Kuku-kuku Centil: Nail Art

Namanya cewek, termasuk gue, nggak ada abisnya kalau bahas soal make up, salon, fashion, dan konco-konconya yang laen. Kadang gue juga suka heboh sendiri kalau liat yang lucu-lucu yang bisa bikin gonjreng penampilan. Hehe. Salah satunya, nail art.

Nail art itu setau gue sih semacam seni menghias kuku, entah tangan atau kaki. Nail art sendiri macem-macem design dan jenisnya. Tapi yang menurut gue mantep sih ya 3D nail art, yang maksudnya tuh design nail art dibuat 'nongol' gitu. Jadi nggak cuma sekedar kuku dicoret-coret pake kuteks atau ditempelin pake stiker.

Gue udah tau lama soal nail art. Tapi untuk nyobainnya langsung... eummm... masih mikir sih ya. Secara nail art, khususnya 3D nail art, selain harganya yang bisa bikin dompet nangis, ribet aja liat kuku-kuku dipenuhin macem-macem hiasan. Bakalan rempong kalau mau ngapa-ngapain. Coba deh bayangin aja gimana ngupilnya kalau jari kita ditempelin kuku-kuku panjang plus kristal-kristal? Wkwk!

Tapi itu dulu. Sebelum akhirnya hasrat centil dan pengen ngeksis gue bikin gue penasaran setengah busyet buat nyobain nail art. Sayangnya, di kota gue, masih jarang banget yang bisa nail art, kecuali salah satu salon yang gue secara nggak sengaja ketemu dan menu utama di salon itu ya nail art! Pucuk di cinta, nail art-pun tiba! Haha!

Sesi untuk foto prewed gue manfaatin buat nyoba nail art pertama kali seumur hidup gue. Sempet bingung pengen nail art yang bijimane, warna apa, dsb, sampe akhirnya gue dapetin design yang gue pengen hasil dari browsing bareng Om Google.

Setelah janjian terlebih dulu sama cici si ownernya salon tempat gue nail art dan mengutarakan niat gue nail art buat foto prewed, cici pun kasih gue referensi nail art yang cucok. Dan gue langsung takjub, apa cici punya kemampuan telepati, ya? Kok bisa tau gitu nail art yang gue pengen modelnya persis begitu? Haha! Ya udinlah ya... mungkin cici emang paranormal yang merangkap jadi owner salon, gue pun langsung angguk-angguk binal meng-iya-kan pilihan model nail art si cici! :D

Dan, inilah dia, 3D nail art hasil karya si cici untuk sesi foto prewed gue di bulan Februari 2013:

Foto prewed kuku centil gue oleh Infra Photoworks

Kuku tangan kanan

Kuku tangan kiri

Foto prewed pun selesai. Tapi ternyata hasrat centil gue sama nail art belum kelar. Udah ngeksis di foto-foto prewed dengan kuku centil gue, merit pun gue nggak mau kalah bercentil ria dengan nail art, dong, ya! Lagian belum banyak gue liat mantenan yang pake nail art, biasanya pake pacar atau kuteks aja. 

Khusus buat merit, gue pengen designnya lebih simpel, bernuansa merah (sesuai sama tema resepsi), dan kuku-kukunya nggak mau sejambrong nail art pertama. So, gue pun langsung booking cici buat nail art-in untuk merit gue juga. Si cici mah otomatis dengan riang gembira girang nail art-in gue! :3

And here we go... si merah yang simple nan cantik! May I introduce to you... the 3D nail art for my wedding 22-23 June 2013! Bling Up! ^_^

Nail art (dan henna) gue yang dijepret Infra Photoworks di hari Seserahan

Oceh! Sekian dulu dah ngocehnya. Ada yang mau nyontek nail art begindangan juga untuk merit? Monggo-monggo aja. Dicontekin semua soal preparation merit gue juga nggak apa-apa, kok. Nggak perlu pake laporan juga, nggak ada royalti ini. Wkwk. Kan kita saling berbagi. Hehe.

Oya, berdasarkan pengalaman gue, nail art yang 3D kayak gue bisa tahan sampe kurang lebih sebulan. Mungkin bagi yang muslim rada ajaib ya kalau kita kudu solat tapi jari-jari kita penuh dengan kecentilan nail art. So, saran gue mending setelah acara langsung aja deh itu nail art dicopotin, nggak perlu nunggu nail art-nya copot sendiri. Ada kok aseton khusus untuk lepasin nail art. Kalau kamu susah cari asetonnya, kamu bisa rendam jari kamu di aer anget sambil digoyang-goyang nail art-nya. Lama-lama lem-nya si nail art bakalan goyah dan akhirnya lepas. Tapi kadang proses ini butuh waktu lama bisa berjam-jam dan efeknya kalau kamu terlalu semangat goyanginnya bikin sakit bahkan melepas kuku asli kamu. Hii.. ngeri, ya? Gue sih punya cara sendiri lepasin 3D nail art yang bandel. Cuma butuh waktu sebentar banget dan 3D nail art bisa langsung lepas. Mau tau caranya? Eum... kalau yang ini kasih tau nggak, ya? :p

Satu lagi. Saran aja nih, kalau nail art begini khusus cuma bisa diterapkan sama para calon mempelai wanita, ya! Kalau cowok? Aduh, pake nanya! #sebor aer

Makasih yang udah mampir dan baca! Nyuuu...!! :-*

Autism Awareness Month

I've noticed Autism has become more and more recognized in the years I've been on this planet. Everybody who has been to school has probably known other kids with "special needs" who are a bit different. Maybe a bit weird, lonely or abnormally quiet.

I do not wish to post personal stuff and big gory details about everything that's happened in my life, but I still have a lot to say... I think.

I am not writing this for attention or to jump on the bandwagon and say "oooh Autism awareness day let's get in on some fame or something cos it's like, the in-thing that everyone's talking about" Hence why I didn't post these nails on YouTube.

Trust in me when I say: I know EXACTLY what I'm talking about, and I'm deadly serious. I am writing this from the heart and with MUCH respect to anyone who may read it.

If you're aware of something and you understand it, you probably won't have a problem with it. Everybody at some point has something they don't know how to do. Everyone has struggled, or is maybe still struggling with some part of their life, or their mind in some way. Some have worse times than others. Everyone is so different, and that's why everyone is so great!

Autism is not a disease, nor is it contagious or curable. Some of the quiet, lonely kids you knew may have had Autism, or Aspergers. Aspergers is a mild form of Autism. Different people have it at different levels. It's really common in boys. A boarding school near where I lived ten years ago which was specifically for boys and girls on the Autistic spectrum had 45 boys and 7 girls. That's a huge difference.

I will say when I went to college at first, for two years I did an employment extension course which had people from ages 15 to 45 with all kinds of different reasons for being there. Some had left school early and didn't get good grades, or don't know what to do for a job. Some had disabilities. Physical and psychological. There were girls, boys, women and men with dyslexia, cerebal palsy, Down's syndrome, anger issues, hard of hearing, and of course, a few people with Autism and Aspergers.

Throughout those years we ALL went on trips together, holidays, team and confidence building classes, hairdressing, car maintenance, maths... and we all hung out together and had love and respect for everyone. In college I noticed people aren't as mean as they are in school. Some of us obviously were given shit from time to time, but that happens so everyone in life. But those two years were the best years of my life. I met so many amazing people there, and learned that whatever kind of "special needs" you may have. What you may lack in one area, you most likely KICK ASS at something else. That's why everyone is equal. Don't dismiss the weird kid. Go and be weird with them. They might be a stupid c*nt - you've got that risk with everyone. But you'll most likely learn that they're really cool and awesome and you could end up with a friend for life.

People with Autism appear strange, lonely or unusual. Because... yeah it's hard to explain.

It's almost like being in a different world to everyone, even though they're with you and you're talking to them having a normal conversation. Facial expressions and body language aren't always clear. Sometimes not noticeable at all. Someone with Autism might not understand that you're upset when your tone of voice changes dramatically. They might just carry on with whatever they're doing without giving you a second look. And obviously that sometimes looks really rude or obnoxious, but they're absolutely NOT being rude at all. If you don't know that someone's upset, you wouldn't think of asking or apologising.

Very stubborn, specific and sometimes obsessive minds. I know that things usually have to be specific and go a certain way. Some more than others. And if someone throws a spanner in the works and what you're doing ends up going in a different direction, it may be a lot harder to cope with than some people take for granted. Sometimes really hard. Even for the small things like, your bus taking a slightly different route and dropping you off at the bus stop on the other side of the road. In severe cases, something like that could be impossible to cope with. To the point where you have to sit in a slightly different chair for work/school today and that could end up wrecking your whole day. It's more of a big deal than some people imagine. Like if there was a kink in a train track... the train might just stop. Until somebody can find a solution so it can start going again.

AMAZING MEMORY SKILLS! Usually the higher you are on the Autistic spectrum, the more awesome of a photographic memory you probably have. A young Autistic boy flew over London ONCE in a helicopter and then he drew a picture of it. When compared to the birds eye view photo of London, he had got every single detail perfect. Every building, every road, you could almost say that he traced it. But he didn't. He saw it once and remembered it.

I've heard of a few Autistic musically talented people. Some can listen to a song for the first time and then play it note for note straight away on the piano. It's really weird, but completely true, and amazing.

Okay there are so many different levels and different symptoms that it's impossible to put an explanation in a paragraph... or twelve.

I sometimes say: Sheldon from the Big Bang theory is a perfect example. And who doesn't LOVE Sheldon?? I know I do :) He's a scientist with lovely math and physics inspired fashion sense.

You can learn about it in actual English from someone who can write properly ...---> here <---... if you're even remotely intrigued enough to get scientifically anal about it ;)

A lot of people say "I suffer with Aspergers" or "My son suffers with Autism" which is a fair comment because yes, they do "suffer" with simple everyday social situations that nobody else ever thinks about. If you understand why it might be hard for them, they don't suffer. And if you notice that they're actually awesome clever people waiting for an opportunity to shine, they'll never suffer.

But this rule goes for everyone. Take some time to talk, listen and learn about the people around you who are different. I did, and everyone at college did with each other. And I never got annoyed with any of my friends for walking too slowly, not talking properly, throwing a strop about absolutely nothing because I knew WHY they were like that and knew that they were awesome people and good friends. I'd have patience and help them out. I knew they'd always do the same for me if I ever needed someone.

They were "Those Kids" - the weird, quiet, sometimes angry or lonely kids you remember from when you were a young'un and in school.

Some people were nasty to those kids because of the way they were. When you're young and immature it seems kinda funny to make fun of someone who's different from you and you feel like you're better than them because you made them cry.

Some people were friends with those kids.

Some were true friends who stuck by them through thick and thin.

Some were two faced and joined in with the nasty kids when it suited them.

Some people WERE those kids.

Probably a lot more people than you think.

Perhaps you were one.

I most definitely was. I still am now, and I always will be! And it's the best thing ever.

Because I learned to embrace what I may or may not have been born with with a positive attitude because I've met some fucking beautiful, amazing inspirational people in my life and I feel lucky to have lived for 25 years. I could die tomorrow. So could you. So yay for today, yay for you and yay for MEEEE!

That's something everyone is capable of doing if they wanted to try. Whoever you are or whatever way you may think, see, walk or talk.

Sure, Ignorance is Bliss

But Learning is a Mind-Blowingly Beautiful Experience.

RAINBOW ANIMALS on Everyone's Nails!

Okay so recently I've been doing SO much animal print it's unreal.

It's like an addiction that I think there should be a rehab centre for. Firstly I get addicted to nail art, and then I start seeing these wonderful rainbow animals all over the place and have to paint them everywhere!!

I'm planning to paint a slice of my wall with rainbow zebra quite soon.

For the time being, here's a few reinbow animals I did on me and some other random nails.

Or, here's shitloads of nails. Pretty pictures with captions, yay!!

It started with these. They were inspired from EVERYTHING colourful, and Zebras. I also saw Colette from SimpleLittlePleasues do an Acid Leopard nail art and it inspired me to respond it with my Zebra!

And I like to contrast my life all over the place so I painted these. I was inspired by February, my grey zebra coffee mug and the carpark full of grey, white, black and silver cars outside my flat. Seriously. That's all there were.

Ok this is gonna sound weird but I was watching the end of a cigarette burning and I imagined lots of those would look like fire leopards :)

After a few falsie tryouts I tried out this colour and animal combination...

Here is the blue and yellows on Jenny's nails. I actually had no idea how drunk I was when I was painting these... Don't worry guys. We were hanging out. She's my friend and we're well safe. I don't recommend professional nail techs and artists get drunk before painting paying client's nails. LOL!!

It always looks more appealing on the thumbs. I love thumbs. I wish they faced the same way as all the other nails though because they're hard to angle. We have "suicidal thumb" pose, where you hang your hand off the edge of the table with only your thumb hanging on to the top...

This is Jody [I hope I spelled it right] - was slightly sober-er when I painted these. My camera obviously wasn't. Awesome.



Much clearer on the thumbs, yay! Neon pink is Color Club Yum Gum. Pink base is a Franken from a load of neon pink random shizzle in my crashy nail art bag.

Okay and here's some randomers.
Rachel came to have her nails painted and I had no camera so Rachel's pic is a few days old...
And I totally did some nails for a wedding. It was my cousin but I feel well posh :)
I was kinda disappointed that she just wanted french tip acrylics cos I wanted to be all bad-ass creative and match her flower arrangement [something I am soooo not doing at mine...] but me and her mum managed to convince her to have some sexy gems on her ringfinger...

Cousin Heidi [bride] literally never has nails, ever. I turned her hands into lady hands for elegant marriage purposes, yay!

Aunty Ange [bride's mum] dress matching. I need to remember to photo the darn outfits too. Sorry :( She looked mental though. 

And these two designs were inspired by cool YouTuber IndigoNova1 - you can find tutorials for these on her channel   HERE  <<k?

Rachel wears slightly chipped plaid nails in pink. Hope I did it justice! Rachel has chippy nails at the moment I'm trying to discipline her... 

Surprisingly easy to do with my left hand, bold retro wallpaper design in pink. I loved wearing these. They look epic from far away.

So recently with my nail art and life missions I have learnt:

Don't drink and do nail art.
If you're unsure, paint it pink!
And life is a neon rainbow.

Internet cats and rainbow animals will take over the world. It's already happening... *ahem*NYAN!*ahhhem!**

I still love you guys though. Even if you do get bitten and become rainbow-zombiefied!

RAWWWRRR

xXx

COLLABORATION! Come join us and unite...

Friday I'm in Love!

We would like to invite all artists to join us in a YouTube collaboration.

If you saw or took part in the "Let it Snow" collab on 5th December 2011, you will be familiar with this, and hopefully excited. Yay!

A lot of people joined in and showed the most awesome support in Let it Snow and said that we should do this more often, so the lovely Robin Moses has invited us to come together and unite again to show our love for nail art in a pre-valentine's day art collaboration.

The theme and title for this collaboration: FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE!

Inspired by song lyrics by The Cure, we would like to show our love for nail art on FRIDAY 3rd February 2012.

The design being anything inspired by love, valentines, stuff like that.

Paint your nails with love. Love inspired. However our love life is doing, or not doing, we still heart nail art. Yup, CHEESY!!

When you've made your video or picture slide of your awesome design, simply join in by uploading on Friday 3rd February, Title your video "Friday I'm in Love by [whoeveryouare]" and when you see another Friday I'm in Love video, video response it!! And we'll then be joined together again in another epic collaboration.

Please invite any other artists, new peeps and super old massive famous peeps too. Even if you don't really make videos. Share a few pictures in a slide or post them on Facebook :)

If you have any questions, PLEASE DON'T POST THEM HERE COS I CAN'T REPLY!!

Ask me on Facebook or YouTube and I'll be your friend forever. :D

Also, let me know if there's anything you think I may have forgotten.

Yay!

Thank you all for reading and your lovely support. I'm always forever grateful for all you guys.

xx mwah! xx

I wish I had long nails to do this....

After four comments in an hour on my new video saying that this design can't be done on short nails, I decided I had to write this blog.

Here's the video:

I posted this because I thought it was an easy and funky christmas design that can be done on long AND short nails. I first painted this on short nails and it looked awesome. I didn't take a picture because it was ages ago.

So here's the design on short fake nails, quarter the size of mine. I picked the smallest nails I had and painted the santa design. It wasn't any harder to do. I just used less polish :)

So yeah, if you have short nails, TRY IT! It works. Most designs do.

Thanks for reading xx
love you guys xxx

[STILL CAN'T COMMENT REPLY ON HERE]

A MASSIVE Collaboration: Let It Snow!

Recently, me and my favourite artist Robin Moses have been chatting about life in the YouTube nail art community. We have noticed, and I'm sure we're not the only ones - that even though there are a lot of awesome artists and lovely YouTube girls and boys putting themselves out there and sharing their art with the world, there is also a lot of bitchiness and hate that goes along with it.

We've all seen the occasional cheats and thieves who will take someone's idea and try to pass it off as their own without giving credit.

We've also read so many comments and discussions where there is a lot of jealousy and accusations. These days on YouTube, if people see a design that's similar to something they've seen before, they will immediately say "YOU COPIED THIS FROM *insert artists name here* " when that is simply not the case. Sometimes we just have the same ideas, especially when there's an event such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas... or even Nyan Cat!

So we decided to make a stand - make a statement, stamp out all the hate and make some love and connections instead!

WE'RE CALLING ALL YOUTUBE ARTISTS TO JOIN IN WITH US IN A MASSIVE COLLABORATION...

On Monday 5th December 2011, we are having a "Let It Snow" day. Here's the deal:

If you like to paint art on your nails, or your face, we'd love you to make a video.

Make a nail art tutorial, or a make up tutorial based on the theme "SNOW" - it can be snowflakes, snowmen, evil snow queen makeup, frosty icicle inspired nail tips... let your imagination run wild and be arty as fuck with ice and snow inspired pretty things!

Title your video "LET IT SNOW by [yournamegoeshere]" and upload it to YouTube on Monday the 5th December. And then when you find another Let It Snow video that you like, video response it! And accept any Let it Snow video responses that you may recieve. Basically, we'll all just attach our videos together randomly so we're all holding hands and painting together.

THAT'S IT! THOSE ARE THE ONLY RULES!!

You don't have to be subscribed to anyone, you don't have to Like or follow anyone's page - you just have to paint snow, upload and attach your video with someone :D

THE REASON FOR DOING THIS:

We want to show the YouTube artist community that we are NOT in competition with each other - but that we are all friends, we are painting together, learning from each other and inspired to try new things with our art.

If you paint something because you saw someone else paint it - SAY SO!! If your design is inspired by another artist, then that's a REALLY GREAT thing to do. It's beautiful. But say the name of the person who inspired you and give credit to them for the idea. "This design is inspired by *originalartistnamehere* and this is my version, thanks *artist* for the idea" and perhaps post a link to their original video/picture so everyone can check it out.

It's the right thing to do. It makes you look good and respectful and the original artist can be recognised for their awesomeness as well as you!

By joining in on this massive collaboration, we will be showing everyone that we're here to share, support and cheer each other on. No hate is needed - and we stick together instead of bitching and saying "mine's better" or "you're not as good as the other girls".

There are new artists coming to YouTube all the time and they should feel welcome. They should feel excited to join in and be friends. Not scared that they will be accused of being a wannabe or a copycat, or that they'll be compared to others simply because they have less experience or less views/subscribers than some others.

So it doesn't matter if you're a professional with 20 years experience and you can make impossible amazing reallistic looking creations,

Or if you're only 14 years old with five bottles of nail polish and a crappy little paintbrush and absolutely no idea what to do.

If all the above rules and proposals sound good to you, and you want to be a part of this - we will WELCOME you with EPIC love!! Seriously. Come join us with whatever art or skill level you have and we'll let it snow SO hard on December 5th that the YouTube monkeys will have to get their salt machines and snow plows and 4x4 trucks out on the road so people can still drive to work safely.

Loads of artists have already responded and said they're totally going to join us, and we want to make this as MASSIVE as possible.

This is going to be EPIC. And if YOU join us, it will be even more epic. You will be contributing to the glass being even more than half full!

If you have any questions or would like to say something, please don't ask in the comments on this post - cos I can't reply!! Facebook or YouTube message me or Robin. Here are the sexy links:

http://www.facebook.com/professionalDQ

http://www.youtube.com/professionalDQ

http://www.facebook.com/robinmosesnailart

http://www.youtube.com/robinmosesnailart

I hope you can ALL join us. I can't wait to see everyone's Let It Snow art.

PLEASE SEND THIS AND INVITE ANY OTHER ARTISTS YOU THINK WILL BE INTERESTED!!

Many thanks beautiful people.

Much love and respect to you all in your unique awesomeness. Every single one of you

<3

xxxxx

Imagination, Halloween and lots of WTF paragraphs.

It's been a while since I posted here... I've been so busy [and still am] so this post might just be me talking a load of crap and posting recent nails and colourful shit...

That's what I do anyway so yeah, mental.

Since mastering the art of water marbling, I've become addicted to it and want to make a million videos of it but... there are soooo many water marble nail art videos on YouTube that I don't want to repeat the same thing as everyone else.

After I did the rainbow flower water marble I got loads of peeps saying they tried it too but with clear polish or with different colours and I just thought there must be sooo many more new things we can do with it that haven't been seen before :) Girls are always coming up with new ideas that make you say "wow that's amaze, why didn't I think of that?!"

One of my fave water marble specialists, Indigonova1 did this water marble with foil! It's just insanely epic...

Looky:

We're just never gonna run out of ideas... if only we didn't have to go to work and school and do housework and all the other important things so we could just sit and paint our nails all day...

I made butterflies - or butterfly wings... I did them on my own nails and then on my friend Jenny's nails later that day.. I love re-painting my designs on shorter nailed people cos I get quite a few comments saying "I can't do this because my nails aren't as long as yours" - I SERIOUSLY believe that all "long nailed designs" can be done on short nails too. The design may look slightly different, you may have to have smaller or less details, but it still looks awesome. So I like to prove it by actually doing it. I obviously can't do it much cos I aint gonna cut my nails short and I don't always have a short nailed friend ready to be painted for my videos... ha!

Anyway these are my butterflies:

I'd LOVE to see if anyone else has done these, and I can't wait to share even more new water marble ideas with you guys :D imagination is as big as the universe..... it's infinite.

Think outside the box... let's put wings on cars and let our cats smoke herbal cigarettes. You never know what excitement you may discover from it :)

Anyways, I've noticed since joining the nail art community a lot of people are quick to accuse artists of copying other people's work. I swear that "you copied this from cutepolish" is the most commonly used sentence in the comment sections of the nail art community. It is nice that so many people want to protect their favourite artists, but it's insane how unobservant people are. Most people will credit the artist in the video if they have "copied" a design. And most other times it's just a fucking similar design! Seriously...more than one person has painted zebra nails, and flower nails, and butterfly nails... a lot of people think the same things without knowing anything about it...

I got a few unobservant "you copied Robin Moses" comments for this one:

Yeah I re-created the design, did it on my nails in my own way. I video responsed her, mentioned her in the actual video, and said "check out her original design here...[link]" in the first paragraph of the info bar... so I basically credited the shit out of her and some people still seem to be bliiiind...

Anyway, here's the original. Robin fucking kicks ASS at nails and I love her. Literally. I want to marry all her designs.. I wish that was legal:

And back to originality, someone asked me to do "Mario Mushroom Nails" and I knew if I did anything remotely similar to the lovely cutepolish Mario design, I'd end up losing my temper with the amout of "copycat" comments I would recieve.

I love cutepolish. But I don't want my designs to be ANYTHING like hers... or anyone elses.

This is the Mario Mushroom design I came up with:

YUP! Green and shiny. Purple mushrooms are the way forward in life. Well, they are on my planet anyway.

HALLOWEEN!

The internet has been insane over Halloween but we don't reeeally celebrate it much here - I mean, we do but not as much as they do in the USA. I hope I'm not being too stereotypical - we all have our own ways and beliefs and they're all mental and respected. But to be honest, where I live it's really just an excuse to dress up like a total freak and get completely drunk...I've never been trick or treating in my life...

But I was invited to a fancy dress "Halloween night" at short notice...it was well weird - it was at this warehouse with portaloos [the shitty ones, not like the lovely ones you get at festivals] and the main focus was a ping-pong tournament. Yeah like, a huge warehouse with a bar, alcohol, loads of zombies and weird funny drunk people, and about four massive ping-pong tables ... it was weird.

Anyway I didn't have time to make up a costume so I went as a neon pink cat [cos I obviously have a neon pink cat outfit, duhh!] - I WISH I had photos of my full blown neon pink cat outfit but I haven't been facebook tagged yet and I was too smashed to be bothered taking photos with my camera...

My lovely boyfriend went as a more discreet, black "Ninja cat" - his wardrobe is shameful and would probably all fit into ONE drawer... so he didn't have anything remotely fancy to wear... hence why I painted his nails! You gotta at least try, c'mon!

I used a matte topcoat so they weren't too shiny and didn't "look gay" < his words. He's 38 by the way :)

I painted just the thumbs ... when he's holding his pint and you're chatting with him and chinking glasses... you may look at his beer and see that NINJA CAT IS WATCHING YOOOOU!

There was this guy - he was wearing a pair of stripey tights on his head with a Barbie head hanging from one of them and a sign on his back saying "Legalize Crime"

I thought he was a legend. HAHAHA!

So yeah, I'm still moving house - I'm sleeping everywhere and trying to pay bills and sort insurance and boring shit out absolutely everywhere right now... I still haven't fixed my blog comments so I'm silent in my replies :(

The amount of stress I have in my life right now is absolutely ridiculous... some days I feel I could just Godzilla everywhere and murder everyone in a loud destructive violent rage... but I still will find time to do nails and hang out on YouTube. Cos it's awesome.

And imagination seems to be much more productive with lots of stress going on... dunno if that's a good thing...

Anyway so that was long. I'm desperately looking for new black cat ears. I'm so fussy. I want quality, decent wearable everyday cat ears. This is my mission.

Love you guys xxx

BYE!

xx

Tiger Nails and Crappy Topcoat...

I did tiger nails... yeah just normal tiger nails. I know it's unlike me to do something common, but it had to be done. People go insane for tiger nails in real life. I would like to say that I am NOT IMPRESSED with this topcoat: China Glaze Fast Forward.
I painted these with acrylic paint that dries suuuper fast! Waited an HOUR before topcoating and I painted it on quite thick [thats what you do when you dont wanna smudge] and I STILL had smudges. I used Seche Vite [awesome] from the middle finger to the pinky. But look at the index finger....[on the right]

Yup. I've tried quite a few topcoats before. High-end salon ones and crappy drugstore ones. They're all different but this is definitely the worst one. Luckily I got it for free with my purchase of two China Glaze polishes at Sally's. But if you want a fast dry topcoat that doesn't smudge, don't waste your money on China Glaze Fast Forward. It's awful.



I did love the base colour - it's called "Y'all come back now, ya hear?" or something like that.... hahaha. It had a kind of jelly finish after three coats. Lovely and shiny ahhhh...

My nails are short... super short. That's what I call this length anyway. Moving house takes a looooong time! They'll be back to their original length by the time I've installed my cooker...

Here's the mental video. WOOHOO!

Not much else to say... love u guys
xxx mwah xxx

Johnny Depp Village, Insanity and um....Nails. YAY!

So I've actually done more nails recently and here I am sharing them yaaaay!

Fact of the matter is, I'm moving house which involves sanding and painting walls, lifting heavy objects everywhere and basically doing everything that would challenge my talons... so I couldn't be arsed to do all the careful stuff and just cut them of instead. It's MUCH easier to do the "manly" jobs and they'll grow back in a few weeks...

I haven't actually filmed anything for YouTube for about a week [which is a long time!] but luckily I have plenty of vids saved up so I won't be gone....

Whilst my nails are short and sweet I decided to test out a few more colours with water-marbling. I went with "hot and cold" - the hot hand turned out awesome! But the cold hand kinda failed in the water and looks a lot more discreet than I wanted... but hey ho people still notice them so...YAY!

Cousin Rachel [my number 1 client] brought London Rachel round for Sunday dinner - seriously it's like fucking Christmas every week in our home. But it's full of love so can't complain ;)

Yep, so we hung out and painted nails after food. It was mental.

London Rachel chose my Pink Snail Nails but didn't think I could paint them on her because my nails were at least twice as long as hers when I had them on mine...

SEE.. you can paint anything on any nails they don't have to be long!!

And Local Rachel went with leopard print. She picks similar designs a lot of the time but she has her own style that she likes and I never get bored of painting hers. Even if it's just leopard print. Leopard print looks awesome on everyone, all the time. YAY!

Speaking of leopard print, here's my right hand from last week. It has appeared in a video and there is another pre-filmed video starring these rainbow babies as my painting hand. But I am not making a tutorial for them simply because there are too many rainbow leopard nail art vids on YouTube, I've already done three leopards and I like my designs that I film to be original.

I know it's still early and we barely even celebrate Halloween where I live, but I totally already uploaded two more halloween designs.
I wanted to make some sort of spider web water marble but I didn't want to do one similar to SimpleLittlePleasues [typo intentional] black and white spider web design she did last year so it ended up being a swirly marble with added plastic bag bat deco thingies instead. I still wanna do a spidery water marble but I won't until I can think of something more original and have the colours I want that will spread.
Here's my bat video. Yay!

And for my next video, I went in the complete opposite direction and painted Peepo Zombie nails.
You know these? Painted a while ago...?

I decided to do a... Zombie Spin off, if you like. And it feels like it's been a while since I painted my short nailed creepy hand so this is what I came up with...

What I love about Halloween is that the nail art and make-up are sometimes so easy they can be done by a five year old and still look realistic. If you're going for a gory, undead bloody cut-up uglified zombie style look, shaky hands and messy clumsy lines and secret fuckups are no problem AT ALL!
So if you're having one of those "Retard Fuckup Painting" days, Peepo Zombies are the nails to be painting!
Cuteness, elegance and class are not included or intended in this tutorial.

May I take a moment to mention blogger Kirshten - she re-created my Rainbow Flower Water Marble with paint instead of water marbling and I thought it looked awesome. I like to blog things that make me smile and this totally did.

Check em out, man!!
http://kknails.blogspot.com/2011/09/day-20-water-marbled.html

Wicked. Thanks Kirshten for sharing!!

Ok I'm sorry I've still not sorted out my comments so I still can't reply to my comments, or comment other people's posts either :( the procedure for fixing it is complicated and I may require male assistance because I suck at technology. Seriously I'm so crap.
I used to "Live Electricals" too. Hahaha. How I managed to keep that up is beyond me....

But I will have it sorted soon.
Once I'm fully moved into Johnny Depp Village.
Yep! He lives in my village. Or he has a house there, anyway.
That's probably the awesomest thing ever. I'll stalk him, make friends with his wife and be her personal nail technician and they'll employ my boyfriend as their private chef [cos he rules like Gordon Ramsay] and we'll all live happily ever after.

Then I'll sort my comments. When all that stuff happens. Which it will. Soon.
OH, YEAH AND I'M GONNA HAVE A PILOT'S LICENCE TOO!
And a pink helicopter.
Come join me.

xxx BLARGH! xxx

Halloween, Ears and Mentalness...

Ok so it's been a while since I've done anything on here so this might be a massive huge long story full or randomness and stuff... but there will obviously be some nails. I can't go a whole day without nails, man!

Anyway, the last bank holiday weekend I went with my cousin Rachel to London. Rachel is the shorter nailed model you may have seen on some of my designs on facebook. She took me to London as a thank you for all the nails I've painted on her. We were meant to go to Notting Hill Carnival but because of all the riots and stuff going on in the UK they closed it early so we ended up missing most of it.
Thanks, UK thugs. You're so helpful with your lovely riots.

On a more positive note, while I was there I went to CAMDEN MARKET!! I've always dreamt of going there and I just HAD to buy some weird stuff to wear.

This rainbow thing is SO AMAZING!! It goes with everything in my wardrobe and actually fits my massive manly long arms!! It has a pointy pixie hood and it's totally handmade so each one is different. The man wanted to sell it for £30 but I got it for £24. Meheheh. Very nice, helpful man but seeing as he as good as forced me to buy it I had to flutter my eyelashes to get a discount ;)

EAR HAT WITH ATTACHY-SCARF AND POCKETS!!
I fell in love with it and I know I have ears already but I had to have it <3 I just noticed that one of the pockets is on the wrong side?!! How weird. Oh well, fuck it at least I can say it has "character" haha.
Perfect for the winter months and they totally match my Doc Martens.
Ears are a must-have wardrobe item. Everyone should wear ears.

Yeah so that's what I bought from Camden - check out my sexy posing. I don't try to look nice and photogenic cos I always fail. More fun to just pull faces. BLAAAA!!

We went clubbing in the Electric Ballroom. I ended up dancing to Justin Bieber. That was vodka's fault. Not mine. CAMDEN YOU DISAPPOINTED ME!! No but seriously it was an awesome nite. Not a SINGLE bloke tried to grope me or use a filthy chat up line. It was amazing. Much more classy than the skanks I always meet [and try to escape from] in Weston-shitty-Mare.
Camden is cool. So is the rest of London... but I don't think I could stay there for more than a week. I'm a country girl. I like to be able to drive down the road without stopping every two metres!

NAILS!!

I've recently done a lot of re-uploading on my YouTube videos. Reason is because if I was ever offered revenue sharing, the Audioswap videos can't be used. And my first 40 videos have Audioswap on them. I've only just learned this. I'm hoping my lovely subbies won't get too pissed off with all the re-uploads. I'm uploading at least one new one per week so it's not like I'm recycling old material.

Here's my most recent nails - YouTube and non YouTube ones...

Bad Ass Leopard and Early Halloween Ghosts. I'm excited about halloween nails.

Rainbows - this is on Rachel - she wanted something more simple but I didn't understand her and painted this by accident... she LOVED it so yaaaaay!!

Peacock - this was my first ever peacock design on Tanya - I drove to the middle of nowhere to do a full set of acrylics and some funky peacocks as per her request - and I'd do anything for her cos she's awesome. We had a mental time I think we got high on the fumes cos we were talking about "Acrylates" the whole time...
Sort out your acrylates... ahhh I can't take it there's too many acrylates!!!

Super - fun!!

And these are from my collaboration from superminx66 -  we both had so much fun doing hem and it looks like we've totally set a trend - Robin Moses responded to my video!! She did some funky kick ass graffiti pop-art nails and they're just amazing. I was so excited to see them.

And now another girl has said she wants to paint them and video response too.
LETS ALL PAINT POP ART NAILS ON YOUTUBE!! YAAAY!!

So yeah, productive couple of weeks.
Mental.

Talk soon peeps, keep smiling!!
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