Pink and Undecided: nails

Yellow Mellow and the Galaxy

Hey guys!

So what you've been up to lately? Me, not much-except that i am hooked on a book again. If you know me in real life, you'd know that i've always been a bookworm, but for the past year or so i haven't been reading a lot of books-want to know the reason? (Imma tell you anyway) For the first time, i found a book that broke me. It's Odd Thomas. I first heard about the movie and although it's got bad rating and we didn't get to see it, the synopsis seems quite interesting-so when i saw one of the books (just found out belatedly that it's a series) on crazy sale, i bought it. Turned out it's sooo not my kind of book. I find it extremely boring and uninteresting >.<, so bad that i cannot bring myself to finish it. Problem is, i am also the kind of person that HAS to finish one book before starting another.

BUT! Apparently when the book has another form (namely, e-book, which i've been resisting for the longest time, but every once in a while i give in, especially when i cannot find the physical book on the store/too cheap to pay when there's a free PDF available under my nose #kiasuforever), i can *LOL*, so weird. Anyway, i began reading The Ghost Bride after learning about in some website's (Creepy Corner) comment section and i've been hooked since. Story about a Chinese girl from an era long gone, about to be betrothed to a dead guy *shudder*-a supernatural story with a Chinese (the setting is in Malaysia, btw) culture background, both my favorite kinds of reading material!

Anyway, let's talk about this post finally haha. Last Saturday we went for an unexpected movie date because Little O refused to go with us (he said he was not interested in the movie i offered him *LOL*, how irritating. We were going to watch Kung Fu Panda-which he is interested in-but it turned out that the movie's not even showing yet, they're just having a pre-sale on the tix zzz) and then i saw this background (it's promoting Basha Market, actually) at the quiet part of GC, i couldn't resist asking hunny to snap a pic or two-but he was in the right mood at that time and snapped real nice pics-i ended up with enough pics for a photo series :D!

Honestly speaking, i don't think my outfit is that interesting *LOL*, plus it's a repeat because i already wore it (with different inner) to go karaoke with my blogging friends (and Silv), you know when you only wear your clothes for a short period of time-it's wiser to recycle before throwing it in the wash (think green and all-plus i'm quite gross :p)-but it matches the background well and i loveee the photos :D! All taken with hunny's Samsung Galaxy Note 4 btw, so it's not quite camera quality-but not too bad at all!

Showing you the fluffy bag charm LL gave me for my last bday :D

It was quiet enough for me to be comfortable pulling all kinds of facial expression hahaha, although i froze whenever people pass by

I think i look super mischief looking in this one, decided to embrace my chubby face and leave it alone without any attempt to slim it down hahaha

I wasn't really looking forward for an outfit photo shoot so i didn't even take decent FOTD pics, i was in the mood for some full makeup that day (what a rare day) and i love how it turned out. The only photo i took was in my room, with insufficient lighting so it turned out quite grainy, but i still love it (i guess it's one of those days when everything just goes well and you feel gorgeous-of course it was followed by a day when you feel like the grosses thing on earth, but that's okay. That's called balance hahaha).

We ended up watching London Has Fallen, since Little O's not coming anyway so might as well watch something that he shouldn't come with haha. Surprised myself for liking it so much, i didn't think the first movie was that good!

Did i say i only took one selfie? Well, i mean with the full makeup. I didn't say anything about selfie with da kung fu panda (is that little Po or something? Hunny said it looks like Little O >.<) when my lipsticks were eaten away, right?

One more because i wasn't holding it properly. Hunny's phone camera's so much better than my Iphone grrrr (but it's not very dummy proof so i am not interesting in switching phone! I only like the camera!)

Did you notice my nails, btw? That's my latest nail art by Kiki, of course. My nails are getting brittle from nonstop gel polish usage, the last straw was when my thumb's nail broke (i almost never experience nail breakage since my normal nails are super healthy and very very strong!)-i decided to swear off gel polishes for at least a month or two. I've always wanted galaxy nails so Kiki made one for me-using Momoka (Me-Nail's breathable, peelable gel polish) as the base then top it up with regular polishes.

Please ignore the white bit on my point finger, i just realized it was there after we finished taking photos >.<

From all of the nail arts Kiki did for me, this became the top two of the most liked ones in my Instagram hahaha

Btw, Galaxy Nails are a pretty simple design (at least for the expert), i know not everybody can afford Kiki's rate on a daily basis-if you have a limited budget but crave for this design, you can head to Me-Nail and ask their nailist to do it for ya! It'd cost you around IDR 150.000 only (including manicure, i'm sure)

Yes, that's the bracelet of hope (gelang harapan), i finally got mine (thank you Fika and Ika!) ^^

Hunny seriously could do no wrong that day, i loved all the pics :D! Can he has more of this mood, pretty please?

Love the whimsical, monochromatic background so much. Thinking maybe i should go back for another outfit shoot-before they get rid of it hahaha


Outfit details : Off White Lace Top (wore as inner) : Forever 21 Colorblock pleated mini dress (way too short for me tho) : Gaudi Pink tulle underskirt : Joop (it's so perfect for layering! I wear it so much it's actually starting to fall apart :(... I need to invest on a new one!) Yellow Crossbody : Bonia Grey Heels : Everbest

LOL at my sullen expression, i forgot i need to SMILE when i wear red lipsticks in order to avoid looking like i am auditioning for an antagonist part in some crappy local sinetron

I didn't know pink can go with yellow too, it's just a combination that i never thought about before! I guess that's partly because i'm not the biggest fan of yellow... I probably have the least number or red and yellow clothes in my crazy wardrobe compared to other colors.

With that last note, i bid you adieu-for now!

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3:55:00 PM
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Halloween Nails by Kiki Coroline (SPONSORED) + Announcement

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Are you guys excited for Halloween??? I sure am!

Well, i won't be doing anything special actually *LOL*, not like i have a party to attend to or whatever, but i will be having some activities and decided to dress up (although not really in full costume, just wear stuffs a bit weirder than how i usually dress-which is already quite weird i guess *LOL*) so i'm amped!!!

So in the spirit oh ghosts, ghouls and everything scary, Kiki made these Halloween inspired nail art for me!

Aren't they adorbs???

FYI, i have two other nail arts before this that i haven't blog about, but i have to jump this one up the queue since it's seasonal!

So here's the low down!

The Nail Artist

Prepping aluminum foil to remove the previous nail art

Soak soak...

As usual, since the quality of the nail art's so good, it took a while for Kiki to remove them

It broke her heart but i forced Kiki (threatened her and all, basically. If she doesn't cut them then i'll chop them all off myself -___-) to cut my nail short (er). Not as short as i'd like them to be, but better. They were getting crazy long and i kept on hurting myself with them!

Applying the base color

Very dark purple, i like!

Then this is the nail artist trying to find inspiration on what to make hahaha

If you book an appointment with Kiki, you can tell her whatever design you want, i'm sure she can find a way to make your dream nails a reality. You can also discuss with her about the design beforehand so she can prepare the products to use-but with me... Well, i very rarely have any design in mind (except some very vague theme. I already asked Kiki to make me Sailor Moon nails next!) and let her come up with them-and she always comes up with them on the spot haha. Talk about impulsive, i guess she's good with pressures?

Instead of acrylic powder, she's using 3D gel this time round. Took more time, more hassle, but as Kiki puts it "healthier for the lungs!" (You can buy 3D gels from Me-Nail, of course)

The way i see it, making stuffs from 3D gel is like playing with play dough *LOL*, you shape it any way you want but in much smaller scale since it'd be on your nails! You can also pick up some tips when using 3D gel from Kiki : prepare a cuticle oil so you can clean off your hands every time you finish a shape so the color don't mix and doesn't stain your fingers!

I'd go crazy if i have to do make one myself -___-. Anyway, 3D gel won't dry unless you cure them with UV lighting so you can totally take your time to create the shape that you want. The down side? You need to cure it EVERY SINGLE time you succeed. This means up to 5x cure time per nail if the design's rather complicated!

Work in progress. Bloodied rose down, and the white lump that looks like a marshmallow? It's a ghost *LOL*

You need to be highly artistic to make 3D nail arts, and patient too!

I was fascinated because the bow on the skull's light up when put under UV lamp hahaha

Kiki decided to make different designs on each nails (except for pinkies and thumbs), look at how cute the pumpkin already looking!

Used a lot of different colored 3D gels for the kawaii Halloween nails

I'm getting better at making videos using my Iphone, here's the process in a flash hahaha.

I guess Kiki always remembers my Japanese inspired style whenever she does my nails *LOL* so instead of a full on gothic, dark Halloween nails, she made me super kawaii Halloween nails instead!

Meticulous details in each nails. Look, even the ghosts are paired up-one boy and one girl hahaha

My personal fave's the pumpkin and the bloodied eyeballs!

I also love how Kiki used mostly water drop-looking gems instead of the normal swarovskis, they go so much better with the theme!

I got lots of questions and comments about my nails, if they are heavy (NO), if they got stuck on things (occasionally, mostly on bath lillies. But actually they're quite fine coz there are no sharp edges to get stuck to, i definitely had worse!) and if they last (they do! As long as the 3D gels got cured right, they'd be hard like plastic and stuck to your nails really well. We had a bit of an incident with one of the skulls in the thumb, it wasn't quite cured so it was still mushy and soft. But other than that, everything's peachy! My advise if you decide to get this kind of nail art is to gently press every single one of the shapes on your nails before you leave the nail salon. If they're still soft, you'd be able to tell right away and your nailist can fix it)

Cheeky skulls on my thumbs. Is it just me of the gems look like the skulls' earrings? LOL

Don't forget to use my code if you want Kiki to do your nails!

And now the announcement! If you're a nail enthusiast, come and join Me-Nail's Nail Workshop in SSCC!

Here are the schedules of each class, you can choose one that suites your interest and schedule! Contact Me-Nail at the numbers (or Line) on the banner above if you're interested.

But if you're not interested in the workshop, you can still drop by Me-Nail's booth and GRAB YOURSELF A FREE GOODIE BAG OMG! All you have to do is follow their IG and take a pic in the booth (i will be there on Friday and Saturday from noon-late noon so i can also help take your pics!) and tag them, how easy peasy is that??? Not only that, dress up if you want (it's Halloween afterall) coz they'll be choosing the cutest pic to win a voucher!!! OH don't forget to use hashtag #menailatgoblin

So, i hope to see y'all there! I'd be the girl with half turquoise hair hahaha!

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9:43:00 PM
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Temperature Change Gel Polish and NFC Nails by Me-Nail (SPONSORED)

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Hi guysss ^^...

It's quite unusual for me to go missing from my blog on weekends (when i'm actually in town) but my weekend had been really full and i also feel very very tired because of the stupid insomnia (which leads to a second vertigo attack today *sigh* *what am i turning into * *am i really that old already zzzz*). Anyway, i am back now (slightly dizzy, but energized and missing my blog really!) and i'm gonna share my experience on trying out temperature change gel polish and NFC nails with Me-Nail last Thursday!

With the lady boss and all the nailists of the day hahaha

I haven't blogged about Me-Nail the nail salon for a while now, always going on about Me-Nail the training centre and nail supplier haha, so let me refresh your memory a little bit!

Me-Nail salon, Tunjungan Plaza 1, 3rd floor

Like i mentioned already, i went there to get the temperature change gel polish manicure and try out NFC nails (that i will explain more about later) as well. What is a temperature change gel polish? Actually the name already explained it all hahaha. It's like a regular gel polish, but the color changes depending on your body's temperature! How cool's that? Kinda like mood rings, so can i call my nails mood nails now? LOL.

I actually read about the changing nail color already from Rochkirstin's blog, but when the changing nail polish that she tried was a regular nail polish and it changes if it's exposed to sunlight, the one i am trying now changes when the temperature changes and as it's a gel polish-it'd last much longer ^^. I remember asking my cousin L about the changing nail colors when i read Roch's post (coz i really find such things to be fascinating!) and she said they already have them too.

Then when we went out, i noticed her cute nail colors and she told me it's the temperature change gel polish, she also went and demonstrate (by rubbing her nails on the car's air conditoner *LOL*) how the color changes, i was hooked immediately! So when she asked me to try out and review the temperature change gel manicure, i couldn't say yes fast enough!

Say hi to my nailist of the day, Mbak Henny (who's currently 7 moths preggo!)

I already cut my nails (very short, much to L's dismay. LOL. I really hate long nails :(... I mean, i like to see them on other people, but i cannot stand having long nails myself!) so the first step was to buff and roughen the surface of my nail beds, which i am familiar with since i've had gel manicures a few times in the past already

My stubby nails are all ready to be gel-manicured!

Semi-candid pic taken by L (semi candid basically means you're pretending to be unaware that someone's taking your pics hahahaha)

While i was getting my nails done, the lady boss was busy training her employees

Gel base coat was then applied on my nails....

And off to the oven they went! LOL. UV lamp lah :p

These are the star of the day, V.chlo gel polishes

As i had to act like the "hand model" for last Saturday's workshop, they decided to paint my right and left hands with different colors. Currently they only have four different shades of temperature change gel polish in Me-Nail salon, now that i think about it i should really ask them to paint each nail a different color since they were leaving the ring fingers for NFC anyway!


The uniqueness of temperature change nail polish's already apparent since you start painting them on. The color of the brush/bottle would be different from the color you see painted on you nails! That's because the color on the bottle is the cold color while on you fingers, the blood circulation and body temperature would immediately change the color into the "warm color"

For my left hand, the color on the bottle's bright orange while it turns into a super cute neon pink color (which i love love love!) on my fingers

For my right hand, the color they picked is this dark green color on the bottle

That turns neon greenish-yellow on my fingers. Do you see the curious looking thing on my ring finger?

Yep, it's the NFC. And please note that this was the WRONG way to apply it! LOLOLOLOL. NFC nails' very very new in Me-Nail and you can say that i am forever L's guinea pig so all that can go wrong would go wrong on me -___-. Well, better on me than on a customer, i'd say! This means they'd never repeat the mistake in any of you hahaha.

Basically NFC nails are nail stickers that can light up and blink (like your mobile phone's signal indicator) when you turn on the NFC on your phone (Apple and Android only). You can see how they blink in this video Me-Nail made.

Since it's a new thing, they were still groping around to find the best way to apply and show it so it's a bit of a trial and error in my case -___-.

L cutting off the NFC nails, which ended up too close to the whatever chip they have inside the sticker and ruining it *LOLOLOL*. Of course she blamed my nails for being very small -___-, but actually she only has her own hare-brain to blame *ROTFL*. In the end of the day, it doesn't even matter if it's my nail's fault for being too small or her fault for cutting too close to the chips, because she placed the NFC upside down zzzz!!!

Anyway, they NFC didn't want to stick to my nails so L called her partner Kiki (who's also a nail artist and a nail blogger) who has more knowledge about the NFC-and turned out that we had to apply extention first because they have to use some gel builders around the NFC -___-.

You already know i hate long nails, so i was ready to bawl when she told me they were going to give me nail extensions (i never had any, my nails are very tough and strong, and they grow super fast so if i want a long, fake looking nails all i gotta do is not cutting my nails for 2 weeks!), but at least she agreed to let me have only the ring fingers extended, coz i really cannot deal with full extensions on all 10 fingers!!!!!

The nailist picking the right size for my dainty nails

A match (but on my cute lil' fingers, it still looks huge and out of place -___-)!

Gluing it on


And it's on! I asked the nailist to cut is as short as she possibly can without being scolded by L

It's still scarily long (and oh-so-uncomfortable -___-, mad respects for y'all who have full nail extensions!!!) but hey, look at my neon pink nails, so pretty!!!

And here's how you should apply NFC nails, the white (or transparent) side up!

Since the sticker color's opaque white, they had to apply darker gel polish to conceal it-but it resulted in the light being very faint -___-

To hide the failed NFC on the right ring finger, another nailist added a 3D nail art on top to conceal it

Ta-dahhh

Do you want to see how the greenish-yellow polish turns jade/dark green i'm cold? We made a video (thank you Kiki for taking all the videos) to demonstrate! I didn't know how to turn off the voice (heck, i didn't even know how to change the setting from camera to video -____- Kiki found it for me) so.. you can hear L humming as she swiped alcohol on my nails to change the color *LOL*. A bit creepy -___-.

See how the neon pink turns bright orange!

Here's Kiki doing a nail art on that unnaturally huge ring finger nail hahaha

So pretty ^^

You can hear me talking in our local dialects (i always surprised myself of how thick my accent is when i'm talking in Indonesian/ Javanese haha. Thankfully i'm always able to switch off the accent when i speak in English somehow...), i was laughing at L about how HER own nails also changes color while she was swiping on the alcohol on my nails.

Since the gel polish they applied on the finger with NFC was dark, the blinking light is a bit faint T.T, i'm not sure if you can see it in the video (i can, but probably because i already know i am looking for, because my hunny couldn't see it!), but here it is :

After a bit of googling, i personally think if you want to try out NFC nails, you should ask for a (regular or 3d) nail art around the NFC but leave the part where the light is in bare/with see through colors so you can see the light blinking stronger than on my nails!

I think NFC nails is definitely intriguing and unique, but too much hassle (coz you need to have an extension and all) for me to want to have it installed regularly *LOL*. But it's still very cool, and if you're into gadgets and want to have a little bit of technology on you nails too, why not? NFC's not very expensive, you can get NFC stickers from Me-Nail for IDR 10.000/each only, of course if you want them to apply it for you then you'd have to pay for the manicure as well haha.

You can go to Me-Nail salon if you want to have them put on, or if you want to try to put it on yourself you can contact Me-Nail to purchase the NFC nails :

Me-Nail Nail Salon Supplies and Training Centre

Ruko Klampis Jaya 33D Surabaya

Phone : 031-2882 333

BB Pin : 22D7C1DF
Website : www.me-nail.com

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000280923456&fref=ts

I, however, LOVE the temperature change gel manicure! It never ceases to fascinates me and i like to tell every single person that i met about it then went and demonstrate it for them *LOL* *nerd*.

Warm colors

Cool colors

Thank you Me-Nail for the experience (although that nail extension hurts like a B), i'm totally in love with my cute color changing nails! I will blog about their 3D Nail Art Workshop soon!

TTYL,

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