Monday, December 28, 2009

KOTD: Leather and lace.

Another Konadicure for all the pink-hating readers of my blog! I think after this I've really earned my right to do pink Konadicures for ever and ever!!

Kidding! Maybe.





I'm a bit clumsy with my left hand so I ended up smudging the black Konad print a bit when I applied the topcoat :(

I absolutely love this Konadicure! Some Konadicures you just know while you're doing them that you'll like them, and others... ugh. The idea and reality turn out totally different.

I did it during the daytime (I usually do Konadicures at night) so I was able to take step-by-step photos of the different stages of my Konadicure. All step-by-step photos are before I cleaned up my nails so you can see the mess I make ^^

Step 1: Elianto Nail Color #33 as a base to cover up my discoloured nails and instead give it a natural peachy pink glow.

Step 2: Skin Food BR610 Coffee Jelly for the french tips with reinforcement rings... still looking very plain though.

Step 3: Next comes the Konad design. Elianto nail color #40 Twilight Zone (which Konads very vividly btw!) using a design from image plate M57.


Step 4: Last but not least, added tiny silver dots along the line of the french tip using a toothpick for a more glam look.



Step 5: Face Shop top coat as a finishing touch and then cleaned away all the excess.

Initially wanted to name it Bollywood Romance with Yawen in mind, but then decided against it because it's not really a good description of the Konadicure after all.

My inspirations for this Konadicure are these two Konadicures and nail art done by Konaddict and Preposterously's Nail Blog respectively.



Happy Konad-ing, peeps!


P/S: Super abusing the "small" font size in this post, lolol! Just bear with me :D

Sunday, December 27, 2009

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! :)