Playing Catch Up

Hello everyone! This is kind of a 'welcome back' post for me in attempting to return to blogging. I apologize for neglecting my blog without any notice, however, I've been trying to focus on my studies and raise my GPA in school. On top of school, I'm also balancing working. I'm not complaining that the work is tough or strenuous but I'm VERY clumsy, so I tend to chip my nails a lot. Lately, they've been tearing and chipping easily, so now they are currently nubs. I prefer not to swatch when I have nubs because I prefer my nails to be longer and I hate when I have nubs. Below is a picture from my previous post when I swatched Misa's Jester Ate the King Cake. This is the length I would like for my nails to be and when I would like to post swatches or anything like that. I apologize for being picky, but this is my preference and I don't like when I paint my nubs and they look off to me. =\



Anyways, even though I haven't been blogging, I still have done my nails and if you might have seen them on my Instagram (@ohaiwutang). I also started a hash tag to follow my nail adventures and you can see all of them through the hash tag #ohaiwutangnails.

Button London's All Hail the Queen. This photo was taken inside the fitting room of All Saints in NYC's Meatpacking District. I wanted to make my pictures more creative instead of the standard pictures I normally have so I took a picture with their signature Ram Skull! It was a little awkward to position my hand and fingers but this was the best picture out of all of them.

The next picture is Nailtini's Frappe from my January Ipsy glam bag. I believe this was my first month towards my Ipsy subscription. 

Follow my instagram at @ohaiwutang for the rest of my nail photos up until now.

See you soon,
Katherine

ABC Nail Challenge - Jester Ate the King Cake

ABC Nail Challenge
Day 10
Misa Jester Ate the King Cake

Jester Ate the King Cake is a bright pastel yellow jelly-creme, which is shown in 3 coats. Definitely one of my favorite yellows, especially sometimes when I don’t buy many yellows (I feel like it clashes with my skin tone). Bright pastel yellows I feel suit with my skin tone compared to regular bright yellows. 

ABC Nail Challenge - IDK

ABC Nail Challenge
Day 9
China Glaze IDK

IDK was a part of the China Glaze OMG Collection in, I believe, 2009. This collection along with Kaleidoscope are one of the most popular and hard to find polishes, minus eBay. IDK is a purple holographic shown in 2 coats. This picture was taken with indirect sunlight. To see its crazy holographic, you can also look at the color under the kitchen stove light. 

ABC Nail Challenge - He's Going in Circles

ABC Nail Challenge
Day 8
China Glaze He’s Going in Circles

He’s Going In Circles is a part of the China Glaze Kaleidoscope Collection, which was released around 2009. The nail polishes from this collection is hard to find now, unless you go to eBay and pay more than $10 a bottle. It is easily one of the best collections China Glaze released. The collection contains holographic polishes and He’s Going in Circles is a holographic light green (shown in 2 coats). I love, love, love this polish to death. Another crazy story is that I had this polish a while back and sold it (TERRIBLE ME) but then I had to get my hands on it again (I missed it so much T__T). 

ABC Nail Challenge - Greenport

ABC Nail Challenge
Day 7
Essie Greenport

Greenport was a part of the North Fork Collection a while back. At the time of the collection, I did not pick up any of those, CRAZY RIGHT?! Then I saw a ton of swatches of the polishes and I became jealous and full of regret. But then one day, I was able to swap a polish for this lovely beauty on MUA (MakeUpAlley). And now I’m happy that I finally have it! Greenport is a turquoise creme that is opaque in 2 coats. The formula and application was smooth but the drying time can be improved on this though, but no major complaints!