Long time blog readers will recognise this cute cow nail art that I did in 2011 {link here}.  It is one of my favourite nail art looks and when I decided to do it again this weekend, I decided to film it and create a video tutorial.  It is SUPER EASY to do!  Just watch the video

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FACE OF AUSTRALIA, possibly my favourite Australian drugstore brand, have come up with another gorgeous, limited edition nail polish collection of pretty Pastels.  { previous collections include Luxe, Molten Metallics and Barbados } Pastel shades are PERFECT to welcome in the Spring / Summer seasons in the Southern Hemisphere.  I have been dying to swatch them to show you all the 8 stunning shades so here I go.  Get your bibs out and get ready to drool!

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Nails :  Sally Hansen Gem Crush Nail Color in Glitz Gal
Feature Nail : Australis Blackmail, Rimmel London I love Lasting Finish London Clouds, NYC Colors Snazzle

I actually did this Peter Pan collar nail art back in April when they were the “in” thing.  Now, they aren’t so “in” anymore and I feel more comfortable posting up this pic because I wasn’t too happy with the results.  Yes, there were many faults with my mani and don’t even look at my cuticles.  But this month, I’m all about positive thinking so when I look at the photo of my Glitzy Peter Pan Collar nails, I just think, “Yay, at least I tried!” rather than, “That’s NOT Nail Art!  That’s Nail FART!”

What do you think of my nail art?  Are you a fan of Peter Pan collars?

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For a messy but creative nail art experience, I recommend trying Galaxy Nails – where you just sponge on and layer on lots of colours and glitters and shimmer.  I did this a few weeks ago and when I got some tip wear, I just sponged on another layer of nail polish.  So easy!!!

I used a big mish-mash of nail polishes and I have forgotten which ones I used.  Bad beauty blogger me!!!

Have you tried Galaxy Nails before?

I have a tokidoki diary for 2012 and I bought it just for the beautiful pictures.  I was flicking through it the other day and I got inspired to tokidoki nails…except it was really difficult and my poor nail art skills didn’t do it any justice.  But then I saw an easy peasy polka dot one that I could do and henceforth, this blog post was born.

Tokidoki makes me go gaga!  Obviously this tokidoki-inspired nail art should be renamed colourful polka dots.  It’s really easy and I had a lot of fun putting my nail dotting tools to good use.

Here’s a picture of my nails without the tokidoki background.  It’s actually really pretty with the bright colours and it somehow reminds me of Skittles.

The nail polishes I used were : Rimmel London I love Lasting Finish London Clouds (2 coats), Australis Nail Colour Rub-a-dub-dub*, Rimmel London I love Lasting Finish Tangerine Queen, China Glaze Salsa* (swatch), FACE OF AUSTRALIA Luxe Nail Enamel Minty Mojito*, Ulta3 Nail Colour Bottle Green, Ulta3 Nail Colour Orchid*, Nicole by OPI I’ve Got The Power*(swatch).  {* means PR samples}

And just because I can…here’s a picture of me and one of my sisters, Y, with a tokidoki wall  which we salivated over – this was taken in Brisbane in January 2010.  Love love love.  I meant the tokidoki wall; not so much my sister!  Kekeke!

And damn…I’m wearing an uber-short dress – look at my manly muscly calves *shudders*!    But those were the days when I had skinny arms – le sigh…

So are you a mega fan of tokidoki too?  I know friends who have tokidoki handbags and keyrings and make-up.  I only have a tokidoki diary and a Hello Kitty tokidoki toy.  Gah!  But that’s because I can never find places which stock tokidoki stuff…and when I do, it’s when I have no money to buy stuff.

What’s on your nails this weekend?

I couldn’t wait to use my new nail dotting tools so I racked my brains to think of a suitable design and came up with the totally un-original red and white polka dot nails which kinda resemble toadstools!  LOL.

The red base is OPI Big Apple Red – a lovely find in one of the Lust Have It boxes from ABBW.  OPI Big Apple Red is bright red creme which every girl should have in their nail polish collection.  I love to paint my toes with this colour.  The white dots are from Rimmel I Love Lasting Finish Nail Polish in London Clouds.

What do you think?  I love this!  

Everyone and their mother knows how to do a half-moon manicure.  It’s so last year darling!  But I’m a late starter to most things in life.  I was the last girl in my class to wear my first bra (damn my flat pancake Chinese bosom genes!) but that’s another story…

For my half-moon manicure, I randomly chose the colours gold and blue – courtesy of FACE OF AUSTRALIA Molten Metallics Gold and China Glaze First Mate.

1.  Paint nails in base colour of gold.

2.  Wait until nails are completely dry and then stick on some ring reinforcement stickers to form the half-moon shape.

3.  Paint the non-half-moon part blue.

4.  Wait till the nails are dry and then peel back slowly to reveal your very own half-moon manicure!

Cue werewolf howl - “Owwwwwwwwwww!”  

(Okay, my half-moon mani isn’t purrr-fect but it’s not bad for a first-timer eh?!)

Do you like half-moon manicures?  What other colour combo would be good for this?  Tweet or FB  me a picture if you DIY too.  I’d love to see!  (My Twitter and FB)  And happy Saturday!  Taking a Sunday break tomorrow so I will catch you all on Monday *wink plus smiley face*