Meet my new Lovelies...

Wow its been hectic lately and with midterms comin up I'm sad to say I might be posting even more irregularly nowdays.. >.< but that doesnt mean I have to stop adding lovelies to my collection ;) hehe...its a hard habit to break but whenever I see a nice polish I think about it and think about it but then end up gettin it.. .haha my poor poor paycheck... anyways here's some stuff I've gotten these past weeks...

Hehe.... I have a lot of new lovelies hehe...

First off I was most excited by the Models Own package..I got these when they had their fifty percent off sale from facebook....these are my first Models own and boy I had to wait a loooong time for them.. >.< shipping all the way here in the middle of the ocean takes FOREVER >.<  

 They were wrapped up all prettily....

 The colors I bought were (L-R) : Pink Blush, Feeling Blue, Lime Green, and Beth's Blue

 Next up, Cult Nails... I love love love this brand.. Maria's creations are so great! I have almost all the colors (waiting for Quench to come back then I can order Quench and Iconic and finish up my Cult Nails collection hahaha) I ordered these when Maria had the promotion for her Get It On/ Wicked Fast base coat and top coat...the deal was the base & top coats plus one nail color and then you'd get 5$ off..but then I got tempted and ended up buying My Kind Of Kool-Aid as well...

Here they are out of their protective little brown wrapping (L-R): My King of Kool Aid, Vicious, Get It On Base Coat, and Wicked Fast Top Coat...

Then my coworker Jennifer was such a sweetie the other day and she drove me all the way to the other side of the island to the Target store so I could see if they had the Revlon Glitters (they were sold out :( but I managed to snag Blue Mosaic on ebay ..*no picture of it here except on the top main picture though*..) and while I was there I ended up grabbing 4 of the fall collection (L-R): Carry on, Lady Like, Case Study, and Power Clutch...

Next up we have some KleanColor polishes...these were my first Kleancolors that I got.. I like the glittery-ness.. again since we dont have an Ulta, or Sally's and our CVS has a sad selection of polishes I had to get these Lovelies online...from (L-R):Aurora, Starry Meteor, Chunky Silver, Tahitian Sunset, and Starry Night.

Next up I also recieved these babies from Laura over at Laura's Lacquers ... I won her giveaway and the babies I recieved were (L-R): L.A Colors Magnetic Force, L.A Colors Radiation, NYC Big Money Frost, Sally Hansen Magoes Loco, OPI Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous and some fimo oranges too :)

Then Traci from the Trace Face Philes talked about her polishes that she bought from Llrowe and naturally I was tempted... and eventually gave in hahah...I bought (L-R): Glitter Gal H701 Black, Glitter Gal H724 Frappe , and  A- England Tristam...these are all my firsts frmo their respective brands...Can't wait to try them...

and then last but not least the cherry on top...I bought these Nails Inc. Magnetic polishes!!! *squeeeeee* I've been wanting to try magnetic polishes for a while but there werent any that were availible and I thought price worthy ( I didnt even know if I would like the look yet so I wasnt willing to shell out 10$ for a polish and 20 for a magnet...) these Nails Inc polishes were from Sephora.com and they were 16 each with the magnet on the cap..I had a 10% off coupon for sephora because I renewed my VIB status so I took advantage of that :) the two colors are Houses Of Parliament and Trafalgar Square

I also bought these Nail art striping tapes and mini steel balls for nail art from the bornpretty store...

and got these decals from Viva la nails...3 sets of stickers and 3 sets of water decals...

hehe I was anxious to play with the magnetic polishes... here are some skittles.. on my ring finger is Trafalgar Square (it has a dent/smudge because I held the magnet too close and it smudged -__-" must practice!!) my middle finger is just a coat of Cult nails Vicious, and my pointer is House of Parliament over Essie's Carry-on

Essie's Carry-On and Cult nails Vicious does look a wee bit similar in the bottle...I'll try to do a comparison soon :)

Thats all the lovelies I got so far..but I did just get a couple more before this post that I didnt want to add to this post yet... and thanks to Traci from the Trace Face Philes I'm now up to 49 followers!! wow.. major thank you! i'm planning a little something something once i hit the big Five-Oh... hehe.. Thanks for all the support ^_^

~Sui LingPin It

I wish there were blue skies...

So my time in Hong Kong is winding down but lately its been raining cats and dogs! I just miss the lovely weather of Hawaii soo much during these times.. so I did a mani to reflect my weather wishes :)

i used polishes that I bought from Hong Kong...

First I put on 2 coats of this sky blue color...it was actually opaque enough with one coat but I wanted a nice thick coat to truly depict the blue sky that I wish we had here in Hong Kong...

Then I used a white color and used my dotting tool to dot some clouds on my ring finger and then started placing glitter in a diagonal line on my middle finger, thumb and pinky..I used glitter from Revlon-Rock, and the stinky silver glitter I bought in Hong Kong (check my prev. post to see which one I'm talking about)

then I went on to dot clouds on my pointer finger as well...

Then using Revlon- Rock I swiped on a layer of glitter on the outer side of the nails with the diagonal line of glitter ( i was careful to not let the big pieces of glitter onto the nail...i tried to place only the small silver and blue glitter)

Voila!!~~Pin It

Lemme see your peacock ;)

Today's title is inspired by the Katy Perry song- Peacock.. and so I did a peacock tail-like mani with one of my new bundle monster plates...

For this mani I used OPI- Suzi Loves Cowboys as my base color and then I stamped with China Glaze- Midnight Kiss and Revlon- Golden

I was trying to go for a really opaque gold image stamped onto the dark brown (kind of like the effect of China Glaze-Millenium on OPI Russian Navy in my Midnight Dots Mani) so I kind of tested it out by swiping a layet of Suzi loves cowboys onto a plastic sheet and then swiping the other 2 colors on top..I liked the effect but it didnt turn out as opaque as I would like it..

I started with 2 coats of OPI's Suzi Loves Cowboys

Then I used the peacock-like design on BM-212 to stamp

I stamped 4 of my fingers (not the thumb) with China Glaze Midnight Kiss but I only stamped on my outer half of the nail to give it sort of like an exaggerated tip effect..

and for my thumb I used Revlon- Golden... I think I liked the midnight kiss more just because the shimmer of the midnight kiss was still very visible where the Golden was more of a dull finish...

Voila!Pin It

More Floral Goodness..

I was soooo stuck on today's manicure... I know its a bit of a cop-out since I've already done a floral mani before but I was inspired for today's mani by Gilly Hicks shopping bags... do you guys know what i'm talking about?

I knew they had the red and blue but this spring season I started seeing the green ones and I was inspired to do a multi-color floral mani... I used the same technique as seen in my Flower Girl Mani...

 For the base colors I used China Glaze- Something Sweet for my thumb, OPI- Skull and Glossbones for my pointer finger, China Glaze- Sea Spray for my middle finger, OPI- Stranger Tides for my ring finger, and OPI- Steady as she Rose for my pinky... ^still playing around with my new OPI-Pirates collection...loove!!^

oh yea...2 coats for opacity ;) *I know in this picture Skull and Glossbones and Stranger tides look like dupes but I swear they're not!! If you look at the final mani below you can clearly tell they are totally diff. shades*

For the flowers on my pinky I used a combo of Zoya-Faye and OPI- Sparrow Me the Drama...

On my ring finger I used a combo of OPI- Mermaid's Tears and OPI Not like the Movies

My middle finger I used OPI-Planks A lot..... *yes I gave in to temptation and bought this one too, thus owning the entire OPI pirates collection* and China Glaze- Electric Lilac

For my pointer finger I really wanted to have orange flowers but I thought China Glaze- Peachy Keen was a tad bright so I toned it down with OPI- Steady as she Rose..

Then finishing off i used OPI- The One that Got Away and dulled it a bit with Steady as she Rose...

  For the leaves I used Revlon Matte Suede- Emerald City

Voila~ As you can see the flowers don't necessarily have to be round or perfect...even if it's a wee bit bumpy that's totally okay because a good top coat (like Seche Vite) will even things out :)Pin It