Ho ho ho, Christmas nail art!

(Soli soli verrrrry late nail art post!)

I know everybody expects the typical red, green and white nails for Xmas but mine were ROYAL PURPLE on Christmas day!

It was my first time trying sponge nail art, a technique I discovered last year cause it was on pretty much every nail art blog I read. They use what's called the Sponge Nail Art Set by Konad. They're the same company that makes the Stamping Nail Art I adore!

But because I'm oh-so-kiamsiap, instead of forking out money for an actual Konad sponging kit (which I feel is not worth it cause it's... just ordinary sponge what -_-). I went to buy DISHWASHING SPONGES!! LOL a bit fml. So many huge pieces for only a few RM and they work great, un-fml.

Konad sponge. Grey in uniform circles.

MY sponge wahaha! :D Yellow and looks like it's ready to tackle some plates nails.

This is my new dark purple Face Shop Lovely Me:ex nail polish, one of the 5 that Shar and her mama gifted me. Xie xie x1000!

Quite disappointed that Malaysia's Face Shop doesn't sell the Lovely Me:ex polishes, only Singapore where I picked up this baby pink one at Jurong Point which wasn't available in Brunei.

Anyway, the reason I chose purple is to match the purple dress (and silver shoes) I wore to celebrate Christmas at my brother-in-law's family's house! This is my second year with an emotionally exhausting eventful Christmas thanks to my brother-in-law's family.

My inspiration! Love her starry night theme, but I focused more on just snowflakes.

Ok here's my typical red, white and green Christmas nails :D

Oh I wish! That's just one of my inspirations for my nail art. Here's the other one:

And here's the final product!

Rest of the photo quality isn't that great cause I was in a rush and just took them under fluorescent light.

The 5 elements I incorporated were a Christmas tree (left thumb), a Christmas stocking (left ring finger), Christmas lights (right thumb), a snowman (right ring finger) and Christmas-coloured candy canes on the rest of the nails. Sorry about the wiggly stripes, especially on my right hand, Miss Steady Hands I am not :(

Check out the broken thumbnail I've been hanging on to for the past month. Refuse to cut it cause I'll be so simtiah!

Really, REALLY want to buy this book!! I LOVED The Secret Shopper's Revenge! But I've already blown my Christmas money on new "college" clothes from Padini and pink swimming nonsense gear D:

Talking about college, I feel like I am skipping school cause I didn't go "back to school" today. Or having an extended December holiday. I still don't feel like a high school graduate!

Most of my 'A' Level friends in Brunei are starting school tomorrow so I guess I'm considered a "late-starter" in the month of January. My first day of college will be next Monday but Orientation is this Wednesday! Will get to see who all my future coursemates are. *nervous* Um... what shall I wear!! I think casual clothes to school is going to be a headache for me! I imagine myself standing in front of my closet suitcase for half an hour every morning just trying to decide *long face*

Hope all of you had a nice Christmas and New Year's! :)

'Tis the season to be jolly!

Really quick (and late) (and short) Xmas post while I cook up more stuff for you to read! Upcoming posts include: Prom! My Singapore trip. What I've been up to this month in Malaysia. My first set of Christmas nails! And another tear-jerker post cause I know you like those! Don't deny!!

All photos taken on Christmas day! Adorable niece Ava in her Christmas dress, bokeh-ed Christmas tree and me in the car. 

Lovely Christmas frames template is a freebie from Shabby Blogs.

My Christmas 2009.

Christmas was 3 days ago so I admit I'm a bit slow posting this, but what to do? Editing photos takes time.

If you're at all interested, here's what I did on Christmas day.

Got up at 6.30 am! D: Just so I could shower, blow my hair, iron my clothes, put on my makeup, blog, etc. I am freaking hardworking can! Lolol.

Then left for Bukit Mertajam across the Penang bridge with my mom, dad, sister, Ava and uncle at 10 pm for the baptism. The ceremony in the church started around 11 am.

Inside the same church where my sister got married in March. Wth time flies! T__T

My sister and baby Ava in a sea of white-clad babies all waiting to be baptised.

Christening and pouring of the Holy water. Those are Ava's Godparents looking on.

I love this photo cause I look so unaware and carefree. And also cause everybody else is out-of-focus, very DSLR-ish. When DSLRs get smaller and come in pink, sign me up! :D

Don't ask.

My uncle, aunty Rani and Ava.

My sister with Ava and her Godparents, Olivia and Kok Beng.

Aunty Patsy (Anek Joe's mother), somebody (??), sister Claire and brother Patrick. And Ava.

My family plus my uncle. My hair looks so big cause of my errant rushed blow drying D:

My sister and Ava with my uncle's family, my aunt and two eight and five year old cousins, Lilian and Vivian. (Omg since when are they not six and three?!) And poor Patrick! Somebody left him behind there :S

After the baptism, we went to Aunty Patsy's house for Christmas lunch.

This is their Christmas tree.

The decorations were complete with a nativity of baby Jesus in the manger... Wahlao.

Baby Ava's baptism cake which was part of my sister's wedding cake from 9 months ago (omg!). "On your Christening Day, Ava Jade".

Cutting the cake and Ava giving her signature dudu face T__T One day when she's older she's gonna look back at these photos and regret making all those dudu faces!

Ohmagawd, okay okay. Behold, the most beautiful thing you will ever see! The Barbie doll shrine!! Worship yee, before the throne of Barbie!

OMG! *drools* Claire, although handicapped, works at the Mattel factory making toys. She managed to tell me through some sign language that there are 32 Barbies altogether in the cupboard!! :O:O I WANTS CAN I HAS???

After lunch, we made the one and a half hour trip to Alor Star for the wedding dinner that night.

Last December in Kedah, I ate the awesome ais kacang at the super old hawker stall. This time, I ate it again! (The bowl changed from blue to pink, lol!) I cannot look at the photo without drooling. So good!

Was too busy eating during the dinner to take any photos :P The wedding dinner was a very typical kua zhang Chinese 7 course dinner. And the old uncles singing Chinese karaoke (one guy even did a Michael Jackson dance) and drinking lots and lots of Tiger beer.

The type of dinner where everybody commences afterwards to a.) karaoke somemore b.) drink even more beer or c.) gamble. And everybody gossips about all the relatives on the drive home.

Something I've come to realize is that wedding events are only fun when you're part of the bride or groom's immediate family. Other than that, pah! Boring!

Oi fatty sister, faster get married! I can't wait to be a bridesmaid again, mad fun! And pink dresses please. Plus minimum 6 months notice kthxbai.

Only got back home at 11.45 pm, according to the time this picture was taken D:

After being up for 17 hours on just 4 hours of sleep, can still look so bright-eyed and bushy tailed riding the lift up to my condo. It was still no match to my sister's wedding day where I went 18 hours on 2 hours of sleep. But as I can remember, I was still very bright eyed and busy tailed by midnight ;)

Definitely my most eventful Christmas to date! Hope all of you had nice Christmases too :)

KOTD: Kristmas Konadicure #2

Did a very glittery and blinged-up festive Konadicure for my second set of Christmas nails which I absolutely love! Say hello to a barrage of 16 nail photos :D

Santa's Sparkly Helper

6 nail polishes altogether went into making this Konadicure. I kind of want it to last till New Year's but you know, out with the old and in with the new. I'll be removing it with a heavy heart.

Elianto Nail Color #33 Peach for the base (which was a bitch to apply! Had to repaint some of my nails up to 5 times).

Elianto Nail Color #40 Twilight Zone...

...for the Konad m57 image plate design.

The Face Shop Nail Color GL112 under...

...RD304 with the help of reinforcement rings for the tips.

Used both The Face Shop Nail Top Coat and...

...and Nail Color BK902 as top coats.

My inspiration was this gemstone and sticker manicure by Preposterously's Nail Blog, but I decided to take it one step further.

Happy Konad-ing and happy holidays! :)