Wear your heart on your nails this Valentine’s Day! Instead of the normal clichéd hearts, we decided to take a walk on the wild side by incorporating it with leopard spots – we’d like to think it edges you up nicely, giving you that extra bit of wit and appeal for any date. Give this easy, super cute nail art that’s perfect for a date or even just a night in with the girls a try!

Click here for the tutorial: Wear Your Heart On Your Nails This Valentine’s Day

Hari Raya is just around the corner! When this particular celebration is mentioned, one of the first few things that come to mind would be the ketupat, a type of dumpling that is made by wrapping rice in pretty woven coconut leaves and then boiling until it is cooked. This particular favourite dish, has inspired us to create ketupat-inspired fish tail braided nail art,;

Check out this super cute Ketupat inspired braided nail tutorial HERE!

Where I got my materials from;
– Nail Polishes from Elainto.
– Nail art brush from Daiso at RM5.

Some of you have probably heard of Franken nail polish, but for those of you who haven’t here’s a brief explaination. Franken nail polish is basically being able to personalize your own nail polish by experimenting with mixture of nail polish, glitter and pigments. The whole idea behind it is to create your own unique nail polish that can’t be replicated or you can attempt to replicate a colour you saw in a magazine, or online that was out of your budget.

I’m very much a nail person (as you can probably tell by the majority of my DIYs being nail art related :3 ) & this particular DIY saved me many times. Yes, it saved me! Have you ever been stuck in a situation where you have the perfect dress but you can’t find the right shade of nail polish to go with it? Or even if you did, it was too pricey for your budget? Been there way too many times.

Here are some basic Fraken nail polish DIYs that I always do.

1. Mixing eyeshadow pigment into transparent nail polish to create a new nail polish colour.

Transparent nail polish from Elianto (RM5.50) & eyeshadow was a gift from a friend. However I dropped it and it broke all over the place. I just used added it into the bottle of clear nail polish and shook it until it mixed really well and ta-daaa! A new nail polish colour (and now you can have nails to match your eyeshadow!)

The trick is the consistency, so try with a little bit of pigment and test it before you add on more pigment. It all depends on the colour you want.

2. Add sparkle bits to transparent nail polish.

This is as easy as it gets! Just add glitter to transparent nail polish, shake it properly and apply on nails. The more glitter, the better as it will look more obvious on your nails. I usually add 2 to 3 different coloured glitter together to give it a more festive feel.

3. Add more than one eyeshadow pigment to the nail polish.

The previous franken I did using just purple eyeshadow, I added bronze eyeshadow pigment as well to give it a different colour. I usually add on colours when I get bored with the colour.
These are probably the most absolute basic of all basic Frankens and just a rough idea of how it’s done. You can always add different colours, and also different types of glittered for texture. The possibilities with these are endless. Go wild and just have fun with it. There’s no wrong or right way to do it 🙂

Who would have thought finding the perfect colour you’ve been looking for was as easy as this? 🙂

I didn’t have orange so I had to improve and mix the colours I already had. The colour wheel they taught use way back in primary school actually is of use at times like these. A little bit of red + a lot of yellow =  orange 🙂

Firstly, you will need to do a base coat. The usual,
Right after that, apply lines of nail polish according to how you’d like your tie dye effect to look like. I did one with the sequence of the colours of the rainbow.

While nail polish is still slightly wet, apply a top coat or a seethrough coat over it. This is to ensure your nail is still wet and stick for the next part you need to do.

Drag a pin or any sharp pointy object across the nail (from left to right) from the first colour you applied, to the last. Mine was from red to purple. Repeat the same thing until it turns out like this;

Now repeat the process with the rest of your fingers and you’ll have amazing, colourful textured designed nails!

Super cute hippie tie dye nails! So incredibly easy to do, and such conversation starters!

Today I wrote a DIY Newspaper Nail tutorial for Lipstiq.com & decided to post a simplified version of it on here. I’ve seen this tutorial ample of times online, but, using rubbing alcohol (which is a nightmare to find & trust me, I really went looking!). As I researched for other alternatives, I came across a few using water and of course, I had to try it out for myself.

After several semi-failed attempts, this one worked best for me;

1. Tear strips of newspaper (I used the Malay Mail :P), and pick a page that has the most fonts and the darker it is, the better. I teared longer strips (long enough to wrap my finger).

2. Paint your nails in a really light or pastel colour (I experimented with both: Lilac grey on all nails, except the pastel mint one). Once it’s completely dry, dip your finger into water for 5 seconds and wrap a strip of newspaper around it.

3. Lightly wet the part that’s on your nail, and firmly press on it. Do that for about a minute in order to get the newspaper ink to stick on your nail as dark as possible. Do this one nail at a time. trust me, it’s for the best :3

4. Paint a topcoat on it. You’ll need to paint a topcoat or else the newspaper ink can be wiped off. Make sure you like how your nails look, or you can always wipe it off and do it again. Once you’ve painted your nails with the topcoat, you’ll have pretty, shiny newspaper nails!

You can also check out the full tutorial, with step by step instructions and pictures (if this isn’t clearn enough) HERE!