No-frills Makeup

Just to kick off the regular blogging again, here's a short nail entry! I change my nail colour very often - not so much of toenails though. Here are some I managed to snap pictures of over the past month!

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Hot Red

Urban Decay in Barlust - Don't you love the names UD comes up with? I do!

Urban Decay in Wrecked

These two UD polished are the miniature bottles from the Holiday Nail Kit 2011. They were a present from my girlfriends:)

photo credit: www.scrangie.com

The extremely shiny texture is thanks to Seche Vite topcoat. Nothing unheard of about how wonderful this topcoat is! I must say, though, that Seche Vite gets bloppy in the jar after sometime and it's not as easy to use and long-lasting compared to when it's first used. My nails tend to come off in big pieces rather than slight chipping.

Tony Moly nail polish (White)

A lot of my friends asked me how I did this without using a french tip sticker. Simple!

1) Use a toe clipper to get square nails

2) Use a pigmented white polish. It's not going to work with a watery one because you'd have to keep building up on the colour (and it tends to get messier if you have to keep applying repeated strokes)

3) Place the brush on the tip of your fingernail. Instead of swiping the brush, maneuver your finger from one side to the other, while keeping the brush at the same place throughout. Simply said, instead of moving the brush, move your finger! It may sound ridiculous, but it helps you get straighter lines :)

I applied three light coats in the picture above.

And the instagram-ed version of Barlust and Wrecked! Everything looks nicer instagramed, huh!

Follow me on Instag if you wanna and I'll follow you back ♥ It's more of my everyday pictures than anything beauty-related though! Username: elisenurasyidah

Hope you enjoyed this nail entry!

Just a quick entry on what's on my nails! I'm pretty much venturing out of solid colours - not really going into intricate nail art (I probably don't have the calibre for that anyway!), but just simple tricks that you can emulate too :) It makes a whole lot of difference!

Here I used:

Sally Hansens Hard as Nails in Sugar Babe

Random glittery gold Korean polish

The Face Shop topcoat

The gradient glittery tips elongates your nails. Helpful for me cos I have to always keep short, square nails cos of how brittle by nails are by nature. The glittery tips also add a girlish charm to any neutral colour. Wanna try the gold tips with a solid black base next time!

Easy, peasy lemon squeasy. If you wanna know how to create gradient nails, there's a lot of how-to videos on YouTube! :) I didn't watch any though so I can't say which tutorial is easy to follow. I just did my own interpretation by mere observation. It's not that hard ;)