Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts

Pedicure & my new beauty room!

Hi everyone!!

Today,
I had my cousin coming in for pedi!

Her and her daughter got hearts for Valentine's day!!!

They turned out soooo cute!


Here is the mom's toes!
I love this pink!! it is a Barbie Pink!! sooooo cute!
it is OPI colour called You Are A Pisa Work. lol
the Green is from NYX colours.



and here is the daughter's!!
She wanted hearts and polka dots! soooo cute!




Also,
I finally painted the walls in my salon last week.
The trims & baseboards are not done,,,, but oh well.





I need posters!!!!!
I just contacted a nail magazine company for posters ;)


Sometime, I will do a tour of this room on youtube.

okaaay,
have a good one!

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Valentine Special!

Valentine's Day is coming up...!!

I have a special going on at my salon.
$5 off + any V day nail art!!

It is going well so far.

People seem to love it because many people like to decorate & be dressed up
for this special event :)


I am really bad at remembering to take pictures after each service....

but here is one that I remembered =)
This lady got white french acrylic nails with red glitter hearts on ring fingers.






On top of that, she is a fan of Indianapolis Colts,
so she got their logo on her thumbs as well.





She absolutely LOVED these nails.
Especially because she came in after getting dissapointed in the nails she got from a place in a mall.... so I was 'pressured' (just for myself...) to do a good job to make her happier... right?
but it worked well. phew...:)
She was so happy!!!

Happy clients make me soooooooooooooo happy!

I get tired from doing a lot of nail art but I don't care because I love doing this and when people love it, it's worth it!!


Dont' you love having beautiful nails / giving beautiful nails for somebody???!


anyhow,
time to go to bed.
Tomorrow I am going to see a friend of mine who I used to work with at my old salon.
It was a lot of fun....!

well,
I will stop talking.

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MOVED!!!

I finally moved in to new place!

After painting walls, I might upload a video showing my new salon!! :)

I am sooooo happy it is set up!!


I just did my left hand tonight.
I hadn't had time to do a fill for myself... it had been more than 4 weeks...

I videotaped it so I will post it on youtube ;)




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My favorite products (nails)

Hi again!!
I just updated another blog but I thought I would write more!! ;)


I will introduce my favorite products here.
Honestly, I love all my products that I use at work (otherwise, I don't use them!!)
but I will just share some items that I think are neat.

Here we go!



- California Mango 'Mango magic' Cuticle Oil

It smells good and your fingers will get so soft by moisturizing with this. I love how it looks too. so cute with a small leaf in it.


- NSI Vanish

This is the best cuticle remover! it works really well with cuticle pusher!! I have used a few other cuticle removers, but so far, this is my favorite.


- T3-6 Antiseptic Hand Sanitizer

This is a hand sanitizer by a salon disinfectant company T3 6. This one does not dry out your hands. so I use these to sanitize my and my clients' hands before the service without making them look so dry!


- Akzentz #108 oval gel brush

This gel brush is very very easy to use. It is perfect size and shape. This shape fits around cuticle area really well. I use this brush for any gels.


- Cirepil Blue wax

This is a hard wax. I prefer hard wax because you don't need strips which makes the oparation so much easier and cleaner, and I find it more sensitive to most skin types. (my opinion)


- Mani-Pro e-file by KUPA

This is my most favorite drill! You can change to any bits, you can change speed, you can swich forward & reverse, it is easy to hold!! (not awkward size)
and It is tiny and light! the best thing about this product is that it is inexpensive for a professional electronic file.
But I had a really bad experience with this company KUPA with my credit transaction several times. So I recommend purchacing at a store or from other online distributer.
I love their products though!


- NSI endurance file

This is the best file ever!! Some files go flakey on the edge and don't last long. These NSI endurance files last for so long and very stable. I love them so much and it's worth paying more!


- Lysol wipes

I use these wipes to clean the nail table surface. I of course use special disinfectant for disinfecting my tools, but lysol is a good thing to use for surface cleaning. I used to use a liquid lysol but these wipes are more convenient and easy to use. Especially when you are in hurry in between clients, you can wipe it and ready to go! :)


- INSPIRE ~Nail Fashion For Salon Clients~

This is a hard cover catalogue for clients. It has lots of images of different nail art and designs. This is a great way for your clients to look at designs and tell you what they want. it includes so many fantastic designs!!




I can't think of more things for now.
If I think of more, I will do another one :)

Maybe I will do favorite makeup products of something as well later on...


Thanks for reading this!

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Happy New Year!!

Happy New year!!
it's 2010!!

It doesn't feel like a new year yet...
For me, it did not feel like Christmas nor New year.

I just welcomed new year with my husband and my kitty quietly, watching a TV show.
(We are so into a show called Weeds now. We are watching Season 4 disk now)

It felt like a reglar night.
maybe that is good.

I am excited for this year 2010 though :)
It is a year of Tiger! My year!!


I got some phone calls for appointments on New year's day.
and I worked from the 2nd of January.
Full day of doing nails, lash extensions and waxing....

As much as I wanted to sit on the couch relaxing and enjoying the holiday season,
I felt so happy and so lucky to be able to do these things as my job.
I love what I do.

I truely enjoy the art of beauty and make people happy.

This year,
I want to explore more in this industry and improve my service.
Life is all about experimenting and learning.


Hope everyone will have a wonderful year!!
and hope you will enjoy what you do.
Find something in your work or school work that you can find interesting. :)


I will try to update more soon.

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Before the events

Hi,

How are you?
I hope you are all having wonderful holidays!

I am still full from Christmas dinner and other events around it... LOL

It was nice to relax though.
I loved Boxing day shopping sale too!!
I think I should save my shopping days for the Boxing Day every year...
haha but it is impossible for me!


I noticed this year...
that this nail business has a lot to do with events.
I got busier just before Christmas.
I got many "last minute" phone calls.
Even though they always want to have nice nails,
it is absolutely important to have a nicest look on their important day.

I guess I do that too.
I do my nails just the day before something important.


yah...
So my point is that I had to take last minute clients before Christmas
and now I am busy with clients who want to prepare for the New year parties.

It is good for me :)

In this business, I need to consider ahead about the event and go with it.
Relating events and interests to new ideas is very important.

Soon Valentine's Day is coming...!!
I should think of some designs for that.


Anyways,
I will just post my most recent work pic here,,, since I haven't filmed any videos.





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My new Christmas nails!!!!!

Yesterday, I thought to myself..
I should have more holiday looking nails!!!!!!!

So,
I did!!

and I filmed a video too!!

Yaay I'm excited!

here it is....


and youtube vide for it is...

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Bloom Cheek tint

Hi there,

this is not nail related.

This is just a quick update on a cosmetic product I got today.
For those who don't know..., I am a university student as well,
and tomorrow is my last final exam.
I need to study but I wanted to escape into youtubing... blogging... and stuff.
so I thought I'd share one update here :D


SO,
I was developing some pictures at London Drugs (a Canadian drugstore) and I thought I would go to the cosmetic section.

Then, guess what. they were having a huge sale on Bloom Cosmetics!!
http://www.bloomcosmetics.com/

I don't have money... but I had to get it...
because I always wanted to try their products but I could not afford.
so I got Bloom Cheek Tint in Rosie for $9 (regular Price was $20!!!)

Here is the picture.



Packaging is so cute!!

it contains 12ml/0.52 fl.oz
This is plenty!
You just need a tiny bit each time.
This has such a strong and beautiful pigment.
You only need a bead smaller than a pearl for both cheeks.

Also, it goes on very smooth.
It is very subtle tint!

I am quite happy about that :)


anyways,
I should go back to studying!
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Blue & Silver winter nails w flower at OneTrueMedia.com

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Review on Coastal Scents mica powders

I purchased several mica powders from Coastalscents.com a while ago.
I got them to add to my colour selection of my acrylic and gel nails.
This time, I got six colours.
I have used some of them for nail art. They are so beautiful. Vibrant colours!
So gorgeous!!

And another great thing about these are that they are super cheap.
Each package that is more than enough for making a colour acrylic or gel is like $1 each.

It is easy to find glitter from Claire's, Micheal's, walmart, etc...
but it is a bit difficult to find this good quality fine colour pigments from a craft store.
So I do recomend Coastal Scents. :)
I like shopping here for other makeup stuff too... ;)

I made a simple table below...
Hope this helps!

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