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Friday, May 31, 2013

Red and White Flower Nails

So, I did these nails on my mom for a special occasion. Now, like any other Asian mom, she always yells at me for buying a shit ton of nail polish, and about how I'm going to get cancer and stuff. She doesn't like her nails painted often. However, after I finished painting them, she was gawking at them for days! HA, Mom, you're just as vain as I. ;)

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Punk Stars and Checkerboard Nails

Did these a while back. A little secret, I actually did this over the Hello Kitty French Tip Nails (http://uponarooftop.blogspot.com/2013/05/so-i-took-this-picture-couple-days-old.html) that I posted as well. I think the hello kitty ones were old, and I didn't want to redo the french tip, so I just painted over it (with the all-powerful OPI Alpine Snow), and added a bunch of checkers and stars and crap. (I probably took the two pictures on the same day, tbh) ;)

Monday, May 27, 2013

Twilight Apple Sparkle Nails

My bestfriend and I were on a mission: Sparkle-fy erryythaanngg. So we pretty much just layered on sparkles after sparkles. Then we were like "we should take pictures with a prop" and this is what resulted. Below is a picture with the focus on the nails. Now, I'm not a fan of the twilight series. However, I did read all the books in their entirety, due mainly to my OCD and need for closure. ;)

Pink and Black, Novice Level Freehand Nail Design

Another free-handed design. I much prefer the design on the thumb, but I did this a long time ago, and I didn't have the skill to do the flower on all 10 fingers! haha

Moral of the Story: Practice makes perfect!

Btw, the last few uploads aren't really in order of when I did them. I just decided to upload a crapload of photos, since I'm currently stuck at a party with my mom's friends, and managed to find internet.

Dark Purple and White Flower Nails

I think the polish is Eiffel For This Color by OPI, the flowers I bought a long time ago from CVS or something. The thing about the stickers is that the nails have to be absolutely dry for them to stick. A couple of the flowers started falling off or moving around when I was writing.

Short Nails Hot Pink Sparkles

Hot Pink Short Nails, Hearts, and Sparkles

Free handed design. Used a nail dotter for the dots, obviously... and various polishes. This is a great look for short nails! I did them on my friend for her prom.

Coral Love Hearts Nails

This one was free-handed. I used a coral colored Ulta nail polish, and one of those nail art pens from Sally Hansen.

Hello Kitty Nails

Hello Kitty French Tip Nails

So I took this picture a couple days old, and they were kind of messed up by the time I remembered to snap a shot. Once again, I used a konad plate (Yea, I cheated). In my defense, it's really easy to use, and I recommend using konad plates for beginners, because it gives you the type of look you want, saves time, and lends practice.

This was back when I didn't have a DSLR, so picture quality isn't that great, sorry!

Dark Red Lace Nails

Anyone who knows me knows I'm actually a rather dark person. I did these nails using a dark red nail polish from ulta (the name of which I cannot recall at the moment, and I am not near my collection), and used a konad plate off amazon to do the lace over with a black polish. The lace is subtle, and only really visible under camera flash. I like these because they're rather elegant looking, right? ;)

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Silver Snowflake

So... I know it's been a while and these are totally out of date, but I decided maybe I should get back to blogging, since I'm bored and sitting in a cafe at school right now. My physics lab got out early and I don't have class for another 2 hours. These nails I did over Christmas, it was relatively easy; just a simple french and some lines. The sparkles I pulled out of a bottle of sparkle nail polish using a dotting tool, and I just eyeballed the snowflake.

I'll try to upload more, but no promises. :) - Jessica

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Blue Sparkles and Flowers Nails

First time I tried the fading effect with the blue and stuff. I think it worked out relatively nicely... :)
The colors and sparkles don't show up as well on camera as they do in person... oh well.
Enjoy!
-Jessica

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Tribal Nails

So... It's finals season, and I'm studying in the basement of Leavey Library at USC, completely cut off from the world, since my phone doesn't have any service down here =[.
While taking a mental break, I decided I would upload a picture of these nails I did on my friend a couple weeks ago. They took a while to do, because she showed me a picture of the nails she wanted (which I can't show you guys, because I can't find it online), and I tried to copy it on her nails. However, I didn't know how they did it, and I'm pretty sure they used acrylic paint, instead of nail polish, to do the designs, which would have been much easier to work with, had I had any acrylic paint. But oh well, I tried my best. teehee.

Tribal Nails - Purple and Red

It was like 3am by the time I finished, so I gave up on cleaning them up. Zzzzz... :) Hope you guys like it.
-Jessica <3

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Update - Summer Sunshine Nails

Oh damn, I haven't updated this in literally 5 months! Sorry!
I could say that I've been busy, but that's just an excuse for my inability to make time. haha
These are the nails I did one day when I was bored and the sun was shining brightly outside. :)
Ahh... sunny socal <3.
Sorry I didn't make a tutorial for this on youtube, I have many reasons why.
I'm going to make an update video, as soon as finals are over, explaining changes in my life in the past 5 months, and why I haven't posted any new videos.
Also, I just checked yesterday, and somehow my www.youtube.com/UpOnARoofTop account got 106 subscribers! haha, I didn't even think I'd make it to 6.
Thanks guys.
-Jess