Get the [Nail] Look: A Pastel Galaxy

Everyone loves the good old classic galaxy nail, but adding pastel? Well that's a match made in heaven! (Okay maybe not really but you get my enthusiasm). I saw some pastel galaxy nails on Pinterest and just had to recreate them and share them with you! Honestly they're the same technique as a normal galaxy nail, you just need to pick out all your favorite pastel or light colored polishes - they can be shimmer, glitter, or cream. You can also choose only a few colors to create a different effect (maybe a more cool-toned sky or a warmer one or if you want to be fun, choose them all like me! Although I think I ended up with a more cool toned galaxy nail).

Please excuse the messiness/dryness of my cuticles. My hands were super dry the week I did this and a little on the shorter side but as you can tell, the nails still turned out beautifully!

 I used the following nail polishes (listed below) but honestly any light or pastel colors you have will work. I also used one of those cheap makeup sponges that you can get from Ulta or Sephora to stipple on the colors. I first cut the sponge into roughly 0.5 cm by 0.5 cm squares and used a cheap tweezer I got from Hong Kong to hold the sponge pieces to hold the pieces while I stippled color onto my nails. You want to make sure you have a good white base nail polish by the way to avoid any sort of dimpling or weirdness which you can tell sort of happened with mine.. -shrug- Oh well haha.

From left to right:
-L.A. Colors Art Deco Nail Art Lacquer, White
-Pop-Arazzi Nail Polish, Icing On The Cake (cheap nail polish from CVS but any white will do; I'm not sure I would recommend this.. it's not terrible but you need at least two coats and it can be thick..)
-Covergirl Coral Silk
-Orly Spark
-Revlon Minted
-Sally Hansen Breeze Blue
-H&M Beauty Bandit (not sure if this is sold anymore since they appear to have changed their packaging)

I should also mention that when I was finished, I used one of those shimmery top coat add on nail polishes (not really sure how to describe it but its super iridescent)  from Skin Food (a Korean brand). I can't seem to find a photo or name of it online so I'm not sure if it's still available but it's not necessary to get the galaxy effect. You can coat your nails with a fine white glitter nail polish if you have one to save yourself the trouble of having to spot on white 'stars'. I finished my nails with my usual Seche Vite top coat which gave them the perfect gel finish. I used dotting tools from Ebay to draw my stars but a toothpick of bobby pin will work fine.

Simple 3 Color Winter Nails

Because my exams are finally over, I've been able to paint my nails and oh my, how I've missed this simple luxury. Please don't mind the dryness of my nails (yes I know extremely unflattering but the winter cold air has left in moisture) and focus on the design instead ;D I took my inspiration from a design I saw on Pinterest but switched the colors around . I like the mix of the emerald green and silver. It's a bit festive and actually would have been more perfect before Christmas but nevertheless, I think this is still perfect for the winter weather. My nail painting skills are a bit rusty, having not painted them for so long now, but this look was so simple and easy to do that it was pretty foolproof.

 

The three nail polishes I used were:
-Revlon Matte Suede in Emerald City
-Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in Showtime (I think this is discontinued which is a shame because it's so pretty and I've used it for so long)
-Orly French Tip (I really need another white nail polish because this one is getting goopy!)

The overall nail look was really quick and easy to do. I hope to be doing more nail designs in my free time so please look forward to those and send me any styles or designs you want me to attempt (easy ones please haha!)

Cute Halloween Nail Art

Hello everyone! I haven't posted in a while (oh the joys of school) but I thought I'd share a quick post on some fun Halloween inspired nail art. I definitely did not come up with these designs myself (except maybe the pumpkin ones which aren't even that nice) and I got my inspiration from IHaveACupcake and cutepolish on Youtube. They both have tutorials which I semi-followed to get this look but as you can see, I deviated a little so feel free to add your own touches and flare (I sound like I changed the designs on purpose but really it was probably because I messed up and tried to fix it haha!).

I used the following nail polishes (shown below in order listed):
-Black: Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Nail Color 370 Black Out
-Orange: Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Nail Color 150 Sun Kissed
-White: Orly Nail Polish White Tips #42001
-Green: Orly Nail Polish Coachella Dweller
-Red: Forever 21 Red Sangria Nail Polish
-Yellow: Orly Nail Polish Lemonade
-Top coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Nail Coat



I used some cheap dotting tools (basically little sticks with circles on the ends) to do the eyes but really you can use a toothpick or bobby pin which I've used before and they work just as well.  Oh and please don't mind the fact that my hands are incredibly dry and gross and that I have a nasty paper-cut-looking cute on my index finger (which I got from my friends broken phone screen .. WHO KNEW THOSE THINGS COULD CUT YOU IF YOU SIMPLY BRUSH UP ON THEM??)


Let me know what you think of these and what you're going to be for Halloween if you're dressing up in the comment section! Last year I went trick-o-treating with my friend (don't ask how old I am LOL because the answer is too old) but she's in Asia this year so I don't know what I'm going to do :(