10 days until christmas!

We're almost there! It's almost Christmas!!

Also, I guess I should check what task I'm supposed to do before I do it, I was almost certain today was a wild card, so I painted my nails holiday themed. Oh well, next wild card I guess I'll work on that homemade gift!

Check out my nails:

Christmassy indeed! Colours: Revlon's Gray Suede, Essie's Going Incognito, and Nicole by OPI's Deeply In Love

22 days until christmas!

Yummmmm. I was supposed to have hot chocolate with a friend today, but I actually did that yesterday, so today I had tea instead. Same idea, right? Well, I think so. I think an important part of the Christmas season is to spend time with people you care about. Today I spent a lot of time working, but I also spent a lot of time with friends! Today is all about friends, friends, friends.

I had tea with Henrietta, briefly. Which I guess satisfies my Christmas fun today. But even more than that, I had meaningful chats with her.

And then I went out for dinner with some other friends for some Korean food! I tried something different this time. I always get the same thing (bibimbap, or bulgogi), but this time I had something else. I'm not cool enough to know what it's called in korean, but it was pork with korean spicy sauce, on rice. It was yum! I also shared kimchi pancakes with Grace. Anywho, enough about my food.. I'm getting hungry again.

On a side note, I did manage to paint my nails in a wintery design! No snow yet? No problem! There is snow on my nails! :) Check 'em out:

Tutorial from cutepolish, on YouTube:

Except I put my sparkles on top, instead of under the snowflakes. Oh, I'm so creative.

Let's all spend time with some friends!

nail painting

I love love love painting my nails. I used to hate it cause nail polish made my nails feel like they were suffocating, but now if I don't have nail polish on, I feel like my nails are naked! Funny how that works!

Last night, I tried galaxy nails, which are actually super simple. Instructions from A Cup of Jo (an amazing blog, btw! She shares amazing things everyday, love it!)

1. Get a dark blue nail polish for the base, plus a few lighter sparkly polishes (for stars and comets!).
2. Paint the dark blue on all your nails as the base layer.
3. Now layer the glittery colors over the dark blue, but over only parts of each nail. A swipe here, a dab there. Mix things up with each nail, since you want them all to look different.
4. Layer a lot, since, instead of your nails looking flat, you want to get that 3-dimensional look of a far-away galaxy, like you're gazing up at the night sky.

I saw them a while ago on her blog, but finally had a chance to try it now. Here are the colours I used.. all my purples and blues. It doesn't really matter what you use, as long as they look like night sky colours.

A tip though: You need one colour/brush that you are willing to use to swirl the colours a little and mix things up. I used my sparkly blue one to pull everything together and add sparkles to my nails. The brush ended up being a little goopy, so I washed it with nail polish remover after using it. No bigs.

Last week I did coloured tips for my nails. I love that the new normal, is doing something different. This style is essentially a french manicure, using colours other than white though. I used blue, coral, purple, yellow and sparkles.

A few quick tips:
1. To make a straight line, use scotch tape to cover all of your nail except the tip you want to paint.
2. If you want to accent a nail (as I did with the sparkles), accent your ring finger.

And there you have it! Don't forget to moisturize your fingers, they get mighty dry especially with the use of nail polish remover.