Tissue Box Inspired Mani;

hi~


I did this mani based off of this tissue box. I used Zoya's Wednesday and Revlon's Elegant. Instead of going with a purple flower, I went with a black one instead.



Have a good one!,
<3KATRINA

Leopard Print Mani;

hey,

I did this mani back in July 0__o (wheph, soooo behind ...) I used Essie's Mesmerized (the royal blue), Revlon's Elegant (the base for my pointer nail), and Rimmel's Black Satin for my ring finger nail and the design of the leopard print. I don't remember what I used to fill in the leopard print, sorry~



Have a good one!,
<3KATRINA

Hauls & Polish Hunting with Rachel

hi!

so i spent my Tuesday morning & early-afternoon on a polish hunt with Rachel of Rachel's Marie's Nails :) we stopped by 3 different stores, bought lots of polishes, chatted about ourselves & polishes [of course!], and got bubble teas to drink. :)

here's my haul from Tuesday;

omg. i went a LITTLE bit overboard, right?! haha sorry for a sucky picture. i edited this picture for tumblr & i went a little wonky with the editing. haha T______T

from l-r: CND Asphalt, China Glaze Virtual Violet, Zoya Roxy, [at the top] Essie Mesmerized & Topless & Barefoot, OPI Russian Navy Suede & Black Shatter, [at the bottom] China Glaze Custom Kicks, Fly, Laced Up, Oh How Street It Is, Techno Teal, CND Toughen Up basecoat, Silver Sparkling, Gold Sparkling, & China Glaze Sea Spray. not to mention, i got a Nail Tek glass file.

oh, and thats not it. Rachel even gave me a little present! how sweet right?! :)

Lemony Flutter cuticle creme, Sally Hansen Nail Prisms in Diamond & Purple Diamond, Revlon Banana Blaze, & Cover Girl's Nail Slicks in Mystic Peacock.

*sigh. Tuesday was so fun. :)

now here's my haul from last week...

OPI Yogo-Ta Get This Blue! & I Vant To Be A-Lone Star, Studio M Vintage Couture & Tru Passion, Orly Country Club Khaki, Essie California Coral, & Milani Totally Cool.

and finally, here's my haul from Saturday..

the new Sinful Colors polishes!! :)

from l-r: Why Not, Hazard, Unicorn, Nirvana, & Savage. Savage is supposed to be a teal-ish color but my picture sucks :X

WHEPH! i seriously need to go on a No Buy.

i have to go study now..so i'll leave it at this. i'll be back with a mani post soon.
p.s. do you prefer this bigger size of pictures? hmm...

have a good one!,
<3KATRINA

Pinks, Polka Dots, & Bunnies

hiyeom!~ another short post for today.


the dark pink is 3 coats of F21's Love & Beauty Salmon. the light pink is 4 coats of Ulta's Sweet Tart. yes, sadly i had to use 4 coats. the polish is SO pretty but its kinda a streaky mess. the white polish i used is 4 coats of Revlon's Powder Puff. ugh, i hate having to use 4 or more coats of polish!!! T_____T but i loooove Powder Puff! theres a beautiful, slight blue flash in the polish! too bad it had a whole mess of bubbles when i woke up the next morning =/

the bunnies on my thumb & pointer finger are part of a recent package i got from Born Pretty Store.


my many, new fimo sticks! the package i received came with little special cutting knife things. cutting fimo sticks isnt really hard, just aim to cut a really thin piece!

and thanks to Jessica from Born Pretty Store for sending me another awesome package~

have a great weekend!,
<3KATRINA

Giraffe Mani Tutorial

Happy Saturday! its a freeeeeezing cold day with rain today...for me at least.

today, i have a tutorial to share. i recently received an email from Cyntia who asked about my giraffe mani [that i posted back in March] and for a tutorial. its quite simple and i was definitely glad to make a tutorial. btw, when my computer died on me, i lost my video editing program so i'll only be doing picture tutorials for a while.. =/

here's what we're aiming for..



ask requested, here are a picture of the materials i used.
a regular paint brush, nail dotting tool, Poshe's basecoat, China Glaze's For Audrey & Happy Go Lucky, Revlon's Hot For Chocolate, Sally Hansen's Black Out, and China Glaze's topcoat.


step 1: apply basecoat & base color.


step 2: take your dotting tool + dip it into your brown polish and create dots.


step 3: repeat step 2 but make smaller dots to fill in the empty spaces. make sure you dont do too many dots.

apply topcoat once the nail is dried & youre done with this part of the mani. onto the next part...



step 1: apply basecoat & base color.


step 2: using the regular paint brush, create a small circle for the head of the giraffe.


step 3: draw a line straight down for the neck.


step 4: to make the body of the giraffe, just make a half-circle at the bottom of the nail.


step 5: back to the dotting tool, use your black polish to make two eyes and two small dots for the nose. then use your brown polish to make the giraffe spots.


step 6: dont forget to dot the tips of the things on top of his head. [edit:] WHOOPS! i forgot to mention to draw two little lines at the sides of his head for the ears. please refer to this picture for the ears.

wait for the nail to dry and apply topcoat.

now you're done! and i apologize for the blurriness of some pictures..

i hope this helped! if you have a tutorial request, please feel free to send me an email :)

have a great weekend!,
<3KATRINA

Catching Up on Manis

woohoo! its Friday! i hope your week has been well! the weekend is JUST around the corner! -not that im doing anything fun over the weekend..just working. hopefully your weekend will be better than mine =P

time to catch you up on some manis of mine.


*click on the picture to see the full awesomeness! a link will automatically open up in a new screen.* 2 coats of OPI's My Private Jet. this one isnt the original-way-more-awesome holo one. this is the non-original-less-awesome holo one. =P and then i added some stars stickers.


*click on the picture to see the full awesomeness! a link will automatically open up in a new screen.* you can see more of the holo on my thumb. i had highhhh hopes for this one. its a beautiful polish, but i prefer Color Club's Revvvolution :)


here, i have 3 coats of Orly's Retro Red from their Plastix collection. besides for the bad picture, you can see finger indents & smudges on my nails. i painted my nails at midnight - like usual - and i didnt apply topcoat so that it can keep its satin-ish finish...and then i woke up with fugly nails =/ application of the polish was alright..and just to say, the picture shows the polish as RED..but when its on my nails, it looks more pink. weird, right?


next i have 3 coats of Essie's Van D'Go, which is the adorable peach-ish color, and 3 coats of Wet n Wild's Tropicalia. i sure do love my stripes & roses! haha

my nails had layers & then two of my nails chipped..so i had to chop off my nails. so now i have little nubbins for nails =P


my first mani with short nails. something simple. 3 coats of Revlon's Silver & 3 coats of Sally Hansen's Black Out. and then my free-handed leopard print.


*click on the picture to see the full awesomeness! a link will automatically open up in a new screen.* this is 2 coats of Studio M's Magic Attraction. [Studio M is a brand from Meijer] this is an awesome, silver packed glitter polish with red-burgundy glitter and its also an awesome holo !!


*click on the picture to see the full awesomeness! a link will automatically open up in a new screen.* here's a picture in bad lighting but you can see the holo-awesomeness! this polish is closely following Revvvolution as my favorite holos! :)


again, all of those picturs were taken with my phone's camera. i usually take pictures of my nails when im on break at work - the lighting is so much better in my car! haha

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also, please check out Alison's blog! :)

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i also want to mention that i start a new semester of college on Monday!!! so soon! ALREADY!! it hasnt hit me yet...but i guess i better get over it & realize its SO soon already! i realllllly want to do good this semester...so i gotta make sure i focus. hopefully i'll still be blogging like usual. - - are you going back to school this semester? when do you start?

have a great weekend!,
<3KATRINA

4 Things Tag + Random Manis

late night post tonight; different.

hi, i hope your weekend has been going well! im gunna start this post off with a little about me. thanks to Katherine of Necessary Nails and Karen of Addicted to Nail Polish ♪♫♪ for tagging me :)

4 things in my bag/purse
- wallet.
- pens.
- gum.
- glasses case.

4 things found in my purse
- receipts.
- money [haha.]
- lots of gum wrappers.
- a pack of dental floss ;)

4 favorite things in my room
- mah bed :)
- my blanket.
- my v-neck tees <3
- my dresses.

4 things I’ve always wanted to do
- travel!!!!!!!
- meet my favorite people <3
- travel some more!
- figure out what i wanna do in life =P

4 things I’m currently into
- Shinee's Lucifer Album.
- SNSD's Hello Baby season.
- mah polishes & getting more :)
- HELMERS!!! i want one. now.

4 things I bet you didn't know about me
- im DYING to leave home & live on my own for a while.
- i just got into my first car accident on Tuesday =(
- i talk obnoxiously loud & im super sarcastic so everyone thinks im conceited, but really, im super self-conscious.
- i graduated high school with a gpa higher than 3.8 & yet im still at a community college after 3 years & i still dont know what to do with my life.. T__T

4 songs I can't get out of my head
- Shinee's Lucifer.
- Teen Top's Clap.
- Monday Kiz's Goodbye My Princess.
- Kings of Leon's Use Somebody.

Rules:
once tagged, you must link the person who tagged you, tag 4 others, let the bloggers know they have been tagged, give 4 answers to each question asked.

My tags
- Eva of Eva the Beaver.
- "Freshie" of Polish Freshie.
- yokemun.
- Li Lian of nails nails nails.

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on my random manis..


3 coats of OPI's Heart Throb. Heart Throb is a super sheer, soft pink. i still had major VNL after 3 coats & i didnt want to go onto a 4th coat so i layered up my nails with nail stickers and some glitter.


the angle of this picture is weird..but its ok. 3 coats of China Glaze's Nasty. i think 2 coats would've been fine but i did 3 to be safe. please excuse the ugly design on the ring finger. my dots werent as spaced out as i wanted them to be.. =/


2 coats of Revlon's Silver. the stickers had ugly bubbling around it.. =/


here is the same mani but matte-ified. and a coat of Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure on my thumb, middle finger, and pinky. and i filed down my nails. i like the subtleness of HT =) please excuse the horrible lighting in this picture. the polish looks blue-ish..ew. bad picture =/


OPI's Rumple's Wiggin & Funkey Dunkey mani. that silver blob on my ring finger is supposed to be a heart but my silver glitter polish got too goopy =/ and the pink part of the french mani is too pink - i hated it.

this is the end of my random manis, but i would like to add that those pictures were taken with my phones camera. i love the quality of my phones pictures :)

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i'll end this post here. its getting kinda long.

enjoy the rest of your weekend!,
<3KATRINA

IM BACK! + Fruit Fimo Mani

yay! im back! its almost been 3 weeks...wow!

i posted a blog post last week or something & then all of a sudden, it disappeared! totally weird! so i'll just recap last weeks post right now;

since my computer broke [3 weeks ago] - - i have been slacking on nail art & all. honestly, it got so bad that when i went to repaint my nails one night, my hands were super shaky & unsteady. and i was just trying to paint my nails, no fancy nail art! it was quite sad =/ i also mentioned in my last post that disappeared that i havent been up to date with blogs. i started slacking & i wasnt reading blogs much. sorry! but i will say that i've been digging through old posts..trying to catch up! theres a lot that a girl misses in 3 weeks, ya know!? haha im trying though =P so now that im slowly trying to catch up, i'll be commenting your blogs again!

while i was out, i did manage to pick up a few polishes. here's my hauls:


in my last post [the one from the 12th of July], i mentioned that i picked up OPI's Rumples Wiggin, Who The Shrek Are You?, & Heart Throb.


OPI's You Don't Know Jacques! Suede & My Private Jet. i also picked up my first three Color Club polishes; Angels N' Pink, Take Me To Your Chateau, & Revvvolution.


Orly's Glam, China Glaze's Yellow Polka Dot Bikini & VII, and Essie's Red Nouveau & Van D'Go.


Pure Ice's Free Spirit, Nicole's Imagine If..., Savvy Femme Couture's Magic Pumpkin & Fairy Twinkle.


Revlon's Silver, a Meijer's Mood Struck polish, & Confetti's Pink Confetti & First Kiss.

i also got a bunch of nail stickers, a glitter thingy from Meijer's, and my package from Viva La Nails finally came in.

since i have much to share with you, i dont wanna throw them all into this post so i'll just post my current mani & then i'll catch you up with everything later on.


sorry for the bad, blurry picture. its too hot outside & im kinda crabby so the heat wasnt making me feel better. haha but here's 3 coats of Wet n Wild's Tropicalia; i've had this polish for almost 2 months so i decided to finally try it out. its such a gorgeous pink-salmon color! for the stripes on my ring finger & thumb, i used two coats of my favorite Sally Hansen White On and then i used acrylic paint to make my colorful stripes. i used my fruit fimo & layered them on my nails. i added a few rhinestones & glitters onto my nails. the green rhinestones & [barely noticable] pink glitter are from my Viva La Nails package. [a review will be coming along soon..]


here's a picture from my phones camera. the pink looks a little darker but you can see the details on my fruit nails better. dude, my phones camera is pretty awesome! it takes great pictures--i think it takes better than my regular camera does. haha

uhm, i think this is it for now. thanks for sticking it out with me. i really did miss you all :)

hope you have been well!,
<3KATRINA

oh, p.s. i wanna order myself some Konad stuff soon. whats a good site to order from? i've read about a few but i wanna know your opinions too :) thanks!

Strawberries in Strawberry Fields

good morning Monday! i hope all of you had a great weekend =) and a Happy belated Mother's Day!

speaking of Mother's Day...yesterday, i painted my nails with one of my mom's favorite polishes out of my polish stash. haha its super girly..so of course my mom loves it! here's China Glaze's Strawberry Fields !


here's a picture with the flash on..i forgot to turn the flash off...but the picture turned out ok..so its all good =)


here's a picture with lighting from the beautiful sun =) see the awesome gold glitters? -beauty! =)

i've read lots, and lots, and lots of reviews on Strawberry Fields so i finally picked myself up a bottle a month or two ago. my mom tried it and loved it but yesterday was my first time using it. its really worth all the rave that it gets! but personally, its a bit too girly for me... which is weird cause i LOVE pink polishes and all..but...yea... =P

of course..i needed to do some nail art of some sort on my nails..so what else would be better with Strawberry Fields than some strawberries!?


now this is super girly! haha

the pink base on my ring finger is Revlon's Pink Chiffon. application as a huge P A I N! the polish is super streaky.. i had to use 4 coats of polish, although i didnt want to ... uhm, the stripes on my thumb is.. Maybelline's Bubble Pink. much easier to work with than Revlons.


well, i guess this is it for now.. =)

have a great beginning of the week!,
<3KATRINA