Opi Japanese rose garden with 3D flowers

Hope the new year brings more energy and inspirations. I'm aiming for a cheongsam/qipao look with this, to bring in some Chinese new year mood. Photos and blog post all done on the iPhone. Colors are fairly accurate.

Find me on twitter, suzieducks. I may be slightly more alive on that.

OPI's who the shrek are you??

i'm sure everyone's seen swatches of this awesome chartreuse lime green goodness. i've decided to make it a little more bling bling, and create more glitter dust in the house.



the DH got me some awesome fimo flower which i've never used! bad me.



this glitter is from Coastal Scents. it's their Fairy Glitter Dust. it's a sample so i'm not sure which collection did it come from. i am very tempted to get mor of these.



the sample came in a cute little pot. better than the sample baggie i bought LOL!



and on more for luck. i didn't want to totally cover the pretty shrek green so i only cover parts of my nail with the glitter.

OPI's moon over mumbai

this mani turned out rather nice now that i've seen these pictures. i didn't particular like how the gems turned out cos some of the spangles were pearlised and the colors are not vivid enough.



this mani will be repeated again with brighter colors. that said, i really like MOM. i wore 3 coats here.



unfortunately, i only wore this for 1 day. yup. i did it on sunday (i was ill btw), and i didnt' go to work on monday so i got bored and took it off to do another mani. uh huh. the nail art must go on even in the face of a bladder infection.



hope you haev enjoyed my last series of scheduled posts. hopefully by now i'd have accumulated a few more NOTD's. :P

opi's black onyx hologram goodness with coastal scents glitter

yup. i'm bad with titles. but i love this mani. i've had people asked if this was gel nails. *ish proud*


in the shade.

this is achieved simply but putting on 2 coats of black (i've used OPI's black onyx here), dipping my just painted finger into the baggie of glitter and lightly tap to adhere the glitter better, brush off the excess with a paint brush and then finally a coat of seche vite, or 2.



and because i love this so much, and it's hard to capture the holographic goodness of this NOTD, imma picture spam you guys.



blur shots show better bling.



this was the glitter i got from Coastal Scents 20% sale.



they've also sent me a sample of their golden glitter with i've worn with another NOTD.



more images. feel free to skip. lol!



i took these pics after wearing these nails for about 4 days so there's plenty of the micro scratches on the top coat already. this is a gripe with seche vite top coat, it scratch easily(then there's the smell and the fact that it thickens too quickly)

OPI's jade is the new black KOTD

this is 2 coats with m39. i'm sorry for not being an entertaining writer. and i can't remember anything special about this polish, except that maybe my mood's not into this shade, even if it's green. imma picture spam you guys.

OPI's Ginger Bells

when i was wearing this mani it made me hungry all the time. it just reminds me of food. hmmmm...



this is 2 coats of color konaded with plate m77 using a pale blue polish from TFS, sealed with the Glass fleck from TFS as well.



i think this mani's reminiscent of the mani's over at Painted Ladies Fingers.(i really like her blog. pictures of the flowers are making me really envious.)

and to make a post that looks like hers, somewhat, let me introduce you my cat.



awww... she's so cute and innocent looking. let me assure you that she is ebil. see those ebil eyes.



she refuses to eat the fish that comes with the can food, the only flavour and brand that she eats. she will only eat the spam part.

OPI's japanese rose garden KOTD

i really liked how this turned out, it made my fingers look cute and young beyond their %$*( years.



i used plate m57 and m79 and the black and white special konad polish over 2 coats of the OPI. everything was sealed with seche vite.



i'm having fun konading and do plan to get the Monster bundle set. I do find it troublesome to keep having to clean the plate after every stamp though.

national day nails with OPI

i'm pretending that the flowers are orchids, which is our national flower.



this dark red color is achieved by painting a layer of OPI's Got the Blues for Red followed by 2 coats of Vodka and Cavier. I'll try to wear GTBFR on it's own for my next mani.



the Konad was put on after a day of wearing these color for 24 hours. I wore the mani plain for my company's D&D. the KoNAd was sealed with TFS's 05(?? the labels are in Korean, basically it's a clear polish with glass flecks in it. i've been using it as a top coat for many of my manis lately)



Hope you have enjoyed another blurry edition of the OPI haul.

national day nails with OPI's vodka and cavier

oOoOoOoOOoOo.. are your eyes watering yet? the next series of posts will feature blurry pictures all taken indoors with flash, or dim outdoors lighting what with the dreary rainy weather we have been having.

since our National Day is coming (9th augest) i shall be wearing red nails till then.



the fuzziness is giving me a nice aura.



the stars were spangles that were painted over with white acrylic paint. seche vite on top. 3 coats of OPI's Vodka and Cavier.

Tickle my francey is a pinkish nude. goes well with my yellow toned skin. i've decided to wear some sunflowers to celebrate my Tuscany vacation.



i've used gold glitter for the heart of the flowers, darkened with some black acrylic paint. painted the petals with red, orange and yellow acrylics.



3d effects were done using acrylic powder and painted again.



i've layered some glass glitter top coat over the base. it makes it look as if the polish has bubblez. eep.