Something New for the New Year

Every new year's day, my family has this tradition of dressing up in a certain theme and having a photoshoot. For this year, our theme was florals and stripes.

My family. Yes, dogs included.

 

Love is at your fingertips

As I learned from a fashion and beauty blog called The Beauty Department, inspiration can come from anywhere. I read this post at the perfect time since I was thinking of doing something fun with my nails. I couldn't think of a design, but then it hit me: the perfect design is just sitting in my closet!

And here's my inspiration, a hand-me-down shirt from my cousin. It looks so plain from afar but up close it has the cutest little hearts.

 

Anyway, here's what I did.

Before applying any color on my nails, I put a base coat. I then applied a white nail polish. I used San San's. It's very opaque. Some people even thought that I just painted my nails with correction fluid.

So after that I prepared the nail polishes which will make up the hearts. I didn't want to use brown like the one in my shirt, so I opted for pink instead. They look like the Powerpuff girls!

Next, I put tiny blobs of the nail colors on a piece of tin foil.

I then dipped a toothpick in a blob of color and put two dots beside each other on my nail. Gently, I dragged those two dots at a 45 degree angle and let them meet at the center. I got this technique from another Beauty Department post.

And here are the results! The hearts aren't uniform and perfect, but I am still proud of what I made.

Do you also do your own nail art? Where do you get inspiration from? :)

Rebel Librarian

When I wore this outfit, I felt like a rebel but my friends kept calling me a librarian. Oh well. 

The glasses, by the way, were a necessity. My eyes were irritated and I am not allowed to wear my contact lens until the end of the month. Wearing glasses has its perks, actually. It saves up a lot of time.

jacket - Market Market, top - Artwork, skirt - my mom's,

ring - Everything 99, cuff - 10 peso store

shoes - Payless ShoeSource/ DIY

I decorated these shoes by the way. I found a tutorial from Rookie on how to DIY glitter shoes and thought that it was a really fun thing to do, so here they are. They don't look like much but they're better looking in person. I made a short film on how to make glitter shoes which I'll post one of these days. It's not really a tutorial but more like a video about boredom. You'll see!


A big shout out to Neil for taking these photos! :D