will be away for a bit

...I'm going through a bit of a tough time and I have a feeling I'm not going to want to blog or go on youtube for a while...
I really need to rethink who I am, where I am, and whether thats where I want to be in life...

I'll be okay, I know that. But for some time I have a feeling that I'll be in sweat pants, eating ice cream, and rolling around in bed lol.

Sorry guys.

Winter Gold snowflakes Nails

Ok, So another blingtastic nail tutorial.

It can be a bit long if you add in the bling, but as usual, you can tone it down or jazz it up like I did. 

Another look inspired from nail magazines, ahhhh love them.

Anyway, lets start with my bare nails... YIKES can you say YELLOW???

ok, so as usual, apply your base coat...

now that your nails protected a bit, lets put on two coats of white polish on your thumb, middle finger, and pinky.

Alright, now take a gold polish, and out it on the remaining finger. (two coats again)

Great, now we need to get to the tricky parts. Making the middle section of the white polish gold. For the right hand I recommend holding the brush still over the nail and just rotating your finger to get a steady straight line.

They don't have to be too perfect. Just go over them with a glitter nail art polish or a thin brush to get more control. 

like that!, but before you do that, (unlike I did) you should add your snowflake stickers/or paint them in yourself.

and theeeeen, you can bling your nails out the way you want, add a bunch of top coats to seal them in, and FINITO! 

Hope you like it =)

Apothica

So I recently went on to apothica.com because of a contest that Toni Tralala is having. 

Going through it, I see they have many different products that they offer: make up, skin care, even things that might interest my boyfriend.

I wasn't really too keen on getting anything at first, I rarely shop on line... BUT!!! I have been dying to get an eye shadow from stila (kitten) because I ran out just when I got to Japan. They used to have a Stila counter around my workplace, but then they took it away...=(

I kind of gave up on buying the shadow, but seeing it on the site made me want to get it again =D...and I just might...

They have other things that might interest you as well ( I was also eyeing some candles they had...)

Next Nail Tutorial, possible animal series

I'm not much of a fan of animal print. Actually, I never owned any clothing item in my life with animal prints, but I have been trying of late. My pencil case has a zebra print, lol. I did a couple nail looks using animal prints, and I'm even thinking about doing a whole series of them. I was looking through this nail magazine for inspiration or looks to do, and I ran into a whole page full of them. I picked this to start with, and might try out a couple more that I saw on that page.  So here it is:

it might be a bit wild for some of you, but you can always use different colors and skip the glitter and rhinestones and just line it with black or whatever...

Any who, the video will be up soon =)

Double French Tip Nail Tutorial

I actually kind of like this look, it's pretty wearable for a change lol.

The only thing is that I wasn't as careful as I should have been with the glitter cause I was in a bit of a hurry (was midnight and the next day was my first day of school, haha)

So anyway, here it is...

I went on to add a few more layers of the gel top coat so it looks a lot more bubbly and glossy now...

But yes, I think the gel top coat makes this look a lot better than it would with out it.

It has a little bit of color, so even though the bottom half of my nail is clear, it makes it look nice and smooth, as if you buffed your nails and leaves a hint of color.

If your nails are filed well, it will make it look like you have fake nails with gel polish or something,

almost too perfect lol. 

But I like it like that =)

Sleeping Trio on the Train

Haha, I saw this and thought it was too cute and had to snap a shot.... 

Seriously though... I really really want to stick something in people's mouths when I see them sleeping with their mouth wide open...

One other thing that bugs me is that you see all that space between them? The trains get really packed but because of people like these sometimes people (like me!) can't sit down because they don't want to move down. Especially if they're sleeping... Cause you can't give them the evil look till they move lol... ok I guess you can just say excuse me or start sitting and MAKE them move... but I could never do that!

Winter Nail Tutorial

This is the next nail look that I am going to put up on my youtube channel:

I kinda messed up on this hand, I wanted the circle shiny things to look more like this, which was on my right hand....

It's a really simple look. First you just paint your nails is a creamy, off white color. It doesn't have to look perfect cause you'll paint over most of it with black anyway.

Then all you do is pain the top 2/3rds black and make it curve like so:

Once again, it doesn't have to be perfect cause we will cover it with those silver small circles. 

Remember, they look a bit better on my right than my left hand's pic (the completed look)

I just used some snowflake nail stickers and saved some time, and put on a top coat over it all. I only did my thumb's manually with a nail art brush, but the rest are stickers.

Then I just used a glittery polish to make a gradation at the tip, and then it's finished!