How-To: Easy French Mani

Hello! I will be showing you the experiment that I have been wanting to do since I saw this on pinterest: easy french manicure.

Three things that you need:

1. Reinforcement labels - I got this at drugstore for $1.99 comes with 500 labels

2. Base color polish - I choose Butter London Teddy Girl

3. Tip color polish - I am using Butter London Lovely Jubbly 

** Butter London Lovely Jubbly is very beautiful glitter nail polish but these images do not do justice on how pretty this polish is. It is a vibrant magenta nail glitter with red, blue, gold micro-particles. When lights are reflecting on your nails, it's like diamonds on your nails **

to see more swatches at Temptalia.

First step is to apply the base color and make sure it is completely dry. 

To save the labels, I cut them into half (as if I will run out tomorrow - I got 500 labels!! Hehe) 

Then, place the half-cut label on the nails and start painting the tip color. For me putting the labels are the most challenging part because you have to actually make it centered and even height for all nails. As you can see, I kind of chipped my index finger's base color polish!

Wait until tips are completely dry, peel off label gently.

... and Viola! Your french mani is done :)

Once you applied top coat, the chip become less visible. 

Good luck!

Please post the photo on my FB page if you decide to try this! I would love to see them!

I want to remind you guys Butter London is currently having their friends and family sale. Details HERE.

EXTRA: 

I guess I am in a PINK mode at the moment. I dolled up my macbook pro :) 

It's so pretty. I love it so much. 

Butter London Friends and Family Sale! {November 2012}

Hello girls! For those of you who is a nail polish junkies, Butter London is having their friends and family sale... Take advantage of this before Wednesday, November 7th, 2012. I thought I just share with you guys! 

My Nail Polish Collection

Whee ~ I just reorganize my nail polishes into this shoe organizer thing that I got from Bed, Bath, and Beyond for just $14.99 :)

I really want to get a nail polish rack before, but I figure, this will be a easier and cheaper way to store my nail polishes. With nail polish rack I have to like drill holes on my walls etc etc. In addition, this will be easier to move around. 

Okay... so here's more detailed of the above picture!

On the very top layer I put on all my basics like base coat, top coat, cuticle oils. On the right side I put in all the tools - like nail clipper, konad stamps (which i think does not work really well), and some stickers (easy way to do nail arts)

On the 2nd layer are my glittery top coats, nudes, browns, and high-end reds.

3rd layer are my pinks, corals, hot pinks, and deeper/wine reds

4th layer are my purple, magentas, darker purples, and very dark purples.

5th layer are my greens, aqua or any color that contains both green and blue, blues, and dark blues.

6th layer are my lower-end red, taupe colors, the last 2 columns are white, gray and blacks.

The last layer are my yellows/gold, oranges, and color that looks funky and my lotions!

My favorite nail polish brands are definitely are Deborah Lippmann and Chanel. I feel their polishes are really good quality and easy to apply. They often comes up with really unique colors too :)

I got this nail polish organization idea from Ingrid (missglamorazzi)

Butter London | Slapper

One of Butter London spring 2012 collection :: slapper ::

This is a mermaid green color. Im so impressed with how one coat turns out to be pretty opaque.

However, after a few days a saw a "discoloration" on my nails, some part (mostly towards the center) of my nails shows yellowish/true-green color - its not that obvious though :) - thank God! because I really do like this color. 

{as usual, I used Deborah Lippmann Ridge Filler base coat and On A Clear Day top coat}

left-to-righ: Deborah Lippmann On the Beach, Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Dream, Butter London Slapper

I thought Butter Slapper will be a close color to new spring 2012 On the beach by Deborah Lippmann but turned out to be a completely different color. On the Beach is obviously more blue, whereas Slapper is more teal. But if they would marry and have glamourous kid, Mermaid's dream will be it! The bigger glitters are the color of On the Beach and small glitters are the color of Slapper.