Just realised that I haven't talked about my nail art tumblog yet! I've had it for a good while, maybe almost a year now, but it was attached to my main tumblr account - so I had 2 blogs under 1 account. The silly thing about Tumblr is that I can't follow people under 'thenailitgood' account. When I follow/submit/ask people, it will only show my main tumblr account. This blows when you're trying to get the word of your blog out there by submitting photos to fuckyeah blogs, only to find they're directing the crowd to the wrong account. Silly, silly me.

Plus, I'm starting on a new nail wheel! Chinese New Year is coming, and some friends have already asked me for manicures, so I thought, why not just make a new nail wheel & publicise my mini-service. Made these over the weekend too. It's not exactly done yet though, I still have to paint another 10 designs, but I should have it done by this weekend in preparation for next week! (:


I still love my old, torn up nail wheel. If you're wondering about the 2 missing nails, I accidentally snapped them off when I was trying to remove the polish off. It was kinda weird because the middle of the nail wheel kept getting dirtier as I tried to clean it with polish remover...

Told you this design was easy. It's all about thinking in layers. Before I nailed it, I stared at SHM's logo for a good few days till I settled on the method of approaching the design.


Here's a list of materials/colours I used:

(From order of appearance)
1. OPI's Original Nail Envy base coat (already on my nail)
2. White base colour from The FaceShop
3. Black polish (BK901) from The FaceShop
4. A piece of makeup sponge
5. Reinforcement rings (the type you put around the hole punch to prevent it from tearing)
6. Dotting tool for the white dots
7. Thin brush for painting white stripes
8. Seche Vite top coat

The biggest tip I can give you for this design is to BE PATIENT. I messed up my index finger because the white base colour wasn't completely dry yet when I put the reinforcement ring on. When I pulled the sticker off, bits of the base colour came with it, messing the design. Rawr. To check if your nail polish has completely dried, poke it with your other nails. If the colour doesn't 'dent', then it's safe to carry on with the design.

Another tip is to reduce the stickiness of the reinforcement ring before you use it. Do this by sticking the sticker on your palm a few times so that it gets slightly dirty. The less sticky it is, the lesser the chance of it pulling polish when you remove it. Sweet.

This design is a little forgiving. You can afford to be a little messy, because the logo does have a slightly grunge look - which means you don't have to stress about being neat!

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It's been awhile since I last gave my friends a manicure, so it was a pleasant change to paint Shelley's nails today. She saw this design online & I followed it.

I think it's time I start making another nail tutorial - featuring the Swedish House Mafia nails. The concert was beautifuckinful, and I only wished it lasted longer.

Initially, I wanted to have these nails on before the concert, but I hadn't completely figured out how to do the design yet. Now that I've nailed it, I'm ready to make it a tutorial soon. In the meantime, make a guess on how I did the design. Hint - I used a sponge, reinforcement ring stickers, a dotter, and 2 polish colours. The best thing about this design is that you can prolly switch out the colours for anything and they'll look great! Give me a week at most - I'll have the video up soon!

A few days ago, I made a pretty huge order of false nails, and I'm still waiting for the shipment to arrive. I'm pretty excited really, but I should've done it earlier - would've been better if I could start painting them during the holidays.

The way I look at it, if I keep to my dream of slowly becoming self-sufficient through nail art even while I'm in school, it will really show that I'm committed to this. It's closing to a week since the shipment went out, so I should be receiving it pretty soon. My parents want me to get a job so I can support myself while I'm in school (which is the right thing to do actually), but I've been holding it off. I want to see if selling my designs online to a world wide market will even happen. I really want to start this!

Something else I want to talk about is the shittymanicures post. I'm not sure if I can call it a hate blog, but it's a blog that prides themselves in pointing out ugly manicures done by everyone from beginners like me, to professionals of the art. At first when I saw that they had reblogged one of my older posts, I got really mad. Took me a few hours to get over it to be honest! What they do is terrible, but if anything, it's showing me that I really do want to keep doing nail art. And hey, haters gonna hate.

So excited to get this design up on my blog.

Spent about an hour yesterday night doing these nails. Been wanting to try this method of drawing roses in awhile. Not the most perfect outcome, but I love how they turned out. Plus, it's been awhile since I actually drew on my nails. There's just something about painting on nails that makes me feel so calm.


The colours I used on the roses are absolutely beautiful. Both colours by MAC, the pink is Girl About Town, and the green is Deep Sea. The brush is a little thin for my liking - I prefer the wide-flat type of brushes, like the one Sephora uses for their polish. Didn't matter for this design though, I dropped a small pool of polish on a piece of paper so I can pick up the colour with my brush easily. I used a light blue shade from Faceshop for the base, but I'm regretting it now. A nice off-white or a nude base colour would've worked better.

If you're keen on trying the design for yourself, start in the middle and draw two curved lines. For the rest of the petals, draw more curved lines and make them thicker in the middle. A nice, fine brush will do perfect, but a toothpick with a fine tip will work as well. Don't forget to show me your your designs through instagram!