Travelling Extravaganza - Seoul

This is, I believe to be the last travelling extravaganza I'd have until a few good months before I'll get to travel again *cross fingers*.

Though my eye was still under recovery then, I applied nail lacquers for the trip for vanity's sake and also to console myself not to keep thinking of my condition. With that, I took Color Club's Otherworldly from my nail lacquer stash & applied them onto my nails.

Seriously, I've bought it more than 3 months ago but I had no idea why I did not use it till now. Perhaps I was hoping the blue and the glitter will elevate my mood somehow. Nonetheless, the application for Otherworldly is very smooth and I only used 2 coats for this.

Being one who love Seoul, this trip wasn't very enjoyable to me due to one and annoying reason - my eye. As mentioned in my previous blog post 'Eye Infection Gone Bad', my eye's condition had gone terribly bad during my trip there. I was really thankful to my partners in Seoul who took such good care of me & even offered to bring me to an eye specialist just to get my eye checked. Without them, I'd have freaked out in a foreign land!

话说回来...although I did not truly enjoy my trip (physically), I did manage to do some retail therapy there, heh. My shopping desire in Seoul was pretty objective - Hair accessories, anti-dust caps if any and foot masks (since I'm allergic to most korean skincare products). My most extensive loot? Definitely the iPhone anti-dust caps and hair accessories! I basically had a serious overhaul on these 2!

iPhone anti-dust caps!
Some are giveaways, some for self-keeping of cos!

Hair accessories overhaul!
Some on the right were for my girl, the rest...MINE!

Honestly, I bought more than those...but somehow, due to my eye, I wasn't in the best of mood to take a lot of pictures and thus, these 2 were the only ones I took when I was in Seoul. When I came back from Seoul, I was literally focused on seeking a cure for my eye and didn't think of taking any other loot I've brought back from Seoul anymore. Am truly sorry I couldn't share the joy of Seoul's shopping haul for this time.

Let me get my eye fully recovered and I'm sure I'll be able to tune my mood back to normal & blog with more energy again!

A Time for Golden-Black

Sometimes, I really feel that gold brings a certain level of 'class' to the person using or wearing it, but likewise, not everyone can carry the colour gold has.

And so, I attempted to try it on my nails to see if i can bring on gold's classy presence. This time, I did a black french manicure with gold-color base. This design took me less than 30 mins to complete. :D

Not entirely sure if gold really suits me, but I feel this combination of golden-black does look kinda nice on my nails, hehe~

Leopard Prints French Manicure

One of my favourite DIY nail art I did onto my nails. Though it was the first time painting my nails with this design, I felt so proud of myself, hehe.

Maybe it's time to try out other leopard colours for the fun of it? I do know one of my colleagues LOVE leopard prints to the MAX! Perhaps I shall do another design to surprise her!

Dual French Tips/4th July Mani...

Hehe...I'm not from the states, but I do like to attempt themed nails sometimes. With 4th July here, how can I resist the temptation?

I didn't really want the usual 4th July nails where they are mostly flag and stars designs. Hence, I tried a more non-conventional design where some may beg to agree on this. My manicure/nail art for 4th July is mainly circling around the color combination, that's all.

This time, I made dual french tips on my nails with Etude House's Chilli Red as 1st french tips, followed by China Glaze's Midnight Mission as 2nd french tips. 1st french tips were done using tapes, while the 2nd french tips were painted freehand. After-which, I covered my freehand-painted tips with dots.

Midnight Mission is on the darker side of the blue family thus it looks kinda blackish under warm light. I know this may not look really like the traditional 4th July nail art but it is my own work with 4th July color scheme.

Some told me they look like castles, some said they look like zippers. What do you think?

Nail Polish Hauls from Seoul~

Ho Ho Ho! Being away for business trip didn't give me any excuses NOT to grab any nail polishes! :D Since I was already in Seoul (beginning of June), I might as well add more colors into my nail polish wardrobe ^^.

Left to Right:
1st 2 belongs to Nature Republic, White, glitter & pink belongs to FaceShop.
Orange & yellow comes from Etude House, gold glitter from Skinfood.

And yes, I literally went into ALL the local beauty shops that are popular from my area & bought them off the shelves! Could have bought more but thought I already bought far too much. Hell NO! After I came back then I realised I could have bought more! They were really dirt cheap in Seoul...

Nature Republic: 1,000 won each
FaceShop: 3,900 won for the ones with black caps, 1,000 won for the pink nail polish
Etude House: 3,000 won each
Skinfood: 3,000 won

Must make sure to grab them in a more daring manner next time, haha.

My 1st French Manicure...in RED

I was preparing for another round of manicure which I would like to wear it for my friend's wedding and so, I decided to do up a much more simple manicure few days before I change it again (Will post that manicure soon!). This time, I attempted a French Manicure (finally!) and I had to say, it's my 1st attempt on a French Manicure, hehe.

Pictures say a thousand words so I'm not gonna elaborate further! For my 1st French Manicure, I used China Glaze's Ruby Pumps and Nature Republic's unnamed sheer polish.

As you can see, I haven't perfect french manicure using tape so there's still a little flaw when I tried to do some freehand cover-up...and the little dot of polish I left on one of my nails. :(

As much as there seems to have a lot of flaws here and there, I quite like my 1st attempt of French Manicure, especially in RED! Am gonna attempt more French Manicure soon cos I really like the classy look of it!