Christian Louboutin Inspired Nails

Yeap, you read right!

When I saw the Christian Louboutin inspired nails circulating the internet, I knew I had to give it a go!

It was so easy to achieve and it gives your nails a lil extra sumthin' sumthin' to love.

Seriously I'm obsessed over my nails right now because of how classy and unique they look! I keep staring at my nails and even after 5 days, I'm still loving them!

I also loved the reactions from people when they noticed the underside of my nails were red.

I loved Rin (Hello dear!) from makeupdownunder.com's reaction when I showed her my nails. She literally stared at my nails for 5 seconds and went 'What??'

She wasn't the first person who went 'What???', but her reaction was the cutest by far!

The steps are dead easy and no special skills are required! Just a steady and patient pair of hands will do!

I hope you enjoyed this super easy nail tutorial and find the inspiration to do something special with your nails!

Rock on and cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

Super Easy Ombre Lips

Hello my dearies!

It's been a while, hasn't it? XD

Exams this year's pretty chill-ish cause my exam dates were pretty spread out but I did put my blog aside for a bit even tho I've had some posts ready on my draft. Bleh!

Yes, back to ombré lips! They're also fondly known as Just Bitten Lips, Lollipop Lips and whole bunch of other cute names.

They're basically lip colours fading from one colour to another, with most common colour combinations of pinks and corals fading to a nude colour. It's a super fun trend to try and I really love the look! Be it black-red lips, purple-pink lips or rainbow lips, as long as they're a fun colour to try, I'm up for it!

It you're interested in getting super simple and cute ombré lips, here's a tutorial to get them in just 2 steps!

Step 1:

Apply a layer of lip colour on the inner part of your lips. I used my Revlon Lips Butter in Sweet Tart.

Step 2:

Blend out the colour using concealer.

And you now have super cute kissable lips! Super easy and you can achieve it without a lips brush, just use your fingers!

I love this method and it's versatility with colour choice.

Here's a bunch of other ombré lips I've tried out before. Click on the pictures if you're interested! =D

What lip trend have you been rocking lately?

And to those having exams, how are you holding up? We're gonna partyyyy~~ after this! XD

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

Decaying Blood Nails - Salt Nail Art

Hello Halloween!!

I'm gonna show you a super quick but attention grabbing nail art for Halloween! It sure scared the heck outta my family when they saw my nails. XD

Remember this salt nail art I did a while back?

It was so eerie that I simply had to try it again for Halloween!!

I used Essie Wicked which many thought was a very suitable name and colour for Halloween. =D

1. I first applied 2 layers of polish to achieve an opaque background.

2. I then applied a third layer of polish, and while still wet, I sprinkled slat over the nails. Gently pat down the salt and let dry.

3. Once dried, I brushed off the excess salt and painted over the salt with the nail polish.

4. I also dabbed on some black polish randomly to give the nails extra dimension.

The final product is some totally yucky-interesting-looking-eerie-zombie-decaying nails! It was super simple to do and only took me 15 minutes to achieve.

The messier the paint job, the better. Your non-dominant hands will thank you for this. ^.~

And there you go!

Some fab zombie nails cause I think zombies deserve to get manicures as well.

And please don't lick your nails! I doubt it would be pleasant! XD

How are you celebrating Halloween?

Cheers my zombie babes!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

Prim and Proper Bling Nails

My nails of the week!

This week, I felt like going for something prim and proper and decided to go for a beautiful peach tone with silver accents.

What better nail polish colour to select for my prim and proper week than the Butter London in Pink Ribbon!

This beautiful Butter London gem came free with InStyle magazine and I couldn't pass up on a freebie, ESPECIALLY Butter London!

The name Pink Ribbon really puts a smile on my face. Since we're celebrating Breast Cancer Month, having Pink Ribbon on our nail's are a great way to celebrate! However, this polish is more of a nude peach colour rather than, as the name suggests, pink.

The polish is rather sheer, but after a good 2-3 layers, I achieved the beautiful opacity below. The polish is very slightly streaky but apply them with patience and care and you'll have perfect nude nails!

Of course, I had to do something fancy schmancy with my nails so I added some bling to the base of my nails!

As usual, I used my trusty tape method! =D

Would you like some bling with your nails?

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

Tightlining Eyes

So girls, do you ever tightline your eyes?

I know probably 90% of you girls (guys?) reading this use eyeliner very often, maybe everyday? But how many of you actually have the habit of tightlining your eyes?

From observing professional makeup artist in action (YouTube and real life), they always tightline the eyes without fail. I know some makeup artists actually cringe or feel annoyed when someone doesn't tightline. XD

Just a quick FYI, tightlining involves darkening the lash area and waterline to make the eyelashes look fuller. You could use any type of eyeliner to tightline, be it pencil, powder, liquid or gel eyeliner. I'd strongly suggest a highly pigmented liner to easily 'colour' the lash line without scratching the delicate eye area and also a water/smudge proof liner to prevent your liner from melting or smudging. Not a pretty sight I tell you.

I tightline my eyes by gently lifting the eyelid and 'dabbing' the eyeliner onto my waterline and lash line. I also usually go over the liner with a small angled brush loaded with black eyeshadow to fill in spaces I've missed and also to seal in the liner.

I find that my Benefit BADgal usually smudges easily, hence the black eyeshadow. However, if your liner stays put for the day without causing the 'panda symptom', good for you! You have one step less in your routine. =D

A word of advice, please try not to 'pull' your lids while tightlining. Our eyes blink a zillion times a day and our lids are gently stretched every time we blink. We don't need the extra pulling and tugging to stress our lids, unless extremely sagging and hooded eyes are your thing?

Don't worry if you're 'not getting it' the first time tightlining, it took me some time to find my comfortable rhythm.

As with all makeup skills, I'd like to quote myself (lol!!):

"Dear, shut up and practice."

Panel 1:

Upper lashline tightlined.

Panel 2:

Lower lashline tightlined.

Panel 3:

Eyelash curled and given love with mascara.

This is a great method for girls with very little eyelid space and want to keep the lid space. As with applying eyeliner above the lashline, eyelid space is used up, hence reducing or even completely covering the double eyelid.

I know you love your double eyelids eh?

On my eyes:
Eyebrows and waterline - Revlon ColorStay Brow Enhancer
Eyeliner - Benefit BADgal & MAC Carbon
Mascara - Cosmagic Exte Bomber Mascara

I've always avoided lining the bottom lashline because people said it would make our eyes seem smaller. However, it feels like my eyes seem bigger after lining them!

What do you think?

Do you have the tightlining habit?

=D

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

Simple Weaved Nail

Hi there!!

I've been noticing the 'weaved nails' trend is starting to pick up and I decided to try it, with my lazy twist to the method of course!

I'm pretty OCD with my nail art. I absolutely cannot stand wobbly non-straight lines on my nails. I don't know why, but it just makes me cringe. Oh darn you OCD!

So anyway, I decided to try achieving the perfect straight lines using tape!

If you're thinking of the usual tape style to achieve french tipped nails, honey, you're so wrong.

So if you're interested, keep reading! =D

I decided to use the Essie Cube in The Resort Collection (L-R):

Lion Around - Da Bush - Your Hut or Mine - Fair Game

and of course, tape!

Step 1:

I 'suspended' the tape securely over a bowl and painted the polish over the tape. Just find anywhere to make your tape bridge! As long as it's secure. =D

Remember to paint at least 2 or 3 layers of polish because the thicker polish will be easier to work with later.

Step 2:

When the polish is fully dried, cute them up into strips!

The width of your strips depends on how thick you want your weave to look. I cut mine roughly 3mm.

And now for the fun and tedious part.

 Step 3: 

* I initially made a mistake of weaving the tape itself and sealing it in with top coat.
Bad idea! After a bath, the tape got wet and started peeling. OMG it was so annoying!! I literally ripped the tape out after 2 hours of having done my nails. *

Ok I decided to try again so on to the next step!

Step 3:

 This time, I used tweezers to slowly peel out the polish strips from the tape and weaved those into a pattern.

Be gentle because the polish strip's really fragile.

Step 4:

Gently press down on the polish strips and use a sharp scissors or nail clippers to clean up the excess polish strip.

If you want, you could blast your nails with a hair dryer till the polish strips feel secure.

Step 5:

Seal with a top coat and voila!

Sit back and admire your nails.

=D

Well, I did say this method was easy, but I'd like to warn you that it's pretty tedious if you're a perfectionist!

I went back the next day and 'weaved' all my nails and boy was my back hurting from the hunching and squiting!

I sealed in my design with 3 layers of top coat because with all the effort I've put in, I didn't want it to be chipping within 2 days.

XD

If you do try out this method, please send me a picture! I'd love to see what pattern or colour combination you came up with!

The possibilities are endless!!

Hope you enjoyed this idea!

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

✿ p.s. To all you lovelies out there who may have a problem 'lifting' the polish from the tape with tweezers, Queenie has written a blog post about an easier method to do so! So click click click for her post! If you girls still have problems, drop me a comment down below! =D 

Fire Inspired Lips

Hey there!

Lately I've really been into fire and flames. Don't know why, but I really love how strong and powerful fire looks.

I decided to play around with my makeup and came up with a gradient lip look inspired by fire.

I used my red Hello Kitty lipstick reviewed here, an orange lipstick from MAC in Ardor and a beautiful gold pigment.

I combined the gold pigment with vaseline to achieve to really gorgeous gold paste.

Mmmmm... Shiny...

And here's how I achieved the gradient lip look!

And you're done! Easy-peasy! =D

Also, for this look, I used normal painting brushes I bought from Spotlight and it worked just fine.

Here's how everything looked after finishing up.

I hope you liked the look!

Thanks for reading!!

=D

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May

DIY iPhone Cover

Hi hi!!

Just a quick iPhone cover DIY to share with you!

The bf has been searching for the perfect iPhone cover for the longest time ever, so I decided to make one for him!

I used a plain red piece of felt, transparent iPhone cover and a pen! I traced around the iPhone and cut along it!

That's all!

It's so simple and you could make heaps and changed your cover everyday! =D

Simple and quick!

I'm thinking of buying more cute fabric and embossed paper to create more interchangeable covers!

Cheers!!

♡ ♡ ♡

M.May