Halloween-ish nails, Jewerly ideas, and Toki Doki ^_^

First off have y'all entered my giveaway yet? Enter Here~ ... Ok.. So it's been a crazy week...just when I finish a midterm it seems like another one is popping up.. so I've been a wee bit busy.. anyways today I have a whole lottta stuff to show/tell you guys!  First off mani first..then more nail related stuff..then not nail related stuff.. :)

I decided to make a Halloween inspired mani this week since Halloween is jsut around the corner...

I started with 2 coats of Wet N Wild's Black Pearl...its just a bsic black creme...

For my ring finger I used 2 coats of Butter London's Fairy Lights which is part of their Holiday 2011 collection...It has a chrome-like finish so it does hightlight all the flaws your nails may have (like ridges etc) but a good thing is that there were no brush strokes visible..I'm still deciding whether I love it or hate it hehe...

At first, seeing the chrome-y finish with the Butter London I wanted to stamp with it to see if it would be a hit but...no go there.. >.< The polish dried too quickly for it to be picked up by the stamper or it would get picked up but not transfered to the nail...I scrapped that idea after trying on the pinky..

So I changed tactics and busted out my all-star...my China Glaze millennium...I always hate stamping with this b/c I feel like I'm wasting but the effect is soo gorgeous... -__-" sigh anyways I used Konad plate m64 and I chose the graphic line design...i thought it felt very shattered glass like... and for my accent nail I decided to use Bundle Monster plate 223 and the cute little ghost guy there...

Here was the result..I used Wet N wild black pearl for the stamping on the pink nail but I just wasnt feeling it...it wasn't opaque enough to me and it just looked wonky...so I scrapped that nail and redid it...

I put 2 coats of Wet N Wild Black Pearl on teh ring finger and stamped with millennium using the cross line design on the same konad plate...then I topped it with CND Sapphire Sparkle... and of course I added some rhinestones...hehehe I love the bling..but not too much...

Close-up of ghosty drifting towards the rhinestones...

This was before the sapphire sparkle that I added on the ring finger...

Ok onto the next section... the semi related to nail polish news.... Other then painting my nails I love to make jewelry and after seeing some other people use nail polish in jewelry I started fooling around with that idea and experimenting *insert evil scientist laughter here* and here are some of my creations...I'm thinking of makeing them into pendants for necklaces and phonechains/keychains and earrings with the smaller ones...

For the top 2 oval ones I used Cult Nail polishes, the blue and pink was zoya, orly, and opi, and my personal fave the blue and silver was Julep, CND, and Zoya...

The slight shimmer is soo pretty!~~

 

Also over the weekend I had a chance to meet this guy...you know who he is? he's Simone Legno...the creator/artist behind TokiDoki! I was majorly excited when he announced a couple weeks back that he was coming to Hawaii :) and i'm so glad I got a chance to meet him...he's so sweet!

Here is Simone..doing a sketch for the fan ahead  of me...

Me waiting while Simone draws a sketch for me... *my inner fangirl was squealing* haha

Me and Simone~ ^_^ it was worth the 2-3 hour wait that it took to see him... not to mention the gettin up early to shop at sephora to guarentee a chance to meet him...it was like a mini black friday and I had to shove my tiny self through people waay bigger then me...that part wasnt so fun...

I got a free shirt ^_^ and I got the planner for Simone to sign in....

The sketch of Adios and Ciao Ciao that Simone drew for me... ^_^

The sketch he drew for my friend....

Finally last news of the day.... Lovely Little Things has passed 100 followers!!!!! Thank you guys so so so so much!! So this weekend I'll go shopping and I'll do another giveaway for hitting the 100 mark...For this next giveaway do you guys want 1 winner with a larger amt of prizes (4-6 items) or 2 winners with (2-3 items)? The reason I ask is that honestly I'm still a college student and I work part time making minimum wage so as much as I'd like to host giveaways its not feasible for me to do so all the time... I'm thinking this giveaway I want to give polishes that are a bit harder to find? (it might not be the case for you guys who live on the mainland but here in Hawaii I only have OPI, a little bit of China Glaze,lil bit of Essie,lil bit Zoya, and sometimes if you look hard enough you'll find the occasional Nubar or Orly..[(not including the drugstore brands like Sally Hansen, Revlon, etc].. for me to get Butter London or Deborah Lippman I need to go to nordstroms.. -___-" ) for this upcoming giveaway I'm thinking butter london and some other brands of that scale (so no sally hansen etc...no offense to sally hansen~~ ) Please let me know your opinions...and thanks for all the support ^_^

xoxo
Suiling

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Fly Away With Me

I recently purchased some more Butter London polishes from Nordstroms and I gotta say I really like their brand... I decided to do a girly mani with one of my new polishes.

Ok so I started with Butter London's Marrow which is a deep purple color..

I used 2 coats of Marrow on all my fingers..(i showed the first picture where I used a custom white balance and auto white balance for the rest of the pics)

Then I used my Bundle Monster plate 205 with the butterfly design on the left side..

and I used China Glaze Gr8 to stamp ( I liked that it had a holo effect but indoors it wasnt too in your face kind..)

so I just went ahead and stamped all my fingers (this is pre-clean up)

Voila!~~



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Orange Dream ^_^

Its been so rainy and gloomy here in Hong Kong lately so I decided to do a tropical summer vibe manicure...

I bought a couple new polishes for the other day when I helped my cousins do their nails... I didnt really take a lot of pics of the new "guest" manis but I do have a few pics that i'll put at the end of this post...

I started with 2 coats of a bright orange polish by Eleanor..they dont really have names but the item number i guess is ENP043...

this brand is formulated in France and it was a uber great buy... 2 polishes for 28 Hong Kong dollars... ( so 28 divided by about 8 will give you how much it costs in USD...so that means less then 4 bucks for 2!!!)

then I sliced some citrus slices to decorate...at first I was going to only use oranges but I felt that it would be too plain so I decided to use all the citrus fruits i got.. ;)

Then instead of placing a lot on each nail I decided to randomly placed one on my pointer, ring and pinky finger and make a bigger decoration on my middle finger...

Then on my thumb I was going to make it just like my middle finger but then it looked a little too over the top so I decided to alternate with some rhinestones...yay for sparkle-ness :)

Voila!~~ easy peasy  lemon squeezy~ haha :)

Now for some shots of what I did for my cousins this past week...

So this past weekend we had some watermarble-ing fun....I used the Eleanor polishes I bought from Sasa... (ill do a blog post about my hauls later) I only have pics of 2 manis I did and one of my other cousins didnt send me a picture yet... i'll update when she does...

This is the result of the watermarble mani for one of my cousins...

and then I used OPI- Planks A Lot with a random black color and Konad stamping for another one of my cousin's mani... its very Anna Sui i think :) hehe..... i did another watermarble mani too but like I said I'll post later :)Pin It