Did my nails at 12 midnight on Chinese New Year’s Eve.

Design was inspired by Christopher Kane’s Resort 2011 collection with galaxy prints.

Though Mama said “Looks like Indian nails.”

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Christopher Kane Resort 2011 Collection.

Image source from Tumblr

Me thumb and background of bears.

Me fingers in an artsy shot.

Me pedicure

Scene from Chinatown days before Chinese New Year.

Stall selling Chinese New Year decorations.

My wall deco at home, made from recycled angpows.

CNY card for this year...made with drawing block, strips of red cloth from a t-shirt and yellow nail polish.

Mabel's card, the first one made but was lost en route to Taiwan

Ok. End! Happy Chinese New Year!

Thanks for being so nice and patient! Hope your nails lasted after the WuXi PaiGu.

She asked for the design I did when I celebrated the regeneration of my toenails.

But requested for the white base to be changed to something less stark.

Had fun chatting with her and experimenting with the colour combinations.

Pink base (OPI A Dozen Rosa) overlay with white glitter (Maquillage) and roses nail art.

Closeup of nails The little crystal was her input and it looked great!

Thumb closeup.

Pedicure was done the same way with design on the big toe.

Closeup of pedicure.

She wanted something colourful for CNY.

Rainbow thumb tip, the rest were done with white half moons with gradient...

Closeup of rainbow thumb tip.

Gradient colours follow those on the thumb tips.

Mrs Ho says its very Chinese New Year

Gradient effect with 3 colors: yellow, gold and bronze

Real conversation...so embarrassing...

We exchanged presents on the last day of Christmas…just in time.

Gold glitter gradient with MOR hand cream.

Attempt at artsy shot

Removed the instant gelish cos one of it chipped the next evening from cuticle! #FML

But never ever giving up a chance to do nails stuff, off I went!

Learnt a lot of new things from the session and met like-minded people e.g. when I was filling out the feedback form on the magazines I usually read, the form had a list of local fashion mags like Elle, Nuyou. I thought out loud and went “HUH? I read Nail Max leh.” Then, some of the girls were like “YA! ME TOO!” After that we went into a discussion on buying the mags from Kino…haha…

Met Shona from Mental for Polish! She is so nice and awesome. My marbled nails were done by her.

Also met SY, from GollyLocks. She is so pretty!

Chelsea from Pinkroom was cute and great about sharing her experience with nails. Thanks for reading my blog. Please post thin pictures of me.

Also, not forgetting Nicole and Yvonne. the trainer who demo on me. Sorry, I din catch your name! I had fun at the workshop.

Enough with my lack of penmanship. This is the result.

Marbling done by Shona from Mental for Polish, the purple and red were done by Yvonne the Pinkroom trainer whom I forgot to ask for her name. Sorry ah.

My thumb. Marbling done by Shona as well.

My nails before the instant gelish. Ya, had to remove the multi-colour zebra. Boohoo.

Bottles of instant gelish and the colours.

Steps to applying: Remove shine, clean with LiquidQ, base gel (optional but suppose to last longer) and UV

Steps continued: Roll bottle to mix well, apply instant gelish, UV or LED

Finish! Apparently, it would be shinier with another layer of gel top coat, which is like super stinko to me.

Of cos, nail art can be done with the system.

Simple nail art without top coat. Feels a bit bumpy and 3D but I liked it cos its like the mushroom in Super Mario.

DIY time and I had Shona as my buddy! I'm so lucky! She didn't try the system herself cos she had her nails done. So guess who is sharing the UV with me?

美女, SY from GollyLocks! I only realised she was posing for the camera when I was downloading the pictures!

The workshop was fun even though it was a product intro workshop. The Pinkroom trainers didn’t hard sell the products, well, at least not to me and I didn’t buy the system at the end of the session anyway. But I truly enjoyed it cos it was a gathering of the like-minded, sharing experiences and creating new ones.

I don;t have the habit of taking my own pictures or much of other people.

So, ending the post with a random Ruffie comic created during Winter Solstice.

A colourful start to the new year.

Started from this...

To this, multi colour glitter base with white/dark purple zebra

Never forget the thumbs! Happy New Year!

Nails inspired by the mittens

Left Hand

Right Hand

Christmas Present from Margaret, the colour matched the manicure perfectly. Thanks!

Hope the comics were enjoyable especially to my guy friends who usually find no incentive to visit my blog.

I did the Part 1 and posted on FB, which got a lot of comments.

So, I continued with Part 2 and 3.

Going to have more comics in the pipeline too, cos its so fun and I’ve got so many toys at home to torture play with.

P.S. Jo-An, your panda shall be returned to you before CNY. It still has some more scenes to shoot.

LLF nails. We all loved the Party Hearty glitter polish over the green and red polishes.

LLF nails with water decals (These things are so amazing to use! Yes, I'm so behind the curve.)

LLF nails: Green on right and red on left.

LLF, hope you had been able to show them off at your family party!

I’m thinking of CNY nails now…teeheehee…