CUINONG - Teal, holo and mint!

These are a few polishes I picked up from the beauty supply store I visited early on in my course.

The brand is CUINONG - never heard of it, but boy do they have some lovely colours! I also have a pink and a holo purple.

The green holo smells like petrol. Weird. But the others are impeccable to apply, no flaws.

TEAL:



GREEN HOLOGRAPHIC:























MINT:

Tip & Overlay

These are my current nails, basic tip and overlay.

My only tiff with these is that they are all sort of shaped differently... which really gets on my nerves. I hate being a perfectionist sometimes, sure you do good work and things - but it can drive you insane trying to get that perfect curve.

And hopefully I get them off tomorrow. I have got one off, most are all chipped (more liek picked...) around the cuticle and sides, my right thumb tip has lost a corner, goodness knows how.

My conclusion: Artificial nails of any kind, are not for me. I just pick and pick and pick. Absolutley great though if you don't have the time to maintain your own nails and don't fuss over little things n_n

My tutor has set me up with a client who wants nail art tomorrow! n_nb Excitinnnngggg~! Tutor tells me she has long nails too... woohoo! Long nails are always the best canvas for extravagant designs. Short nails can also look just as beautiful, just not as much space to play with :)

(>n_n)>~♥

BECOMING A NAIL TECHNICIAN:
Well, there are three weeks left of becoming a nail technician...

So these last three weeks are pretty much clients all day - every day.

Today I had to do some maintenance work on a classmate's set of acrylics. Fairly easy. Then she had to maintenance the gel on my toes... What a lovely experience. I've been craving for a pedi, ad this is the closest I would get to it haha. A few people don't really like the filing or cuticle work on toes (been done to them), but I love it! I mean, how often do your toes get rubbed? Unless you have a devoted partner doting on you- I'm guessing not that much.

Nail art again on Friday morning! I can't decide what to do this time! I'm going to have a scrummage round the 'net and see what I can find.

BECOMING AN ADULT:
This isn't a new series lol so don't worry.

Where have I been these last few days? Well, I have been trying to plan and sort out what I will do after my course. The goal is to move out of home, work from home (doing nails) and do a year long make-up course at the same academy I am learning nails. How cool would that be?! Make-up?! I usually wear the bare-necessities... but if I could do awesome things with make-up, then you can bet it'd be on my face. Would you like photos of the creations I make on the make-up course?

You also learn hair styling and body painting and some other things, but this is all I can remember. My nail tutor suggested that I do it because this afternoon she saw me colouring in a drawing of mine. I had also been thinkning about it too - as UNI just seems @_@ way out of my league. Normal people jobs aren't for me i'm afraid.

Of course I will try and keep NJ up and running as much as possible... hopefully my parents let me 'borrow' one of the laptops... *crosses fingers*

Aaaaaand because we are all about the visuals here at Nail Juice, here are some polishes I picked up (so sorry for the lighting):

OPI Malibu Blue NL C43






















Maybelline Matte Grape

Mojito vs. Patti

A Few Nail Art Ideas!

ICING Superstitious

Woah.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I put this one on. A black with purple shimmer that actually shows! Inside too!

I can tell Superstitious will be worn frequently, natural OR artificial.

I used just two coats here, incredibly smooth formula. I got this in a swap from Ronna so I have no idea where it comes from or what collection. I know Icing is in the States, do any US ladies know anything about dear Superstitious?

I think this is really what I wanted OPI's Eiffel For This Color to be.

Becoming A Nail Technician...

How are you today? Good I hope n_nb

Right, so today I had to get maintenance on my acrylics, which was quite a lot as I have been picking at them (so they lifted in areas) and I bit a few off. Two completely came off and one thumb nail had half a tip.

Once I bite one off, it's sort of like I start thinking "ooh! what other ones can I get off!?" and then I do it subconsciously. So before I know it, I've done it again.

I also got them taken off today! *celebration* I was so happy to see that I had little white tips. It looks like they grew quite a bit! Probably just delusional as I haven't seen them for a little while, but who cares, it was a mood lifter :D

But during removal, one of my pinkies were so sore! When my classmate was scraping off the acrylic with a cuticle spoon, it was too sore to touch, made me gasp each time... I usually try to keep little pain experiences to myself, but this one was really tender. Even now its still sore to touch.

Then my tutor wants me to get tip and overlay on tomorrow... That killed me inside, my nails are really tender, barely there, thin as paper, etched to the max, buffed to the max. I really don't want anymore on them but I know my classmates have to learn some-how :(

MINI RANT:
When my nails are being worked on, they can get really damaged and sore from the classmate doing it... I know it's just because they are being careless and are bored with what they are doing and they don't take what I say on board e.g. what they are doing hurts, mind the cuticle...

I know we are all learning... but jeez, you aren't going to have customers coming back to you if you don't look after them

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Lets leave on a positive note... well photo. MAC's Seasonal Peach. Don't worry, it will get pretty photos later and a full review.

This was the day I got my acrylics on, I really love Seasonal Peach and I had many compliments on it n_n