The Smiley Mani

Happy new year! Manigong bagong taon!

I've wanted to do one of these ever since I saw one of the blogs on my blogroll do this ages ago. (I'm sorry, I was pretty sure I saw it on The Princess of Polish but when I got there, I couldn't find it anymore. Please do let me know if you were the one who did the smiley mani!)

Instead of just happy yellow smileys, I did sad blue smileys (Saddies? Haha what do you call them?) on my middle fingers. Why are they inverted? This is a wholesome family blog, you figure it out. >:D

Aside from old faithful Wet n' Wild black creme, the polishes responsible for this were Etude House GR601 and YL802. I haven't been able to make proper swatch posts for them yet because I'm running low on my favorite nail polish remover. Must conserve!

This mani seems to bring up the most amusing coincidences:

• When I looked at today's paper, the astrology section said 2010's lucky colors were yellow and light blue. My mani is yellow and blue green. Haha close enough!
•  One of my favorite nail blogs, The Daily Nail, did a smiley mani too! (Hers is infinitely better, though. :D)

Calm before the Storm

There isn't anything really stormy about this manicure, but it was the last thing I did at home before getting stranded at school last Saturday thanks to typhoon Ondoy (aka Ketsana).

The school event I went to had red, blue, yellow, white and black as the color scheme, so I painted my nails to match.

I topped the polish off with TFS BK902, then added some tiny stars I got from the local Japanese dollar store.

(Don't worry, I cleaned up the messy spots before I went to school. XD)

I'm safely home now, but there are many others who are still stuck in the flood waters. I'll try to post swatches for this week if I can, but as of now, scheduled posting for Nail Polish Ninja is indefinitely suspended.

The Primaries

Red, yellow, blue: the building blocks of all other colors.

Without them, there would be nothing - only black.

Polishes used were:

(FROM LEFT) Orly Spark, Orly Haute Red, Skin Food Pedicure Vita, Wet n Wild Black Creme