Monday, October 24, 2011

Marble effect with blue holograms



This week I decided to take another stab at the marbling technique...it went ok, not my best work but I'm also limited with colour so I ended up doing a white marble with bright blue holograms.  I look forward to perfecting the marbling technique once I have more gel colours to play around with! =)  Applying gel nails is very therapeutic for me so it's a shame that I only need to do them once every 3 weeks or so...on the upside however, taking them off is a bit of a hassle so it's nice not to have to deal with that too often!  See you in November then!  Happy Halloween!

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Welcome to my wonderful world of gel nails!  I first started getting my nails done in 2007 when I was still living in Osaka, Japan and I haven't been able to stop since.  The negative thing was all the money being spent at nail salons (one session usually went for 15,000 yen) so I was thrilled when my sister found a gel-nails home kit!  4 years later and we're both still happily gelling away at our nails =)

Anyway, I thought I would start a blog about gel nails with photos of my "work"- updates will come at 2-3 weekly intervals as that is how long the gel usually lasts, sometimes even longer, depending on how much housework has been done!  The photo above with the pink glitter is what I currently have on my nails and it took less than an hour to do all 10 nails.  I also added some bigger pink hologram glitter for an extra touch.  Let me know what you think!