Catrice Heavy Metallilac with Sally Hansen Golden-I half moons

Still no inspiration for any nail art so decided on simple half moons. The half moons are done using Sally Hansen Golden-I, a shimmery gold foil and the purple is Catrice Heavy Metallilac, a medium purple with pink shimmer.

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Essie In the Cab-ana with Glitter Gal Silver 3D Holo half moon and flower nail foil accent

As I had a piece of the flower nail foil left from my previous mani, decided to try a bling/shiny accent nail with it since the outline of the flowers is holographic foil ;) Hence applied 2 coats of Glitter Gal 3D Silver Holo on ring finger and half-moons before applying the foil and Essie In the Cab-ana.

Essie In the Cab-ana is a bright aqua blue cream and applies very well, unlike Essie Under Where?. 1 coat was fairly opaque but I applied 2 coats to even the polish out. Below is a pic with less direct light.

If you wanna see how the foil is applied, go to my previous mani, and you can purchase this nail foil (NNAIL-E28) from this link and get 10% off purchases if you use the code "barenailsnomore".

Thanks for viewing!

Flakies half moon (Nubar 2010 and Ludurana Flocado)

Yet another half moon as I have previously warned...guess I was going through a half moon phase back then :p This was when flakies were appearing everywhere in blogs and I was drawn in as well. The pic doesn't do them justice as the flakies were more visible in real life.

Hot pink half moon using OPI Holland collection

This is actually my first half moon mani after seeing it on many blogs (the leopard print one in the first post was like half a year later). The reinforcement rings method works well for me but the only thing to note is to make sure your base coat is dry enough (sometimes even when it's dry to the touch, it is still not dry enough!), otherwise the reinforcement rings will rip the polish off :( The second layer also needs to be pretty opaque so that you can just apply and remove the rings quickly to achieve cleaner lines.

Half moon and leopard print nails

First post on my first ever blog! My interest in nail polish started late but gathered momentum rather swiftly and since now my nails are almost always painted (hence bare nails no more ;) ) and I often take pics of them to keep a record, thought I could share them on a blog for fun.

However, I'm no manicurist nor professional blogger, hence paint job/cuticles might be messy and pics are normally taken whenever/wherever convenient with iphone so please bear with them. Hopefully I will improve with practice and be able to share better pics!

Guess I will start with one of my favourite freehand nail art so far - half moon leopard print