Christmas 2017

Merry (belated) Christmas! 🎄🎅🎁

I’ve had a lot of stuff going on for the past week and a half and didn’t end up having time to do any Christmas nails until after the holiday was over 🙈 Regardless, I hope you guys like these holly nails and I hope you all had a nice holiday with your loved ones ❤️🎄

In Memory of Kim Jonghyun (1990-2017)

This is a design I never thought I would have to paint, but it's one that is extremely important to me. Jonghyun was, in every aspect of the word, an inspiration and he will be dearly, dearly missed.

All Bundled Up

First wintery design of the year! ❄️🐧
Isn’t that little penguin so cute? He looks much more prepared for the snowy weather than I am.

MIC Drop

I was a bit surprised a week or two ago when the views on my BTS DNA tutorial started spiking - the views went from about 15k to 148k over the span of a few days. The spike happened around when BTS was on their American media tour, so I'm assuming youtube promo-ed it because of all the BTS hype at the time. With the spike in views also came a spike in comments, and I had a sudden influx of people requesting a BTS MIC Drop inspired design. Since Big Hit had just dropped the music video for the Steve Aoki Mic Drop remix, I figured it was as good a time as any to tackle the design!

CND Glacial Illusion Collection Swatches

Now that it's December I think it's time to take a peek at some winter nail polishes! Today I'll be taking a look at CND's Winter 2017 Collection called Glacial Illusion.

Falling Stars

I have another simple design for you guys today, inspired once again by a print I found on Pinterest!

Cat Got Your Tongue

After my last intricate design I wanted to take a bit of a break with a simpler pattern. I've had this cute cat print sitting in my inspiration folder for a while and this was the perfect opportunity to transform it into a nail design!

Peek-A-Boo

Peek-A-Boo!
Red Velvet recently came back for the third time this year with their second full album Perfect Velvet. The music video for their promotional song Peek-A-Boo was really interesting and today's design is inspired by it!

Black Suit

Pop Quiz!
Q: What group first got me into kpop? 🤔
A: It was Super Junior back in 2011 with Mr. Simple ✨
I couldn't let Super Junior's comeback go by without doing something for the group that dragged me into this crazy kpop fandom, so I hope you guys enjoy this design!

CND Nightspell Collection Swatches

I'm finally getting kind of caught up with my swatches! Today I'll be taking a look at CND's Fall 2017 Collection called Nightspell! This fall line is “reminiscent of precious jewels” and the shades “blur the boundaries between night and day.”

Caught in Your Web

Halloween might be over for another year, but I still wanted to share this cobweb-covered design with you guys!

DAY6 Live and Meet in Toronto 2017

Hey guys! So some of you may already be aware, but back in October I was able to get tickets to see Day6 live in Toronto! As with the other concerts I've had the privilege of attending in the past few years, (EXO'luXion in Vancouver and Shinee World V in Toronto), I wanted to do a nail design for it!

The first half of this post will talk a little bit more about the nail design, and then in the second half I'll go a bit more in depth on my concert experience! ✌

Move

Doesn't Taemin's latest comeback just make you want to... move? 😉
Lame jokes aside, I was really impressed with Move - both the song and the album - and while I may be a little bit biased, it was definitely one of my favourite comebacks of the year. 

Once Upon a Midnight Dreary

I got a new pendant for my birthday this year and I thought it would make a cute, fall nail design!

I'm Feeling 22

I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22!
So I'm definitely a little bit late with these, but it was my 22nd birthday last month and these are the nails I did to celebrate!

DNA

Hey guys! A little while ago BTS came back with their latest album Love Yourself: Her, and I wanted to do a nail design inspired by the music video for their promotional track DNA!

CND Playland Collection Swatches

A few months ago the lovely people at CND sent me their Creative Play Playland Collection to try out! I don't know how other artists feel about swatching, but I always find it to be rather time consuming to swatch and photograph 8 polishes, so it took me a while to put time aside to sit and test out these polishes. With that being said, you guys may recognize some of the polishes I'll be showing you in this post because I started using them in designs way before I had the opportunity to test them out fully.

Dress to Kilt

More fall nails! 🍂🍁
I think this is my first attempt at plaid nails and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out! ❤️

Triple Threat

Even though it's technically autumn now we haven't really had much fall-like weather lately. That hasn't been enough to keep me from doing some autumn-appropriate nail designs though!

Power

Hey guys!
Last week I shared a design inspired by the teasers for EXO's 4th Repackage Album The War: The Power of Music. This week's design is kind of similar, but is inspired by the music video for the album's title track, Power!

The Power of Music

Hey guys!
Today's design is inspired by the teasers leading up to the release of EXO's 4th repackage album The War: The Power of Music!

Island

Hey guys!
Today's design is another one I did back in the summer. This one is inspired by the song Island off of Winner's latest mini album Our Twenty For!

All Night

Ok, so I'm totally behind in posting designs to the blog but I'm going to try to get back on top of things and hopefully stay on top of things in the coming months.

I did this design back around mid-August in honour of Girls' Generation's 10 year anniversary and the release of their 6th full-length album Holiday Night! I focused specifically on the music video for the song All Night and tried to tap into all the glitter and glam that SNSD rocked in the video.
Happy 10 Years Girls!

Cool Cacti

Channeling my inner @ninanailedit today with some matte cacti nails!

Ge(Oh)metric

I've noticed some other people doing this as well, but after seeing Sehun rocking some nail art the past few weeks and I wanted to recreate his nails for myself ✌🏻

Ko Ko Bop

Shimmy shimmy Ko Ko Bop, I think I like it ~
Summer usually brings with it a slew of comebacks in the kpop world and this year has been no different. A few weeks ago EXO came back with their 4th full album "The War" and a music video for Ko Ko Bop, the title track from the album. Ko Ko Bop is definitely a switch up from the style exo showed last summer with Monster and Lucky One, this time going for a very summery style and a reggae inspired beat. Like the exo-l I am, I obviously had to make a design inspired by my faves' new track that's every bit as summery as their new concept! 

Better Together

Some things are just better together... like ice cream and waffle cones!

Schiaparelli #1

A few months ago I did a design inspired by one of the looks from Schiaparelli's Spring 2017 Couture Collection and now I'm back with another design inspired by the same line!

Red Flavor

It's been wayyyy too long since I've done a Red Velvet design, and their most recent comeback with The Red Summer and the promotional track Red Flavor provided the perfect opportunity to remedy that!

Celadon Maebyeong Bottle

The second design that I made for my trip to Korea was this one inspired by Goryeo dynasty Korean celadon ceramics!

Korean Flag

Those of you who follow me on Instagram (@nyanails) already know that I spent three weeks last month in South Korea for a graduation trip with some of my friends! We had a ton of fun there and it was an experience I'm sure none of us will ever forget.
Before heading off on our travels though I painted a few designs inspired by the country to post while I was away! Unfortunately, I had planned to use my 14 hour flight to edit the photos of the designs but got on the plane only to realize that there were no outlets >.< Since my laptop only holds about 3 hours worth of charge I didn't get all of the photos edited on the plane and then didn't really have time to be editing while I on my trip, which is why they're being posted now - after my trip!
The first design that I did for the trip was this one inspired by Korea's flag!

Grad Floral

A few weeks ago I graduated from university with an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree! I wasn't really sure what to do with my nails for the occasion so I decided to match them with the dress I wore to the ceremony!

Mellow Melons

Getting into the summer vibe with some watermelon nails!

Spaced Out

Hey guys! I haven't done space nails in a while, and this one is a little different from the other galaxy designs I've done in the past. Instead of gradients and glitter, for this take on a space mani i focused more on planets with a solid background to give a more cartoonish feel!

Rose Quartz

I'm jumping on the rose quartz nail trend with this delicate look inspired by @nailsbyjema's tutorial!

Fly

Hey guys!
After doing a really complicated design for my last set of nails (inspired by EXO-CBX's Japanese debut) I wanted to do something simple and fresh this time around!

KA-CHING!

Hey guys! EXO-CBX recently released the short version of the music video for KA-CHING!, the first song off of their Japanese debut mini album! The music video was really colourful which made for a fun nail design!

Schiaparelli #15

I haven't done a fashion-inspired design in a while and since I have time now that exams are over I decided to spend a day going through runway fashion to look for nail inspiration!
One of the runways that I found had some really interesting patterns that were fun for nail designs was Schiaparelli's Spring 2017 Couture Collection.

Palette

Today's design is inspired by IU's new music video for her song Palette! I really love the vibe of the song and the aesthetics of the video so I wanted to make a design inspired by it!

Hop To It

I'm a little late for Easter, but here's some cute little bunnies for spring!

Up and Away

Hey guys!
I've been really busy with final projects and exams this past month but now that this semester is over I have time to update the blog again and get back on top of posting my designs! I did this particular design near the beginning of April.

WoW!

Ok, so I usually try to limit my kpop designs to only very current songs, (or else with the number of requests I get I would literally be doing nothing but kpop designs for the rest of my life), but this idea has been stuck in my head ever since Lovelyz released their music video for WoW! back in February and I just couldn't let it go! 

Peanuts

Hey guys! 

A little while ago I received a purple holo polish from Born Pretty Store to review, and after I swatched it I decided to add a design over top of it for spring!

SHINee World V in Toronto

Hey guys! If you follow me on Instagram you probably already know that my friend Joanne and I were able to get tickets to see SHINee at the Sony Center in Toronto last Sunday! The concert was a lot of fun and obviously I couldn't go to the show without having my nails decked out in SHINee colours!

The first half of this post will be about the nails and then I'll talk a little bit more about my concert experience in the second half :)

St. Patrick's Day 2017

I hope you all had a great St. Patrick's Day! This year's design was pretty simple, just a pale green gradient paired with gold dots and some darker green shamrocks over top of it. Even though it's simple I think it was really cute for the occasion ^^

CND Rhythm & Heat Collection Swatches

Hey guys!
Last month I was invited by CND Canada to attend a launch event for their new Rhythm and Heat Collection for Summer 2017! The event was joint event with Revlon professional so in addition to getting a manicure in one of CND's new colours we also got a keratin treatment for our hair (and I have to say that my hair definitely felt softer afterwards)!

Today I'll be showing you my swatches of the 6 polishes in the new Rhythm and Heat Collection and sharing my thoughts on each of them!

Sunshine State

When I was in Florida a few weeks ago I picked up a new phone case from Pac Sun and I thought it would make a cute nail design!

Spring Day

Passing by the edge of the cold winter, until the days of spring, until the days of the flower blossoms 🌸❄️

BTS recently came back with a repackage album You Never Walk Alone and as soon as I saw the mv I knew I wanted to do a design inspired by their title track Spring Day!

Heartfelt

Second Valentine's Day design of the year!
A bit of a different take on the classic heart-tip design.

Heart of Gold

Late valentines day design, (but really you could rock this design any time of the year!)