(Chinese) Newspaper Nails

Newspaper nails! Many many tutorials of how to achieve these nails using rubbing alcohol on YouTube, so I wanted to try it. Of course, I only had Chinese newspapers (世界日報) lying around the house. Looks even cooler than English words imo haha.

What I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion base coat
Zoya Purity (white)
世界日報 newspaper
70% Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol
Seche Vite top coat

If I were to do these again, I'd probably use a light gray base instead of white to make it look more like newspaper (didn't have any light gray polishes when I did these). Happy painting!

Love,
Kat

Penguin Nails

My first client ever, Justine, wanted me to do her nails for her birthday. She asked for penguins so I gave her penguins! These were done on 12/27/11. I used this YouTube tutorial by hellokitty12822 as a guide if you're interested in how to do these.

What I used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
ORLY Liquid Vinyl (black)
ORLY Pointe Blanche (white)
S&M (random cheap brand from Taiwan) yellow
S&M (random cheap brand from Taiwan) orange
OPI Jade is the New Black (green for scarf)
Seche Vite top coat

Happy painting!

Love,
Kat

Sunset Fade Zebra Water Marble Nails

Hello friends!

It's been awhile, but my friends keep urging me to start a nail blog, so I thought I'd just return to this one. I've done so many nail designs in the last couple years, and I've uploaded most of them to fb, but my goal is to upload all of them onto here within the next couple weeks/months. We'll see how that goes lol. I had the same goal when I first started this blog, but clearly that didn't go so well. ;x

Anyway, this is the design I currently have on my nails right now:


My friend Ryan aptly named the base color a sunset fade. I'll call this mani a sunset fade zebra water marble. So sexy, even my boss commented on it! My nails bring all the boys to the yard and they're like... okay I'm done. Here we go~

Polishes used:
China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat
Zoya Purity (white base)
Zoya Ali (pink)
Zoya Jancyn (orange)
Zoya Pippa (yellow)
OPI Privacy Please (water marble)
OPI Midnight in Moscow (water marble)
Seche Vite top coat


Happy painting!

Love,
Kat