Saturday, March 30, 2013

Ombrés

I've been a big fan of colours for as long as I can remember, especially shades and tones of colours. The only part I excel in when it comes to art, are colours but not drawings. To have me draw a human will be like the biggest offense to mankind themselves coz I can bet my ass it'll look like a dog. Stick man, no problem. Growing up my favorite colour was blue. I dislike red probably because I was psycho-ed by my mom to hate the colour. Come to think of it she probably hates colours. Black is usually her first option when it comes to the colour of the clothing. To have her wear red.....well I honestly don't know how I can get her to wear red. Probably in her bible of colours when it comes to clothes, wearing red is like the biggest sin EVER whereas to my papa, it didn't matter. My papa was colour blind. Funny really. Every time we go shopping during Chinese lunar new year, he would ask me to tell him what are the colours of the clothes he picked. When I ask him what are the colour he sees, his answers are usually so random that it feels very much like he's crapping me just to entertain his little girl. It's not like he doesn't know the colours, it's just some colours, his vision recognizes it differently.

So growing up, my choices of colours were usually white, blue and black. Those three become my preferred choice. But as I grow older, I start to appreciate the other spectrums of colours there is. I guess once I got to 16 17 where vanity struck me like it was a freaking disease to every young women out there, with me broadening my fashion style, I opened up my choices of colours and I became a sucker for colours ever since. I started enjoying girly colours like pink. I started liking a certain type of green. I started liking brown coz it suited my skin colour very much. I know I've been crazy about purple coloured flowers since young but in the last few years I've grown so fond of the colour purple that I've added it to one of my favorite colour. So much so that I had a purple themed wedding. Nevertheless, blue still remain as one of my favorite colour till today. It's too bad I don't look good in purple. Red is still very much a no no. I avoided red much like how my mother did. So when the ombré hairs and nails started hitting the scenes, I took an immediate liking to the in-thing. What's not to like? The spectrum of the colour is highlighted and the contrast of the colours match is so vibrant that it creates such beautiful colours and it's so pleasing to see. If I was still back in uni, I would've gotten my hair done in ombré style. I would've gone for crazy cotton candy colours like pink and purple. Being a mom of two and working in a corporate company, I would look like a fool if I dyed my hair pink or purple.

Ombré hair in pink and purple

Ombré hair in green and blue

So the closest I came with was ombré nails. As I don't have the luxury of freedom and time ever since I had kids, DIY is my option, not that I mind since I love DIYs. After a few googling, YouTube-ing, I came up with these and I'm loving it albeit it wasn't as neat as it should be. It took me a few attempts. I gotta say the whole time trying to get them nails done, it felt like I was struck with diarrhea, like the explosion of crap could happen any second if I don't get to the loo soon enough. Simply because I was soooo freaking worried about baby Cadee waking up while I was busy painting my nails for the 100th time, thus I kept screwing it up over and over again. Patience and TIME is strongly required should you ever considering DIY ombré nails. Nail polish are from Elianto at 3 for RM16. I love the pastel striking colours they have. Perfect for ombré nails.

First ombré nails attempt
The colours I used for my first attempt
Second attempt. Nails polish by Elianto
Finger nails done in cotton candy colours pink and purple

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