Fashion Friday: Rebecca Minkoff

 If you're not familiar with Fashion Fridays collaboration - 

Fashionblogger & my bff Cassi from The Granny Treatment chooses a fashion collection,

then I choose 5 outfits/designs I want to recreate as a mani!

This weeks Fashion Friday inspiration is Rebecca Minkoff Fall 2012 Runway Collection!
I achieved this look using a combination of nail polish, acrylic paint, matte & shiny topcoat and "sand" texture!

Here are the swatches of what I used as inspiration:

Rebecca Minkoff Fall 2012 Runway Look #24 

 Rebecca Minkoff Fall 2012 Runway Look #7

 Rebecca Minkoff Fall 2012 Runway Look #1

 Rebecca Minkoff Fall 2012 Runway Look #12

Rebecca Minkoff Runway Look #19

Enjoy & have a Happy Friday! :)

Fashion Friday: Thakoon

If you're not familiar with Fashion Fridays collaboration - 

Fashionblogger & my bff Cassi from The Granny Treatment chooses a fashion collection,

then I choose which designs I want to recreate as a mani!

This week we have decided to go with Thakoon's Fall 2012 Runway Collection.

I did this using a combination of nail polish and acrylic paint with matte, "sand" and gloss finishes.

Here are the swatches of what I used for inspiration:

Thakoon Fall 2012 Runway Look #27

Thakoon Fall 2012 Runway Look #10

Thakoon Fall 2012 Runway Look #22

Thakoon Fall 2012 Runway Look #13

 Thakoon Fall 2012 Runway Look #4 

Enjoy!

If you have any suggestions for a collection you'd like to see transformed into nail art, let me know!

No Fashion Friday This Week :( Food Friday instead?

Due to Hurricane Sandy, Cassi @ The Granny Treatment - the other half of Fashion Fridays - still has no electricity.

Since she was not able to post this week, so I'm going to skip Fashion Friday this week!

Maybe this week will be Food Friday since I did a lot of cooking recently haha.

My boyfriend is half Filipino, and one of his favorite Filipino dishes is sinigang.

I found a few recipes online and tweaked them to the way his mom makes it!

It's a sour soup with pork and veggies.

I used taro, string beans, chinese eggplant, and water spinach and served it with sweet rice.

Since there was so much rice left over, I decided to use that to make desert called ginataang mais.

Very simple recipe, I just estimated the amounts.

I used coconut milk, sweet rice and sweet corn.

If you are a fan of rice pudding, you might like this since the texture is very similar :)

Fashion Friday: Oscar de la Renta

 Due to last week's Fashion Inspiration post being a huge success..

Me & my fashion blogger bff Cassi from The Granny Treatment have decided to do a weekly collaboration called 

"Fashion Fridays"!

Since she is the fashion savvy one, she will be choosing the designer and collection.

I will then choose 5 different items from the collection and recreate them as nail art :)

This week's inspiration is Oscar de la Renta's Fall 2012 Runway Collection

 Here are the swatches I used as my inspiration:

 

 Fall 2012, Look #48

 

Fall 2012, Look #3 

 Fall 2012, Look #13

 

Fall 2012, Look #17

 Fall 2012, Look #24

If there are any runway collections you'd like to see turned into nail art, 

leave a comment for me here or for Cassi over at The Granny Treatment!

Fashion Forward: Shoshanna

My best friend, Cassi, is really into fashion.

 We were recently talking about all of the awesome nail art that was seen during this year's New York Fashion Week.  She works for a department store clothing label, and she had the great idea to take some of the fabric prints from their Shoshanna Fall 2012 collection and paint them on my nails!

I used a combination of nail polish and acrylic paint, matte & glossy topcoats to do these designs.
Here's what I came up with:

 I cropped small swatches of the patterns I used, so you can see for comparison:

Sandra dress

 Heidi dress

 Double Crepe Trina dress

 Janelle dress

Sequin Tara dress

I personally am a big fan of fashion-inspired nails. 

Especially since I don't own any fashion forward clothing, at least my nails can be trendy!!