Wednesday, November 20, 2013

bubble nails by aya - simply chic

sometimes, i just want plain nails - just color on my nails. it's nice to put something simple and chic that will match every outfit! i call this:

simply chic nails

beige color:  gelish - need a tan

Thursday, November 7, 2013

i'm back... again.

i really suck at this blogging thing... when my "life" gets busy, this is the last thing on my mind to update. luckily, i have all the photos on my phone and on my external that i've been meaning to write about.

where shall we start?  let's see, my last post was in may (before my harroween nails).... so going in chronological order, we can start with my parents visiting me and meeting the bf for the first time!

so let me tell you... i always thought i would end up with a japanese guy - for awhile, it was important for me to marry japanese to continue the "pure" japanese bloodline... buuuuuut that never happened - my high school bf was half vietnamese/half philippino, my college bf was korean, my after college bf was chinese... seems like i never found a good japanese guy - since my first crush in third grade: daichi takeshita, i mean common, how much more japanese could he get for me right?!?! i think for my parents (more my mother - i know you're reading and trying to deny it, but i'm right) they wanted me to marry japanese also.  oh and he had to be smart, a doctor or something.. yah, well, i never found that japanese guy. shocking.

anyway, i guess the universe didn't want me to be with a japanese guy because i found paʻa - paʻahana leslie. he's hawaiian, portugese, irish, german, english and french - definitely NO japanese there. long story short, they met, my parents liked him, paʻa and i are still together, so yay!

this is us at dinner. paʻa is such a stud.

Monday, November 4, 2013

bubble nails by aya - happi harroween nails


i've been lacking creativity in my nails lately - you know what happens when you have gel polish (or any kind of nail polish) on your nails at all times? your nails get weak and brittle, they break and crack - no bueno! i gave my nails a break, no polish (not even clear polish!) for about three weeks, took vitamins to strengthen them.  then the festival happened so i didn't have time to spend three hours to do my nails all cutesy.. i've been sticking with the one simple color for the most part..

halloween was last week and i had to be festive in some way, so here it is:

happy harroween nails

orange polish: gelish - tiki tiki laranga
glitter: martha stewart - graphite