers?

They werer done solely for this purpose:

Ha ha, so that there'll be another mini "peace" sign when I make the "peace" sign with my fingers! Ahh, randomness, I know. :)

So that's my mani and pedi overhaul for now, thanks for looking people!

When I saw posts of the new Orly FX Cosmic collection a few weeks back, I was super "kan chiong" (desperate) to get Space Cadet! I mean, the other polishes are gorgeous, but they didn't appeal as much to me as this one. I admit I was contemplating on getting Galaxy Girl (awesome blood red-teal duochrome) or Lunar Elipse (stunning royal blue!) but I sent in my order for Space Cadet first in fear of it going OOS again on NailVibe.

Now time for the nail pic spam!

It's so shiny and metallic that it looks like foiled/minx nails. The polish can look a bit greyish-black from afar, but it's got so many other coloured facades.

Purple with pink glitters in one direction...

..and green-yellow duochrome in another.

Here's a shot showing both duochrome colours at once.

Yeah, I kinda went overboard and painted my toes with the polish too. Shiny troll toes!

Duochrome~

One bottle is retailing at S$12.90 on NailVibe, which is considerably cheaper as compared to the US$10 on Transdesign. There was this insane price hike when everyone started scrambling for them, and Space Cadet began to become OOS. Crazy, I tell you!

The consistency of the polish was lovely, as with most Orly polishes - smooth, non-gritty and easy to apply. But that being said, it's actually quite a weird polish. It's made up of very finely milled pink and yellow glitter that's suspended in a translucent green gel. I mean on the bottle, you wouldn't expect to see any green base cause all you see is a yellow-pink glitter reflex, but when you apply it on your nail, it comes out predominantly green and you're like "Woah, where did all that green slime come from??".

Ha ha, kidding! But it's really cool to see it colour-shift from a green gel with pink glitter to a pink-purple polish with a slight green reflex. It's like colour swopping! I haven't tried removing it yet so I don't know if it'll be as tedious as removing glitter polish, but I doubt so, as the glitters are really fine. Definitely a colour to try out if you like shiny, glittery duochromes! 

MIA, banzai!!!

Ha ha, yep, I've been MIA for a week and it's due to my school reopening (bye bye YOG and all you athletes! Seriously, it's all because of you that our school starts sooo late and my exams end only at the christmas period, WTF. Screw you all!). With that I've moved back to my lodging in the west and my camera was left behind, so no cam-whoring and no updates. ):

But I'm back for the weekends, so I'm kick-starting my blog again with my NOTD that I specially did for school!

(Should I bring my camera to the west with me so that I can blog??)

My left hand with 3 strawberries~

Here are the close-ups of the berries.

For my thumb, I used LA Girl's Matte Coral polish as the berry colour.

For the berries' colour, I used OPI's "Thanks So Muchness" for the index finger and Sally Hansen's Maximum Growth Nourishing Nail Color in "Lighthearted Lavender" for the ring finger.

The right hand, with another 3 berries! I liked the left ring finger's berry so much that I duplicated it on my right index finger, so no description for that.

Close-up of the other 2 berries!

Ha ha, I went unorthodox and did a blueberry on the middle finger instead (now I can point my middle finger at anyone and go "Eat my blueberry, sucker!". Ah ha ha ha)! The blue was Orly's "Snowcone" from the Sweet collection. The red on my little finger was OPI's "Off With Her Red".

All green leaves at the top were China Glaze's "Emerald Sparkle", the black seeds were Elianto's (sucky goopy) black polish and the yellow seeds were Orly's "Lemonade" from the Sweet collection. I didn't wanna overwhelm all my fingers with berries so I only painted 6 of them. The other 4 'empty' fingers I didn't know what to paint them with so I just left them alone to contrast the berries with.

It's a super cute manicure and it wasn't very difficult to do. All you need is a small pointed-tip brush, some patience and a good top coat (to even out all those streaks and gloops!).

Thanks for reading, and hope you guys enjoyed the entry! Oh, btw, I'll be putting up a small blog sale soon, so watch out for that! Tootles~

This was actually last week's NOTD since I couldn't wait to try out the pretty Orly polishes. Then I couldn't update due to my exams, so here it is anyway,  1 week late.

The left hand

The right hand

Ha ha, assorted colours! No choice, I was feeling so moody over the impending exams so I decided to add some colour into my bleak life.

The yellow is Orly's "Lemonade", the blue is Orly's "Snow Cone" and the mint green is my older China Glaze's "Refresh Mint". Of all the 3 pastels, I absolutely love Snow Cone the most. This polish, if you paint it correctly, is a one coater! The colour payoff is fantastic and the formulation is thin so there isn't any streakiness at all. I had 2 coats of it on my fingers though.

Lemonade's formulation isn't as good as Snow Cone's though. The polish is thicker so it applied a little streaky - you'll be needing 2 coats at least. At the 2nd or 3rd coat, it evens out nicely. The colour is really cheery though, and I like how it reminds me of Mr. Happy. I had 3 coats on my fingers.

Refresh Mint has been reviewed before (I had 2 coats on my fingers here) but if I were to compare China Glaze's formulation to Orly's, Snow Cone still comes out top, then Refresh Mint and lastly Lemonade. However, yellow pastel polishes are notoriously known for being difficult to apply, so I find Lemonade okay. One thing I noticed was the size of Orly's polish brush - it's sooo big! It's bigger than the China Glaze brush (can't say about OPI, cos I only have their mini polishes) and it overwhelmed me the first time I used it. After getting used to the gigantic brush, it becomes easier to paint though I'll take care when painting the edges of my nails.

2 more papers to go, woots! Fighto!!! Thanks for reading~

I'm a bad, bad girl... (wait, am I trying to impersonate Lady Gaga?! Nooooo) Cos I've been spending too much money. And I just blew S$60+ on these lovely items from Transdesign!

Ahh heck! As long as I'm happy and not look into my empty wallet.

I finally gotten my first proper tube of eyelash glue (fake lashes galore~) and 2 scrubs from Queen Helene.

There was some huge savings from the lash glue, cos I see Watsons retailing it at S$14.90 but I got it at S$9 plus shipping. The 2 scrubs were more expensive due to their weight and heavy shipping fees - each was about S$10 after everything included. I've been using the Mint Julep scrub, it's not bad. The minty feeling wasn't that strong, and the scrub bits are fine enough to not be too abrasive but  course enough to give your face a good exfoliation. I've been using it once everyday just to clear up my residual pimple marks (argh, exams, I hate you so!).

And of course, who can resist getting nail polishes when they're shopping at Transdesign?

From left to right, I got Color Club's "Revvvolution" and "Worth The Risque", as well as Orly's "Lemonade" and "Snow Cone".

Both CC's nail polishes are holographic, "Worth The Risque" especially so! They're even more fabulous than China Glaze's FYI holographic polish which I have.

I've already swatched them but I shall do a short write up on the polishes when I feature them in future NOTDs. More presentable that way, heh. The CC polishes came up to about S$7, and the Orly ones about S$8 inclusive of shipping. Super cheap, as compared to retail prices in SG, so I think my S$60+ was well spent after all! :)

(Don't look into the wallet!)

Thanks for reading~