(Almost Everyday) Skin Care Routines

Not my intention to become too much of a brag, I realize that sometimes I’m praised for my skin and people often asked what skincare products did I use.

To be honest… I’m a very bad skin-care-adviser as I didn’t know exactly what’s making my skin is good (which I always assume it was probably genetics, and age). Besides, since I believe skin care products will react differently for each person, I can’t guarantee whether what I’m using currently will be giving the same result for all of you. 

However I believe as well that sharing information brings no harm! Which brings me to write this very, very long post which I haven't done for while.

So, quick to the point, shall we! 

Item below are the steps and product that I use in sequential order:

1. Mild Oil Cleansing – MUJI

Works just the way it is. This is already my multiple purchase products (maybe 10 times plus already), very effective in removing all makeups especially for waterproof types. Usually use 2 pumps for normal makeups, 1 additional pump for heavy makeups. Not to mention it is quite cheap compared to other brands, 1,190 yen for 400 ml, enough to last me 4-5 months if used every day. Pump to your dry hands, and lather all around the face and the makeups will just melt away. Just be warned that it has quite a bit of a "fishy" scent for you who aren’t used to it, as MUJI didn't add any artificial scent to this product, which is should be good for sensitive skin actually.

2. Face Wash

No Photos!! Because I use whatever face wash my mom use (and usually it changes every time). Several brands that I have used before are Biore's, Dove's, Face Shop's. However my all-time favorite is Innisfree Jeju Volcanic Pore Cleansing Foam, because it gives me a psychological effect and motivation that all of my blackheads will go away if I use that products continuously. Sadly last time my dad borrowed my 1/4-used of that cleansing foam and it never came back to me.

3. Angels on Bare Skin - Lush

*no pic as the tub already so dirty

This I use for scrub and I think this is the best scrub that I ever use in my life! Actually they claimed that this is not a scrub but a face wash product instead but I still think that washing face without soap-y products is very strange and not so clean, thus I use this product after washing my face with soap.

This product was introduced by my friends and I thank him for life for this. THIS. IS. AMAZING. It will leave your skin moisturized af you won’t believe you've just scrubbed your face. I never knew these kind of product exist?!? JUST. BUY. IT!! And try it. But be warned the smell were a bit strong to some people.

The smell is not chemical though! It's all natural scent from all the natural ingredients inside.

I always bought this in Japan, 1,280 yen for 100 gr, enough for 5-6 months use or more if used once per week. They say have to finish in less than 3 months, but I always finish WAAAAY later than that.. And It is fine... At least for me.

3. Sensitive Skin Care Light Toning Water Moisture - MUJI

My multiple purchase product as well. Last time in Japan I use 'High Moisture' version in winter, but now in Indonesia I stick with the 'Moisture' level (there's the 'Light' version as well for very oily skin). Its 908 yen for 400 ml, enough for 4-5 months if used daily.

Just fyi, I never use cotton for toner, as I thought It is such a lot of waste of products if I use cotton where most of the products will be thrown away with the cotton. I just pump enough in my palm and apply it on my face bit by bit.

This product are not so extraordinary, just served its purpose well which is to soothe and moisturize.

Not to advertise this product, but this is alcohol-free, paraben-free, and perfume-free toner which should be very good for people with sensitive skin.

Beside this actually I have my long-missed favorite toner which is IOPE BIO Essence Intensive Conditioning Toner which I bought and finished several years ago.

Last time I bought it, it came with promo price with the purchase of IOPE BB Cushion. If no promo, normal price is around $50-$80 USD. No wonder it works wonder to my skin; it moisturize, smoothen and brighten the skin. I will repurchase once I'm older (and richer).

4. Fresh Herb Origin Serum – Nacific

Just tried this one several months ago. It sure refine my skin more as this boost my previously "just enough" hydration from toner and moisturizing into something thicker.

They said that this is a "damn serum", which you will feel a stinging sensation as the serum fix problematic area in your face but will be less stinging with continuous use as your skin condition will get better. However, for me, it didn’t sting at all since the first time I’m using it. It's either my skin condition is already good, or it's just gimmicky advertising.

I've applied this one too much the other night and woke up with super oily skin, I guess this prone to be the cause of breakouts in several cases especially for people with oily skin. But all in all, it smells nice, works nice, pore became smaller quite significantly, but still open to other products if I found anything else better than this one. IDR 135,000 for this 50ml serum.

5. Lululun Moist Gel

Honestly bought this just because of the cute packaging! Luckily it suits my skin; no issues at all. Moisturizing effect is a bit low, but just fine with the combination of the serum that I've just mentioned above.

Will work well in oily skin I suppose. People with dry skin type will need much more moisturizing formula. Will not repurchase as I want to explore a bit more from the other brands. 1,620 yen for 80 gr.

I'm still no doubt impressed by its beautiful package with sturdy glass jar. Who else bought some products cause of the packaging?! I know some of you do.

6. Belif Moisturizsing  and Firming Eye Cream

Bought this 'cause I read it's good review somewhere. Is it truly good I don't know yet. Maybe when I'm 30 and I didn’t see any wrinkles around my eyes then at that time I can just say that its all thanks to this product. 

Have to commit daily to use this product though, as I often skip this part. Have been struggling to finish this since 3 years ago (and yes I know MAYBE it's expired already but still I'm getting all my money's worth!!). Bought around USD 48 in Korea, for 25 ml of products. Just realize that this is the most expensive products that I use currently.

7. Jeju Pore Volcanic Super Clay Mask

Just managed to use this twice, not very sure for the effect but surely it gives a soothing, minty feeling when applied. Bought this for its amazing reviews here and there, and finally decided to try this myself. Currently I’m using it interchangeably with my normal face mask that I usually buy in Innisfree or Face Shops, as this one is not moisturizing, but more to deep cleansing, I suppose. Will have to use more often to see its effect on my skin.

8. Kiehl’s Lip Balm

Not part of the skincare, but this product is definitely worth the mention. Some say that this is the best lip balm in the world, and if it’s not in the world, at least it’s still the best in my world. The applicator is a bit meh but the moisturizing power is awesome. Proved it in a very dry winter in Japan and it protects my lip VERY WELL all day without much reapplication. Repurchased several time and will always be. 1,000 yen for 1 tube in Japan, around IDR 130.000 in Indonesia If I’m not mistaken.

Please note that everything are daily use except the scrub and the mask.

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Aaaand that’s all! For my not-so-complicated skin care steps that I do currently. Or at least that’s what I think. I didn’t say that it was ALL cheap products too as some of the products are quite pricey as well, but not all of them are high end. For example MUJI products can be considered drugstore products in Japan, as its price competes with some real drugstore products in the market. However yes I admit that I prone to use foreign brands up until this point, Maybe next time I should try to explore more on local’s (Indonesia) one.

Other reasons I’m not keen on sharing my skin care routine is that I knew I can’t trust the quality of my routines due several weak points below:

1. Sometimes I skip skincare routine at all at night because I'm too sleepy.
2. In a week, maybe skip 2 times.
3. Even when I don't skip I often skip moisturizing and eye part, stops only at serums.
4. I go blind on trying moisturizing products, sometimes bought them only because the packaging is cute, not because it suits my skin.
5. I tend to change brands often for the sake of trying something new, which legit making me can’t say specific product to be introduced to people who ask me which product that I use regularly.

However I hope that what I’m doing right now is already on the right path rather than not taking the skin care steps at all.

Other tips related to skin care which I follow quite seriously because logically it sounds true to me:

1. Never wipe the face with towel downwards as it will make the skin droopy snoopy. Only patting is allowed.
2. Never do point 1 to neck as well.
3. Never wash face in downward motion as well. Same reason as point 1.
4. Go bare face in a while, to help skin breath. I go bare face as well when I feel like my skin is not in a good condition compared to how it should be usually.
5. Scrub once in every 1-2 weeks.
6. Will change the entire moisturizing above with face mask if my skin was too dry at times.
7. Always moisturize neck ‘cause neck will tell your age, no matter how young your face looks.
8. Use cold water to wash face if can to avoid pore enlargement (but I always fail). 

And that’s it.

I suppose all of the tips above were quite common?? That’s why I feel that it’s quite embarrassing sharing and giving you all the tips like above as I knew that I’m a person which still are not perfect at taking care of my skin, at all. I hope the next time I’m asked about my skin care routine, I will be much more prepared for the answer and maybe I can just share the link to this blog here. Problem solved!

Anyway, just let me know some tips/product recommendations that I need to know beside all of the above and not to forget that your feedback for my writing is much much appreciated!

See you all in my next post!

L’oreal Lipcolor: Color Riche Extra Rouge Lily (Collection STAR by Blake) and Color Riche Extra Rouge Matte Jardin Pamplemousse Review

I’ve bought two new babies last week which I'm dying to introduce them here:

L’oreal Color Riche Extra Rouge Lily (Collection STAR by Blake) and L’oreal Color Riche Extra Rouge Matte no. 109 Jardin Pamplemousse.

A bright pink lipgloss with subtle pearl in it and matte coral lippie that’s perfect for summer.

Swatched it on my hands but I didn’t have the time to swatch it right away on my lips at that time because of several reasons (read: lazy) and I think representing each color with the right look is better for the color to stand out.

So, after one week of waiting and 2 looks later, here’s the swatch directly on my lips plus go directly on the review.

The Extra Rouge Lily review:

Pardon my big face. See the lips. Lip color, I mean.

9 out of 10.

This is a very pigmented lip gloss which I like, and the subtle glitter make it even prettier for the dimension effect. It was very easy to apply, however can be a little bit tricky to build up the color. Put too much and it will end up with a slimy line on the lips that can be seen clearly especially when you talk or opening your mouth. The gloss is like the usual gloss, it will disappear in an instant after drinking or eating and multiple reapplication is needed to refresh the gloss, however the stain can last the whole day depends on how thick you applied the product or how long you let it stay on your lip before you eat and drink. Overall I’m very very satisfied with this and definitely will try the other color of this series!!

The Extra Rouge Matte review:

I'm quite shock that It gave so much different feel indoor and outdoor with different lights; it looked so neon indoor however it was not that shocking if I bring this outdoor.

7 out of 10.

The color is very pigmented and very pretty, and with the same applicator as the lip gloss one, It was very easy to apply too. The stain last long, but re-application still needed after 4 hour plus after first application. However my everlasting problem with matte lipstick is it always dried out my lips like crazy, and this one is not excluded too, unfortunately. After 5 hour plus of application, it started to dry my lips and people definitely can see my chapped skin seen with the lipstick on. It was not as bad when I use the YSL matte lipstick series; however I hate the feeling when I have to clean my chapped skin before I reapply it again after several hours; that's what the minus 3 is for. I think I still need some time to get used to matte lipsticks anyway and this product is lip-friendly enough to be given another go for matte-lipstick-newbie-user like me.

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I know it was a very random lippie swatches and review for this one but I always thought a little bit more information shared won’t hurt anyone! On the other hand the one that really concern me is that It took me so much courage to post my full face pictures as a reference for the lip color itself as I’m not a very selfie person personally... But I decided to go crazy selfie once a while for this post hahaha.

That’s why I really hope you enjoy this one the same as I enjoyed it and see you on the next post!

Tokyo Nail Expo 2014

I know it’s superrrrr late, but I want to blog a bit about my last year November’s visit to Tokyo Nail Expo in Tokyo Big Sight, Odaiba. Because I thought the next Tokyo Beauty Expo is starting soon, this will be a good chance to share what will it be look like in a beauty event itself. Although this time of event focus is for nails only, I think the flow and the feeling will be more or less the same.

The event hall was only 10 minutes walk froma station called Kokusai Tenjijo.

I went with my classmates in nail school. Before we enter, somewhat we have to buy the ticket around 3000yen/pax, but since we were a student, our teacher have given us and all of the student free entrance to go, so, we can avoid the ticket queue which is quite frustrating long.

Once we enter the site, the crowd can be seen everywhere.

What I can found in this Nail expo is, several things such as nail competition, art exhibition, special event sale (which already well known that in this event, usually all nail equipment such as LED light + colour set, brushes, accessories, stones etc is below usual average price, so expect a very long queue only just to pay), nail art demo, free nail class, new spring style trend introduction, free nail art (usually only 1 finger 1 person per stall) and so on.

This event is basically an annually long awaited nail event in Japan which famous for its advanced nail art, so people from all around the world such as USA, Singapore, Taiwan, and China all came here. And of course almost all the famous nail-related company brands have their own stall here. 

Quite crazy.

This is one of the teachers giving a free nail art demo, and the result is very pretty!!

And this is another crowd watching other nail art demo in another stall.

Usually each stall/brand has its own free nail art demo and it’s schedule, so we can pick which demo we would like to see. Of course, the latest trending nail art style demo will have unbelievable crowd waiting.

Tired of seeing several demos, I decided to shop a bit (even takes around 3 hours only to queue..) and take a look of the nail art sample which were placed everywhere.

OMG all so damn pretty I don’t know how they can make it???? Strolling around, “tsk tsk tsk”-ing samples cause amazed by their skill here. Japanese really take it to another level.

WTF just how did they make it???????

And several nail set introduced for nail competition.

Not to mention predicted spring style and color trend too.

Overall, if the amount of crowds were to be put aside, this event rocks. As a nailist it is heaven. All the colour, utilities, etc it was worth it to save all the money and spend it here.

What I learn from my visit were these things:

•  Instead of bringing credit cards, bring a lot, lot of cash. Of course several stall can use credit card but most of them are cash only. Even stall that receive credit card, usually only open 1 register specified for credit card, so imagine the queue. I spent most of my time queued for credit card because I don’t have enough cash to pay.

• Bring compatible food here. Bread, onigiri, milk whatsoever. There will be not enough food stall, not enough seats so literally everything have to be done while walking or standing. Expect all of your body hurts when came home at the end of the day.

• Bring carry case or baggage, in case you prepared for a big haul. Case with 4 wheels is the most recommended since there will be a lot of people there, carrying 2 wheeled carry case will just make other people angry because you and your baggage takes a lot of space when walking. 

• Compact phone charger, always. You will be taking pictures like mad, and dear sweety phone battery will be easily dropped. Not to mention if you were separated from you friend too!!

The event itself actually were 2 days, but I can only visit on the first day because of my work the next day, so I was focusing myself on buying things at that time. I didn't see that much nail art demo (cry) which I’m curious about.  And I didn't take much photos too since my hand were too full of my shopping bag. 

In my opinion, it will be just right i u can visit both 2 days in a row. Especially in the final days. All the climax were there; the ultimate nail art technique were introduced, several actress as nail models came out, and super sale for several booth to clear their stock. Too bad I couldn't go at that time.

So now I’m waiting for another expo next spring. Since this is the first nail expo a.k.a a beauty event that I have visited, I’m really curious about how the next event will turn out to be!!

Heroine Make Liquid Eyeliner Review

Last time, because my Etude Oh m'Eye Line! Jet Black eyeliner that I brought from Indonesia is ran out, I have to buy a new eyeliner.

After around 30 minutes more browsing, finally I decided to try this eyeliner brand:

Heroine Make Liquid Eyeliner (Black).

This brand is not a brand new product, already launched several years ago I guess? But I didn’t have any time to try it before (and because in Indonesia this brand is very expensive as hell) and now I finally can try it!

The Look?

First look (taken in the morning).

after 12 hours (taken at night; that explain the tone difference among these pictures).

as you can see, there are some blemish of the liner because of the oil. Below are another photo taken on another day after 9 more hours of usage when I have excess oil.

Disasterrr.

How Is It?

I cannot say I really love or really hate this product. Although its is said it is waterproof, I find it oily-messy in the end of the day. My previous eyeliner is getting messy too after more than 8 hours usage but much more like crisp-flaky messy (that easier to be touched up and cleaned) rather than oily messy (ruined eyeshadow; hard to be touched up).However this product stay just fine for around 6-7 hours so that should be fine if you only use it for a short period (not like a whole day worker like me :s)

Compared to my Etude product before, the resistance is still down under and the drying speed is kinda slow. The thing I love more about the product is the very soft tip of the applicator. It is very soft and comfy even when I apply this eyeliner, sometimes I would like to apply it again and again only to feel the softness of the tip brush hahaha.

The Score?

So, for the score, i give it:

3,75 / 5,0

0,25 for the soft tip.

For me, I have to find another better brand rather than this, because I haven't found any Etude store in Japan.. So sad. The only Korean makeup store that I have found for this 2 months here is only Tony Moly and I don’t quite like the brand. I’d prefer The Face Shop or Etude.

However here in Japan they have a so called as "1 day tattoo eyeliner" that stays ALL day long without messy, they said. I would like to try one but later maybe, since the price is quite expensive compared to the regular eyeliner. I assume it has better quality? Can;t be sure, have to try it by myself first. I have to start saving and hunting from now on then!

See you on next post!

Face of My Graduation Day

This is my makeup from my graduation ceremony. To be clear, actually, I have 2, no, 3 graduation ceremonies. The faculty one, rehearsal for all faculty (whole university) and the real graduation ceremony. In the last post, I posted the final graduation one (which was a failure graduation, I think) and this is my makeup from the rehearsal, which was SO MUCH BETTER.

 Haven't posted about this yet. Certainly, this is a lucky shot! My face looks so oval I fall in love with myself LOL

Face:

• The Face Shop BB Cream Power Perfection Light Beige
• Pigeon Compact Powder UV Protection Beige
• Etude Compact Concealer
• Blush : unbranded, my mom's and its brand already faded away -____-

Eyes:

• Purple eyeshadow from Shiseido, old series, my mom's
• The Body Shop Eyebrow Makeup
• Etude Oh m'Eye Line Black
• Upper lashes unbranded, lower lash: DollyWink Natural Cute no. 14

Lips

• Revlon Colorbust Lip Butter Creme Brulee
• The Body Shop Clear Lipgloss

Stay beautiful! :)

Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter Review

Hello guys! This is actually my first beauty product review so I'm gonna do my best. Try to be simple as possible, less word but more descriptive :)

The main item that I want to review this time is the Revlon Colorbust Lip Butter Series. Yes, the series with the infamous Emma Stone in most of the posters.

The exact series I bought was the Creme Brulee (nude) and Cupcake (pale pink):

The color on my hand:

It's not glittery, the shine comes from the moisturizer of the lip butter, and I MEAN IT. LIP BUTTER. Here is the picture with the lipstick applied.

For overall, I like the color! especially the Creme Brulee one. It's sooooo pretty nude that really blends in with my face tone and refreshing the natural color of my lips. I'am using but kind of not using lipstick at all! It's just so fabulous. For the pink, actually I'm searching for a much paler one than this (such as Nicki Minaj's pale pink from MAC) but since MAC is so goddamn expensive for me so this one should be enough. For now :)

My pros opinion:

• All of this time I usually avoid lipsticks cause my lip is kinda sensitive and dry, and it will get much rougher after i'm using lipstick. So usually I prefer lipgloss or lipcream instead of lipstick. However, this product is different I'm so fell in love with it! This lipstick really moisturize the lips, the so-it-say lip butter really makes this lipstick suitable for people with dry lips like me! No wonder they named it LIP BUTTER, not lipstick.
• The scent is so candy-like, so sweet and not too strong. Having hard time resisting to not lick my lips all the time WTF.
• Cute and simple design of the packaging.
• Really affordable price. I bought it for 75.000IDR its so fuckin' cheap for a really great product!
• Soft shades, even the strong-colored one, suitable for people who tried to wear lipstick for learning /  too afraid to use strong color.
• Very cute if it's coated with clear lip gloss! Sorry, in the picture the difference is not quite much but you can see that with the clear gloss, the color will be even more softer and smooth.
• Easy to be cleaned, even without cleaner. The color not tinted your lips after you cleaned it up.

My cons opinion:

• Somehow the shade is very faint. To achieve color like in the picture, I have to swipe it for about 2-3 times. If you prefer strong and thick colored lipstick, don't choose this. Will be fed up with how much you have to swipe to achieve the strong color.
• Not water proof, means very easy to be removed.
• Not suitable for people who prefer lipstick, since it is kind of too moist I think.

Repurchase? For me, definitely. Just compare the pros and cons lah.

Ok! That is my first review! I will do another one this is so exciting!! See you again on the next review!!

- xx

Chanel Makeups: 2013 Pre-Fall Paris-Edimbourg Metiers d'Art Show

Important notes:

• this is purely a work of an amateur. every judgement / way of work does't associate with the original work itself.
• on a makeup experiment like this, I won't state what makeup brand I am using. Its up to you guys to follow and experiment with your own makeup color and brand. (however if you want to know the details, feel free to ask me by commenting.

In this post I tried to imitate the makeups used for One of Chanel Art Fashion Show.

The example picture is the courtesy of Sandra's Closet. The illustration is MINE :

Key points:

• flawless pale face color, 
• barely-there grey/dark brown eye shadow (you can see on the example even you cant tell the models wearing eye shadows or not), 
• eyeliner precision (white and black), 
• sheer pink blush, 
• pink to nude matte lip color and heavy lip gloss (without glitters).

My result are this (only edited the brightness, photos taken with an ordinary digital camera so please tolerate the imperfect light, ok?):

My mistake:
Everything looks strangely faint (eye shadows, blush, eyeliner, and lip color).

Actually, firstly I put thicker color than all this but I'm quite afraid to put on much color on my face since I looked at it, it was kinda over-colored compared to the example. I wiped it more or less until reaching the same shade in the example, however when I photoed it, the color looks incredibly faint! Now I see that makeups need to be thicker in reality cause when it was captured, the color will more or less become fainter in result.

in spite of all the flaws, I'm really looking forward to try another runway makeup look. I hope I'll get better and better with more practice!

See ya!

- xx

My Graduation Ceremony Makeups

Just some narcissistic photos to refresh myself. 

This is my up do for graduation ceremony.

 after plucking out like zillion of bobby pins outta my hair. It falls and curls cutely.

I'm using:

foundation: shiseido - compact powder SPF35

bb cream : face shop light beige SPF37

eyeshadow : unbranded

Blusher : Raphalie (old series)

eyeliner : Etude Oh My Line Black

mascara : Maybelline Volum Express Waterproof Mascara

lip : wiped off -_____-

shawl : Yellow Line

I'll do more proper make-up-of-the-day next time..

Nails 101

Hi guys, always wondering why some people can have like, the most beautiful smooth polished nails like this?

Or this?

Or this?

Actually, don’t look at the last picture, this is definitely nail art, you have to have the skills of nail art or if you lazy just go to saloon for nail art pedicure manicure. And ignoring the photoshop effect and perfect lighting and camera, you can have this smooth polished nails too!

Howeva! Some of you people always wondering how to polish your nail smoothly without texturize your nails. Actually, the BIGGEST SECRET *which so far I know is…

 THE WAY YOU PAINT YOUR NAILS WITH POLISH.

Which I mean the way is REALLY the way your brush polish swiped.

Although I’d like to just formally inform you all that the right way to polish your nails is basically contains of some parts you have to have to do

1. Apply base coat
2. Apply the color you want
3. Apply the color you want. Again. I did this to emphasize that twice layering is important to make the smooth look.
4. Apply the top coat.

No doubt with 4 steps followed + THE RIGHT WAY TO SWIPE THE POLISH BRUSH will definitely make the VERY BEST smooth look (looks even better with other nail treatment such as routine mani and padi, but ah too busy to do it routinely). I, myself, always skip the base and top coat, simply because, I still don’t have base coat, and am too lazy to use the top coat and waiting another minutes to wait for it to dry.

From which I know, most of you *unfortunately, and shockingly* paint your nails like this,

 Or this,

Or even this,

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The way number 2 and 3 definitely wrong, absolutely. You’ll get nails as smooth as dirt road like that. Leave that waaaay!

But number 1 seems right? Yes that way is right, but not EXCELLENT. Remember, we strive for perfection here.

This is the MOST RIGHT way to use your nail polish.

 You see? Only three big one-way swipes per finger, and 2 other if needed (only to smooth over excess liquid)

I’ll show the real one here.

 

 n.b. : really sorry for low quality picture leh, taken from old digital camera and edited this myself in the midnight.remind me to buy new camera.

For addition, you don't expect to see the smoothness in just single layer (like picture number 4). Picture number 4 is not a mess, but it's pretty normal and clean for single layer. You can see the effect after finishing 2nd layer just like picture number 5 above.

See? That was far more easy, and perfect.

However you should pay attention to:

• The amount of liquid in your brush. I’m only give example on a normal size brush and normal nail size here. So, if you have bigger/smaller size of nails/brush, what’s matter is not hoe many times you swiped the brush over your nails (size didn’t change the times you swiped, mostly), but how much liquid amount you swiped with the brush. I bet you all always get rid of excess amount of liquid from your brush at the tip of the polish bottle by swiping it on the bottle tip. But now, you’ll need to use more of your feelings. Bigger nails need more polish. Adjust your amount of liquid in your brush so that’s possible for you to cover your entire nail surface in just 3 clean swipes. Feel the exact perfect amount, baby!

• The time needed to your polish to be completely, I mean, COMPLETELY dry. Somehow people assume it’s dry already when you can touch the nail surface without your finger had the excess liquid. However, my definition of dry, is, when you stick in all your polished-nails like this and scratch them on the opposite sides several times,

You can do it freely without damaging your nails. You see, when you feel that your nails is kinda still sticky if they were stick to each other (softly try to stick them, girl, you’ll feel it), DON’T SCRATCH THEM. It means your polish isn’t as dry as my definition of dry.

This is the most crucial time because most of the people think it is dry enough they touch (or even swipe) the smooth surface with their other fingers and bum! You’ll have fingerprints texture (or even cracked layers). Congratulation on your very dumbness.

Don’t worry sometimes I fuckingly and accidentally do this and “why youuuu~~” to me myself. However I am too lazy lah to start over again.

On my experience, nail polish needs about 45 minutes - 1 hour to be completely dry as my definition of dry. So, find your own perfect time to polish your nail (especially when you have nothing to do in maybe 1-2 hours, that’s the perfect time to do your nails, haha)

So, why read more? Try my perfect little dirty secrets as soon as you can!

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n.b.: Not so dirty secrets actually.