Nails for Ansemble-Clothing Edition

Between customers, I did some nail tips based on Ansemble’s clothes. It was both fun and frustrating trying to capture the designs into the small surfaces.

Striped blouse with ribbon. This is a soft knit blouse. Comes in the form of a cardigan that I'm eyeing on.

Black knit dress with white ribbon. It's so simple and cute.

Tri-colored knit blouse. The colors are so sweet!

Sleeveless knit blouse. I didn't have the exact colors but the designer was nice enough to let me improvise. I think the nail tip needs more work.

Another sweet pastel a sleeveless blouse. The circular designs are so cute.

Knit dress. The material of this is thinner than the black one. Good for wearing out in our warm weather

 
So who is the designer for Ansemble? This is a question many asked me. Surprise, surprise, the designer who came up with these sweet looking garments, is a guy. Jeri Loh is the Singaporean designer behind the Ansemble label. He graduated from Lasalle College of the Arts with a degree in Fashion Design. I got to know him when I was working at the college. Jeri has a lot of experience in fashion from designing, styling and even production of garments. The clothes manufactured for Ansemble are scrutinized by him and won’t make it to the rack if they weren’t up to mark. I can attest cos I am wearing his clothes and they all survived the washing machine test and my rough ways. (Disclaimer: I used my own money to buy them and aren’t sponsored.) Even though the clothes are knits, they are suitable for wear in our weather, cos who else would know better to design for the Singapore climate than a Singaporean?

So, please drop by Ansemble if you are in the Bugis area and lend some support to a local talent and business

Visit Ansemble at 47A Haji Lane in Singapore

Dottie mani for Gladys

A cute Singaporean couple dropped by Ansemble on Sunday. They bought an Ansemble knit dress and an Ernest Seah bag. Gladys got her nails done while Alvin took his time choosing colors for his bag. They are such a cute couple!

Dottie nails for Gladys done with AngelPro gelly polish.

I was happy that she liked the nail art though it took a bit more time. Sorry that I don’t do service but if you like unusual nail art, be sure to check out Nail Artelier by Nail Art Express and Everyday I’m Polishin’. They are talented young nailists and would be opening a salon called Nail Artelier in Haji Lane in mid-June

You want to bibimbap another one?

Hung out with Mabel, my cheese buddy, on Labor Day to test out a recipe for beer battered olives. She also planned for baked avocados topped with cheese and bacon. But did they turn out the way we wanted? Read on.

Ingredients for beer battered olives and baked avocados

 

Sending the avocados into the oven first

Stuffed the olives with bacon and cheese.

Batter them up!

Deep fried the olives *sizzle.sizzle.sizzle.*

Olives done! They were too salty! We should have soaked them in water longer to remove the brine. The bigger olives were store bought and pre-stuffed with chillis.

Bevy of choice was straight red tea. Tea got gay one meh? (^0^)

Time to eat!

Combined a cheese stuffed olive with avocado, sour cream and bacon on a taco chip. This was yummy.

Just some bacon with sour cream (seasoned with lemon juice and peppers) on a taco chip.

In the end, we bibimbap-ed all the ingredients together aka we made guacamole

Ending the post with a pedicure I did for Mabel. She choose this out of the Spring collection I did earlier. The rest of the toes were a line of dots mimicking a french manicure, which Mabel is known to choose every time she visits a salon.

Hoped everyone had a good break over Labor Day!

Hoped everyone had a good break on Labor Day!

OTC first nail art manicure

I have known OTC since my university days. Worked for her and subsequently with her in the labs. My good old friend and eating buddy. But she always watched me do nails for others and declined having them done.

Finally after all these years, she took the plunge and got me to paint. Yayy!!!

Nude base with a glitter gradient done with OPI Warm and Fozzie and Northern Lights

Did a simple manicure cos she wanted a light color. Gradient designs are a great way to ease first timers into nail art. Though her sister, Dan Lin, was egging her on to try another design by going “Zebra! Zebra!”

The Hokkien Mee Visit

Dan Lin came to Singapore for a conference and had promised to make me her signature KL style Hokkien mee! Aww! So nice!

Hokkien mee with all the things I love. Pork lard! Pork! Pork liver! Mussels! Prawns! :p

Dan Lin had always been liking my nail posts on Facebook. I finally got the chance to paint hers!

Design adapted from my cny set. Glitter base (Northern Lights) and dark blue (Russian Navy), accented with silver ribbon/lace sticker

Another leopard print design but done with polish.

Wrote this at 1.40am on a bumpy taxi ride home. Taxi uncle was so nice to ask me to be careful before I alighted as it was late.^^

Colourful Leopard

Sunny changed her mani and chose a colourful leopard design for it.

A sliver base was used instead of the usual white, nude or pink base

Colourful leopard manicure using AngelPro #81 as a base, yellow (#9), orange (#71), pink (#72), purple (#73) and outlined with black (#29)

Fingers with colourful leopard prints. Check out the hearts!!!!

Heart prints were done both in colour and as small black accents.

Hope you had a happy weekend!

White Pop Art

One thumb had bad wrinkling and started to peel the next day I couldn’t figure out what I did wrong as other fingers were doing fine. @chelxi from Pinkroom was do nice to help me troubleshoot over Facebook chat. She explained that it might be due to improper curing as the thumb usually tends rest at an angle when the hand is in the lamp and does not get an even exposure. I need to be more mindful in the future on how my hand is positioned.

I re-did my thumb with my red carpet manicure system. The polish has a thinner consistency compared to Angelpro. For the white base, I painted 3 coats. The black lines and words were painted twice. So, the dots looked grey.

Big booboo on my thumb

New design in white!

Good night!